No. 920:
God's Word adds primarily responsible for our lives
after salvation, not before salvation!
When I read and hear what so-called Christian leaders
and preachers convey their message then I think many times the following:
"Are these really born again?".
Jesus talking to Nicodemus. There is a total
difference to be born again and not born again. God's word speaks darkness to
light, from the power of Satan and the living kingdom of God and have
fellowship with Jesus, etc. Should we as believers preach the new birth or
moralize nonbelievers? Morality and ethics biblical pattern is only after one
has come to believe that it is relevant and biblically correct to admonish,
instruct and encourage people to live in harmony with God and in accordance
with scripture.
It is an understanding of things that are in my
opinion not gospel. What I mean by that?
That how the world people act and behave. It has
basically not we Christians something. World people are dead in their sins and
transgressions. They are governed by the captain of the air forces of Satan.
Should we expect any of these people? And we have these to live as Christians
and not be so very immoral?
While Christian people it is allright with only they
did not quite live like the world, just a little better? This is the gospel?
Not in my opinion!
Here is an example of how morality and ethics do not
apply to people of the world, but only for believers:
1 Cor. 5. 9 I wrote in my letter to you that you
should not have anything to do with people who live in adultery. 10 I did not
mean everyone in this world who commit adultery or are greedy, or robbers and
idolaters. Then you had to go out of the world. 11 What I meant what I wrote
was that you should not associate with one called brother, and who still live
in adultery or is greedy, or is an idolater, spotter, drunkard or robber. Such
shall not eat with. 12 What have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not
those inside, you should judge? 13 Those who are outside, God will judge. Get
then the evil away from you!
Note that we should not judge the world, which the
early Christians were "known" for! But today we moraliserer world but
ignoring sin in the church, which disaster and unbiblical!
Acts 19. 35 city recorder managed to get peace in the
crowd and said: "Efesere know not all people that city of the Ephesians is
a worshiper of the great Artemis and the stone that came down from heaven? 36
This can not deny, and therefore you should now be quiet and not do anything
rash. 37 For you have brought these men here, who are neither temple robbers or
reviled our goddess.
The first Christians "touched" not the
world's immorality and idolatry:
"These men, who are neither temple robbers or
reviled our goddess."
The same as the apostle Paul: "What have I to do
with judging outsiders?".
It is only those who live as believers, Christians we
should judge and judge, not the world.
This is the Bible's clear teaching, therefore we
preach so clear. Only sin that I have gone public sharp facilitated with is
immoral and unbiblical practice among preachers and those who have a learning /
Pastoral responsibility. Therefore also the tremendous resistance against me,
Smyrna Oslo and the Heavenly blog.
We are in a spiritual battle, where the resistance
that has arisen, and completely safe also going to rise up against us is
because we are a like red rag in the face of Satan. Who else who preaches like
me, Smyrna Oslo and the Heavenly blog? It is unfortunately only a few and they
are unfortunately not more, but less!
How to win victory in the spiritual battle? Here there
is much to say, but bring to end my commentaries from Ephesians 6 on the
Spiritual battle we stand.
My commentaries Ephesians 6 10 Finally, be strong in
the Lord, in his mighty power!
So what Paul skips from the human and natural part of
the spiritual. But all this goes together. God's Word encourages us to be
strong and be overcome. There we are by being obedient to God org his words and
put on his mighty power. Even in the Old Testament was the powerful promises it
to be obedient as we find among others 5th Genesis 28, how much more in the new
covenant!
11 Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may stand
against the devil's wiles.
Here we put on God's armor. What it is and includes
coming in the next verses. We should not just put on some parts of the armor,
but the whole armor. But there are so many believers who never comes out or
going out in the spiritual battle that this is something they fail completely
to relate to. It is only when one has been in fights that realize how important
and vital this is. Been to struggle and suffer defeat, as will a do everything
you can to not suffer defeat in the next fight!
12 For we have not a fight against flesh and blood,
but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of this darkness,
against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places.
The real opponents are demons who are under the
leadership of the Devil. There are evil spirits of different orders of
magnitude and positions. There are demonic world rulers who operate in this
darkness that the world finds itself in. It is a battle against "spiritual
wickedness in the heavenly." That they belong spiritual world, and hence
they are eerily dangerous and insidious. Satan acts in many different ways,
both as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14) and as a roaring lion (1 Peter
5.8). He is most dangerous when he appears as an angel of light, disguised as a
messenger of the Gospel.
