Every Christian, qui est né de nouveau en Christ, is delivered from the power of darkness and transferred into the light. Christians don’t belong to the darkness anymore, but to the Kingdom of Light. Donc, Christians shall not live in the kingdom of darkness, marcher dans l’obscurité, and do the works of darkness. But Christians shall live in the Kingdom of God and do righteous works. Through the new birth and the change of sonship, nature, and kingdom, Christians shall put off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light and walk in the light. What is the armor of light in Romans 13:12 and how do you put on the armor of light?
Put off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts (Romains 13:12-14)
The Day of the Lord is near. Donc, it’s time, that all the people, qui disent croire, wake up from their spiritual sleep and arise in Christ and walk in boldness after the Spirit in obedience to the Word in the light.
All around us, we see an increase of the power of darkness). More and more spiritual ground is being taken by the power of darkness, which is visible in the natural realm in nature and the lives of people.
The main reasons for the increase of darkness are the increase of apostasy, anarchie, and the lukewarm state of people, who claim to be Christians.
Many Christians don’t speak the truth and keep their mouths shut about the Truth of God to prevent conflicts or rejection by people.
Instead of standing on the Word, they compromise with the world and approve the works of darkness. They even partake in the works of darkness.
There is hardly any distinction between good and evil and the majority of believers and unbelievers.
Donc, it’s time that those, qui disent croire, become serious and show through their lives, that they believe in Jesus Christ; le mot, and are sons of God (cela s'applique aussi bien aux hommes qu'aux femmes), who don’t belong to the darkness (le monde) plus, but the Light.
Ne laissez plus le péché régner en roi dans votre vie
Ne laisse donc pas le péché régner dans ton corps mortel, afin que vous lui obéissiez dans ses convoitises. Ne livrez pas non plus vos membres au péché comme des instruments d’iniquité.: mais abandonnez-vous à Dieu, comme ceux qui sont vivants d’entre les morts, et vos membres comme instruments de justice pour Dieu (Romains 6:12-13)
Ceux, who keep walking in darkness and doing the works of darkness and obey and serve sin and death through their flesh, don’t walk in the light.
Donc, ceux, who keep walking in darkness shall not be the light in the world.
They shall not be able to deliver other people from the power of darkness. They shall also not be able to teach others in the truth of God’s Word. Since they are blinded and walk in darkness themselves and sin still reigns as king dans leur vie.
Mais la Bible; the Word commands everyone, to put off the works of darkness and no longer walk after the lusts of the flesh, but to walk as children of light and put on the armor of light and yield their members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Et n'ayez aucune communion avec les œuvres infructueuses des ténèbres, mais plutôt les réprimander. Car c’est une honte de parler même de ces choses qu’on fait d’eux en secret. Mais tout ce qui est repris est manifesté par la lumière: car tout ce qui se manifeste est lumière (Éphésiens 5:11-13)
The Word commands, to not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but to reprove the works of darkness by the truth of God.
How do you cast off the works of darkness and put off the old man?
Mortifiez donc vos membres qui sont sur la terre; fornication, impureté, affection démesurée, evil concupiscence, et la convoitise, ce qui est de l'idolâtrie: Pour quelles choses’ à cause de la colère de Dieu, s'abat sur les enfants de la désobéissance: Dans lequel vous avez aussi marché quelque temps, quand tu y vivais. Mais maintenant, vous aussi, vous repoussez tout cela; colère, colère, malice, blasphème, une communication sale sort de ta bouche. Ne mentez pas les uns aux autres, puisque vous avez rebuté le vieil homme avec ses actes; Et ont revêtu l’homme nouveau, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created Him (Colossiens 3:5-10)
Maintenant les œuvres de la chair sont manifestes, quels sont ceux-ci; Adultère, fornication, impureté, lasciveté, Idolâtrie, la sorcellerie, haine, variance, émulations, colère, conflit, séditions, hérésies, Envies, meurtres, ivresse, réjouissances, et comme ça: dont je vous ai déjà parlé, comme je te l'ai aussi dit dans le passé, afin que ceux qui font de telles choses n'hériteront pas du royaume de Dieu (Galates 5:19-22)
Every believer should cast off the works of darkness and repousser le vieil homme. It is an action that every believer is supposed to do. No one can do it for you. Not even God.
God has given you in Christ all authority and power to resist the devil and resist sin; Les œuvres des ténèbres.
After Jesus Christ, le Fils de Dieu, was baptized in water by Jean le Baptiste and received the Holy Spirit from the Father, Jésus a été conduit par le Saint-Esprit dans le désert.
En pleine nature, Jésus était Tenté par le diable for forty days. During those forty days, Jesus learned to stay obedient to His Father and resist the devil and all his temptations.
Jesus didn’t compromise and didn’t bow to the devil. But Jesus only bowed to His Father, by staying faithful and obedient to His Father and His will.
And just like Jesus, the sons of God should also walk in obedience to the Word and the Holy Spirit. They should resist the devil and don’t give into his deceptions and temptations, qui mène au péché.
And that’s only possible if you aime Dieu de tout ton coeur, âme, esprit, et la force,h and know His will and yield yourself to His will, tout comme Jésus, Who loved His Father with all His heart, âme, mind and strength and knew His Father’s will and yielded Himself to the will of the Father.
