З любові, Бог послав Свого Сина на землю як жертву за грішну людину. Через жертву Ісуса Христа, стосунки між грішною людиною та Богом були відновлені. Старий завіт, which was sealed with the blood of animals was replaced by a New Covenant, which was sealed with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. Man could no longer be saved by the works of the law. The only way to be saved was by faith in Jesus Christ and through regeneration in Him. Ісус мав виконали закон and had taken the sin of the world and the punishment for sin, що є смерть, на себе. Всі, who would identify with Him in His death and resurrection, would be redeemed from death and would no longer see the death, але життя вічне успадкуєш. That was the love and grace of God, which was not only meant for His people by natural birth; Ізраїль, але також і для язичників. But the love and grace of God, which was revealed to mankind by the coming and the life of Jesus Christ and His death and resurrection, didn’t give mankind the right to persevere in sin. Because the love and grace of God doesn’t compromise with sin.
Любов Божа
У всій Біблії, we see how God showed His great love for the people. God wanted to be a God for the people and He wanted to have a relationship with them like God had with Adam before he became disobedient to God. Проте, many people didn’t want Him to be their God and didn’t want to listen to Him.
They were rebellious and rather served the god of this world; диявол, by listening to him and obeying him through the lusts and desire of their flesh.
The people did all kinds of things, that went against the will and the nature of God and His holiness. І так зло increased on the earth.
The evil was so big, that the sin reached heaven and cried out to God. God repented of the creation of mankind and since they didn’t want to repent, there was nothing else God could do but destroy mankind.
And so the flood came over the earth and later on Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around were destroyed because the people didn’t want to listen to God and didn’t want to obey God.
God redeemed His people from the power of Pharaoh
Even when God had chosen His people; насіння Якова; Israel by grace and redeemed them from the power and oppression of Pharaoh and led them from Egypt by His strong hand, many people remained rebellious.
God showed Himself through the many signs and wonders. God made His will and nature known to them, by giving them His law to Moses, який був Його представником. Через закон, Бог створив Його шляхи і Його думки відомий Його людям.
The law of sin and death was meant for the relationship between the old carnal man, які належали до Божого народу, і Бог. Since the old man was trapped in his flesh, в якому панують гріх і смерть.
Але замість цього, His people showed their fear of the Lord by keeping the law, many remained rebellious and disobedient through the weakness of their flesh and didn’t want to submit to His will.
The people of Israel were so familiar with the culture, боги (ідоли), and customs of Egypt, that they compared their God with the gods of Egypt.
But the God, who had chosen them by grace and had mercy on them was not a god, who was created by human hands. Бог, who had chosen them by grace and had mercy on them was the Творець неба і землі І все там. God had created them, замість навпаки.
На жаль, not everyone was willing to оновити свій розум зі словами Бога, які були написані в законі, і через obedience to His words submit themselves to this Almighty God; Творець Неба і Землі, і все, що є всередині.
В результаті, не всі, who belonged to God’s people entered the promised land and did not увійти в Його спокій.
God didn’t compromise with sin
A whole generation died in the wilderness and never entered the land God promised. All because of their stubbornness and rebellion.
There are many more examples written in the Old Testament of certain things that God had to do, which He would rather not have done.
This was not caused by God and His nature, but because of the pride, впертість, and rebellion of people and their nature. Because one thing is for sure and that’s God and His love can’t make a covenant with death, by tolerating sin. God couldn’t do this in the Old Testament and God still can’t do this, since God is the same, вчора, Сьогодні, і Forevermore.
Death was God’s enemy and not His friend. Всі, who belonged to God’s people but lived in sin, in rebellion against the law, would show that (с)he didn’t love God with all his/her heart, розум, душа, and strength and didn’t belong to God, but belonged to death. Since the person produced the fruit of death, which is sin and not through obedience to God and His law, плід праведності.
The love of Jesus
Ісус відповів і сказав йому, Якщо людина мене любить, Він зберігатиме мої слова: і мій батько полюбить його, І ми прийдемо до нього, і зробимо з ним Нашу обитель. Хто не любить Мене, той не дотримується Моїх слів: і слово, яке ви чуєте, не моє, Але батько, який послав мене (Джон 14:23-24)
Слово Боже є правдою. There is no single word that is written in the Bible and no promise of God that is not fulfilled. Проте, some prophecies and promises are not fulfilled yet. But we also see these slowly being fulfilled as the Повернення Ісуса підходи.
