पुरानो नियममा, हामी परमेश्वर र उहाँका चुनिएका मानिसहरू इस्राएल बीचको सम्बन्धको बारेमा पढ्छौं (उनीहरु, जो याकूबको सन्तानबाट जन्मेका हुन्; इजरायल). We read about God’s love for His people, His goodness, सहनशीलता, संरक्षण, प्रतिज्ञाहरू, र प्रावधान. But we also read about His holiness and righteousness. त्यसैले, we also read about His disappointments, अनुकरण, and His judgments. Many consider God in the Old Testament as a strict God, who immediately punished, when a person committed a sin. They have created this image of a strict God through the sermons they heard, पालनपोषण, or by reading the Old Testament from a carnal mindset.
They bear this image of a strict God and have developed a (tormenting) fear for God instead of a fear of God (awe of God). They are afraid of God and are led by this fear for God. Because they are afraid of God they are afraid to miss a church service, because they think that by missing a church service, God will be angry at them and they could lose their salvation. And so they go to church out of fear and observe religious traditions, which they have adopted from their parents or through inspiration by a traditional spirit.
Instead of having a fear (an awe) of God and love Him and serve Him out of love, they serve God out of fear, because they have created a wrong image of God. Because if they would read the Bible as the new creation through the Holy Spirit, then their image of God would be different.
The relation between God and His people Israel
The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. He made known His ways unto Moses, His acts unto the children of Israel. The Lord is merciful and gracious, रिसाउन ढिलो, and plenteous in mercy (भजन 103:6-8)
God revealed His greatness and majesty to His people and revealed Himself as their God, through the redemption of His people from slavery in Egypt. God revealed His nature and made His will known to His people by giving them the कानून. During the time in the wilderness, God looked after His people. He protected His people and provided their needs.
Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles wings, and brought you unto Myself. अब, यदि तपाईं मेरो आवाज सुन्नुहुनेछ, र मेरो करारको रक्षा गर्नुहोस्, त्यसोभए तपाईं सबै मानिस भन्दा माथि एक विशिष्ट खजाना हुनुहुनेछ: सबै पृथ्वीको लागि मेरो हो: अनि तिमीहरू मेरो निम्ति पुजारीहरूको राज्य हुनेछौ, र एक पवित्र राष्ट्र. These are the words which though shalt speak unto the children of Israel. अनि मोशा आए र मानिसहरूका एल्डरहरूलाई बोलाए, and laid before their faces all these words, which the Lord commanded him. अनि सबै मानिसहरूले एकसाथ जवाफ दिए, र भने, परमप्रभुले भन्नु भएको सबै कुरा हामी गर्नेछौं. अनि मोशाले मानिसहरूका वचनहरू परमप्रभुलाई फर्काए (प्रस्थान 19:4-8)
Although the people said wholeheartedly ‘yes’ to the conditions of the covenant and promised to obey the voice of the Lord, it didn’t take long, before the people turned away and became unfaithful to Him and left His words.
तथ्य को कारण, that the people were raised in Egypt and were familiar with the Egyptian culture, gods and rituals, they had created an image of God, which didn’t correspond with the reality. Therefore they were constantly disappointed in their God and murmured and complained because God didn’t meet their expectations. As a result many didn’t want to submit to God and His Word (यो पनि पढ्नुहोस्: ‘जनताको अपेक्षा').
They wanted the same things as the pagan nations and wanted to live the same life and do the same pagan practices. Therefore many were rebellious and did those things, which God had forbidden to do and were an abomination to God.
In order to prevent that the evil would propagate and affect the others of the congregation and to prevent that the whole congregation would be lost, God removed the evil out of the congregation.
कडा भगवान वा विद्रोही मानिसहरू?
The Lord is righteous in all His ways, and holy in all His works (भजन 145:17)
Is God a strict God, because of that? छैन, but God is a righteous God, who stayed loyal to the law of His covenant. God is righteous and He can’t deny His holy and righteous nature.
In the Old Covenant God was dealing with a carnal people, whose spirit was under the authority of death and therefore the people could only walk after the flesh.
God was dealing with a prideful, stiff-necked and rebellious people, who often went their own way and refused to submit to God and His Word and refused to keep the covenant.
हो, they wanted to receive the blessings of the covenant, but they didn’t want to observe the conditions for the blessings. They wanted to live like the pagan nations, but receive the wages of the saints.
A strict father or a rebellious child?
When a father has a child, who refuses to listen and goes his own way and do things, which the father has forbidden to do, then the father shall discipline and punish the child, because the child refused to listen.
