Akeh pendhidhikan ora martakake kasunyatane Sabda Jahwéh, amarga padha wedi ngucapake kabeneran Gusti Allah ing pasamuwan. Dheweke tetep meneng babagan kayekten lan martakake Injil sing dikompromi. Nanging kenapa pimpinan Kristen wedi kanggo martakake bebener Sabda ing pasamuwan?
Akeh pandhuane wis ngatur pesen marang apa sing dikarepake wong
Akeh pandhita lan pamimpin greja dikompromi lan nyetel Injil Yesus Kristus lan tembung-tembunge Gusti Allah kanggo apa sing disenengi lan pengin ngrungokake. Minangka asil, dheweke wis dadi Injil sing kuwat saka Yesus Kristus dadi Injil Humanistik dhewe kanthi motivasi, sing fokus ing kasugihan lan kemakmuran wong lanang carnal lan saben dinane.
Dheweke mung martakake tembung sing positif lan lembut, lan janji sing apik, kanggo urip sing sukses lan sukses, sing sementara menehi motivasi kanggo masarakat ing pasamuwan. Dheweke martakake janji nanging tinggalake panjaluk lan tembung-tembung sing angel lan ucapake, sing kaping pirang-pirang ngadhepi lan nelpon mratobat lan urip suci, metu. Napa akeh para pandhita sing nindakake?
Napa akeh wong sing ora martakake kabeneran Gusti Allah maneh?
Akeh pendhita ora martakake kabeneran Gusti Allah amarga dheweke wedi karo bener. Padha karo argi lan dipimpin dening pikiran, Emosi, lan raos. Dheweke ndeleng perjuangan wong lan krungu babagan urip sing angel lan kesalahane sing dirasa. Mulane, Akeh pandhita nilar awake dhewe.
Pemimpin gereja ora pengin mbebasake kabeh jinis syarat, Aturan, Peraturan, Koreksi, lan ipristement, saengga dheweke dadi luwih dibabarake lan rumangsa luwih salah utawa nesu.
Pramila, Tinimbang martakake kabeneran Gusti Allah, Dheweke martakake bebener sebagian, sing dudu bebener. Padha ngomong apa sing dikarepake wong lan rumangsa apik.
Mulané aku prentah marang kowé ana ing ngarsané Allah, lan Gusti Yesus Kristus, Sapa sing bakal ngadili wong liya lan wong sing wis mati nalika kerajaané; Martakaké tembung; dadi cepet ing mangsa, metu saka mangsa; ngukum, ngukum, pitutur kanthi sabar lan piwulang. Amarga bakal tumeka ing wektune wong-wong mau padha ora gelem nampani piwulang kang bener; nanging manut pepénginané dhéwé-dhéwé bakal numpuk guru kanggo awaké dhéwé, gadhah kuping gatel; Lan bakal padha nutup kupinge saka bebener, lan bakal dadi dongeng (2 Timotius 4:1-4)
Pimpinan Gereja Karnal martakake pesen karnaal
Pimpinan Gereja Karnal martakake pesen karnaal, sing asale saka pikiran karnal. Pesen iki sootel lan ego wong lan menehi rasa sing nyenengake, lan motivasi sementara.
Dheweke ngomong pesen sing padha karo jagad iki lan mulang wong-wong sing percaya Cara lan teknik dadi makmur, sukses, lan sugih ing urip.
Pesen iki draws many people. Amarga, who doesn’t want to live a prosperous wealthy life and be successful without any hardships? If it works in the world, it will work in the church.
And so they preach carnal messages and draw people to themselves, instead of preaching the truth of God and win the people for Jesus Christ and God’s Kingdom.
Because what happens when Preachers, who preach this message fall into sin? Most people drop out and leave the church. Sometimes they even leave the faith, because they’re disappointed in the church leader.
This behavior proves that those people have built their faith upon the motivational carnal words of the leader, instead of the spiritual words of Jesus Christ; tembung.
What is wrong with the message in the church?
If Christians struggle in life and experience difficulties and hardships, and /or feel guilty about themselves, you should preach the whole truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Because only the truth of God’s Word set people free and deliver them from (mandhiri) paukuman.
