Aħna ngħixu f'dinja, where everyone has an opinion. Get into a group of ten people and bring up a topic and you’ll hear different opinions. Dan mhux sorprendenti, since they have different backgrounds in relation to the family they were raised in and the way they were nurtured, the environment, kultura, edukazzjoni, eċċ. But if you believe in Jesus Christ and become born again in Him and become a Christian, then it’s no longer about you and about your opinion and findings, but what the Word of God says. Because on the Day of Judgment, the Word shall judge everyone according to his works. Għalhekk, let the Word be your Judge in your life on earth.
Why is it important to read and study the Bible?
If everyone, who calls themselves a Christian, would be born again and read and study the Bible by themselves through the Holy Spirit, then the church would no longer be a receptacle of all kinds of human reasonings, Opinjonijiet, u duttrini, where there is disunity, but the church would form a unity through the Word, and be a witness of Jesus Chris and represent the will of God and live according to His will and establish His Kingdom on earth (Aqra wkoll: ‘X'inhu ħażin fil-knisja?‘ U ‘Dak li jikkawża firdiet fil-knisja‘).
Because through the Word you will get to know the will of God and if you really love Jesus and follow Him, you shall keep His commandments and you shall subdue the will of the flesh to the will of God.
Sfortunatament, many Christians are too busy with their own lives and the things of the world and spend all their time on temporary things, which have no eternal value (Aqra wkoll: ‘X'inhuma l- 7 karatteristiċi tal-jiem ta 'Noah?‘ U ‘Wisq okkupat li tkun okkupat‘).
Hemm ħafna Insara, who rather listen to all kinds of (famuż) preachers and feed themselves with new doctrines, even if the doctrines contradict the Word, instead of taking the Bible and reading and studying the Bible themselves, so that they will get to know God and God will speak to them directly and they find out what the will of God is.
Because on the Day of Judgement Jesus shall recognize His people and the Word shall judge everyone according to his works and everyone shall give account from every idle word they have spoken (lill-. Mattew 12:36-37, John 12:48, Rumani 2:16, 2 Timotju 4:8, Rivelazzjoni 20:11-14).
When you stand before the Throne, you shall no longer be able to make excuses for your words and works. You can’t say, “Iżda, the preacher said this or that or the preacher made me do it”. Because God has made Himself known and revealed His will in and through His Word; Ġesù Kristu, Min hu r-rifless ta’ Alla.
The Lord has given everything: His Word and His Spirit, but it’s up to people, what they have done with His Word and His Spirit on earth.
The idle words and love of the world
The idle words and love of the world please the flesh and approve and tolerate the works of the flesh and promote sin. Look at the (soċjali) midja, where the works of the flesh are promoted and people are encouraged to live a sinful lifestyle.
Because the agenda of the world and the purpose of the ruler of the world is to ensure that everyone keeps doing the works of the flesh and perseveres in sin and stays in the bondage of sin and death.
The words and love of the world tolerate, accept and promote sin and keep the people in bondage and eventually lead to eternal death.
The words and love of God
But the words and the love of God don’t please the flesh but the spirit, and don’t approve the works of the flesh, but testify that the works of the flesh are evil and that everyone, who keeps doing the works of the flesh and persevere in sin, doesn’t belong to God and have not known God personally (lill-. 1 John 2:28-29; 3:4-9; 5:18-19).
The words and love of God call to repentance and discipline, korretta, and chastise man. The Word means death for the flesh but life for the spirit.
Il-bniedem karnali, who is not born again, shall consider the words of God as harsh and relentless instead of compassionate and loving.
They shall not be able to bear the Word, because the Word separates spirit and soul and testify that the works of the flesh are evil and therefore condemns them. That’s why the carnal man shall reject the words of God.
But the spiritual man, li jitwieled mill-ġdid fi Kristu, shall consider the words of God as precious and loving.
They shall believe and love the Word and submit to the Word by obeying the Word and applying the words of God in their lives.
They shall be willing and allow the Word to correct and chastise them and keep the commandments of Jesus. Since the spiritual man knows that submission to the words of God brings forth peace and (etern) ħajja.
