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Matthew 22:29 (Die Bybel 1933/1953) 29 Toe antwoord Jesus en sê vir hulle: Julle dwaal, omdat julle die Skrifte nie ken nie en ook nie die krag van God nie.
Afgodery, Sonde, Redding en Post-Modernisme Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. 1 Corinthians 10:14 #Definition of IDOLATRY: image-worship or divine honour paid to any created object. #Paul describes the origin of idolatry in Romans 1:21-25 : men forsook God, and sank into ignorance and moral corruption ( 1:28 ). When we shrink God, imagining that it is His job to serve our tribal aspirations rather than our job to serve Him and to strive for the elevation of His world, that is a form of idolatry. Lee Weissman "It is nothing less than self-idolatry to conceive that we can carry on even the ordinary matters of the day without His counsel" - Charles Bridges Die gesig van ‘n desperate man of vrou op soek na kos, werk, genesing of bevryding raak mens diep. Die diep soeke na aanvaarding, liefde, erkenning, sin en betekenis maak ons as mens baie broos, en kwesbaar. Ons het nog nooit so baie redders (saviors) gehad nie. Produkte, programme, diëte, spirituele reistogte, oefeninge, selfs klere, selfone en rekenaars word aan jou verkoop, oor hoe dit jou gaan laat lekker voel! Starbugs verklaar ons verkoop nie koffie nie, ons verkoop die lekker salige gevoel wanneer jy in ons winkels kom en koffie drink. Miljoene gelowe, aanbidding rituele, en geestelike ghoeroes, en selfs die taliban ‘n terroriste groep maak volgelinge omdat jongmense soekend is na meer. Daar is al sedert die skepping ‘n stryd tussen afgodery en ware aanbidding. Die eerste sonde van ongehoorsaamheid was inherent die wegdraai van die ware God na ‘n ander god. Paulus het dit verstaan verduidelik dit baie mooi: “die heerlikheid van die onverganklike God verander in die gelykvormigheid van die beeld van ’n verganklike mens en van voëls en viervoetige en kruipende diere.” Rom 1:18-32 Geen mens kan neutraal staan nie, ons is gemaak om te aanbid, om te dien, om na te volg. Jy aanbid of die Ware Skepper God, af afgode. Selfs die atheis wat selfvoldaan verklaar; “Christenskap is vir mens wat ‘n kruk nodig het” wys op sy self-aanbidding, selfbeskikking, en self-redding. Om ons weerbaarheid, afhanklikheid, kwesbaarheid en broosheid te erken dui nie op ons swakheid nie, maar ons realisme. Selfs in geneeskunde word iemand as nie-behandelbaar beskryf, wat nie toewillig tot die rehabilitasie proses nie. Die wortel van verslawing is, ondervoeding en die mens se eie pogings om vol te word, op hulle eie manier. Self-aanbidding is vandag die afgodery van ons tyd. Selfies, self-beheptheid, selfgerigtheid, en selfhelp godsdiens. Self-help is die benaming van die katogorie boeke, dvd’s, en hulpmiddele vir die mens, deesdae in boekwinkels. “Die Here help die mens wat homself help” is die mantra van die hedendaagse kultuur. This form of idolatry is known as Hedonism – or the worship of self as god (Pro 22:15; Rom 1:21-25). As such it operates by the belief that our highest good, goal, priority and purpose in life is to seek to the glory of oneself - and that through the pursuit of pleasure (or the avoidance of personal pain). Hedonism - or the principle of hedonism, is frequently alluded to in many of the bible’s words/phrases (covetous, folly, flesh, selfish ambition, pleasure, passion, sensuality, lovers of self, lovers of pleasure, appetite, their god is their belly, deceitful desires, glutton, drunkard). Hedonism is a direct attack on the first commandment (Exo 20:3) and (as should be expected) a very serious capital crime (Exo 22:20). Knowing then how to diagnose when a Christian is living for self (pleasure/fun) is key to avoiding/preventing the charge of hedonistic idolatry Die moderne mens soek hulle heil en verlossing in romantiese verhoudinge, beroep sukses, materiële besittings, aansien, volgelinge op sosiale media, wat meebring dat ons onsself dryf, ons is hard op onsself, ons jaag, ons raak verslaaf, ons is angstig, desperaat, ons kompeteer. Soos die mensdom die skepping begin aanbid, in plaas van die S
