Many people doubt the authenticity of the Bible (Lời của Đức Chúa Trời) and say that the Bible contradicts Itself. Many people find the Bible hard to understand or they find the Bible boring to read. There are even Christians, who hardly read and study the Bible, let alone apply the words in the Bible to their lives. They say they believe in God and His Word, but do they know, who God is and what is written in the Word, because many times their lives contradict their sayings. There is a lot of division among Christians, while the Bible says that believers should walk in unity in the Spirit. Kinh Thánh dành cho ai?
Not every software works on every computer
When you buy software for Windows and install it on your Mac Os X computer, you’ll find out that the software won’t work and is useless. Unless you install software, which allows you to run Windows and Windows applications on your computer. Otherwise, the software remains useless
It’s the same with Christianity. As long as you stay the old creation (ông già), who is carnal and led by his senses, những cảm xúc, suy nghĩ xác thịt, cảm xúc, sẽ, ham muốn, Mong muốn, vân vân., you will not be able to understand the Bible. Hãy để yên, vâng theo và áp dụng lời Chúa vào cuộc sống của bạn.
If you remain the old creation, you shall not be able to walk in faith. Because you shall not do what the Bible says, for the carnal mind is enmity against God. Xác thịt và Thánh Thần không thể đi cùng nhau. One of them has to die.
The Bible is a spiritual Book
The Bible is not an intellectual (academic) sách. But the Bible is a spiritual Book intended for the new creation. The words in the Bible are the Spirit and Life of God intended for the spiritual man. Vì thế, you can only understand the Bible if you are born again and the Holy Spirit quickened your spirit.
The flesh doesn’t understand the spiritual things of the Kingdom of God. Therefore the flesh (the carnal mind and human intellect) will never be able to understand the Bible.
The Bible is a spiritual Manual intended for every born-again believer. The Bible is the only Book on this earth that feeds your spirit and gives you life.
There are many religious books available, that you might consider useful. These religious books can help you in your life and provide carnal methods, Các bước, và kỹ thuật, and temporarily motivate you. But these books will only feed your soul and not your spirit. The results of reading Christian books are often temporary and not permanent.
The Bible is the only Book that is transformed from the Spirit into the natural and is tangible. If you want your spirit man to grow up, then the only Book that will do the job is the Bible.
As long as you stay carnal and are led by the flesh, you’ll struggle to read the Bible, let alone study the Bible. When you begin to read, you’ll become tired and sleepy and consider the Bible boring. You’ll be distracted by your thoughts while reading the Bible.
Carnal Christians will understand most stories in the Old Testament and the four gospels to a certain level. But the prophets, the letters of the apostles, and the Book of Revelation will remain vague and incomprehensible.
For whom is the Bible boring?
But the Bible is not boring at all! It is only not intended for the old creation, whose mind is darkened and is hostile towards God and wants to do the will, ham muốn, và mong muốn của xác thịt. The Bible is intended for the new creation (người đàn ông mới), who is born of water and Spirit and walks after the Spirit.
Only by the Holy Spirit the Word of God; the Bible is understandable. That is because the Word of God is a spiritual Book, inspired by the Holy Spirit. He is the Author and not the people.
When you love God above all, you will have a desire to spend time with Him in prayer and His Word. God speaks very clearly through His Word. But it’s up to you if you want to spend time with Him and nghe anh ấy hay không. (Đọc thêm: ‘Tôn giáo hoặc quan hệ?‘).
Nước Thiên Chúa là Vương quốc thiêng liêng
The flesh shall always rebel against God and His Word and strive with the Spirit. God has put His will; His law in the hearts of the new creation, bởi sự ngự trị của Chúa Thánh Thần. Therefore every new creation, who has received His Spirit shall walk according to the will of God and keep His commandments, và làm vui lòng Ngài.
Sự sáng tạo cũ, người đi theo xác thịt, has a carnal mind and can’t and won’t submit to the law of God, the law of His Kingdom and the Spirit. The old creation has his own rules and rather pleases himself and his flesh than God.
Bởi vì tâm trí xác thịt là kẻ thù chống lại Thiên Chúa: vì nó không tuân theo luật pháp của Chúa, thực sự không thể. Vậy những ai theo xác thịt không thể làm đẹp lòng Đức Chúa Trời (người La Mã 8:7-8)
Nhưng con người tự nhiên không nhận được những điều thuộc về Thánh Linh của Đức Chúa Trời: vì họ thật ngu ngốc đối với anh ấy: Anh ấy cũng không thể biết họ, bởi vì chúng được phân biệt tinh thần (1 Cô-rinh-tô 2:14)
God is Spirit, His Kingdom is Spirit. And as long as you stay the old creation, you shall not be able to understand and comprehend the words and things of the Kingdom of God. When you apply His words in your life, they won’t work. Đầu tiên, the ‘old you’ has to die, before the ‘new you’ can arise.
