23/05/2025
VERSTAAN ONS JESUS VERKEERD?
DO WE UNDERSTAND JESUS WRONGLY?
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Jesus se eerste woorde (Metanoia) aan die begin van Sy opebare optrede is deur ou vertalers meesal vertaal as “Bekeer julle”.
Deur die latere eeue het die Bybellesers dit begin verstaan as ‘Hou op met jou sonde’.
Maar hoekom en hoe sal die deursmee mens met hart en siel ophou om iets te doen wat vir hom ‘lekker’ of voordelig is sonder dat die Heilige Gees dit in hom werk?
Inteendeel, Jesus se klem lê totaal ANDERS: Regdeur die 4 Evangelies probeer Jesus mense konstant eerder oortuig dat God die Vader LIEFDE is, en dat die OPHOU VAN SONDE EERDER DEUR DAARDIE KENNIS PLAASVIND.
Dis maklik om af te lei dat die ‘Bekeer’ eerder iets te doen het met ons Godsbeeld as met sonde. Moet dit nie dalk in ons dag eerder vertaal behoort te word as ‘D**k anders oor die Vader’ (Repent: Change your mind). Dis nie ‘n vreemde gedagte in ander geskrifte nie.
In die Ou Testament is die Vader deurgans voorgestel as ‘n wraakgierige toornige wese wat goeie dade beloon en slegte dade straf. Dis eers in Jesaja, Esegiël en Jeremia wat die profete op net ‘n paar plekke melding maak van ‘n vertroostende wese, maar die klem lê nie daarop nie.
Die meeste mense het vandag steeds dieselfde verkeerde Godsbeeld.
Hoekom sal hulle hul wil bekeer tot so ‘n wrede wese?
Maar nou kom Jesus en sê: Julle is verkeerd! Die Vader is LIEFDE. D**k anders oor Hom!
En dit my liewe vriende, is die basis van enige “Bekeer julle!” ... D**k anders!
Johannes die Doper sê Jesus is die Een wat ons met die Heilige Gees sal doop Mat 3:11.
Met die oortuiging dat God die Vader Liefde is, is die pad oop vir die bekering en die erkenning van Jesus se Goddelikheid.
Alles net omdat jy ANDERS D**K oor die beeld van die Skepper!
Hierdie wete het ontsaglike implikasies oor die manier wat geestelikes in die meeste demoninasies die Evangelie probeer verkondig.
Verwag meer hieroor later.
Mediteer solank lank hieroor in jou gebede sodat GOD SÉLF jou verlig.
DO WE UNDERSTAND JESUS WRONGLY?
Jesus' first words (Metanoia) at the beginning of His public action were mostly translated by old translators as “Repent ye”.
Over the later centuries, Bible readers began to understand this as ‘Stop your sin’.
But why and how would the man truly stop with heart and soul doing something that is ‘pleasant’ or beneficial to him without the Holy Spirit working in him?
On the contrary, Jesus' emphasis is completely DIFFERENT: Throughout the 4 Gospels, Jesus constantly tries to convince people that God the Father is LOVE, and that the CESSATION OF SIN RATHER TAKES PLACE WITH THAT KNOWLEDGE.
It is easy to conclude that the ‘Repent’ should rather be translated in our day as ‘Think differently about the Father’ (Repent: Change your mind). It's not a strange thought in other writings.
In the Old Testament, the Father is consistently presented as a vengeful, angry being who rewards good deeds and punishes bad deeds. It is only in Isaiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah that the prophets mention God as a comforting being in just a few places, but that’s not their emphasis.
Most people today still have the same wrong image of God.
Why would they convert their will to such a cruel being?
But now Jesus comes and says: You are wrong! The Father is LOVE. THINK DIFFERENTLY ABOUT HIM!
And this, my dear friends, is the basis of any “Repent!” ... THINK DIFFERENTLY!
John the Baptist says Jesus is the One who will baptize us with the Holy Spirit Mat 3:11.
With the conviction that God the Father is Love, the way is open for repentance and the recognition of Jesus’ Divinity.
All just because you THINK DIFFERENTLY about the image of the Creator!
This knowledge has TREMENDOUS implications for the way clergy in most demonic nations try to preach the Gospel.
Expect more on this later.
In the meantime, meditate thoroughly on this in your prayers so that God HIMSELF will enlighten you.