Lord you want to partner with us, our prayers, Your answers. Our works Your grace. Our possessions your blessing. Our obedience your call. Our weakness, Your strength. This is a great mystery. I pray help us to make this sacred partnership more seamless and flowing, reciprocal, intimate, and natural. In the same way, Jesus could do nothing without the Father; we can do nothing without the Holy Spirit. Jesus could do nothing without Him seeing the Father do it (John 5:19-20, 30), only doing His will (John 6:38), do only what the Father taught (Joh 8:28), according to what the Father commands (John 12:49). In order for us to live and move by the way of the Spirit, or as ap Paul put it: “walk in the Spirit” (Gal 5:16) we must learn to be holy devoted and depended on the Holy Spirit. We literally can do nothing without Him! In the OT, people lived by the Law, in the NT believers live by the Holy Spirit. It is not by force nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. (Zech 4:6) ALL LIFE IN THE New Testament IS BY THE SPIRIT Know God by the Spirit: No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit. (1 Corinthians 2:11) Walk according to the Spirit and not gratify the desires of the flesh. It is the power of the Spirit life, that free you from the gravitational downward pull of the flesh and sin. (Rom 8:2-4; Gal 5:16) A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.The Message: (Ro 8:2). Set your mind on the things of the Spirit (Rom 8:5-8). Put to death the deeds of the body by the Spirit (Rom 8:13). The main characteristic of being a child of God is being led by the Spirit. (Rom 8:14) Know the Fatherhood of God and subsequent sonship by the Spirit (Rom 8:15-17). Hope in the Spirit (Rom 8:23-25). Pray in the Spirit (Rom 8:26-27). In other passages Paul mentions — (Jude 20) Be filled with the Spirit (Eph 5:18). Serve in the Spirit (Rom 7:6; 15:16). Love by the Spirit (Rom 15:30; Gal 5:22-23; Col 1:8). Know one-another by the spirit. The way of the spirit is more accurate and also quicker! Jesus knew the heart of Nathaniel even before he had met him. (John 1:47) Similarly, the Lord revealed to Ananias not only the change in Saul (Paul) but also his destiny before he met him. (Acts 9:10) Phillip was divinely led to meet the servant of the court of Ethiopia. (Acts 8:26) Jesus knew what was in the Pharisees’ hearts. He knew the woman at the well in the spirit. (John 4) Imagine a church where people know each other in the spirit, where everyone knows their place and function, and naturally work together without complaining and strife because they do not feel threatened by one another. We are taught by that what the Holy Spirit teaches. (1 John 2:27; 1 Cor 1:13) People err, in interpreting the Bible without the Spirit. (2 Cor 3:6) We can only know God, by the Spirit, because He is Spirit. 1 Cor 2:10-12) We cannot be regenerated and born again without the work of the Spirit. (Tit 3:5) The Eternal spirit through the Blood of Christ, cleanse you from an evil conscience. Heb 9:14 Help me to walk, live and have my being in the spirit alone. Let me be able to say like Jesus, I do nothing unless the Spirit, I say nothing unless the spirit. ABIDING IN THE SPIRIT It is only in the spirit that we are safe. It is only in the Spirit, that we cannot be deceived and misled. (1 John 4:1; John 16:13) Words and deeds done in the spirit, (1 Cor 2:13) He will defend. In the Spirit we are accurate. In the Spirit we are holy and perfect. (John 17:17) In the Spirit we are righteous. In the Spirit we will know the way in the Holy of holies. (Heb 9:8) In the Spirit there is liberty. (2 Cor 3:17) In the Spirit we are whole, and able to s