“Min iwarrabni, u ma jirċievix kliemi, għandu wieħed li jiġġudikah: il-kelma li kellimt”
.Ġesù għajjat u qal, Hu li jemmen fija, ma temminx fija, imma fuq Dak li bagħatni. U min jara lili jara lil Dak li bagħatni. Jien ġej dawl fid-dinja, li kull min jemmen fuqi m'għandux joqgħod fid-dlam. U jekk xi ħadd jisma’ kliemi, u nemmnux le, Jien ma niġġudikahx: għax ma ġejtx biex niġġudika lid-dinja, imma biex insalvaw id-dinja. Min iwarrabni, u ma jirċievix kliemi, għandu wieħed li jiġġudikah: il-kelma li kellimt, l-istess għandu jiġġudikah fl-aħħar jum. Għax jien ma tkellimtx minni nnifsi; imma l-Missier li bagħatni, Hu tani kmandament, dak li għandi ngħid, u x’għandi nitkellem. U naf li l-kmandament Tiegħu huwa l-ħajja ta’ dejjem: kulma nitkellem għalhekk, bħalma qalli l-Missier, hekk nitkellem (John 12:44-50)
For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent Him. Tassew, Tassew, Jien ngħidlek, He that heareth My word, u jemmen f’Dak li bagħatni, għandu l-ħajja ta’ dejjem, u m'għandhomx jidħlu fil-kundanna; iżda huwa mgħoddi mill-mewt għall-ħajja. Tassew, Tassew, Jien ngħidlek, Is-siegħa ġejja, u issa huwa, meta l-mejtin jisimgħu leħen l-Iben ta’ Alla: u dawk li jisimgħu jgħixu. Għax kif il-Missier għandu l-ħajja fih innifsu; hekk ta lill-Iben biex ikollu l-ħajja fih innifsu; U tah awtorità biex jesegwixxi ġudizzju wkoll, għax Hu Bin il-bniedem (John 5:22-27)
Jesus represented His Father and was a reflection of His Father. Għax Ġesù qal, he that has seen Me has seen Him that sent Me. Ġesù ma qalx kliemu stess, but Jesus spoke the words of the Father that represent His will.
When Jesus walked on the earth it wasn’t His time to judge the people.
The purpose of Jesus’ coming was not to judge but to save the world. First by calling the people of the house of Israel to repentance and by preaching and bringing the Kingdom of God and eventually through His redemptive work, fejn dawk, who believe in Him shall be saved (Aqra wkoll: ‘It-tifsira vera tas-salib‘).
But there shall be a time, that Jesus will judge everyone according to their works and they shall give account from every idle word they have spoken.
Jekk temmen f’Ġesù Kristu, l-Iben ta’ Alla, and take the words of Jesus and obey and do them, U minħabba dak, have shown Him that you are born of God and belong to Him and love Him, you shall be saved.
But if you reject the words of Jesus, then those same words, which Jesus has spoken, shall judge you and condemn you.
Let the Word be your Judge in your life
Come now, and let us reason together, jgħid il-Mulej: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it (Isaija 1:18-20)
Fil-ħajja, it’s not about people’s opinions and what they say, but it’s about God’s opinion and what God says. What does the Word say? Because eventually, it’s the Word Who shall judge you, and not people (Lees ook: ‘Gods Word has the final word on the Day of Judgment‘)
Għalhekk huwa tant importanti li l-Kelma tkun l-ogħla awtorità fil-ħajja ta’ kulħadd u li l-Kelma tkun iċ-ċentru fil-familji, u t-tfal jitrabbew minn età żgħira fir-rieda t’Alla u jsiru jafu lil Ġesù Kristu u lil Alla l-Missier permezz tal-Kelma., sabiex it-tfal jitgħallmu jissottomettuh u l-Kelma Tiegħu u jibżgħu mill-Mulej (li jkollok biża kbira għall-Mulej) u tħobbu u jkollok relazzjoni ta’ esperjenza ma’ Alla permezz ta’ Ġesù Kristu u l-Ispirtu s-Santu.
Għax il-Kelma hija maħsuba kemm għaż-żgħażagħ kif ukoll għall-anzjani. L-ebda tifel ma huwa żgħir wisq biex jisma’ u jifhem il-kliem ta’ Alla. Hekk trid id-dinja temmen, imma gidba mix-xitan.
Ħalli l-Kelma tkun l-ogħla Awtorità f’ħajtek u ħalli l-Kelma tkun l-Imħallef tiegħek. Ikkonsulta u isma’ l-Kelma u ssottometti ruħek għall-Kelma u obdi l-kliem ta’ Alla f’ħajtek, biex f’Jum il-Ġudizzju ma tkunx sorpriż bil-verdett.
‘Kun il-melħ tal-art’
