Gusti teu hoyong saha binasa. Éta sababna Gusti masihan sadayana ka jalma-jalma pikeun ngalaksanakeun pangersa-Na sareng nyalametkeun jalma tina maot. Sanajan kitu, jalma geus dibéré wasiat bébas nyieun pilihan sorangan dina kahirupan. They decide which path to go: the broad way of the world that leads to destruction or the narrow way of life that leads to eternal life. Sapanjang Alkitab, we see the great love of God that doesn’t want anyone to perish. Éta sababna sapanjang Kitab Suci Allah nyauran jalma-jalma pikeun tobat. Tapi naon anu nyababkeun jalma-jalma tobat? The revelation and conviction of sin brought people to repentance. How else can a person repent if a person doesn’t see his sinful state and consider his works evil? Let’s look at the conviction of sin in the three dispensations of the Bible and how sin was revealed in each dispensation.
The conviction dosa dina dispensasi Allah
Sakumaha disebutkeun dina a pos blog saméméhna, urang bisa ngabagi Alkitab kana tilu dispensasi: dispensasi Allah Rama, Putra Yesus Kristus (Kecap hirup), jeung Roh Suci. Sanajan kitu, dina tilu dispensasi, urang ningali kolaborasi anu terus-terusan antara Gusti Nu Maha Kawasa, Yesus; kecap, jeung Roh Suci.
Dina dispensasi munggaran Allah, urang ningali hubungan antara Allah jeung jalma pilihan-Na sanggeus daging; Israel (lahir tina turunan Yakub).
Nalika Gusti; El-Elohim nyiptakeun manusa nurutkeun gambar-Na sorangan, manusa dijieun sampurna. Nepi ka manusa mutuskeun pikeun balik jalan sorangan jeung rebel ngalawan kecap Allah jeung dosa.
Roh dina manusa maot sareng manusa janten jiwa anu hirup, anu gaduh pangaweruh anu hadé sareng anu jahat.
Urang maca ngeunaan hubungan antara Allah jeung Abel, Enok, Nuh, Ibrahim, Araac, Yakub, Joseph, jsb.
Maranéhanana kabéh walked jeung Allah sanggeus bakal Na, sedengkeun Allah henteu acan masihan hukum-Na. Tapi maranehna listened kana kecap-Na jeung percaya kecap-Na jeung walked di mituhu kana kecap-Na.
Sanajan kitu, urang ogé maca ngeunaan Kain, Esau, putra Allah, the people that lived in the time of Noah’, pangeusina Sodoma jeung Gomora, jsb. Aranjeunna sadayana hirup sorangan saatos wasiat, nafsu, jeung kahayang daging maranéhanana dina hal nu henteu patuh kana kecap Allah.
Allah masihan hukum-Na
We read about God’s people that lived in Egypt under the oppression of Pharaoh for 400 years and how God saved them. God heard their cry and chose Moses as His representative to redeem His people out of Egypt and from the oppression of Pharaoh.
Nalika Allah ditebus umat-Na ku panangan-Na sareng dipingpin ka gurun keusik, Allah nembongkeun Diri-Na ngaliwatan sagala tanda jeung mujijat.
God wanted a relationship with His people. Manéhna hayang jadi Allah maranéhanana jeung nu bakal jadi umat-Na. And so God gave them the Law that revealed His will concerning their lives.
Keur 400 taun, aranjeunna hirup sanggeus bakal Firaun sarta nurutkeun Mesir budaya, kalakuan, jeung ritual jeung nyembah brahala.
Aranjeunna najis sareng éta sababna waktosna, yén umat Allah bakal disucikeun tina sagala kajahatan sareng nunda kahirupan heubeul maranéhanana.
The only way to do that was to renew their mind with God’s will because the mind determined their actions. Ngalangkungan Hukum kabeneran jeung kahirupan, God made His will known to His people and sin was revealed.
Hukum éta henteu ngan ukur nunjukkeun kahoyong Allah tapi ogé sifat Allah, leresna, jeung kasucian.
The holy law of God brought light in the darkness and gave life to those that would submit to the Law (bakal dewa) jeung taat kana Hukum.
The law revealed the truth and exposed every sin that leads to death. Sabab Allah henteu kersaeun saha-saha umat-Na binasa. By keeping the law and all the precepts and ordinances that belonged to the law, Umat-Na bakal diberkahan, disimpen, jeung boga hirup. But every person that belonged to His people had a choice to obey the law of God or not.