Because every family has its own rules, which every family member should keep. When a family member choses to disobey the rules, त्यसपछि परिणाम हुनेछ.
When the child tells others about the punishment, they will probably develop an image of a strict father, instead of a rebellious child. If they visit the child, it could be that they will be afraid for the strict father. वास्तविकतामा छँदा, it could be that the father isn’t strict by nature. But because of the rebellious behavior of the child the father was forced to take action, which he didn’t like and maybe found difficult to do, but was necessary and the best for the child.
त्यसैले, you can say that the child has a strict father or you can look at the cause of the behavior of the father and say that the father has a rebellious child. It’s just how you look at it.
This applies to all the areas in life, where you are dealing with covenants and rules, like in society in general, स्कूलमा, काम, विवाह, परिवार, खेलकुद, traffic, आदि. If you don’t want to observe the rules and rebel against the rules than there will be consequences
Rules are needed to give structure, स्पष्टता, and to keep order for both parties. Because if there wouldn’t be any rules, then it would be one big mess.
A strict teacher or a rebellious pupil?
If you go to school and obey the rules, सबै ठीक हुनेछ. But if you do things, which are forbidden and you are caught, then probably you will be disciplined and punished for your actions.
A strict boss or a rebellious employee?
The same applies to work. When you are a person of integrity and you do you work according to your contract and live by the standards and rules of the company, then you are fine. But when you lack integrity and do things in secret, which go against the standards and rules of the company and it will be noticed, then you will also have to bear the consequences.
मानिसहरूले भन्न सक्छन्, that you have a strict boss, but you can also say that the boss has a rebellious employee, who is not willing to listen and do things which are not right.
And that was also the case with God and His carnal people. Many didn’t want to listen to God despite His रावी and the many warnings through His prophets and did those things, जुन परमेश्वरको नजरमा खराब थियो, causing God to act according to His holiness and righteousness.
Do you look at God from a carnal mind or a spiritual mind?
When you look at God as the बुढो मान्छे and from a carnal mind that thinks like the world, then you will probably take offense at God, His Word and the things, which God did. You shall not understand the things, which are written in the Word. Therefore you shall consider God as a strict God and a cruel God and maybe develop a tormenting fear for God and become afraid of God.
You shall not be able to भगवानलाई प्रेम गर्नुहोस्, because of the tormenting fear and incomprehension in your heart. Therefore you shall, संसार जस्तै, don’t obey and keep His words and do His will, but reject them.
But if you look at God as the नयाँ सिर्जना and from a renewed mind, then you will have a different view on the situations, जुन बाइबलमा लेखिएका छन्. You shall not look at them from a carnal view, but from a spiritual view.
You shall not consider God, His words and behavior strict and cruel, but you shall see the love of God and His goodness, patience and mercy for His people.
From your renewed mind; the mind of Christ, you shall not consider God as a strict God and a cruel God, but you shall consider the world and the ruler of the world as cruel. You shall walk in the truth and from God, through the Word and the Holy Spirit, you shall see the pride, विद्रोह, lawlessness and the sinful state of the world.
God is long-suffering and full of love
भगवान को लागी, उहाँको बाटो सिद्ध छ: परमप्रभुको वचन कोसिस गरिएको छ: He is a buckler to all those that trust in Him (भजन 18:30)
The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. His work is honourable and glorious: and His righteousness endures for ever. He hath made His wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord is gracious and full of compassion (भजन 111:2-4)
When you read the Old Testament as a new creation; नयाँ मान्छे, पवित्र आत्मा मार्फत, than you shall find out that God is not a strict God but a righteous God.
God didn’t want to treat His people the way He did.
God wanted the best for His people and wanted His people to love Him and that they listened to Him and obeyed His words and warnings and go उसको बाटो.
तर दुर्भाग्य, that wasn’t always the case and because God doesn’t lie, but is trustworthy and faithful and acts according to His words, God dealt with His people after their works.
उनीहरु, who lived in the covenant and were rebellious, were responsible for their own deeds. They brought their own mischief upon themselves (यो पनि पढ्नुहोस्: ‘दुष्ट मानिसहरू आफैंमा ल्याउँछन्').
You can feel sorry for the person or the people and say ‘what a terrible thing of God to do’. But you can also turn it around and say ‘what a foolish and terrible thing, that the person or the people were so rebellious and didn’t want to listen to God’.
God wanted the best for His people, but despite His warnings, many went their own way instead of God’s way (यो पनि पढ्नुहोस्: के परमेश्वरको मार्ग तपाईंको मार्ग हो?).
The relation between God and His Son Jesus Christ
In contrast to Jesus, who loved God and submitted Himself to God and His commandments, जुन कानूनमा लेखिएको छ.