God sent His word to His people by giving them the law.
The law revealed God’s will to the carnal people and taught His carnal people, whose spirit was death, of good and evil.
Коли прийшов час, God fulfilled His promise of the Приходом Месії, and so Jesus the Word of God came to the earth.
Jesus came to redeem fallen man from the rulership and oppression of the devil, who reigns in the flesh of mankind.
Jesus restored the position of fallen man and reconciled man back with God. So that the relationship between God and man would be restored (Читайте також: ‘Мир, Jesus restored between God and man«. і ‘Ісус відновив становище занепалої людини«).
Jesus made God’s will known to His people
Jesus came to reveal the воля Божа представляючи, проповідування, and bringing the Kingdom of God to God’s people and calling the people to repentance.
The people of God so deviated from the truth that they were trapped in a manmade religion, that was created by false doctrines of people, традиції, and their set of rules and regulations, which were not from God.
They had created a God and a religion, that didn’t correspond with the true God and His truth.
But because of the traditions of man, they were brought up in this manmade religion and considered this religion as the truth.
Until the Truth of God; His Word came to the earth Himself and exposed all these lies, лицемірство, and false piety.
Nowhere in the four gospels do we read anything about Jesus approving and/or tolerating sin.
This is impossible! Because how could Jesus enter a covenant with the death, who is an enemy of God, by approving sin, which is the fruit of death? Ні, Jesus didn’t allow sin and didn’t compromise with sin, but Jesus called the people to каяття і усунення гріха.
Jesus redeemed mankind from the power of the devil
Ісус заплакав і сказав, Хто вірує в Мене, не вірить у Мене, але на Того, Хто послав Мене. І хто бачить Мене, той бачить Того, Хто послав Мене. Я прийшов світлом у світ, щоб кожен, хто вірує в Мене, не перебував у темряві. І коли хто почує Мої слова, і не вірте, Я не засуджую його: бо Я прийшов не судити світ, але врятувати світ. Той, хто відкидає Мене, і не приймає Моїх слів, має того, хто судить його: Слово, про яке я говорив, Вони судитимуть його в останній день. Бо я не говорив про себе; Але батько, який послав мене, Він дав мені заповідь, Що я повинен сказати, і що я повинен говорити. І я знаю, що його заповідь - це життя вічне: що б я не говорив, тому, навіть як сказав батько, тому я говорю (Джон 12:44-50)
Jesus didn’t come to the earth to judge the people. Because it was not His time yet to judge the people. But Jesus came to give the people the opportunity to be saved, through repentance and the removal of sin and by submitting to God and His will (Матвій 9:13, Марк 2:17, Люк 5:32).
Показав Ісус, що fulfilling the law was not as hard as it seemed. Проте, it all depended upon one element and that was Любов до Бога.
Not everyone loved God as much as Jesus. тому, not everyone was willing to lay down his own life and the lusts and desires of the flesh because of God and submit to God and His will.
Jesus didn’t compromise with sin
All the signs, чудеса, and mighty works were interesting to many people, but they didn’t bring the people to repentance. Because the mighty works that Jesus had done in the cities of Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum didn’t bring the people to repentance (Матвій 11:20-24, Люк 10:13-16).
Even the words of Jesus didn’t bring many to repentance. Because of all the thousands of people, who followed Jesus temporarily, because of the signs, чудеса, and mighty works Jesus did, or because they needed healing themselves or another miracle in their lives, only His twelve disciples were left and remained with Jesus (Джон 6:66-69).
The others couldn’t bear the words of Jesus, because they were hard and therefore they left Jesus.
Many were not able to bear the Light, since they were confronted with their sin and convinced of their sin.
Since many didn’t want to repent of their sin, but loved their sin and therefore wanted to persevere in sin, they did everything that was in their power to extinguish the Light. But since it was not God’s time yet, they were not able to extinguish the Light in the beginning.
Нарешті, народ, who belonged to the darkness, thought that they had extinguished the Light once and for all, від crucifying Jesus Christ.
While one Light was only just extinguished, 120 lights were lit
Але замість цього, they had extinguished the Light forever and they could continue their lives in darkness without restraint, they had achieved the opposite. Бо 50 днів після Пасхи the Holy Spirit came to the earth and 120 new Lights were born.
