The grace of God is shown throughout the Bible and is so great!. God loves people so much and doesn’t want any one to perish but that all people be saved. He only wants the best for people and have a relationship with them. Gusti hoyong pisan ieu, that He sent His only begotten Son Jesus Christ to this earth, to become a sacrifice for humanity. Yesus nyandak sagala dosa, iniquities, panyakit, and sicknesses of fallen humanity upon Him. Jesus died for everyone, kalebet. So that you’ll be delivered from sin and the power of darkness and be reconciled with God. Let’s look at what the Bible says about the grace of God.
Naon sih kurnia Allah?
Kanggo Gusti anu dipikacinta dunya, yén anjeunna masihan hiji putra, sing saha anu percaya ka Anjeunna ulah binasa, Tapi gaduh kahirupan anu langgeng (John 3:16)
Jesus took the sins of the world and carried our punishment: death and eternal torture in hell. Jesus carried it all, so that we would be freed from sin, egiquity, sareng maot. Ku getih-Na, we’re reconciled with God and can have a relationship with Him and live in freedom on earth.
What a love and grace of God!
And salvation is not all, that He has done. No! He gave us His Holy Spirit. So that we could live on earth as putra Allah (boh lalaki sareng bikang).
Ieu hartosna, that we can live a life that Jesus lived, because what Jesus had, we have.
The life as a son or daughter of God is for now and not after we die and go to heaven.
The grace of God is that we’re not justified by our works, but by the work of Jesus Christ and His blood. We’re saved by faith in Christ.
Being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life (Urang Romawi 5:9-10)
Kanggo ku Rahmat nyaéta disimpen ku iman; sareng éta henteu sorangan: Éta mangrupikeun kado Allah: Henteu dianggo, Hiberi lalaki naon waé (Efesians 2:8-9)
We could never earn our salvation by works! Only by the grace of God, Dina Kristus, we’re restored (cageur cageur), reconciled jeung Allah. We have become partakers of the inheritance that God gave us through His Son Jesus Christ.
What is the inheritance of the sons of God?
The inheritance of the sons of God is the gift of the Holy Spirit; the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. We are born of God and have His nature and may walk in the spiritual gifts and distribute life to others.
It’s the grace of God that you may have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. What a blessing it is, to be and walk in His presence and communicate with Him. There is nothing you can do to earn this. No work will get you to that place. The only thing you have to do is percaya ka Yesus Kristus, tobat, and be born again in Him.
You have received it freely. How great is God’s love!
But now comes the essential point, Are you allowed to walk in sin after you become born again? Can you walk like you used to walk before your conversion?
Does the grace of God allow you to walk in sin?
No, the grace of God does not allow you to walk in sin. If you want to remain disobedient to God and keep sinning, naon anu anjeun tobat tina? If you don’t turn your back to sin, but keep walking in sin, you are not delivered from your sinful nature.
When you have an encounter with Jesus Christ, His presence and holiness will confront you with your sins, Alternatif alat, and your filthy state.
When you are confronted with your sins and sinful nature, you have two options. The first option is, you mourn, tobat, and accept Jesus as your Lord and Saviour. The second option is, you walk away, reject Jesus and His sacrifice, and keep living in sin.
If you choose the first option, you repent from your sins and accept Jesus, as your Saviour and Lord and be cleansed by His blood, which was shed on the cross on Calvary. Ti ayeuna, milik anjeun old life is gone and washed away by the blood of Jesus.
You’ll be baptized in water and baptized with the Holy Spirit and become a new creation; putra Allah (Ieu manglaku pikeun lalaki sareng bikang).
Ku sabab kitu upami aya lalaki di Kristus, anjeunna mahluk anyar: hal heubeul dialihkeun; ningal, sagala hal anu anyar
2 urang Korinta 5:17
What is the power of the blood of Jesus Christ?
The power of the blood of Jesus Christ that it cleanses you from all your sins and iniquities and sanctifies you. All things are passed away and that all things become new. Henteu éta éndah! That is the power of the cross and the blood of Jesus Christ.
But when you return to your old sinful life, you will deny the power of His blood and therefore deny Jesus Christ.
When you are taught in the Bible and study the Word of God and keep walking in sin, still doing the things that you did before your repentance, and use ‘the grace of God’ as a license to sin (because you love your old life as a sinner and don’t want to give it up), you deceive yourself.
The devil is a liar and twists the meaning of grace.
He uses a partial truth of God and make you believe that by the blood of Jesus Christ and the grace of God you are allowed to sin, because you will always be a sinner. Tapi éta bohong!
If you keep walking in sin and use the grace of God to make it all right, it only means one thing:: you don’t want to maot ka diri and are not really born again. You’re not convicted yet of the evil of sin and your depraved sin nature.
You may think you are, but your actions prove that you are not born again. You still listen to your old father the devil, by walking in sins.
You’re holy and righteous, therefore act holy and righteous
Nalika anjeun lahir deui, anjeun janten putra Allah; ciptaan anyar. Salaku putra Allah, you have His nature dwelling on the inside of you. You have become holy and righteous.
You are seated in Jesus Christ. Your life is hidden in Him, you have become one with Him. Ayeuna terserah anjeun, if you want to stay in Him.
If you stay in Him; Firman Allah, you obey His words and walk in His commandments. You will do His will instead of your will. When you obey Him and walk in His will, you walk holy and righteousness.