God's word says about the last days: "Now the
Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons. It happens by
hypocrisy of false teachers, who are branded in their own conscience "1
Tim 4.1 to 2. Wrong doctrine has consequently its origin in evil spirits and
heresies are affected by, or under the influence of evil spirits. Therefore we
can say that it is not a battle against humans in itself, but the devil and
evil spirits using or abusing people in their struggle against God and
Christians.
God's word does not deny that we have a sinister
opponent with horrific evil spirits will do everything possible to deceive
God's children. But we know that Jesus disarmed the evil spirits when he
triumphed at Calvary (Colossians 2:15). Although the devil and his spiritual
army is defeated, so is not the judgment executed yet. Therefore, they have yet
a time to seduce and tempt us humans, but the judgment of them are already
pronounced.
But there are also various spirits we face. We can
divide them.
1.) The powers and authorities.
2.) The world rulers of this darkness.
3.) Evil spirits in high places.
Here we meet three different areas of enemy armies
that will fight and disturb us. Two of the secret to victory is to know
ourselves and our own clout. And know the enemy and his clout.
1.) Here we meet people "Face to Face". Why
will not the media and everything else write and relate factual and objective
to us believers and objectively? Satan is behind.
2.) It is a Spirit that the Bible describes as Satan
Spirit Antikrist`s, the spirit which is in the children of disobedience works
and reigns in this world. Contrasting with the Spirit of God can we say.
3.) Here are the demons and fallen angels. Demons are
like "small" men on 1 \ 2 m if one were to see them visible to the
eye. The fallen angels are above the demons again and may even multiply, we
read in Genesis 1 6. They assumption respectively helped to rule this world
before together with Lucifer. We read several places in scripture that demons
infiltrate and occupied people. While the fallen angels went so far as to have
intercourse with women and had children with them, they had opportunities to
propagate. But they are spiritual beings that can be both visible and invisible
to the eye sacrifice!
1. Genesis 6 4 At the time and since, too, there were
giants on the earth. For god's sons lived with the daughters of men and had
children with them. It was the mighty men of old, renown.
Human girls give birth fights, they are Gude sons have
other genetic conditions that are stronger and different than people after the
fall.
King David exterminated those who survived the flood,
and today they are spiritual people and not flesh and blood,
2. Samuel 21. 18 Since it came to new conflict with
the Philistines at Gob. Where felled Hushathite of pop!-Seed a man named Saf
and was a descendant of Rafa. 19 Once again, it came to battle with the
Philistines at Gob. Elhanan son of Jaare-Orgim from Bethlehem, killed Goliath
of Gath, who had a spear shaft as thick as a weaver's beam. 20 Since it came to
blows at Gath. There was a huge man who had six fingers on each hand and six
toes on each foot, twenty-four fingers and toes in all. He also heard
Rafa-lineage. 21 The man taunted Israel. But Jonathan, the son of David's
brother Shimeah, killed him. 22 These four belonged to Rafa family in Gath.
David and his men killed them.
23. 21 He also cast a huge Egyptian. Egyptian had a spear
in his hand, but Benaiah went against him with a rod, snatched the spear out of
the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.
It is only at the end of the great tribulation that
these spiritual sizes will reveal his true for all people. Until then we are
their biggest rivals and they are our hardest and biggest opponents. But Jeus
have defeated them on the cross once and for all. It is good and reassuring to
know.
Will also remember that Satan is very concerned about
this so he put out lies that are not true about this. See here: According to
ZetaTalk had David's great-grandmother was raped or abused as sex slave by a
Anunnaki-soldier, and had then given birth to a hybrid (David grandmother). It
was thus Anunnaki blood in David veins, and as a child he had by his mother
learned to hate giants. This is just a giant hoax!
This is from my commentaries Colossians Dispenser
Letter 2. 15 He disarmed the principalities and powers, and set them up to
ridicule when he triumphed over them in it.