Jesus was also free to do what He wanted to do. But Jesus His Godly nature chose to not walk after the flesh and live a life for Himself, but He chose to walk after the Spirit and live for God and do His will.
यो मन तिमीमा रहोस्, जुन ख्रीष्ट येशूमा पनि थियो: WHO, भगवान को रूप मा हुनु, भगवानसँग बराबरी हुनु लुटपाट होइन भनी ठाने: तर आफूलाई कुनै प्रतिष्ठा बनाएको छैन, र उहाँलाई सेवकको रूप धारण गर्नुभयो, र मानिसहरूको प्रतिरूपमा बनाइयो: र फेसनमा पुरुषको रूपमा पाइन्छ, उसले आफैलाई नम्र बनायो, र मृत्यु सम्म आज्ञाकारी भए, क्रूसको मृत्यु पनि (फिलिप्पीका 2:5-8)
Because of His love for His Father, Jesus submitted to the Father and went His way that led to the cross. तेसैले, through His death and resurrection from the death, many sons of God would be born in Him, who would belong to God’s people and would live after the Spirit, उहाँको इच्छा पछि.
नयाँ करार
हेर, दिन आउँछ, परमप्रभु भन्नुहुन्छ, जब म इस्राएलको घराना र यहूदाको घरानासँग नयाँ करार बाँध्नेछु: मैले तिनीहरूका पिता-पुर्खाहरूसँग गरेको करारअनुसार होइन, जब मैले तिनीहरूलाई मिश्र देशबाट बाहिर लैजान हात समातेको थिएँ।; because they continued not in my covenant, अनि मैले तिनीहरूलाई ध्यान दिएन, परमप्रभु भन्नुहुन्छ. किनकि ती दिनहरूपछि म इस्राएलको घरानासँग बाँध्ने करार यही हो, परमप्रभु भन्नुहुन्छ; म मेरो नियमहरू तिनीहरूको दिमागमा राख्नेछु, र तिनीहरूलाई तिनीहरूको हृदयमा लेख्नुहोस्: अनि म तिनीहरूका निम्ति परमेश्वर हुनेछु, अनि तिनीहरू मेरो निम्ति मानिसहरू हुनेछन्: अनि तिनीहरूले हरेक मानिसलाई आफ्नो छिमेकीलाई सिकाउने छैनन्, र हरेक मानिस आफ्नो भाइ, भन्दै, प्रभुलाई चिन्नु: सबैले मलाई चिन्नेछन्, सानो देखि ठूलो सम्म. किनकि म तिनीहरूको अधर्मप्रति दयालु हुनेछु, तिनीहरूका पापहरू र अधर्महरू म फेरि सम्झनेछैनँ. त्यसमा उहाँले भन्नुभयो, नयाँ करार, उसले पहिलो पुरानो बनायो. अब जुन कुहिने र पुरानो हुन्छ त्यो हराउन तयार छ (हिब्रू 8:13)
सत्य भए तापनि, that the Old Covenant is replaced by a New Covenant, the will of God and His holiness and righteousness remained the same and still applies in the New Covenant
The commandments of the law, which represented the will of God and were written on tablets of stone and given to His people and applied in the New Covenant are now put into the mind and written in the hearts of the new creation, by the abiding of the Holy Spirit (यो पनि पढ्नुहोस्: 'के भयो 50 चाड पछि दिन पछि?'र'Why did God write His commandments on tables of stone?')
पुरानो करारमा मानिसहरू, who belonged to God’s people through natural birth, had a choice to obey God and to keep His law or become भगवानको अनाज्ञाकारी and His law.
नयाँ करारमा, नयाँ सृष्टि, who has entered the Kingdom of God through regeneration, has a choice to stay obedient to God and His words and to walk after the Spirit or to disobey God and His words and walk after the flesh and return to the kingdom of darkness. Because ‘once saved always saved’ is a false doctrine, which derived from a carnal mind of the old man (यो पनि पढ्नुहोस्: 'एक पटक बचत गरे सधैं बचत हुन्छ?')
The relation between God and His sons
You have freely chosen to enter into the covenant with God, येशू ख्रीष्टमा विश्वास र उहाँमा पुनर्जन्मद्वारा. You have said ‘yes’ to do God’s will and to live a life after the Spirit and you said ‘no’ to the will of the devil and to live a life after the flesh.
God didn’t force you to, you have made that decision voluntarily. But if you don’t want to keep and do the commandments of Jesus and don’t want to live after the will of the Father, then you will leave the covenant through your works.