Moses, die dienaar van die Here, is dood. Daarna het die Here met Josua, seun van Nun, begin gepraat. Hy was vroeër die assistent van Moses. Die Here het vir hom gesê: 2“Noudat my dienaar Moses dood is, moet jy gereedmaak om my volk deur die Jordaanrivier te lei na die land toe wat Ek vir die Israeliete gee. 3Soos Ek vir Moses belowe het, sal Ek elke plek waar julle kom vir julle gee. 4Alles sal julle grond wees, van die Negevwoestyn af tot by die Libanonberge, die hele gebied van die Hetiete, van die Eufraatrivier af tot by die Middellandse See in die weste. 5“Niemand sal teen jou bestand wees solank jy leef nie. Soos Ek by Moses was, so sal Ek ook saam met jou wees. Ek sal jou nooit in die steek laat nie. Ek sal jou nooit los nie. 6“WEES STERK EN DAPPER. Jy is die een wat hierdie volk moet lei om die land in besit te neem. Ek het dit met ’n eed aan hulle voorouers beloof. 7“WEES STERK EN BAIE DAPPER! Voer al die opdragte uit wat Ek vir my dienaar Moses gegee het. Moenie links of regs daarvan afwyk nie. Jy sal dan suksesvol wees in alles wat jy doen. 8Hou hierdie wetboek altyd by jou. Dink dag en nag daaroor na sodat jy alles kan doen wat daarin geskryf is. Jy sal dan sukses behaal op jou pad. Jy sal voorspoedig wees. 9MY OPDRAG AAN JOU IS DAT JY STERK EN DAPPER MOET WEES. Moenie bang of huiwerig wees nie. Die Here jou God is saam met jou oral waar jy gaan.” Joshua 1:1-9 Wees sterk en vasberade! Wees sterk en dapper! Tree doelgerig en sonder huiwering op. “Deliberate, focussed” “Courageous, Chivalry, Bravery, Heroism.” WORD WEALTH 1:9 be strong, chazaq (kah-zahk); Strong’s #2388: Be strong, courageous, valiant, manly, strengthened, established, firm, fortified, obstinate, mighty. Generally the words “strong” or “strengthened” define chazaq, but there is a wide range of meaning for this word, which occurs nearly 300 times in the OT; for example, “to encourage,” as when David encouraged himself (literally, “made himself strong”) in the Lord (1 Sam. 30:6). Chazaq is the root of several Hebrew names, including “Hezekiah,” meaning “Strengthened by Yahweh.” DIS ’n KWESSIE VAN GODDELIKE GRONDGEBIED VEROWER (’n ou opdrag) Hierdie opdaag om Grondgebied vir God in besit te neem, is deel van die Bybel narratief van Genesis tot Openbaring. God se opdrag, seën, en roeping van Abraham: (Gen. 12:6, 7; 13:14–17; 15:18–21; cf. Deut. 29:1–30:10). David to Solomon (1 Kin. 2:2, 3; 1 Chr. 22:13; 28:20) Dis is ’n groot werk, daarom het ons dapperheid, vasberadenheid, doelgerigtheid en mannemoed nodig. Ps. 27:14; 31:24. Ons roeping en skeppingsdoel is in hierdie grondbeginsel vervat. Mat 6:10 laat u koninkryk kom; laat u wil geskied, soos in die hemel net so ook op die aarde; Dis ’n reuse werk!!! Daarom moet ons seker maak, dat die volgende Generasie hierdie opdrag verder uitvoer. DIESELFDE OPDRAG OM DIE LAND IN BESIT TE NEEM, IS DEUR CHRISTUS AAN DIE KERK GEGEE: Jesus kom toe nader en sê vir sy dissipels: “God het die volle mag oor hemel en aarde aan My toevertrou. Gaan dan, maak al die nasies my dissipels, en doop hulle in die Naam van die Vader en die Seun en die Heilige Gees. Leer hulle om alles te gehoorsaam wat Ek aan julle opgedra het. En weet vir seker: Ek is vir altyd by julle, tot aan die einde van die wêreldgeskiedenis.” (Mt 28:17–20). Toe hulle Hom sien, het hulle Hom aanbid, alhoewel party van hulle nog getwyfel het. Die probleem is nie die afwesigheid van geloof nie, maar die teenwoordigheid van TWYFEL. VOORWAARDE EN FOKUS Wees veral sterk en baie vasberade in die uitvoering van die wet wat my dienaar Moses jou beveel het. Moet daarvan nie links of regs afwyk nie. Dan sal jy voorspoedig wees, waar jy ook al gaan. Josh 1:7 Ons kan nie die grondgebied van die bose verower, die kultuur verander as daar kompromie in ons is nie. Ons verset teen boosheid is ’n goddelike Bybelse Jesus gesentreerde lewenstyl. Jy kan nie die vesting van ongehoorsaamheid en wetteloosheid vervan