Satan and demons had has on our lives. We were in
darkness and thrived in the dark and was Satan property. But they were disarmed
and moved forward as liars, prosecutors and without reel power. Satan and demon
had been ravaged long and thorough enough. But not anymore, now they were
defeated. The victory is complete. God the Father is satisfied through Jesus'
work at Calvary. We sins are forgiven and God can take us to the grace and
adopt us into his family as his own children. And Satan and demon has no reel
power longer, they are living on borrowed time! Jesus resetting the law for us
believers. It does not apply longer for us, just grace in Christ Jesus.
13 Take therefore the whole armor of God, that ye may
resist in the evil day and remain standing after having overcome everything.
Therefore encourages Apostle believers to take the
armor of God so that they can withstand in the evil day (v. 13). The days are
different. Some days we look back with joy, others we will like to forget. The
days to come, we know nothing about, but experience shows that someone will be
good and some evil. We should note that the Devil is a strategist and usually
takes a day when we feel everything is hard and heavy, when he comes by his
cunning and temptations to try to cause us to fall.
Particularly bad days for the people of God is
persecution times. In our time, there are many in the world who are persecuted
for their Christian faith, and the world is experiencing more martyrs than any
time in history. Pursuing Reading Time will culminate at the Antichrist come
and the great tribulation. Therefore it is important that we take the whole
armor of God, that we may be standing.
14 Stand therefore ready with truth that belt around
his waist and with righteousness as breastplate,
The apostle uses the Roman soldier's armor as a
picture of the struggle we are in. It also appears that he uses the same order
as the soldier used to take on this armor.
"Stand therefore, having your loins girt with
truth about life and be wearing the breastplate of righteousness" (v. 14).
First mentioned belt and breastplate. Belt should keep those long clothes up so
that one was ready both to move and prepare for battle. Breastplate would cover
and protect the vital organs such as the heart and lungs. When it speaks of
"truth belt", it means that one must be truthful and sincere in his
behavior, both in word and deed. A Christian've accepted the truth, Jesus,
therefore he must also in his life reflect this truth by being truthful and
honest in all his ways. Only then is he able to go in the game. But he must
also be wearing "righteousness". There must be no question of the
objective justice, ie the imputed righteousness of God imputes a sinner who
take refuge in Jesus Christ. It shall be a defense against conscience and
Satan's accusations. Therefore it is important that a Christian, which is
imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ, living as fair in all of life's
situations and conditions and likewise live a truthful and honest life among
all people. Truth belt is to rely on the truth and always let it rule in life
and learning.
Joh.e. 8. 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the
truth shall make you free. "36 If the Son sets you free, ye shall be free
indeed. Righteousness is that life and teachings match. It is when we live as
we preach that we are strong.
1 Cor. 9. 23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, so I
can even take part in it.
24 Do you
not know that those who are in a race athlete, everyone runs, but only one wins
the prize. So run your race you win it! 25 An athlete must deny everything. He
does it to win a wreath that withers, we win a wreath that never withers. 26 I
run therefore not without having a goal, and I'm not like a boxer who beats in
midair. 27 No, I'm fighting against myself and forces the body to obey, lest I
have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
15 and have as shoes on your feet with the preparation
of the gospel of peace.
Further mentions apostle footwear and says, "Have
as shoes on your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace" (v. 5).
The footwear is important in the game. The Roman soldier had girded feet with
sandals or shoes. These were often studded with nails that he would get a good
grip. Here comparable footwear with the gospel of peace. Gospel brings peace
with God and peace of heart in a good conscience. This peace is again a fruit
of righteousness of faith. Therefore, the Christian should always be prepared
to preach the gospel wherever they came. The famous ekseget Bengel says:
"The Christian Soldier feet are fixed by the gospel so he can not be upset
away from their place or shy."
Rom. 5. 1. When we have been justified through faith,
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
16 Grip above all the shield of faith; with it you can
quench all the fiery darts.
The shield was the large, oblong shield that covered
almost the whole person. It was like wood, but with a thick coating of leather.
Fire arrows were enmeshed with a combustible substance that high or tow. They
were dipped in pitch or tar to illuminate when they were imposed. It was
however difficult to get ignited lærtrekket on the shield. When arrows hit
this, they bounced off and fell to the ground and fell asleep. Similarly, the
belief protect a Christian against the Devil's temptations to apostasy. It is
faith in Jesus, Son of God, who protects and protects children of God against
the Devil flaming arrows. The same thought, we read in the Apostle Peter where
he urges Christians to resist the devil, steadfast in the faith (1 Peter 5.9).
