Som omtalt i forrige blogginnlegg, Guds rike er evig og Guds Ord er fast for alltid. Ingen og ingenting kan endre det. Ingen står over Gud, not even the fallen angel Lucifer. Satan can attack the Word and steal and destroy the words of God through his lies, yet he can’t change anything about the truth of God’s Word and His will. God’s Word is the truth and therefore the Word is reliable. De, who put their trust in God and His Word will not be ashamed and disappointed, tvert imot. Hvert Guds ord, which is written in the Bible has come to pass and still comes to pass. The Word is the truth and it possesses life. God’s Word brings deliverance to those, who believe in the Word and obey the Word, and do what the Word says. Let’s look at how God’s Word brings deliverance.
God rejected through disobedience to His Word
In the Old Covenant the people, som ble født av Jakobs ætt (Israel) and through natural birth belonged to God’s people, often brought evil upon themselves because of their ulydighet mot Gud and His Word and their evil works.
Because of their rebellion and disobedience to God, God delivered them into the hands of the pagan nations and they were taken into exile by the Gentiles and lived in bondage (Les også: The mischief the people bring upon themselves).
Although the people were responsible for their apostasy, it happened many times, that the kings (herskere) of the people turned away from the Moses lov and left Guds vei by rejecting the words of God and wandering from God and leading the people astray and engaged them in their apostasy and their evil works.
They made covenants with the pagan nations, took their women, adopted their culture and customs, and brought their idols into their land, and bowed before the pagan idols.
They placed the idols in the temple, set up high places, sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places to these idols, and did all those things which were evil in the eyes of the Lord.
They didn’t show God that they loved Him through their obedience to His Word and their righteous works. I stedet, they showed God through their disobedience to His Word and their evil works, that they despised God and His Word (Åh. Joshua 23:16, Dommere 2:12; 20-21, 3:8, 10:17, 1 Konger 14:7-16, 16:7-33, Jesaja 5:24-25).
Because by allowing these idols into their land and adopting the pagan religion, Ritualer, and practices and all those things, which God had forbidden through His Word, they actually showed God that He was not good enough for them and that God could not give them what they wanted and needed.
God didn’t meet the expectation of His people
God didn’t meet their expectation. They didn’t find with God what they did find with these pagan idols. Therefore they served these idols and bowed down before them, by doing what they commanded them to do and by sacrificing to them (Les også: Forventningen til mennesker).
Because of the fact that they had left and rejected God and His Word and became infidels by committing adultery with the pagan nations, by adopting their culture, religion (paganism), toll, Vaner, og livsstil, and by taking their women unto themselves and by bowing down for idols and submitting to them, God delivered them into the hands of these pagan nations, whom they admired and from whom they had adopted and appropriated everything.
Through their disobedience to God and His Word and their deeds, de brakte ugagn over seg selv. God was not responsible for that, but they were responsible (Åh. Dommere 2:14, 3, 6:1, 13:1, 2 Konger 13:3, 17:20).
God brought deliverance through His Word
Fools, because of their transgression, og på grunn av deres misgjerninger, er rammet. Deres sjel avskyr all slags kjøtt; og de nærmet seg dødens porter. Så roper de til Herren i sin nød, og han frelste dem ut av deres nød. He sent His Word, og helbredet dem, og reddet dem fra deres ødeleggelser (Salmer 107:17-20).
Men hver gang, the people of God called upon God in their distress and showed remorse over their disobedience and their iniquities and sin, which went against the will of God, God heard their call and answered their call through His Word and delivered them.
God appointed judges and kings and spoke through the mouths of His prophets to His people and made the way of deliverance known to them.
Through His Word and the obedience of the people to His Word, God delivered His people from the oppression and power of the pagan nations.
This wasn’t a one-time event, but this happened several times.
There were kings, who feared God and obeyed His Word and walked in His ways and did right in the eyes of the Lord and there were kings, who didn’t fear God and didn’t obey His Word and left His Word and His ways and did those things which were evil in the eyes of the Lord.
But God’s hand was never too short to deliver His people if they truly regret their sins and iniquities and repented of their evil way.
Se, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity (Jesaja 59:1-4).
Jesus; the Word proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord
Jesus; ordet, came to the earth to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and not to judge mankind, because His time to judge on the Day of Judgment had not come yet.
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me; because the Lord hath anointed Me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, å forkynne frihet til fangene, og åpningen av fengselet for dem som er bundet; Å forkynne Herrens velbehagelige år, og vår Guds hevnens dag (Jesaja 61:1-2)
And there was delivered unto Him (Jesus) the book of the prophet Esaias. Og da han hadde åpnet boken, Han fant stedet der det ble skrevet, Herrens Ånd er over meg, fordi han har salvet meg til å forkynne evangeliet for de fattige; Han har sendt Meg for å helbrede dem som har et knust hjerte, å forkynne utfrielse til fangene, og gjenoppretting av synet for blinde, for å sette de knuste fri, Å forkynne Herrens velbehagelige år (Luke 4:17-19)
Jesus was sent to the people of God to give them the opportunity to be delivered from the power of darkness and the dominion of death by making the Kingdom of God known to them and kaller dem til omvendelse and the putting away of sin and to believe, obey and do the words of God and to finish the perfect work of redemption for mankind through His redemptive arbeid ved korset.