Of all those thousands of people, who met Jesus and temporarily followed Him, тільки 120 were left.
Ці 120 were united together in prayer in the upper room in Jerusalem, waiting for the promise, which Jesus had given them of the coming of the other Comforter, Дух Святий.
And it didn’t stop with these 120 людей. Because these 120 believers did what Jesus had commanded them to do. And because they had received the power of the Holy Spirit, they were able to be witnesses of Jesus Christ and preach His death and resurrection to the people. From that moment many souls were saved and added daily to the Church.
Then opened he their understanding, щоб вони розуміли Святе Письмо, І сказав їм, Таким чином це написано, і таким чином, як це страждає Христа, і піднятися з мертвих на третій день: І щоб покаяння і відпущення гріхів проповідувалося в Його ім’я серед усіх народів, Починаючи з Єрусалиму. І ви свідки цих речей (Люк 24:45-48).
The Holy Spirit walks in love
Just like Jesus walked in the love of God and called the lost, who belonged to God’s people and reproved them of sin and called them to repentance, the new creation in whom the Holy Spirit dwelled did the same thing. The new creation also walked in the love of God and reproved the people of sin. They called fallen man, who belonged to the darkness, to repentance and the removal of sin.
When they heard these things, they held their peace, і прославив Бога, кажучи, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life (Акти 11:18)
Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ (Акти 20:21)
But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance (Акти 26:20)
This gospel was first preached and brought to God’s carnal people. But because of God’s love and grace, the gospel was also preached and brought to the Gentiles. З ласки Божої, salvation came to the Gentiles and through regeneration, they were circumcised in Christ and belonged to God’s people.
The new man has been made righteous and holy
The new man was justified by the blood of Jesus and therefore the new man was made righteous and holy, which means that the new man was separated from the world unto God.
The new man didn’t walk in darkness after the lusts and desires of the flesh and didn’t produce the fruit for death, що є гріхом, більше, як (с)he produced before his/her repentance when the flesh was still alive and death reigned in his/her life.
Тих, who had become a new creation, had repented and were baptized and born of God. They were redeemed from the power of death, який царює в тілі.
Death didn’t reign in their lives and they no longer belonged to the kingdom of darkness. But they were born again and transferred to the Kingdom of God and therefore they belonged through regeneration to the Life.
Since they belonged to the Life and no longer to the Death, they didn’t produce the fruit of death, що є гріхом, in their lives anymore, but they produced the fruit of the Spirit and the fruit of righteousness.
The new man doesn’t compromise with sin
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. And we are His witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey Him (Акти 5:30-32).
Так само, як Бог і Ісус, the new creations also didn’t make a covenant with the dead by compromising with sin.
They didn’t allow sin but they reproved the people of sin.
They confronted the people with their sins and called them to repentance and the removal of sin.
Адже, they had received the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit can only dwell in those, who are obedient to God and His Word.
The grace of God through the sacrifice of Jesus and His blood couldn’t be used as an excuse to persevere in sin. The Christians back then, knew this very well.
They were spiritual and therefore they saw, just like God and Jesus by the Holy Spirit what sin is and what sin does with people (Читайте також: ‘Що таке гріх?«, ‘Гріх вбив Ісуса‘ і ‘Чи можете ви бути співучасником гріха одновірців?«)
тому, they didn’t preach a message of Помилкове кохання and false grace that compromises with sin and encourages the people to stay carnal. Since the true love and grace of God doesn’t compromise with sin, but hates sin and removes sin.
The old man compromises with sin
But an unspiritual man, who thinks like the world and is led by his senses, емоції, and feelings is ignorant about the things which are above, but only searches and looks for the things which are on this earth.
Старий, who lives after the flesh is unspiritual and is led by the ruler of this world; диявол, who has blinded the mind of this world with his lies.
The devil only has one purpose and that is to kill and destroy every person on this earth. The way he does that is through his seducing lies, which look godly and loving but in reality, destroy the people.
Many churches have compromised with sin
Протягом багатьох років, through the deviousness of the devil, the Church has allowed the spirit of this world to enter and has become world-like. Many churches don’t rely on the Word and the Holy Spirit but have entered sideways and rely on the words of the world.