The old creation belongs to the unfaithful generation
The old creations belong to the unbelieving and unfaithful generation and constantly need proof, phép lạ, dấu hiệu, và điều kỳ diệu. Therefore the old creations are not able to walk in faith. They can say they believe, Nhưng nói và làm là hai việc khác nhau. If they really believe, then they will obey His words, giữ các điều răn của Ngài, và bước đi trong ý muốn của Ngài.
Nhiều người, những người tự gọi mình là Kitô hữu, walk according to what they perceive with their natural eyes, what their carnal mind tells them, and how they feel, instead of what the Bible says?
Only when you become born again, your spirit will be quickened from the death and you will enter the Kingdom of God. You’ll be transferred from death (Bóng tối) into life (ánh sáng) and you shall live from the Kingdom of God in the Light.
Chúa Giê Su trả lời và phán cùng Ngài, Thật vậy, Thật vậy,, Ta nói cho ngươi hay;, Ngoại trừ một người đàn ông được sinh ra một lần nữa, anh ta không thể nhìn thấy Vương quốc của Thiên Chúa (John 3:3)
You must become born again before you can walk in faith sau Thánh Linh. When you become born again and walk after the Spirit, only then will you be able to comprehend the Bible and apply His Words to your life.
You’ll understand the Bible, believe the Bible, obey the words of God, and walk in the commandments of the Word.
You shall speak in new tongues to edify yourself and pray in the Spirit. You shall preach the gospel and speak the words of God and the signs and wonders of the Kingdom of God shall follow you. You’ll seek those things những cái ở trên, nơi Chúa Kitô ngồi. And you shall endeavor the gifts of the Holy Spirit and walk in these gifts to exalt God and please Him.
The Bible shall not work on the old creation
As long as you apply the Bible to the old creation, it won’t ‘work’. When you are still the old creation and experience miracles, điều kỳ diệu, and prophetic words in your life, you should earnestly ask yourself, from which source they come.
The devil can also do signs and wonders. The devil has beholden God from face to face and lived with Him. He knows God very well, maybe even better than most Christians. The devil is an imitator of God and imitates miracles, dấu hiệu, và điều kỳ diệu.
Look at fortune tellers, Phù thủy, bác sĩ phù thủy, ảo thuật gia, những người huyền bí, illusionists, fakirs, vân vân. Họ có thể dự đoán tương lai. They can make themselves invisible and float, fly, chữa lành, and do all kinds of other miracles, dấu hiệu và điều kỳ diệu. The people are amazed at what they see. But these people don’t do all these miracles, dấu hiệu, and wonders by faith and out of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is not their source but the devil is their source. Therefore they do these miracles from the kingdom of darkness and use occult powers.
If people in the church do miracles, dấu hiệu, và điều kỳ diệu, but live like the world and bear the same fruit as the world (tội), then you should earnestly ask yourself from which source they do all of these signs and wonders.
Only when people become born again and walk after the Spirit, they operate from the Kingdom of God. They will walk in the authority of Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit and will bear the trái của Thánh Linh.
Kinh Thánh dành cho ai?
Kinh Thánh dành cho ai? Lời Chúa; the Bible is a manual intended for born-again Christians. The born-again Christians believe in the truth of God’s Word and can’t live without the Word of God. How else can they feed their spirit and grow up into the image of their Lord Jesus Christ? Without the Bible that is intended for the born-again believers, the spirit of the believers starve to death and shall never spiritually mature.
When you buy a new camera, you receive a user manual. If you don’t read the user manual first, before using the camera, you may do something wrong and will miss out on certain features and never reach the full potential of your camera.
Many people only read the manual, when they encounter problems and come to the conclusion, that they need to read the manual to fix the problem.
Just like many Christians, who only open their Bibles when they are facing difficulties and have problems in life or they need something from God.
hIf born-again Christians don’t read and study the Manual for the new creation, they don’t find out, who they really are trong Đấng Ky Tô. They will not walk and live as the new creation and never reach their full potential in Christ.
Most of them stay spiritual babies and keep walking after the flesh and always need other Christians. They are sensual and never grow up into a mature son of God (Điều này áp dụng cho cả nam và nữ).
Is the Bible a death letter or a living letter?
For many Christians, the Bible will always remain a written word; a dead letter, instead of the living words of God that come alive in their lives.
When you read the Bible in the Holy Ghost, only then shall you be able to understand the Bible. And if you apply the Bible to your life, you shall walk by faith in the will of God.
Every word of God that you take is a spiritual seed, that you plant into your spiritual man. As long as you protect these seeds, and nurture them, they bring forth fruit and life in your life.
But you have to take care of the seeds and prevent the seeds from being choked and becoming unfruitful. What is the cause of seeds being choked and becoming unfruitful? The cares of this world, sự lừa dối của sự giàu có, the lusts and desires of the flesh, and otherworldly stuff. (Đọc thêm: Ngụ ngôn về người gieo giống; các 4 kinds of believers‘)
Vì thế, be watchful and protect the treasures from heaven and guard the Word. Don’t let anything destroy them and don’t let anyone steal them. Stay faithful to the Word and apply the words of God in your life, so that you shall bear the right fruit; các trái của Thánh Linh.
“Hãy là muối của trái đất”