“PRAYER is nothing else but the application of the heart to God, and the interior exercise of love. Paul commands us to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thess. 5:17).” Excerpt From A Short Method Of Prayer Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Ons het soms so baie om te vertel, so ingestel op ons behoeftes, dat ons nie luister nie. God wil hê ons moet luister, en dan met Hom praat oor wat Hy oor wil praat. Wat is op God se hart? The Lord Jesus calls you to it. He says "...men ought always to pray."( Luke 18:1) He encourages us to enter a life of prayer. Elijah was a "man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit" (James 5:17,18). Elijah told Ahab: "As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word" (I Kings 17:1). In I Kings 18, we are told how the heathen prophets on Mount Carmel desperately called on their god, Baal, but he answered them not. On the other hand, we read that when Elijah prayed to his God, fire came down from heaven. This great victory on Mount Carmel defeated idolatry and brought the nation back to God. Acts 4:24-31 Church praying - Acts 12:5 Church for Peter while he is prison Heb 13:18 Pray for us 2 Thes 3:1 pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored 1 Thes 5:25 Brothers, pray for us 2 Cor 1:11 Help us in prayer Phil 1:19 through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance Col 4:12 - Epaphras… always struggling on your behalf in his prayers Intersession is one of the most important spiritual excercises and duties of being a Believer. Prayer that focusses only on my needs and wants, are the prayers of spiritual infants, but those who choose to grow in the Lord, must learn the art of intersession. Intersession is where we intercede, go between, speak on someone's behalf before God. Instead of acusing someone befor God, we intercede. This is ultimately what the Son is doing before the throne continually. (Ro 8:34 See also Isa 53:12; Heb 7:25; 1Jn 2:1) The Holy Spirit is also interceding for us. (Rom 8:26) God wants us to pray for another. terwyl julle met alle gebed en smeking by elke geleentheid bid in die Gees, en juis daartoe waak met alle volharding en smeking vir al die heiliges Eph 6:18 See also Broeders, bid vir ons. 1Th 5:25; EN berei tegelykertyd ook herberg vir my, want ek hoop dat ek op julle gebede aan julle sal geskenk word. Phm 22; Bid vir ons, want ons is oortuig dat ons ’n goeie gewete het, omdat ons in alles goed wil wandel. Heb 13:18-19) even for our enemies. (Mat 5:44) This is ultimately and primarily what intercession is all about. Is to pray for those who deserves no mercy. (Isa 53:12) So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. (Ezekiel 22:30 NKJV)(Isa 59:16) God is calling His whole church, His body to the ministry of intercession. It is not only the spesial ministry of some, we are all called to pray! if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14 NKJV) How do we intercede? We must be careful that we do not pray the problem or become taletellers. The first way of intersession is: identificational repentance. Look at these spesific examples. It is important that we understand that we're not repenting on their behalf, each man will stand judgement for his or her own sin. But the intersessor is asking God not to impute their sin, by identifying with the sinner. The righteous uses his standing w