If the church leaders wouldn’t conceal the truth of God but preach the whole truth of God’s Word in the power of the Holy Spirit, then many people would be delivered and freed from their yokes and heavy burdens. Then they would finally get what they are looking and longing for and that’s a peaceful joyful life without guilt and condemnation, anxiety and fears, including the fear of death.
Jesus promised to give rest
Kaya aku, all you that labour and are heavy laden, lan aku bakal menehi sampeyan ngaso. Njupuk kula marang sampeyan, lan sinau kula; Amarga aku mesem lan sithik ing ati: and you shall find rest unto your souls. Kanggo gondhoanku gampang, lan bebanku entheng (Matius 11:28-30)
Jesus promised, that He gives rest to those, who labor and are heavy laden, because His yoke is easy, and His burden is light.
Jesus promised, sing kabeh wong, who takes His yoke upon him and learn from Him, because He is meek and lowly in heart, will find rest for his soul.
If therefore, a person is still weary, heavy laden and carries a hard yoke, then it’s about time to give that hard yoke to Jesus. It’s time to let go of the things the person carries around with him.
Gusti Yesus ora ngandika, that you won’t have to carry a yoke or that you will have no burden and will not experience storms.
Everyone will go through storms in life, there is no one excluded.
The Bible doesn’t say, that Christians won’t have storms in their lives. Sebaliknya, Christians will experience a lot of resistance from their surroundings and persecutions by the world, because of their faith.
The only difference between believers and unbelievers is, that born again believers are founded on the Word, and stay in Christ. Believers shall not be overwhelmed and controlled by the circumstances. They stand on the Word and not leave the Word.
They shall not murmur, sambat, wallow in mesakake awake dhewe, blame others (Kalebu Gusti Allah) and overload themselves with worry, rasa kuwatir, and stress. But in the midst of their turmoil, they shall experience joy and God’s peace that derive from their relationship with Him. (Maca uga: A tawanan saka kahanan).
What does it say when people already feel guilty enough
When people feel guilty and condemned, there’s something wrong with the relationship with Jesus Christ and the Father.
satemene, satemene, Aku pitutur marang kowe, Wong sing ngrungokake tembungku, lan percaya marang wong sing ngutus aku, has everlasting life, lan ora bakal kelakon; nanging wis liwati saka pati nganti urip (John 5:24)
Maybe they are not born again or have an unrenewed mind, that causes condemnation, because they don’t feel good enough and still considers themselves a sinner.
But it can also be that they don’t want to listen to the Word of God and are not willing to nyingkirake wong tuwa. They want to keep doing those things, sing nentang karsane Gusti Allah. Therefore they bring condemnation upon themselves, which causes feelings of guilt.
How to be delivered from feelings of guilt and condemnation?
Only by preaching the truth of God’s Word and observing the words of God, people be delivered from feelings of guilt and condemnation.
The first thing, that disappears when you mratobat lan dadi lair maneh is the feeling of guilt.
That’s because in Jesus Christ, you have been made free from every fault; every sin and iniquity. You are no longer guilty of sin
If you live after the Word and the Holy Spirit in righteousness, nindakake karsane Gusti, you stay free from condemnation, that causes feelings of guilt.
But if you stay carnal and keep living after the flesh, doing those things that the world does, and which you did before your repentance, uga, then the feeling of guilt remains. That’s because your life stays unchanged and you have not truly repented.
This message is not often preached, because the preachers rather satisfy the believers, by preaching partial truths, which are lies and keep them in the church.
Umpamane, they say that it doesn’t matter how you live, that you may do what you want to do because God loves you anyway and He made you just the way you are.
They are afraid to speak the truth of God because they know that the truth shall demand a change in the life of the hearer. And many hearers don’t want to become doers and change their life.
They’re not willing to mbayar rega and put off the old man. They want to make their own decisions and live, the way they want to live. Therefore many believers are living with heavy burdens, paukuman, and feelings of guilt.
Do preachers stand in God’s service or people’s service?
There are many preachers today, who belong to the world and are no longer in God’s service but people’s service. They preach what the people want to hear. But church leaders do not stand in the service of people but in the service of God.
A church leader should serve the people, but should not stand in the service of people. ‘Serving’ and ‘standing in the service of’ are two completely different things.