Their prideful minds assume that they know it better than God and because of that mindset they have adjusted the Word to the will and the feelings, емоції, похоті, and desires of the old man (Старе творіння) і світ.
Багато проповідників, who preach behind the pulpit or enter the living rooms via (соціальні) media on Sundays, are not born again and don’t have the Holy Spirit. Замість цього, they serve the kingdom of darkness, since they allow people to live in sin (Читайте також: ‘Руйнування Божих справ замість діл диявола«).
They don’t deal with the problem and don’t call the people to repentance, but they allow sin to have its way.
They wrap the lies of the devil, with their humanism. Therefore their words look piously and it seems like they only want the best for their fellow man and that they love their neighbor as themselves. But nothing could be further from the truth.
Death reigns through sin
Because of the fact that the Church has not closed her gates for sin, but allowed and embraced the world and its sin, satan has taken his place in the Church and has established his throne (Читайте також: ‘The church is prepared for the antichrist‘ і ‘Престол сатани«).
By allowing sin and satan’s power to enter, many believers have been affected and defiled with sin and have developed the same mindset as the world.
Many don’t spend time in the Word and hardly pray. They have become lukewarm for God and the things of His Kingdom. They will only be interested when supernatural manifestations take place. And since the devil has established his throne in many churches, he gives exactly what the people want to see and especially feel and does great signs and wonders.
Many have become indifferent toward sin and don’t mind sin. They even persevere in sin themselves and/or encourage and stand by those who persevere in sin. How do they do that? By not calling them to repentance, but allowing them to sin.
Through the ignorance of many leaders, who approve of everything to keep the church members satisfied, so that they keep coming to the church, і продовжуйте жити за плоттю, the church member also has become ignorant about the will of God and also approve of everything and keep walking after the flesh.
Не знаючи, they are on their way to безодня, only because of all these lies of the devil.
Любов і благодать Божа не йде на компроміс з гріхом
But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? Або ти зневажаєш багатство Його доброти, терпеливості та довготерпіння; не знаючи, що доброта Божа веде тебе до покаяння? But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; Хто віддасть кожному по вчинках його: Тим, хто терпеливістю в добрих діяннях шукає слави, честі та безсмертя, Вічне життя: Але для тих, хто сперечається, і не коритися правді, але коріться неправді, обурення і гнів, Горя і страждання, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, перш за все євреїв, а також язичника; Але слава, честь, і мир, кожній людині, яка робить добро, спочатку до єврея, а також до язичників: Бо немає пошани перед Богом. Бо всі, хто згрішив без закону, без закону й загинуть: і всі, хто згрішив у законі, будуть за законом засуджені; (Бо не ті, хто слухає закон, справедливі перед Богом, але виконавці закону будуть виправдані (римляни 2:2-13)
Любов і благодать Божа не йде на компроміс з гріхом, навпаки. Любов і благодать Бога закликає до покаяння і усунення гріха. The love and grace of God deals with the sinful nature, in which death reigns and that produces the fruit of death, що є гріхом.
Всі, who perseveres in sin and is not willing to repent, belongs to the death, since the person produces the fruit of death and is on his/her way to hell.
Що відбувається в духовній сфері, we see happening all around us in the natural realm. The bad thing is, that people are more concerned about what happens in the natural realm than what happens in the spiritual realm.
The call to repentance to the Church
But if the Church repents of her works and return to God and return to God and shall love and serve God with all her heart, розум, душа, і сила, and if the fear of the Lord returns and the Word becomes the highest Authority in the Church again, and the Holy Spirit will dwell in the new creations, які разом є Церквою, then a change shall take place, which will become visible in the natural realm.
тому, let the Church stop preaching these false doctrines, які є брехнею. Let the Church stop preaching a false message, by misusing the love and grace of God to keep the old man alive and allow them to persevere in sin and tolerate sin, so that they don’t experience any resistance or persecution of the world, but they can live the same lives like the world.
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead (Прислів'я 21:16)
As long as the Church doesn’t repent and doesn’t remove her sin, but compromises with sin, the Church shall remain rooted in darkness and death shall reign in the Church. The Church shall not be a congregation of the living, but shall be a congregation of the dead. And when the time comes the Church shall reap what she has sown (Гріх), що є руйнуванням, instead of eternal life by sowing righteousness (Читайте також: ‘To whom does the Church bend her roots?«).
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