“Be holy, pikeun kuring suci "
How can you become one with Him and become a partaker of His nature, when you keep obeying and serving the devil, by walking in sins? Éta mustahil!
You can either do the will of the Father and walk in His commandments or do the will of the devil and keep walking in sins and iniquities, fulfilling the will, nafsu, sareng kahayang daging.
Do you know that every time you sin, you serve and exalt the devil?
Naon dosa?
Sin is rebellion and disobedience to God. Sin is everything, that oppose the words and will of God and therefore trespasses His commandments of the Law of the Spirit of life (The Law of His Kingdom).
Paul wrote in Romans 6:1-23 the following about sin;
Naon anu urang kedah nyarios teras? Bakal urang terus dina dosa, éta rahmat tiasa abarat? Gusti nyaram. Kumaha carana urang, anu paéh pikeun dosa, hirup deui di dinya? Terang yo henteu, that so many of us as were baptised into Jesus Christ were baptised into his death? Ku sabab urang dikubur sareng anjeunna ku baptis janten maot: éta sapertos salaku Kristus diangkat tina maot ku kamulyaan ku bapak, Sanaos kami ogé kedah leumpang dina kahirupan hirup.
Pikeun lamun urang geus dipelak babarengan dina sasaruaan maot-Na, we shall be also in the likenessof his resurrection: Nyaho ieu, yén lalaki heubeul urang geus disalib jeung manéhna, yén awak dosa bisa ancur, yén ti ayeuna urang teu kudu ngawula dosa. Pikeun manéhna nu geus maot geus dibébaskeun tina dosa. Ayeuna lamun urang geus maot jeung Kristus, urang percaya yén urang ogé bakal hirup jeung manéhna: Nyaho yén Kristus anu gugah tina pupusna moal maot deui; maot teu boga kakawasaan deui ka manehna. Pikeun éta anjeunna maot, anjeunna maot kana dosa sakali: tapi dina eta anjeunna hirup, anjeunna hirup ka Allah. Kitu ogé, aranjeun ogé geus maot dina dosa, tapi hirup ka Allah ngaliwatan Yesus Kristus Gusti urang.
Urang Romawi 6:1-23
“Hayu henteu dosa ku sabab ulang awak anjeun”
Hayu henteu dosa ku sabab ulang awak anjeun, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.Teu ngahasilkeun ye anggota anjeun salaku instrumen tina dosa anu henteu pikaresepeun: tapi ngahasilkeun diri ka Gusti, Sakumaha anu hirup ti paéh, sareng anggota anjeun salaku instrumen leres ku Gusti. Kanggo dosa moal gaduh dominan pikeun anjeun: pikeun ye henteu di handapeun hukum, Tapi dina rahmat.
“Naha urang ngalakukeun dosa, Kusabab urang henteu dina hukum, Tapi dina rahmat? Gusti nyaram”
Kumaha éta? Naha urang ngalakukeun dosa, Kusabab urang henteu dina hukum, Tapi dina rahmat? Gusti nyaram. Terang yo henteu, anu ka saha anu ngahasilkeun hemang diri anjeun, Pangambungna ye nyaéta ka saha waé; naha dosa henteu maot, atanapi tina nurut kana kabagjaan? Tapi Allah hatur nuhun, ye ye mangrupikeun abdi tina dosa, Tapi yeuh nurut kana jantung anu ngabentuk doktrin anu dikirimkeun anjeun.
Kitu teras dilakukeun bébas tina dosa, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: Kanggo sapertos anu ngahasilkeun anggota anggota anjeun pikeun najis sareng indicity inquicity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, yeuh bébas tina kabungahan.
“Upah dosa nyaéta maot”
Buah naon anu anjeun ngagaduhan dina hal-hal anu mana anu ayeuna ayeuna isin? For the end of those things is death.Tapi ayeuna dilakukeun bébas tina dosa, sareng janten had sareng Gusti, ye gaduh kasucian buah anjeun, and the end everlasting life.
Pikeun gajih dosa maot; Tapi kado Allah mangrupikeun kahirupan langgeng ngalangkungan Yesus Kristus urang.
Why the grace of God is not a license to sin?
Rahmat Allah sanés lisénsi pikeun tetep ngalakukeun dosa. When you’re born of God and get to know the Word, you turn your back to sin, and do what pleases God.
The grace of God is the unending love of the Father, that through His Son Jesus Christ, you may become a partaker of the inheritance for His people. His grace is the ability and the privilege to become sons and daughters of the most High God, by faith in Jesus Christ and by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Rahmat Gusti, is the sanctification period. It is the time God gives you, Pikeun Pasang lalaki kolot, jeung Pasang lalaki anyar. So that you’ll walk as a son of God in the Light and the dominion that Jesus walked in.
Walk as the new creation
You will walk as Jesus walked and reveal and destroy the works of the devil. You’ll preach the gospel, set the captives free, and heal those who are sick in the Name of Jesus.
You will no longer walk after the flesh in sin (in rebellion and disobedience to God and His Word), but after the Spirit in obedience to the Word in the wisdom and knowledge of God, doing the works of righteousness. Ayeuna, that is grace!
Therefore separate yourself and live like Jesus lived. Renew your mind with the words of God and be courageous. Don’t let anyone discourage you! Continue, even when people around you think you are a fool.
Keep your eyes on Jesus Christ, Firman Allah anu hirup. He is the One you need to follow!
'Janten uyah bumi'
