The true meaning of the cross is not always understood. Many Christians speak about the cross and preach the cross, raha mbola miaina toy ny fahavalon’ny hazo fijaliana izy ireo. What is the significance of the cross according to the Bible and what does the cross mean in the lives of Christians?
Kristianina maro no manana fifandraisana amin’i Jesosy sy ny Ray araka ny fombany
There are many Christians that believe in Jesus Christ and repented and are born again, but don’t want to have anything to do with the moral part of the law. They don’t want to keep all kinds of rules and consider them legalistic. Ary ny legalisma dia anisan'ny fivavahana fa tsy anisan'ny fifandraisana amin'i Jesosy Kristy.
Tsy te-hilaza izay tokony hatao izy ireo, but they want to be free. They want to live in freedom and have a relationship with Jesus Christ and the Father their way.
Amin'ny tranga maro, the relationship looks more like a LAT relationship (Living Apart Together) than a marriage. Satria imbetsaka, Christians only spend time with God when they have a need or problems in their lives.
When they’ve a need or problems, they need God to show up and supply their needs and fix their problems. na izany aza, the rest of the time, miaina araka ny sitrapony izy ireo, manao izay tiany atao.
ihany, going back to the fact that many Christians say that the moral part of the law is not relevant anymore, how come, that they say they are redeemed from the law, mandritra izany, they still live as carnal people to whom the law was intended. Inona no dikan'ity?
The old carnal man keeps falling back into sin
The law of Moses was meant for the old carnal man, who lived in a sinful flesh from a fallen state and belonged to God’s chosen people by birth and the circumcision in the flesh. The sacrificial laws were meant for the old carnal man.
The sacrificial laws dealt with the (olon-tsotra) ny fahotana sy ny heloky ny Tompo Lehilahy ara-nofo taloha, but not with the sinful nature of the old carnal man.
Tsy nahery vaika ny ran’ny biby mba hiatrehana ny toetra maha-mpanota an’ilay lehilahy antitra. That’s because animals are not equal to man. Tsy mitovy amin’ny nofon’olona ny nofon’ny biby (1 Corinthians 15:39).
The blood of animals could only deal with the sinful deeds that derived from the sinful flesh.
Ary noho izany, the blood of animals could only make a temporary atonement for the sins of man. Izany no antony tsy maintsy nanaovana ny sorona tsy tapaka.
Despite the sacrifices and the blood of perfect animals, man remained the same.
The old man was still trapped in the sinful nature of the flesh and could not be delivered from it.
Isak'izao mihetsika izao, tsy maintsy niaiky ny fahotany izy ireo, Mibebaha ary manao fanavotana noho ny fahotany. Navela sy voavela ny helony tamin’ny alalan’ny sorona sy ny ran’ny biby mandra-piveriny tamin’ny fanaony taloha ka nanota indray.. Izany dia dingana mitohy.
Nikoriana tsy an-kijanona ny ran’ny biby, but the sinful nature of the flesh remained present in the generation of fallen man.
Jesosy dia niresaka momba ny toetra maha mpanota ny olombelona lavo
This process continued until Jesus came and dealt with the sinful nature of fallen man that produces sin and leads to death.
Forasmuch dia toy ny mpiombona nofo sy ra ny ankizy, Izy koa dia nandray anjara tamin'izy ireo ihany koa; fa amin'ny alàlan'ny fahafatesana no hahafahany mamono azy izay manana ny herin'ny fahafatesana, izany, Devoly; Ary vonjeo izay izay noho ny tahotra ny fahafatesana dia ny zavatra rehetra iainany indrindra amin'ny androm-piainany (Hebreo 2:14-15)
Jesosy dia tsy nitondra ny ota teo Aminy fotsiny. He carried the sins and iniquities in Ny nofony ary lasa Mpisolo ny olona lavo. Jesosy no nitondra ny sazy noho ny ota, Fahafatesana izay, SY niditra ara-dalàna ny Hadesy (helo).
na izany aza, the death was not strong enough to keep Jesus in Hades. Rehefa afaka telo andro, Jesus rose from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit with the keys of hell and death. Jesus conquered the power of death and had taken the dominion legally back from the devil.
Jesus released the righteous prisoners of death and gave the ability to everyone to be delivered from the power of death and hell ary mihavàna amin’Andriamanitra. (a.o. Matthew 27:50-54; John 1:11-13; Romana 5:10; 2 Corinthians 5:18-20; Efesiana 4:10; Kolosiana 1:21-23).
Ary Jesosy dia tonga ka niteny taminy, ka nanao hoe:, Ny hery rehetra dia omena ahy any an-danitra sy et earth an-tany. Mandehana ianareo, ary ampianaro ny firenena rehetra, Batisa izy ireo amin'ny anaran'ny Ray, sy ny Zanaka, ary ny Fanahy Masina: Mampianatra azy ireo hitandrina ny zavatra rehetra izay rehetra nandidiako anao: SY, lo, Miaraka aminao foana aho, even unto the end of the earth
Matthew 28:18-20
The new creation is delivered from the sinful flesh through regeneration
Only by faith in Jesus Christ and becoming born again, azo avotana amin’ny nofo mpanota ny olona iray. Amin'ny alàlan'ny BATISA in Christ and the baptism with the Holy Spirit, the flesh of the old man dies and the spirit raises from the dead and the new man receives the Holy Spirit.