What then is the fiery darts? It can be words, books, magazines, movies,
pornography, images, ideas, thoughts, (lusts) who attack our heart purity. Who
has not noticed that suddenly pops up an image or a thought, as it is difficult
to get away. Some are bothered by the sins and failures of youth. Although one
has received the remission of sins, dolls painful thoughts and images up again.
But they must be rejected so that they do not get rooms in heart. But how? Go
to Jesus with them and put the matter to him. He is tried in everything, but
without sin. In such situations, it may also be useful to seek out a counselor
or another Christian one has confidence.
The Apostle James writes about temptation and says
that God tempts no and continues: "But every man is tempted, dragged and
enticed by his own desire. When lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin. But
when sin is full-grown, brings forth death "Jak 1.14 to 15. It is the
devil who tempts and it can lead to falls for a Christian if one is not on
duty. Therefore let us live in communion with our Savior and Lord, Jesus
Christ, will be revealed temptations of the devil and refuted.
17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the
Spirit, which is God's word.
The soldier takes the helmet on his head, and then he
grabs the sword with his right hand. The helmet protects the head which is the
grandest limb on the body. The fact that the Christians have received salvation
and live in salvation, protects the person against all hazards. Awareness of
salvation, both that one is saved here and now and the eternal salvation, is a
protection against the Devil and his spiritual army. When a Christian is in
Jesus Christ, can never Devil harm the believer as long as he remains in
communion with Jesus, but he may be tempted to apostasy. Salvation helmet
speaks about having victory in thought life, do not give the devil room we read
in the 4th chapter. 2 Cor. 10. 3 We live as human beings, but we are not fighting
like humans do. 4 For our weapons are not from people, but they have their
power from God and can strongholds gravel. We tear down imaginations 5 and
everything big and proud that rise up against the knowledge of God, and we take
every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. 6 We stand ready to punish
all disobedience, once you have reached full obedience.
Finally mentioned sword that is an assault weapon.
There is no carnal weapons, but spiritual, which the Holy Spirit gives a
Christian. It is God's word. Writer of Hebrews says about the word of God
effect: "For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any
two-edged sword. Piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit,
joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and intents "Hebrews 4:12. God's
word is living and active for God's Holy Spirit is the word, and it provides
the basis themselves the Holy Spirit when it is preached. God's word is the
strongest assault weapon God's people against the Devil and his spiritual army.
Therefore it is important to hear the word of God, read it, learn it
(preferably by heart), ponder it, talk about it, pray over it. In other words,
take care of it. Word is the safest and best weapon to keep Satan away and
drive him to flee because he can not stand the word of God.
It was also what Jesus used when he was attacked and
tempted by the devil in the desert (Matthew 4.1 to 11). In Revelation it says
about those who had triumphed over the accuser: "They overcame him by
virtue of blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony" Rev.
12.11.
Therefore word our help in trouble, and comfort in
life and death. The Bible says: "Blessed are those who hear the word of
God and obey it" Luke 11.28. They are blessed both in time and in
eternity.
18 Do this in prayer, and put it all to God! Pray at
all times in the Spirit! Watch and keep on praying for all the saints,
Taking on the armor of God and fight the spiritual
battle can be a struggle and hard work. But Jesus has called us to a sofa
toilers, but to work in his vineyard, as members of his body, as volunteers and
active Christians in the congregation and church. Much has the character of
work. So it is with prayer. It is not intended that the prayer should be a
pastime only when you have nothing to do. It pays to make time for prayer, but
prayer is also resting. Jesus says to his weary soldiers for the gospel and the
cause of peace, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and
I will give you rest." Matt.11,28.
19 also for me. Pray that the right words must be
given to me when I speak, so I can boldly proclaim the mystery of the gospel,
Paul wanted to preach in a right way the gospel
secrets. Here there is a lot. To name a few truths here it is Jesus' death on
Calvary defeated Satan. But this is only a beginning for all of God's secrets.
20 which I am an ambassador for here in prison. Pray
that through the gospel must have courage to speak as I should.
Now he sat in prison, this was part of God's plan.
When he fik time and opportunity to write the letters we have of his hand
today. Without his "break" had we not had enough all the good
letters. The fact that God allows things to happen, even the negative is
usually a part of his large and significant plan and purpose.
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