You have entered the New Covenant by grace and not by your works, but your works will cause you to either stay in the covenant or leave the covenant.
किन (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted Me, मलाई प्रमाणित गरे, र चालीस वर्ष मेरा कामहरू देखे. त्यसैले म त्यो पुस्तासँग शोकित भएँ, र भने, They do alway err in their heart; तिनीहरूले मेरो मार्गहरू जान्दैनन्. त्यसैले मैले मेरो क्रोधमा कसम खाएँ, They shall not enter into My rest.)
ध्यान दिएर, भाइहरु, नत्रता तिमीहरूमध्ये कसैमा अविश्वासको दुष्ट हृदय नहोस्, जीवित परमेश्वरबाट टाढा जाँदा. तर दिनहुँ एकअर्कालाई आग्रह गर, जबकि यसलाई टुडे भनिन्छ; नत्रता तिमीहरूमध्ये कोही पनि पापको छलद्वारा कठोर हुनेछौ. किनकि हामी ख्रीष्टका सहभागी बनाइएका छौं, यदि हामीले हाम्रो आत्मविश्वासको सुरुआतलाई अन्त्यसम्म स्थिर राख्यौं भने (हिब्रू 3:7-14)
Many think that in the New Covenant you can keep living after the flesh and do whatever you want to do and make your own rules.
Of course you may do what you want to do, since you have been given a free will from God. But your walk and your works shall reveal your true nature and determine the way you will go and your works shall lead you to your final destination.
If you submit to God and listen to the Word and the Holy Spirit, then you shall live as the new man in the Kingdom of God being led by your new Godly nature, walking after the will of God and fulfilling the law (कानूनको नैतिक भाग, जसले परमेश्वरको इच्छालाई प्रतिनिधित्व गर्दछ) येशू जस्तै (यो पनि पढ्नुहोस्: 'के मानिसले परमेश्वरको व्यवस्था पूरा गर्न सक्षम छ?').
But if you are not willing to submit to God and don’t listen to the Word and the Holy Spirit, but reject Them and keep walking after the flesh, then you shall live like the old man in the kingdom of darkness being led by your fallen nature, जसमा पाप र मृत्युले शासन गर्दछ, and you shall keep walking after the will of the devil.
God’s will stands forever
तपाईं अविश्वासीहरूको साथ एकसाथ मिलाइनु हुँदैन: किनकि स ship ्गति धार्मिकताको अधर्मको साथ भएको छ? र अन्धकारको साथ अन्धकारको साथ के भयो? र कुन करारले उत्कृष्टसँग भएको छ? वा के भाग छ कि जसले एक अपराधीको साथ विश्वास गर्दछ? र मूर्तिहरूको मन्दिरको मूर्तिहरू छन्? किनकि तपाईं जीवित परमेश्वरको मन्दिर हुनुहुन्छ; भगवानले भन्नुभएको छ, म तिनीहरूमा बस्नेछु, र तिनीहरूमा हिंड्नुहोस्; र म तिनीहरूका परमेश्वर हुनेछुँ, तिनीहरू मेरा मानिसहरू हुनेछन्. यसैले तिनीहरूबाट बाहिर आऊ, र तपाईं एक अलग हुनुहोस्, परमप्रभु भन्नुहुन्छ, र अशुद्ध चीज नछोड्नुहोस्; र म तिमीलाई प्राप्त गर्नेछु, र एक बुबा हुनेछ, तिमी मेरो छोरा-छोरी हुनेछौ, परमप्रभु भन्नुहुन्छ " (2 धर्मघरको 6:14-18)
God has revealed His will in His Word. त्यसैले, it is very clear what God likes and dislikes and what is good and what is evil. His will is clear and stands forever. No one can change anything about it.
Just like in the Old Covenant God warned His people about the consequences if His people wouldn’t repent and submit to Him and listen to His words, but reject His words, God still warns in the New Covenant His people through His Word and His Holy Spirit.
Because God loves man and doesn’t anyone to perish because of his or her works (1 तिमोथी 2:4)
परमेश्वरले संसारलाई यति प्रेम गर्नुभयो कि उहाँले आफ्नो पुत्र दिनुभयो, येशू ख्रीष्ट, to redeem mankind by the blood of Jesus from the power of sin and death and release them from the captivity of the kingdom of darkness.
But every person makes his or her own choice to either accept the love of God and by faith in Jesus Christ and through regeneration and sanctification बूढो मानिसलाई छोड्नुहोस् र नयाँ मानिसलाई लगाउनुहोस् and walk after the Spirit or reject the love of God and keep living after the flesh as the world.
'पृथ्वीको नुन बन’