Quelle est la volonté de Dieu?
Car c’est là la volonté de Dieu, même votre sanctification, que vous vous abstiendriez de la fornication: Que chacun de vous sache posséder son vase dans la sanctification et l’honneur; Pas dans la convoitise de la concupiscence, comme les païens qui ne connaissent pas Dieu: Qu’aucun homme n’aille au-delà et ne trompe son frère dans aucune affaire: parce que le Seigneur est le vengeur de tous ces, comme nous vous avons également prévenus et témoignés. Car Dieu ne nous a pas appelés à l’impureté, mais vers la sainteté. Celui donc qui méprise, ne méprise pas l’homme, mais Dieu, qui nous a aussi donné son Saint-Esprit (1 Thessaloniciens 4:3-8)
Et Je mettrai Mon Esprit en vous, et vous fera marcher dans Mes statuts, et vous observerez mes jugements, et fais-les (Ézéchiel 36:27)
Et ne sois pas conforme à ce monde: mais soyez transformés par le renouvellement de votre esprit, afin que vous puissiez prouver à quoi ça sert, et acceptable, et parfait, Volonté de Dieu (Romains 12:2)
Through the resurrection of the spirit from the dead and the baptism with the Holy Spirit, God’s will is written in the mind and heart of the new man. Cependant, L’esprit charnel, which is not renewed with the Word and thinks like the world, can become a hindrance in the lives of Christians and ensure that they keep walking in disobedience to the Word in unbelief.
Therefore they need to renew their mind avec la Parole de Dieu. De sorte que, they will get to know the Father and His will.
Through their love for God and by faith in God and His Word, they shall obey the words of God. They shall apply His words in their lives and walk according to His words and abide in the Word. Par leur obéissance à Dieu, ils walk in love according to the will of God.
What does the Bible say about the process of sanctification?
Donc, frères, Nous sommes débiteurs, pas à la chair, Vivre selon la chair. Car si vous vivez selon la chair, oui, je mourrai: mais si, par l'Esprit, vous mortifiez les actions du corps, ye shall live For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, ils sont les fils de Dieu. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Père (Romains 8:12-15)
Chaque personne, who has repenti and has become a new creation in Jesus Christ shall go through the process of sanctification. Even when you are raised in a Christian family, you shall go through the process of sanctification after you’ve become born again (le Le baptême dans l’eau and the baptism with the Holy Spirit).
During the process of sanctification, you shall put off the works of darkness. You’ll put off the old man, who has the nature of the devil, and put on the armor of light. You will put on the new man and be clothed with Jesus Christ.
You shall no longer do the works of the flesh. But through (the power of) l'esprit, you shall kill the works of the flesh and do the works of the Spirit, which produces life and peace.
You shall no longer listen to the lusts and desires of your flesh, that command you to love yourself and the world and reject the words of God, and wants to lie, rebel, fornicate, commettre un adultère, divorce, montre porno, and have sexual relationships with someone, who isn’t your spouse/of the same gender/multiple persons/yourself/children or animals.
You’ll no longer listen to your flesh, which commands you to get involved with strange religions and/or (Oriental) philosophies, la sorcellerie, divination, consulter les esprits, walk in pride, envy others and be jealous, drink alcohol, voler, détester, tuer, être rancunier towards others, recompense evil for evil, etc..
Because according to the Bible, all these works are the works of darkness that belong to the old man; le pecheur. These works of darkness no longer belong in the life of the new man, who has been made holy and righteous by the blood of Jesus and regeneration in Him.
Tout le monde, who has been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ
Car vous êtes tous enfants de Dieu par la foi en Jésus-Christ. Car tous ceux d’entre vous qui ont été baptisés en Christ ont revêtu Christ (Galates 3:26-27)
The new man is clothed with Christ. Donc, the spiritual transformation of the vieil homme into the new man should become visible in the natural realm in the life of the new man.
L’homme nouveau, who has been made in the image of the Creator, shall put on Jesus Christ; the Word and walk in the light; in the truth of God, in the armor of light.
When you have become the new man, you shall walk after the Spirit and shall love God with all your heart, âme, mind and strength and your neighbor as yourself, which means that you shall serve no other gods and have no idols, you shall not commit spiritual adultery with other religions and/or philosophies, and shall not commit witchcraft, adultère, fornication, mensonge, voler, tuer, envy etc.
How do you put on the armor of light?
How do you put on the armor of light? You will put on the armor of light, by yielding to Jesus Christ; the Word and the Holy Spirit and doing what is written in the Word.
As long as you stay faithful to Jesus Christ and walk after the will of the Father you shall do righteous works; the works of light and shall walk in righteousness.
The path of righteousness is not the path of the world. It’s a narrow path and only few shall find it or keep walking on this path (Matthieu 7:14). Your walk in life depends on your love for Jesus Christ and the Father.
Only if you are born again in Christ and love God with all your heart, âme, esprit, and strength and stay obedient to the Word and the Holy Spirit and walk by faith in righteousness after the will of God, you shall be able to:
- Resist all the temptations of the devil,
- Fulfill your task in the Kingdom of God on earth,
- Be a witness of Jesus Christ,
- Do the works of light,
- Stand in the faith.
'Soyez le sel de la terre’