God appointed people in the office as leaders, kanggo makili dheweke, Tembunge, Kratoné. Therefore church leaders should listen to God, serve and obey Him and live according to His will.
They shall not speak from his own carnal mind, for selfish reasons and for personal gain, because the person died to self, lan laid down his flesh.
The person is not looking for a message to draw as many people as possible in order to grow. But the person is looking for the truth and isn’t afraid to lose people because of preaching the truth.
The person is not focused on financial gain, kawentar, and to be put on a pedestal by the people, but the person has only one purpose and that is to exalt Jesus Christ and to honor the Father.
For this reason, the person shall listen to God and speak, what God has to say through the Word and the Holy Spirit and not deviate from His words.
Tembung, which the person shall speak after God’s will, shall not only exalt Jesus and honor the Father, but the words of truth shall also strengthen the spiritual man.
The words of God are Spirit and life to the spiritual new man
The words of God may be hard, nglarani, confronting and not always positive and nice for the carnal man, but for the spiritual man, the words of God shall bring forth life, kabungahan, and peace and cause the spiritual man to grow up into the image of Jesus Christ.
Pangandikané Gusti Allah iku bener, and only the truth of God’s Word shall set people free from the lies of the devil.
The truth doesn’t only set people free from the lies of the devil, but the truth will cause the people to stay spiritual awake and watchful and that they will grow up into mature sons of God, sing ora ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, but bold enough to preach the words of God and do what Jesus commanded to do.
Mulane, it’s about time to remove all those ‘feel good’ sermons from the church, which are mainly based upon personal experiences and philosophies of man, that temporarily causes pleasant and motivating feelings, and pleases the emotions and feelings of the carnal man, and bring back the Word of God and preach, what God has to say through the Word and the Holy Spirit to the church. It is important that the gospel of Jesus Christ and the truth of the Word of God, that calls people to repentance and sanctification, is preached again. Dadi ngono, souls are won for the Kingdom of God, instead of that souls are being pampered for the kingdom of darkness.
There is only one way, and that is through the spiritual Sword; Tembung Gusti Allah, that pierces even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit(Heb 4:12). It is about time, that leaders don’t rely on (padha) own human knowledge, filosofi, lan Ilmu and that they copy the methods of the world and apply them in the church, but that they rely on the living Jesus Christ and have faith in Him and act in the Jeneng Gusti Yesus.
Paul preached Christ crucified and relied on Him
Kaya Paul, who was filled with the Holy Spirit and wasn’t ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The apostle Paul wasn’t afraid to preach the truth of God, despite all the resistance and persecutions of man and . Paul feared God and not people, and therefore he wouldn’t dare to preach something else, then the crucified Jesus Christ.
Paul knew the power of the cross and relied on what Jesus had accomplished at the cross, instead of relying on his own intellect, Kawruh, Kawicaksanan, filosofi, and theories of the world. He didn’t go in his own name and his authority, but in the Jeneng Gusti Yesusand in His authority
Paul didn’t come with enticing words, that had a temporary effect on the carnal feelings and emotions of the old man. Because Paul knew, that his own words, contained no power at all and would lead to nothing. He knew the power of the Word and the effect of the Word on people. Pramila, he spoke the words of God and spoke words of the Spirit, which confronted the carnal man, lan diarani dheweke mratobat, delivered the people and set them free, and caused the spiritual man to grow up and mature in Christ, and become like Him.
Don’t fear people, but fear God
Gusti Yesus ngandika, that you shouldn’t be afraid of people and what they might do to you, but that you rather fear Him, Who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Because the Day of Judgment will come for everyone.
Lan aja wedi marang wong-wong sing matèni awak, nanging ora bisa matèni nyawa: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell
Matius 10:28
On this day, every person shall give an account of every idle word that has been spoken and the works they’ve done. By the words they have spoken and the works they have done, they shall be justified or condemned (menyang. Matius 12:36-37; 16:27-28; Wahyu 20:12-15).
Nanging Aku pitutur marang kowe, Sing saben tembung nganggur sing wong bakal ngomong, wong-wong mau bakal padha ngaturake pertanggungjawaban ing dina pangadilan. Amarga saka tembung sampeyan bakal kabenerake, lan liwat tembung sampeyan bakal diukum
Matius 12:36-37
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