Jesus commanded the people to have tro på Gud and repent of their sins and be døpt og adlyde Guds ord.
Jesus fulfilled the law of God on earth
Jesus didn’t come to change the words of God nor to annul the words of God. Jesus didn’t change anything about the words of God, considering Jesus was the living Word of God. Jesus walked in obedience to the words of God and fulfilled every word, which God had spoken and so Jesus fulfilled the law of God På jorden.
Jesus knew exactly, who would believe His words and obey and do His words and who wouldn’t.
Han visste, who was willing to lay down his own lives and follow Him and who wasn’t.
Derfor, Jesus wasn’t concerned with those, som tilhørte Guds folk, but were full of pride and had justified themselves and relied on their own intellect and skills.
But Jesus had compassion and was concerned with the lost sheep of God’s people, who were rejected by the proud and self-righteous people and lived in bondage and needed Jesus the Healer to deliver them and make them whole (Les også: Var Jesus en venn av tollerne?).
Og så, Jesus went to the lost sheep of the house of Israel and spoke the words of God, and delivered them from the power of the devil.
Jesus delivered them and commanded them to sin no more, but instead obey the words of God. Hence they wouldn’t come under the authority of the devil through sin and bow to the devil through obedience to his words and his will and make the devil lord of their lives and give him access and the ability to reign in their lives.
God sent His Word and made them whole
Through Jesus’ death at the cross, Blodet hans, and His resurrection from the dead, Jesus brought deliverance to Fallen mann. Jesus made a way for fallen man to be restored to his original position and be reconciled with God.
Jesus sanctified the people and made them righteous by faith in Him and through regeneration. The living Word healed them, which means that Jesus restored (repaired) mankind in his position and made them whole. (Åh. 2 Chronicles 30:17-20, Salmer 107: 20, Jesaja 6:10)
Ved tro på Jesus Kristus; Ordet og gjennom gjenfødelse; kjødets død og åndens oppstandelse fra de døde, the new man was reconciled with God.
Gjennom den nye fødselen i Kristus, the new man was able to have a relationship with God through His Word and His Spirit.
Først, God’s work of redemption was only meant for the people, who were born of the seed of Jacob and belonged through natural birth to God’s carnal people.
But because of their fall and because of the goodness and the grace of God, frelsen kom til hedningene (romerne 11:11).
God gave the Gentiles also the ability to be delivered from the power of the devil by faith in Jesus Christ and through regeneration and be transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of God (Kolosserne 1:12-14).
Through the rebirth in Christ, there is no difference anymore between the people, som er født av Jakobs ætt (Israel) og folket, who are born of the seed of the Gentiles. Fordi alle, who is born again in Christ and identified himself with Him, har blitt en Guds sønn (både hanner og kvinner) and belongs to His Church (Galaterbrevet 3:26-28, Kolosserne 3:10-11).
Jesus; the Word still brings deliverance
Although Jesus hassteg opp til himmelen and is seated on the mercy seat at the right hand of God, Jesus, the Word of truth, still delivers and still makes people whole.
For jeg skammer meg ikke over Kristi evangelium: for det er Guds kraft til frelse til alle som tror; til jøden først, og også til det greske. For der er Guds rettferdighet som er avslørt fra tro til tro: Som det er skrevet, Det rettferdige skal leve etter tro (romerne 1:16-17)
The hand of God is still not too short to deliver. His Word still possesses the same power of God unto salvation to everyone, som tror. But you have to believe first.
Just like the carnal people of God in the Old Covenant had to believe and trust in His words first and act according to His words.
Although we live in new covenant; a better covenant that is not sealed with the blood of animals but with the blood of Jesus; ordet, God has not changed. This means that His Word and His will have not changed.
Through faith and regeneration in Christ, we live in a better covenant, in which mankind no longer lives in bondage through his flesh under the power of darkness and sin and death, but lives in bondage through his spirit that is raised from the dead under the power of God and His light and life through Christ Jesus.
Jesus the Word is the Truth and He still brings deliverance to those, who live under the power and authority of the kingdom of darkness and are looking for deliverance.
The Way of deliverance
Many people are looking for deliverance, but are often looking in the wrong places and enter occult ways. But there is only one Way of deliverance and that is through Jesus Christ; det levende Ordet, og ved hans blod.
Jesus Christ alone is the Way, Sannheten, og livet (John 14:6 (Les også: Is there only one way to salvation?)).
Only by faith in Jesus Christ; det levende Ordet, og hans blod, and through regeneration people can be delivered from the power of darkness, by laying down the flesh in which the power of darkness rules and by the resurrection of the spirit from the death, be transferred into the Kingdom of God and be reconciled with God (Kolosserne 1:14-16).
As long as you walk after the Spirit in obedience to Jesus Christ; the Word and live according to the Word, after your repentance and after being born again, you will stay delivered and live in freedom from Him; ordet, og Guds rike.
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