Naon salahna jeung Garéja?

When we look at the state of the church, we can conclude that there is something wrong with the church. In order to find out what’s wrong with the Church, we should look first at the blueprint of the Church. We can find the blueprint of the church in the Bible and God’s will concerning the church. Let’s look at what Jesus says about the church and the position of the church on earth.

What does the word church mean?

The meaning of the church is not what most people think the word church means. They think that the church refers to a building, but that is not what the word church means. The word church derives from the Greek word ‘ekklesía’; ‘ek’ en ‘klēsis’, hartosna: ‘out of’ and ‘a calling’ (kaleõ, ‘to call’). The word ‘ekklesía’ was used by the Greeks to indicate a body of citizens, who were gathered to discuss public affairs (Lalakon 19:39).

The Church of the Old Covenant

Ieu anjeunna, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us (Lalakon 7:38)

The first time in the Bible, we read about the church or assembly is in the Old Testament. When the people of God were gathered together in the wilderness after God led them out of Egypt.

God had redeemed His people from the oppression and slavery of Pharaoh. They were no longer slaves of Pharaoh, but they had become God’s people.

The people of Israel were called and set apart by God. They were separated from the Gentiles.

God wanted His people to walk after His words and commandments; sanggeus kersa-Na, and not after the words and commandments of the pagan cultures.

What does Jesus say about the church and the foundation?

Dina Mateus 16:18-19, Jesus spoke about His church and after Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, putra anu hirup, Jesus said that He would build His church upon this rock. This meant, that Jesus would build His church on the confession of Peter, and His apostles, that Jesus is the Christ the Son of the living God. This is the foundation of the Church. (Baca ogé: Dina yayasan mangrupikeun garéja anu diwangun?)

Jesus builds His Church and not the people.

The only thing that people have to do, is stay obedient and faithful to Jesus Christ; kecap, tetep dina Firman, confess His Word, keep His Word, and be a doer of the Word and not depart from the Word.

Jesus promises His Church, that the gates of hell shall not gates of hell shall not prevail against them.

He also promised that He gives His church the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and that whatsoever the church shall bind on earth, bakal kabeungkeut di sawarga, and whatsoever the church shall loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven. (Baca ogé: ‘Naon anu dimaksud ku Yesus nyaéta ngariung sareng ngaleungitkeun?').

The church is the body of Jesus Christ

The church is a gathering of born-again believers. As long as you are not born again (lahir tina cai jeung Roh), you are not a part of the (universal) garéja. You can visit a local church and attend church services and maybe even become a member of a local church, but these things will not give you access to the Body of Jesus Christ.

The only way to enter the Body of Christ is through regeneration. You can compare this with natural birth.

Through natural birth, you become part of a family. There are all kinds of artificial ways to become part of a family, but only through natural birth, you will carry the d.n.a. of the family.

It’s the same thing with the Body of Christ.

Lamun anjeun jadi lahir deui dina sumanget, you will be born of the Spirit of God and carry His d.n.a.

The Church is, ku sabab eta, a gathering of born-again believers; putra Allah (Ieu manglaku pikeun lalaki sareng bikang), who have God’s nature and come together, to grow up in the Word and the knowledge of God’s will.

It is the purpose of the sons of God to spiritually mature and grow up in the image of Christ and walk as Jesus walked on earth in submission and obedience to the Father. So that they represent, ngahutbah, and bring the Kingdom of God on this earth.

What power gave Jesus to His Church?

Jesus gave all power to the church; the assembly of born-again believers, to tread upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy. He promised that while doing that, nothing would hurt the born-again believers (Lukas 10:19). Jesus gave all authority to His church, Pikeun bind and to lose. Which means to permit and not permit.

Jesus promised another Comforter and sent the other Comforter, sumanget suci, to His church. The Holy Spirit would lead and teach them into all truth and empower them as they went into the world.

Because Jesus gave the believers (garéja), the commandment to go into the world and preach the gospel and to make nations His disciples.

The signs that would follow the believers are:

• aya dibaptis dina cai,
• be filled with the Holy Spirit,
• nyarita dina basa anyar,
• tuang setan,
• lay hands on the sick and they shall recover,
• raise the dead,
• sarta lamun maranéhna bakal inuman sagala hal deadly, eta moal ngarugikeun aranjeunna

The Church has all the power of God. Therefore the Church should be the most powerful and mightiest institution on this earth. The Church is seated in Jesus Christ, jauh luhureun sakabeh kapangéranan, kakuatan, meureun, jeung kakawasaan jeung unggal ngaran anu ngaranna. Ku kituna the Church should triumph over every power of the enemy and the gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church (Baca ogé: Walk in the dominion that God has given to the new creation)

But what is happening with today’s Church? Does the Church have power? Do signs and wonders follow the believers? Is the Church able to give the life, that the Church has received in Jesus Christ? Is the Church able to help people and set them free of any oppression of the devil? Or does the Church refer people, after they have prayed, ka dunya, to worldly institutions, like doctors, (Kristen) psikologi, pshiikiatris, jsb?

The Church has the power and the answer to every human being and to every social problem in this world. Tapi kabeneran nyaéta Garéja parantos janten jasmani sareng lemah rohani sareng kusabab éta Garéja henteu tiasa ngabéréskeun masalah di dunya., atawa masalah jalma. Naon anu Garéja ngagaduhan nawiskeun?