Mark Twain het gesê dat die kerk bestaan uit goeie mense wat staan voor goeie mense en hulle leer om goeie mense te wees. Dank God dit is nie die waarheid nie, maar wel ‘n perspektief op godsdienspleging. Die ware kerk bestaan nie, om mense net beter te maak nie. Die kerk verkondig Jesus Christus, die algehele transformasie van die mens! Die kerk se primêre besigheid is: Transformasie en verandering! Verandering is iets wat ons almal nodig het. Dit is ‘n deurlopende deel van die lewe. VERNADERING IS KONSTANT Met sy konstante vloed vereis die lewe aanpassings vir ons skedules en planne. In wese is verandering die nuwe norm. Die geestelike lewens van mense roep na meer as ligte veranderinge aan die kalender. Hul lewens het transformasie nodig. Die verandering wat mense nodig het, is nie net om ‘n beter mens te wees nie; Dit sou ‘n groot misverstand van verandering en transformasie wees. Die evangelie is groter as eenvoudige moralisme, en mense moet die aard van transformasie verstaan. Ware Transformasie is die gelowige ontvang en leef van SY lewe elke dag! Ons weet inherent instinktief dat ons moet verander: maar die waarheid is, ons kan nie onsself verander nie. Ons is geskape in die Beeld van God, maar sonde het hierdie beeld in ons misvorm. Ons hunker om terug te keer na hierdie beeld soos ‘n verkleurmannetjie altyd terugkeer na sy ware kleur. Die probleem is, ons oorspronklike self is misvorm, en wanneer ons terugkeer na ons mees oorspronklike self, is ons nog steeds nie Christus nie. Ons is in Sy beeld geskape, Hy is ons ware noord, ons mees oorspronklike eerste vorm. Net Hy kan Sy beeld in ons herstel. Afgodery is om God te vervorm volgens ons beeld. Hy wil ons transformeer na Sy beeld! Verandering vind plaas omdat jy Sy veranderde lewe in die geloof ontvang het, nie omdat jouself voorgeneem het om ‘n nuwe blaai om te slaan nie: Transformasie kom nie uit besluite wat op 1 Januarie gemaak is nie. Dis eerder ‘n herskepping en wedergeboorte wat uit die nuwe lewe in Christus kom. Die verandering wat mense nodig het, is nie in hul omstandighede nie, maar in hulleself. Dit is nie die vermoë om harder te probeer nie, maar om die Lewe van Jesus te leef wat Hy aan ons toevertrou het by ons eerste oorgawe aan Hom in die geloof. Transformasie vind plaas nie omdat ons “doen nie”, maar omdat Christus “gedoen het.” “Iemand wat aan Christus behoort, is ‘n nuwe mens. Die oue is verby, die nuwe het gekom.” (2 Cor 5:17) Sien die nuut in hierdie vers is nie ‘n proses nie, dis alreeds gedoen! Ons is nuut! Hy het ons in ‘n oomblik nuut gemaak by wedergeboorte! Die hart van die Christelike geloof draai om verandering, maar dit draai nie oor ‘n nuwe blaadjie omslaan nie – dit leef ‘n nuwe lewe. Christelike transformasie behels altyd iets wat oud is en verbygaan en iets nuuts wat sy plek inneem. (Col 3:5-15) Ons is beklee met ‘n nuwe mens, ‘n nuwe beeld, ‘n nuwe natuur wat hunker na sy mees oorspronklikste vorm… Jesus Chritsus die beeld van God. (Heb 1:3) Hierdie nuwe lewe begin in Christus by God, in HOM. Godsdiens sê: ‘Ek gehoorsaam; daarom word ek aanvaar. “Die Christendom sê:” Ek is aanvaar, daarom gehoorsaam ek.” Solomo in al sy wysheid en rykdom kon nie homself verander nie en sien alle pogings as nutteloos en kom uiteidelik tot niks. “Wat krom is, kan nie reguit word nie” (Eccl 1: 12-18) Die feit is, ons kan nie onsself verander nie! Jy kan ook nie jou maat verander nie! Net die skepper kan skepping verander, skepping kan nie skepping verander nie. As God skepping gebruik om verandering te bring is dit ‘n ander saak. Dis dan egter Hy wat nog steeds die verandering werk. (Phil 2:13) Nikodemus die fariseër wat verandering en toewyding geleef het, kon nie homself verander nie. SOns kan eenvoudig nie volhou met die reëls en self-bekragtigde pogings en metodes nie. Ons het nie meer reëls nodig nie, maar eerder ‘n nuwe lewe. (Joh 3:3) Reëls kan gedrag verander, maar slegs die evangelie kan nuwe lewe
Paradoks: Die wonder van Christus in Lyding