People decided to obey the Law or disobey the Law
Sapanjang dispensasi ieu, urang nempo yén umat Allah geus devoted ka Allah pikeun waktu nu tangtu sarta tuluy indit ti Anjeunna. Éta alam lalaki heubeul that walks after the flesh: devoted to God, turning away from God, crying to God for help, tobat, devoting to God, turning away from God, jsb.
Every time God’s people got into trouble by leaving His law and adopting the ulture, Béa cukai, and behavior of pagan countries, maranehna ngajerit ka Allah jeung tobat.
Lajeng Gusti, Who is faithful and full of mercy, sent His word (through an angel or His prophet(s)) sarta disimpen aranjeunna.
But it didn’t take long before His people rebelled again and became disobedient to the law and rejected God. Tapi naon kakeunaan dosa dina kahirupan umat-Na? Hukum Allah kakeunaan dosa jeung murtad manusa carnal.
The conviction dosa ku hukum
Lamun hukum Allah ieu maca saméméh jalma, kasucian Allah jadi katempo jeung dosa ieu wangsit ka maranehna. The law was their teacher and showed them how far they were driven away from God and His words. Saterusna umat-Na boga pilihan pikeun tobat atanapi henteu.
Tanpa hukum Allah, nu ngagambarkeun hukum kabeneran jeung kahirupan, aranjeunna henteu sadar kanyataan yén kahirupan maranéhanana pinuh ku dosa. Umat-Na geus nolak hukum, firman Allah, sarta hirup kawas sakabeh bangsa séjén, sanggeus hawa nafsu jeung kahayang daging.
They went their own way and did their own will and were led by their flesh instead of the Word of God.
They took strange women from pagan nations, maranehna zinah, sareng counter, aya najis séksual sareng aranjeunna ngijinkeun abominations di bumi Gusti.
But as soon as the law of Moses appeared and was read, dosa ieu wangsit jeung disabit lalaki dosa. Without the law of Moses that came from God and represented His will, teu aya kasadaran kana dosa.
The dmana dosa dina dispensasi Yesus Kristus
Dina dispensasi kadua, urang ningali datangna Yesus Kristus, putra Allah, Milikna padamelan panebusan, jeung hubungan-Na jeung umat Allah. Jesus is the Word that became flesh and lived among the people.
Yesus ieu anointed ku Allah jeung Roh Suci jeung kakawasaan. He went about doing good, nyageurkeun sagala anu ditindes ku Iblis, pikeun Allah jeung Anjeunna (Lalakon 10:38).
Jesus was the reflection of God and represented and brought the Kingdom of God, kaasup hukum Allah (the law of of righteousness and life), di bumi.
Jesus lived according to the will of God and therefore He established and fulfilled the law. Sifat suci Allah cicing di Yesus jeung Anjeunna confronted umat Allah jeung dosa maranéhanana.
The dmana dosa ku Firman
Jesus is the Light that shone in the darkness. He brought all the things that were hidden in darkness into the light. Cahya nyanghareupan jalma-jalma kalayan dosa-dosana. The people of the house of Israel that heard His words and believed and were convicted in their hearts of their sins repented. Maranehna dibaptis dina cai jeung dihapus dosa tina kahirupan maranéhanana jeung nuturkeun Isa.
But the people that were proud and rebellious in their hearts and had the devil as father were not willing to repent.
aranjeunna nampik Yesus Kristus; Firman jeung tetep hirup di dosa. Maranéhna benci ka Yésus sabab Yésus méré kasaksian ngeunaan kalakuan jahat maranéhanana.
Dunya teu tiasa hate anjeun (lalaki heubeul) saprak anjeun bagian tina eta), tapi hate Kami (Man anyar ngeusi Roh Suci) sabab Kami nyebatkeun sareng nyaksian yén kalakuanana jahat (John 7:7)
Upami kuring henteu sumping sareng nyarios ka aranjeunna, maranehna geus teu boga dosa: tapi ayeuna maranehna teu boga cloke pikeun dosa maranéhanana. Sing saha anu hate ka Kami oge hate ka Rama Kami. Upami kuring henteu ngalakukeun di antara aranjeunna padamelan anu henteu dilakukeun ku anu sanés, maranehna geus teu boga dosa: Tapi ayeuna maranehna duanana geus katempo jeung hate duanana Kami jeung Rama Kami. (John 15:22-24)
The confrontation with the living Word, Anu ngagambarkeun kabeneran jeung kasucian Allah, nembongkeun dosa dina jalma. The living Word convicted the people of sin.