Panginten waktosna pikeun nyanghareupan bebeneran anu susah sareng perhatikeun yén gerbang naraka parantos ngawasa Garéja sareng yén dunya linggih di Garéja.

Naon salahna jeung Garéja?

Garéja geus nyimpang tina kecap Allah jeung compromised. Di handap ieu anjeun mendakan daptar hal-hal anu salah dina garéja

Anak-anak Yuda parantos ngalakukeun anu jahat di payuneun Kami, Saith Gusti: aranjeunna geus nempatkeun abominations maranéhanana di imah nu disebut ku ngaran Kami, pikeun ngotoran éta (Jeremize 7:30)

• Garéja geus diatur abominations di Bait Allah jeung ngotoran Bait Allah (ieu kaasup kahirupan urang Kristen, sabab urang Kristen; the believers are the church)
• The Church holds fast to deceit and refuses to return. The Church spoke not aright; no one repented of his or her wickedness (dosa jeung iniquity).
• The Church is not familiar with the judgment nor the will of the Lord
• The Church claims to be wise and thinks that the law of the Lord is with her. Certainly in vain made the Church it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
• The Church boasts in its own wisdom and has rejected the Word of the Lord
• The Church says that there is peace, when there is no peace; the Church says it’s ok, while it’s not ok
• The Church is not ashamed when the believers commit abominations.
• The Church has become an adulteress, an assembly of treacherous men and women
• The Church bends her tongue like her bow for lies, but is not valiant for the truth upon the earth. Her tongue is like an arrow shot out, which speaks deceit.
• The Church walks in evil and proceeds from evil to evil
• The Church doesn’t know the Lord
• The Church is filled with brothers, who cannot trust each other because they deceive each other and do not speak the truth (they speak the wisdom of the world, which goes against the Word of God). They have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
• The Church walks amid deceit; through deceit and refuses to know the Lord
• Garéja; masif, speaks peaceably to their neighbor with their mouths, but in their hearts, they laid his wait.
• The Church has not obeyed the voice of the Lord, nor walked in His commandments. But the Church walks after the imagination of her own heart and after idols.
• The pastors destroy and scatter the sheep of the Lord’s pasture
• Para nabi and the priests are profane. The Lord has found their wickedness in His house. Aranjeunna zinah, walk in lies, and strengthen the hands of evildoers. They prophesy out of their own heart
• The Church has left the spiritual inheritance, she received in Jesus Christ and is focused on idols

(Jeremize 7:30, 8, 9, 23 Ezekiel 13)

Why won’t the methods and strategies of the world help to restore the Church?

Many churches look at the world and rely on their carnal wisdom and knowledge and apply worldly doctrines, métode, and strategies in the church. They compromise with the world to attract more people, especially more youth. They adapt the sounds of secular music in their worship music and apply ‘new age’ techniques during worship to enter into some kind of trance. They’ll use all kinds of new technologies to make the gospel attractive and enjoyable to carnal people. The churches tolerate all kinds of behavior and preach short ‘feel good’ and motivational sermons that revolve around man.

Everything is done to please and satisfy the carnal people and to keep them happy so that they will return.

Many changes are being applied in the church, that are focused upon the will of man. Sadly, many congregations don’t live after the will of God deui, but after the will of man.

Many churches twist the truth of God’s Word, into lies. Because that’s what people want to hear. They would rather hear lies, so that they can continue to live after the flesh, than the truth. Because the truth of God will cost them their lives on this earth and they are not willing to give up their lives.

The church is focused on carnal prosperity, kabeungharan, artos, growth, profit, jsb.

But which church has the guts to go back to the Word and live according to the will of God and remove all the sins out of the church with the consequences that many people will walk away? Who is willing to sacrifice his or her office for the truth of God?

Many churches keep compromising the Word with the world. They look at the doctrines, métode, and strategies of the world and apply them to the church. But the wisdom of the world shall not benefit, nor restore the church because the church is a spiritual institution. The church doesn’t belong to the world; karajaan gelap, but to the Kingdom of God.

Kawijaksanaan dunya (daging) is against the wisdom of God (sumanget), they cannot go together. There is only one way to restoration, and that is to repent and return to Jesus; kecap.

How can the Church be restored?

The only way the church can be restored is when the church repents of the abominations she has committed and allowed in the congregation and returns to the Word of God and obeys and does the Word of God. Ngan harita, there will be a change in the church.

It is about time to become serious with the things of the Kingdom of God and to walk after the Spirit, instead of walking after the flesh. It’s time to seek the things that are above, dimana Kristus linggih, instead of seeking and longing after the things of this world. It is about time to put away the sins from the House of the Lord; out of the lives of the believers and start walking after the bakal dewa Dina kasucian sareng kabeneran

It is about time that Jesus becomes the Head of His body; Garéja, again and the Church arises from the dead and fulfills the commandment that Jesus gave to His followers. It is seriously time to listen to the Holy Spirit, so that the Body of Jesus Christ; garéja, will be prepared for Nya mulang.

Geus waktuna, the Bride will be ready for her Groom

Obey the voice of the Lord, and He will be your God, and you shall be His people: and walk in all the ways that He has commanded you, supaya bisa jadi alus ka anjeun (Jeremize 7:23)

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