We see the unseen. We subdue by submitting. We win by losing. We are made grand by making ourselves little. We come in first by becoming last. We are honored by being humble. We fill up with God by emptying out ourselves. We become wise by being fools. We possess all things by having nothing. We wax strong by being weak. We find life by losing ourselves in others. We live by dying. Paradox is never about two. Paradox is about the conception of a tertium quid, a “third somewhat,” that is born from the coming together of two opposites. True twoness always births threeness. the last will be first, and the first last’ (Matt. 20:16) and ‘when I am weak, then I am strong’ (2 Cor. 12:10). Examples of theological paradoxes within mainstream Christianity include: the Trinity (the three persons of the Godhead are distinct, and each is fully God, yet there is only one God); the Incarnation (the transcendent, immutable God became a man in space and time); the hypostatic union (Christ is one person with both a divine nature and a human nature, and thus is omniscient and limited in knowledge, omnipresent and limited in location, impeccable yet susceptible to temptation, etc.); and the claim that God has infallible foreknowledge of human free choices. Some traditions within Christianity face their own distinctive paradoxes (e.g., the Reformed teaching that God foreordains all things, yet we are morally responsible for our actions). Ps 103:3-4 Ek wil die Here loof en nie een van sy weldade vergeet nie. Dit is Hy wat al my sonde vergewe, wat al my siekte genees, wat my red van die graf en my met liefde en ontferming kroon, versus: Ps 103:14-16 Hy weet waarvan ons gemaak is, Hy hou dit in gedagte dat ons stof is. Die mens, sy lewensduur is soos dié van gras, soos dié van 'n veldblom wat oopgaan: as die woestynwind daaroor waai, is dit weg en sy plek vir altyd leeg. 3rd option: Ps 103:17 Maar onverganklik is die liefde van die Here vir dié wat Hom dien, sy trou vir opeenvolgende geslagte, Vir gelowiges is sterwe altyd ‘n wins: Phil 1:27; 1 Corinthians 15:55-56 “Dood, waar is jou oorwinning? Dood, waar is jou angel?” As gevolg van ons vrees vir pyn, swaarkry en beproewing vermy ons dit. Daar is egter ‘n wesenlike esensiele positief in die swaarkry, as ons dit kan raaksien en aanvaar. Ons loop met ewige lewe in ons, maar ook met sterwe elke dag. Die sterwe van Jesus dra ons altyd saam in ons liggaam, sodat ook die lewe van Jesus sigbaar kan word in ons liggaam. Voortdurend word ons wat lewe, ter wille van Jesus uitgelewer aan die dood, sodat ook in ons sterflike bestaan die lewe van Jesus sigbaar kan word. Dit beteken dat in ons die dood aan die werk is, maar in julle die lewe. Daar staan in die Skrif: “Ek het geglo, daarom het ek gepraat.” Ons het dieselfde Gees wat die geloof wek, en ons glo, daarom praat ons ook. Ons weet immers dat God, wat die Here Jesus uit die dood opgewek het, ons ook saam met Jesus sal opwek en ons saam met julle voor sy troon sal stel. Ons doen dit alles om julle ontwil, sodat die genade van God steeds meer mense kan bereik. Dan word die dankgebede ook meer, en God ontvang die eer. 2 Cor 4:10-15 2 Corinthians 6:10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. Die parodoksale lewe wat ons leef in Christus is een van genesing en wonderwerke en tog raak ons soms siek, bonatuurlike voorsiening maar tog is ons beursies soms leeg, wonderlike oorwinnings te midde van ‘n geweldige stryd, ewige lewe in ons harte maar ons almal moet oor stap deur aardse dood. Ons lewe hier op aarde is soos sout, maar dit beteken ons is in die sop, die pap, die gereg. Ons spring nie die gebrokenheid men swaar vd wêreld vry nie. Dit beteken ons is in hierdie wêreld maar nie van hierdie wêreld nie. Hoe leef ons in hierdie paradox: 1) Ons troos en hoop in hierdie wêreld is die Heilige Gees wat ons lei. Rom 8:14 2) Sy genade wat genoe
Daaglikse Roetine: Ontdek God in die Ordinêre bewegings van jou DAG
Blessed be the Lord, Who daily loads us with benefits, The God of our salvation! (Ps 68:19) "Carpe diem" "Remember that you are mortal, so seize the day." "enjoy the moment" "enjoy, seize, use, make use of" ואם לא עכשיו, אימתי 'And if not now, then when?' (Pirkei Avoth 1:14) The ability to fast-forward music and movies tempts us to think that we can fast-forward through the parts of our lives that seem boring or too difficult to face. But we really can’t. Discover the Rhythms of His Grace Daily!