The new creation has left the old behind and receives a new life in the spirit. Amin’ny fahefan’i Jesoa Kristy sy amin’ny herin’ny Fanahy Masina, the new man has the ability to become a son of God (na lahy sy vavy) and walk as a son of God in obedience to God in righteousness.
The new man shall put away the carnal works of the old man, and do the will of the Spirit, whereby the new man shall come forth in the natural. (Vakio koa: Afaka miaina fiainana fitsanganana amin'ny maty ve ianao raha tsy maty?)
The Holy Spirit has the same will as Jesus and the Father and confronts and reproves a person of sin. Dia anjaran’ilay olona ny mankatò Azy sy manala ny ota.
Satria tsy anisan’ny taranak’olombelona lavo intsony ilay olona ary tsy manana ny devoly ho ray intsony.
The person belongs to the generation of the new man (famoronana vaovao) that is created in Jesus Christ. The new creation is born of God and has God as Father.
The new creations are the sons of God and together they are the church; Ny Vatan'i Jesosy Kristy.
ny tanjon’ny fiangonana is to raise the saints in the Word of God and equip them. Ka izay, they know the will of God and become equal to Jesus Christ and walk as Jesus walked in obedience to the Father’s will, preaching and bringing the Kingdom of God to the people.
Persevere in sin through ignorance and a lack of knowledge
na izany aza, the problem is that in many churches instead of sons of God, teolojiana, mpandahateny mandrisika na mpanentana ny tenany, izay mbola zavaboary taloha ary manana ny endriky ny toe-panahy araka an’Andriamanitra, ao ambadiky ny polipitra ary mampianatra ny mpino.
Mampianatra azy ireo avy amin’ny toe-tsaina ara-nofo sy ny fahendren’ny maha-olombelona azy izy ireo, fahalalana, ary filozofia fa tsy ny sain’i Kristy sy ny fahamarinan’ny Tenin’Andriamanitra.
In order to get an audience and attract people and be exalted, mitory izay tian’ny olona ho re izy ireo.
Through their sermons that revolve around the carnal man (nofo), they ensure that the people become depended on them and that they stand above the believers.
By preaching carnal words and vain philosophies that derive from their carnal mind, instead of preaching the truth of God’s Word that derives from the mind of Christ, they keep the believers ignorant about the truth.
Amin'ny alalan'ny laingany, tazoniny amin'ny fanandevozana izy ireo, Ary izay indrindra no tadiavin'ny devoly.
Amin'ny alalan'ny tsy fahampian’ny fahalalana ny Tenin’Andriamanitra, Christians keep living in bondage of their flesh. Mandeha araka ny nofo izy ireo ary maharitra amin’ny ota ary tsy afaka mitsahatra manota.
Etsy andaniny, lazaina izy ireo, fa tsy misy ota intsony. Ary noho izany, they can’t walk in sin. Ary etsy ankilany, they are told that they always remain a sinner. Therefore they will persevere in sin until the day that they’ll die. Satria amin’ny alalan’ny fahafatesana voajanahary ihany, ho afaka amin'ny nofony mpanota izy.
False doctrines are preached to keep Christians in bondage
But that is a big lie that derived from the carnal mind of people, izay mbola ny zavaboary taloha. This false doctrine is based upon human philosophies and personal experiences. If this doctrine would be true, dia nahoana i Jesosy no tonga teto an-tany? Nahoana i Jesosy no tsy maintsy tonga Mpisolo antsika mba hiatrehana indray mandeha sy ho an'ny olan'ny fahotana? Ary ny zava-nitranga tamin'ny andron'ny Pentekosta?
The people that came up with this false doctrine were unspiritual. Tsy te hamoy ny fiainany ara-nofo izy ireo. Ary noho izany, they adjusted the gospel and truth of God to their own carnal experiences, hita, Lusts, sy faniriana.
Ary noho ny zava-misy, fa notendren’ny fiangonana izy ireo satria nahazo diplaoma na Ph.D. and therefore obtained a certain status, the church adopted and applied this doctrine. To this day, this lie is still preached.
Christians are sidetracked
Noho io fampianaran-diso io, many Christians are sidetracked and many souls have been lost. While they could have been saved by preaching the right sermons according to the Bible (Ny Teny) ary ny Fanahy Masina.
Noho io lainga io, many Christians have the idea that when they Mibebaha ary lasa nateraka indray (according to their theology), tsy vitan’ny hoe voadio amin’ny fahotany taloha izy ireo, but also from their sins in which they persevere after they become born again. Because they can’t be redeemed from sin, but will always stay a sinner.
If the Bible says that Jesus came to redeem man and has redeemed man through His work at the cross, but the preacher or theologian says that man always remains a sinner, izay milaza ny marina?
What has Jesus done at the cross according to these theologians or preachers? Inona no anton’ny fiaviany sy ny dikan’ny sorona nataony?
