Yesus geus dibikeun kami loba janji ngeunaan sésana-Na jeung karapihan-Na yén dulur, Anu percaya ka Anjeunna sareng sumping ka Anjeunna sareng diajar ti Anjeunna kedah ngalaman. The peace of God, which passes all understanding and shall keep the hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. If the Word has made these promises, naha loba jelema, who say they believe and claim to be Christians, don’t experience rest and peace in their lives but the exact opposite? What is the cause of this turmoil, kaayaan hariwang, mental anguish, jeung emotional distress? How can you experience the rest and peace of God in your life? What does the Bible say about the peace of God?
The wicked have no peace
Tapi jahat sapertos laut anu kaganggu, Nalika éta henteu tiasa istirahat, anu cai tuang ban sareng kokotor. Teu aya katentreman, Saur Allah, ka jahat (Yesaya 57:20).
Teu aya katentreman, Saith Gusti, unto the wicked (Yesaya 48:22)
We live in a time of turmoil, where many things take place. But as long as we remain faithful to Jesus Christ and stay in the Word and seek those things which are above and set our affection on things above and not on things on the earth, we shall experience the promised rest and peace of God.
Firman nyebutkeun, that the wicked have no peace and shall never find rest for their soul.
Éta kusabab, they don’t know God and are separated from God and live in enmity and disunion with God.
And as long as they keep avoiding Jesus Christ and don’t acknowledge and accept Jesus Christ as the Son of God and don’t believe in Him as the Saviour of their sinful nature and the Healer of their fallen state (broken state ) and Reconciler between God and man, and therefore don’t repent and become born again in Christ, they shall not have rest and shall not experience the peace of God in their lives (Baca ogé: ‘Per katatih, Yesus disimpen di antara manusa anu murag sareng Gusti‘ jeung ‘Yesus malikkeun posisi lalaki fallen').
The carnal man tries to enter a state of rest and experience inner peace through means of human philosophies and carnal methods
People try all sorts of ways and use all kinds of natural means and methods, to find rest and inner peace. They apply (Sabeulah wetan) Agama, filosofi, métode, jeung téknik, siga puji, semedi, yoga, terapi urut, akupungtur, Deui, jsb., and do all kinds of things to experience rest and inner peace in their lives.
Even people, Saha anu ngaku Kristen, but are not truly born again and have not crucified their flesh in Christ, apply this worldly knowledge, hikmah, métode, and technics in their lives, to enter a state of rest and experience inner peace.
They not only get involved with these occult practices, but they even promote these occult practices and bring these occult practices into the church.
Since many churches are world-like and are spiritually asleep and don’t possess the discernment of spirits, they allow these occult practices in the churches and defile the churches with these occult practices.
And so these wolves in sheep clothing, who belong to the devil and serve him, enter the churches and mix the faith with the world by Christianizing these pagan doctrines and practices.
They put the word ‘Christian’ in front of these pagan doctrines and practices and mislead many believers with their pious words, which seem credible to them, and by quoting Scriptures from the Bible, nu dicokot kaluar tina konteks.
Some even claim that these occult pagan practices come from God and that God is the Inventor of these carnal doctrines, métode, and technics and say that the world has copied them from God.
Why do so many people believe the lies of the devil?
Hanjakalna, many people believe these lies and are misled by these wolves in sheep clothing, because they are worldly and carnally minded, kawas aranjeunna, and are looking for alternatives for the things of this world, and because they do not know the Word personally and therefore they don’t know the bakal dewa.
They love the world and want to do the same things as the world and because the word ‘Christian’ is in front of it, they think that it’s ok to practice and that it can’t hurt and that God approves it. But when people, Saha anu ngaku Kristen, approve of these pagan doctrines and practices, doesn’t mean that God also approves these pagan doctrines and practices. God is very clear in His Word about pagan practices and the world (Baca ogé: ‘Naha anjeun tiasa misah spiritual ti filosofi sareng prakték wétan?).
And so the devil has acted upon the will, wishes, and desires of carnal Christians and originated a.o. Christian meditation, mindfulness Kristen, Scan awak Kristen, Christian massage therapy, trigger-point therapy, Christian yoga, and established Christian spiritual wellness centers, so that people, Saha anu ngaku Kristen, can experience the same wellness treatments like the world, but only under other names.
They think they have found alternatives for mindfulness, semedi, yoga, terapi urut, akupungtur, deui, jsb., and that they can practice it without any spiritual danger and without feeling guilty towards God.
Sanajan kitu, the spiritual aspect is still connected to these carnal philosophies, kondekonan, téknik, sareng metode, whereby they shall not help them to find rest and to experience inner peace, tibatan, they shall experience more anxiety, kaributan, mental anguish, jeung chaos in their lives.
They can believe and think whatever they want and ease their conscious by believing that it’s spiritually harmless, but the ruler of this world is a liar and what he promises is not true, tapi bohong. And because many are not truly born again and don’t walk after the Word and the Spirit and don’t discern the spirits, but are carnal, they believe the devil’s disguised lies and enter his crooked ways and think they will get what they want and what is promised to them. But they shall receive the exact opposite from him.