Conviction dosa dina dispensasi Roh Suci
Dina dispensasi katilu, urang ningali kalahiran kreasi anyar jeung hubungan jeung Roh Suci. What the devil destroyed in the Taman Eden was restored by Jesus Christ and His blood. Yesus ngadegkeun Hukum sarta nungkulan masalah dosa manusa.
Ngaliwatan pupusna sarta jadian-Na ti nu maraot sarta ku datangna Roh Suci, éta ciptaan anyar dilahirkeun.
Through repentance and regeneration in Christ, daging lalaki heubeul maot jeung sumanget ieu diangkat ti nu maraot ku kakawasaan Roh Suci.
Lalaki anyar lahir ku cai and Spirit and was no longer a son of the devil. But the new creation had become a son of God.
The new creation was reconciled in Jesus Christ with the Father and received His Holy Spirit.
The new creations didn’t belong to the world but to the Kingdom of God.
The Holy Spirit Who bears witness of Jesus Christ; kecap, and represents the Kingdom of God, jeung hukum kabeneran jeung kahirupan, lives inside the new creation. Just like God prophesied:
Sanggeus poé éta, Saith Gusti, Kuring bakal nempatkeun hukum Kami dina bagian batin maranéhanana, jeung nulis dina haté maranéhanana; sarta bakal jadi Allah maranéhanana, sareng aranjeunna bakal jalma
Jeremize 31:33
The new creation submits to the Father, Word, and Spirit and does the will of God
God’s will and His nature live in the heart of the new creation through the abiding of the Holy Spirit.
The old evil nature of the devil that is present in the flesh doesn’t exist anymore. The flesh is crucified in Christ. Ayeuna, Sifat suci Allah hirup di jero ciptaan anyar.
Nalika ciptaan anyar walks sanggeus Roh, he shall submit himself to the Word and the Holy Spirit and the will of the Father and do the will of God. Ku alatan éta kreasi anyar wajib netepkeun hukum (Urang Romawi 3:31).
The conviction dosa ku Roh Suci
Yesus bore saksi ngeunaan Roh Suci jeung ngomong yén Roh Suci reproves (narapidana, contusis, ngémutan, ngalaan, rebukes) dunya dosa, jeung kabeneran, jeung judgment (John 16:8-10)
Roh Suci ngagambarkeun wasiat Allah jeung convicts dosa manusa. Just like Jesus convicted the sins of the people and called the people to repentance and to put away sin. Sareng sapertos Gusti ngahukum dosa manusa, ku hukum jeung disebut umat-Na pikeun tobat jeung nyingkirkeun dosa.
Gusti, Yesus, jeung Roh Suci anu Hiji. Ku kituna, They have the same nature and the same will. Maranehna moal pernah saling ngabantah!
Roh Suci nyaéta Roh bebeneran sareng ngungkabkeun sagala bohong Iblis. Ku alatan éta, sagalana nu lumangsung dina gelap, Anjeunna bakal mawa kana caang.
He confronts people with their sinful state. He reveals to them their evil works from God’s point of view instead of man’s point of view.
Éta sababna urang peryogi Roh Suci. He alone will convict the person of sin and shows him his defiled sinful nature.
Tanpa kayakinan dosa, hiji jalma teu bisa tobat na iklaskeun nyawana jeung nyingkirkeun dosa-dosana. Éta sabab jalma éta henteu sadar kana dosana.
Jalma éta henteu ningali kabutuhan pikeun neundeun dagingna sareng janten lahir deui dina sumanget. He shall not consider the works of the flesh as evil. Therefore he shall never put off the carnal works of the flesh. The person will only do that if God reveals to him his spiritual state.
The goodness of God and conviction of sin bring man to repentance
Gusti teu hoyong saha binasa. Éta alesanana, sabab kasaean-Na, Anjeunna masihan hukum-Na, Putrana, jeung Roh Suci-Na. Sangkan dosa dunya, nu concealed di gelap sarta disumputkeun pikeun panon alam lalaki heubeul, bakal kakeunaan jeung manusa boga kasempetan pikeun tobat, ngahapus dosa-dosana, disimpen, sarta jadi ciptaan anyar dina Yesus Kristus.
'Janten uyah bumi’