Noho ny zava-misy, that many Christians are not truly born again and have no personal relationship with Jesus Christ; Ny Teny, fa minoa kosa, trust and lean on the words of preachers and theologians. They believe the words of people above the words of God.
Fa toy ny tsy naneken'ny olona iray dia maro no nanangana mpanota, Ka ny fankatoavan'ny olona dia maro no ho marina
Romana 5:19
Ny fahotana fa tsy ny nofo nofantsihana teo amin’ny hazo fijaliana
Fa tsy nanombo ny nofony, izay itoeran'ny nofo maha-mpanota sy miteraka ota, fantsika eo amin’ny hazo fijaliana ny fahotany. Tsy miatrika ny olan'ny fahotana izy ireo, izay nahatongavan’i Jesoa teto an-tany. fa tsy, they keep living in the lies, izay ampielezan’ny devoly amin’ny alalan’ny filozofian’ny olona araka ny nofo.
Fa ny marina, fa raha mbola tsy maty ny nofon'ny antitra, the person shall walk after the flesh and persevere in sin and shall keep doing the things that oppose the will of God.
Raha mbola maharitra amin’ny fahotana ny olona, tsy navotana amin'ny ota izy, but are still a mpanompon’ny ota.
In some churches or at seminars there is even a wooden cross on the stage with pieces of paper, nails, and a hammer.
Ireo mpitsidika dia afaka manoratra ny fahotany na ny olany amin'ity taratasy ity ary mametaka izany eo amin'ny hazo fijaliana. Fa izany dia fihetsika ara-nofo amin'ny fihetseham-po (nofo) ary tsy misy ifandraisany amin’ny Fanahy.
Because when they go home, they continue their lives and fall back into the same sin. Tahaka ny olon’Andriamanitra ao amin’ny Testamenta Taloha.
That’s why many Christian, izay milaza fa nateraka indray, ary tsy te hifandray amin'ny lalàna, live the same way as the carnal people of God for whom the law was intended, Izany hoe: ilay antitra ara-nofo, who is trapped in the sinful flesh.
Raha tokony hiatrika ny olan'ny fahotana, izany hoe ny anton'ny fahotana: ny nofo mpanota, they try to deal with their sins out of their flesh by using all kinds of natural means and methods
Jesosy dia maty noho ny fahotan’ilay olona taloha
Jesus didn’t die for your sins so that you can keep walking in sins. But Jesus died because of your sins that derive from the sinful nature of the flesh of the old man.
Jesus died for the old man, ny mpanota. Ka izay, ao Aminy, ilay antitra (nofo) maty sy ny olom-baovao (Fanahy) atsangana amin'ny maty.
Jesus not only dealt with the sins and iniquities of fallen man at the cross. But Jesus also dealt with the sinful nature of fallen man, izay hita ao amin'ny nofo. Izany no antony, Rehefa misy olona, izay zavaboary taloha (mpanota), lasa ateraka indray, dia tsy mpanota intsony.
Ao aminy koa no namorana anareo tamin'ny famorana tsy nataon-tanana, amin'ny fanesorana ny tenan'ny nofo amin'ny famoran'i Kristy: Nalevina niaraka taminy tamin'ny batisa, izay niarahanareo natsangana taminy koa noho ny finoana ny asan'Andriamanitra., Izay nanangana Azy tamin'ny maty (Kolosiana 2:11-12)
The person has become a new creation: ny fahamarinan’Andriamanitra ao amin’i Kristy. Olona iray, izay lasa zavaboary vaovao, Tsy hijanona amin'ny ota intsony. Satria ireo, izay an'i Kristy dia efa nanombo ny nofony mbamin'ny faniriany sy ny filany tamin'ny hazo fijaliana. Ary noho izany, tsy haharitra amin’ny ota izy ireo fa hanao ny asan’ny fahamarinana.
Izay tsy vitan’ny lalàna sy ny ran’ny biby, Jesosy dia afaka! Jesosy, Ny Teny Velona, came in the flesh and became the Substitute of the disobedient, antitra maditra, ny fahafatesana mandrakizay ao amin’ny farihy afo no hiafarany.
Izay an’i Kristy dia efa nanombo ny nofony mbamin’ny faniriany sy ny filany tamin’ny hazo fijaliana
GALATIANINA 4:24
The true meaning and result of the cross in the lives of believers
Eo amin'ny hazo fijaliana, Nitondra ny toetran’ny mpanota i Jesosy, izay hita ao amin'ny nofo. Ka izay, Ny olon-drehetra, izay mino Azy ka nateraka indray, havotana amin’ny toetra maha-mpanota ny nofo, izay miteraka ota sy fahafatesana.
The believer shall no longer produce sin from the sinful flesh, but righteousness from the Spirit (a.o. Romana 6-8; GALATIANINA 5:16-26).
Te hanala ny ota eo amin'ny fiainanao ve ianao? Dia ny hany ataonao dia: mankanesa any amin'ny anton'ny ota. Mandehana any amin'ny fototry ny olan'ny fahotana, izay ny nofo. Raha mbola tsy maty ny nofonao, tsy azo atsangana ny fanahinao.
‘Aoka ho fanasin’ny tany’