What happens when you become involved with the darkness
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace (Yesaya 59:8)
dulur, who becomes involved with doctrines and practices that derive from the kingdom of darkness becomes involved with the devil. Instead of rest and peace, the turmoil, kaayaan hariwang, and mental anguish shall only increase and by allowing the powers of darkness into their lives, they will be brought further into destruction and eventually be destroyed
The people shall become lukewarm towards Jesus Christ and the things of the Kingdom of God and shall allow sin (najis séksual, berzina, cabul, nyembah berhala, jsb.) sareng Persib dina dosa.
Salian ti éta, they shall become unhappy, hariwang, doraka, nimbang, ambek, down-casted, rushed, kuat, and experience depression, insomnia and shall blame God, jelema, the surroundings, and/or situations, while they are responsible for their own actions and the fruit of their actions (Baca ogé: 'Naon anu anjeun sink anjeun bakal panén'jeung'Eureun nyalahkeun Gusti!')
Instead of walking on the way of God, they have entered self-chosen ways and, kawas dunya, refuse to lay down their flesh by faith and regeneration in Christ and to Pasang lalaki kolot jeung ka Pasang lalaki anyar. Ku kituna, they will experience the same kalakuan jahat salaku dunya.
The Way to enter God’s rest and experience the peace of God
But God forbid that I should glory, Simpen dina cross of Gusti Amérika Yesus Kristus, ku saha dunya anu disaluyukeun ka kuring, sareng kuring ka dunya. Pikeun di Kristus Yesus sanés mangrupikeun kasandapeun anu aya waé, atanapi teu purnum, but a new creature.Sareng saloba leumpang numutkeun aturan ieu, Damai aya di aranjeunna, jeung rahmat, sareng kana Israel Allah (Galata 6:14-16)
There is only one Way to asupkeun pangreureuhan Allah and to experience the peace of God, anu pas sadayana pamahaman, and that’s through Jesus Christ and by faith and regeneration in Him and by putting off the old man (daging) and putting on the new man (sumanget).
Only through regeneration in Christ you can become a son of God and see and enter the Kingdom of God, whereby you no longer belong to the devil, since you have laid down your flesh.
Dina Kristus, anjeun geus jadi ciptaan anyar. Ku kituna, you shall no longer live, the way you lived before, when the devil was your father and you did the will and desires of your father.
But now that you have become a son of God and belong to God and made a choice to follow Jesus Christ, you shall do the will of God.
This means that it’s no longer your way but Jalanna, no longer your thoughts but Pikiran na, not your truth but His Truth, not your words but His words, not your opinion but His opinion, not your will but Bumina.
Regeneration and following Jesus, means a complete surrender and submission to Jesus Christ; kecap.
Jesus was fully yielded to the Father and spent much time with the Father. Jesus spoke the words of the Father and learned from the Father and did what He had seen the Father do. And so Jesus walked in the Name of His Father after the Spirit in His will.
The words of Jesus are spirit and live and bring forth peace
Éta sumanget anu ngahirupkeun; daging teu nguntungkeun nanaon: kecap anu kuring nyarios ka anjeun, aranjeunna sumanget, sareng aranjeunna hirup (John 6:63)
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly (Amos 5:10).
The world didn’t receive Jesus Christ, because the words Jesus spoke testified of the evil works of the wicked (Pikeun. John 7:7)
ceuk Yesus, His words are spirit and life, but for many, the words of Jesus were not spirit and life and didn’t bring forth peace but the opposite. Because His words meant the death of their flesh and its works. And since many were not willing to lay down the works of the flesh they rejected Jesus and His words. Tur éta kénéh kasus nu bener.
Kusabab kanyataanna, that only a few people are truly born again and lay down the flesh and walk after the Spirit, which means to walk according to the Word in the will of God, only a few will truly enter God’s rest and experience the peace of God in their lives.
Many people think that they have entered God’s rest, Tapi kanyataanana, they have not. Because if they would truly have entered God’s rest they would experience the peace of God and the joy of God in their lives.
But many don’t experience the peace of God and the joy of God in their lives, but live in fear, kaributan, distress and are worried, ambek, down cast and experience anxiety, setrés, rarasaan kateken, jsb.
And because they refuse to follow the way of the Word and nuturkeun Yesus Kristus and become born again and put off the flesh, they rely on the wisdom and knowledge of the world and try to obtain rest and inner peace in their lives through natural means and by applying Filosofies wétan, carnal technics and methods.
But Jesus Christ is the Only Way to enter God’s rest and to experience the peace of God. Teu aya deui cara sanés! If someone comes with another doctrine and another way that deviates from the Word, then the church should reject that doctrine and that way, instead of allowing it in the church (Baca ogé: 'Is there only one Way to eternal salvation? jeung ‘Doktrin setan maéhan gereja').
The grace and peace be multiplied through the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ
Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord (2 Peter 1:1-2)
Sareng Damai Gusti, anu pas sadayana pamahaman, wajib jantung sareng pikiran anjeun ngalangkungan Kristus Yesus (Filiptips 4:7)
If you have entered God’s rest by faith and regeneration in Christ, you shall experience God’s peace and you shall stay in God’s peace by staying faithful to God and by abiding in the Word and by walking after the Spirit and by seeking those things which above, dimana Kristus linggih, instead of seeking the things on this earth.
Through your personal relationship with God the Father, Yesus Kristus, and the Holy Spirit and your experiential knowledge of God and Jesus Christ, our Lord, the sanctifying grace and peace shall be multiplied unto you.
'Janten uyah bumi’