Changing the Magnetic Polarity of Your Heart Human beings have a natural attraction to sin—much like magnets of opposite polarity. In order to overcome, we we must change our spiritual magnetic polarity! Have you ever played with magnets? Put the opposite poles of two magnets together and they attract. Put the like poles of two magnets together and they repulse. Put them close enough together with freedom to act independent of all other influences and they spin around and lock together. The same principle applies in our relationship with God. TWO LIKE POLES REPULSE ONE ANOTHER. SO DO TWO “HIGHER” INTELLIGENCES. If we approach God with the side of us that sees mankind as the most intelligent, creative force in our universe, we are immediately repulsed by God, because we are in essence seeing ourselves as God and cannot allow Him to get close without affecting our self image. As much as God wants to draw close to us, the closer He gets, the stronger the force with which our egos push us away. Therefor for you to serve God, and be drawn to Him we need to submit, deny, surrender, abandon self. Mat 16:24; James 4:6-8 OPPOSITES ATTRACT - THE POLARITY OF YOUR HEART DETERMINES WHAT YOU DRAW. For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will be furnished richly so that he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have will be taken away. Mat 25:29 Matt. 13:12; Mark 4:24-25; Luke 8:18; (John 15:2) IN THE KINGDOM THIS WORKS IN THE OPPOSITE - POSITIVE ATTRACTS POSITIVE Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.” Matthew 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Luk 6:31 Treat other people with the concern and kindness you would like them to show toward you. This saying has come to be called the Golden Rule. CONTINUE IN THE OPPOSITE SPIRIT. By doing things in the opposite spirit, you can change the polarity of your adversary. in the opposite spirit Romans 12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 16:19 For your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf; but I want you to bewise in what is good, and simple concerning evil. Luke 6:27- Love your enemies Do good to those who hate you Bless those who curse you Pray for those who spitefully use you Give to those who asks 1 Corinthians 4:12-13 Being reviled we bless Being persecuted we endure Being defamed (insulted, offended) we entreat (pray) Proverbs 15:1 Soft answer turns away wrath Luk 17:1-5 Instead of judgement forgiveness Matthew 5:25 - agree with your accuser - Instead of accusation repentance Mat 16:24-25 Save life you will loose it. YOUR INNER WORLD DETERMINES YOUR AUTHORITY IN YOUR OUTER WORLD. - Jesus in the storm. The glory of Christ within Col 1:27 Is an magnetic field, that pushes away evil and sin. The polarity of Christ within, exudes darkness. In our modern world, the properties that go along with magnetism are well understood. We term a charismatic person as someone with a Magnetic personality. His glory in us, makes our lives attractive and beautiful, giving of a Gold aroma of life to those who are drawn to Him, but a smell of death to those who resists Him. 2 Cor 2:16 Isa 60:1 glory, chabod (kah-vohd); Strong’s #3519: Weightiness; that which is substantial or heavy; glory, honor, splendor, power, wealth, authority, magnificence, fame, dignity, riches, and excellency. The root of chabod is chabad, “to be heavy, glorious, notable,” or “to be renowned.” In the OT, “heaviness” represented honor and substance, while “lightness”
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