Bondye pa vle pèsonn peri. Se poutèt sa Bondye bay pèp la tout bagay pou akonpli volonte l epi sove moun anba lanmò. Sepandan, chak moun te bay libète volonte pou fè pwòp chwa nan lavi. Chak moun ka deside ki chemen pou l ale: wout la laj nan mond lan, that leads to destruction or the narrow way of life, that lead to eternal life. Nan tout Bib la, we see one recurring theme and that’s the great lanmou Bondye. The love of God, that doesn’t want anyone to perish. That’s why throughout the Bible He called the people pou repantans. But what brought the people to repentance? The revelation and conviction of sin brought the people to repentance. Because how else can a person repent if a person doesn’t see his sinful state? And how can a person turn away from his works, that go against God’s will, if a person doesn’t consider his works evil? Let’s look at the conviction of sin in the three dispensations of the Bible, and how sin was revealed in each dispensation.
Konviksyon peche nan dispansasyon Bondye
Kòm mwen mansyone nan yon ansyen blogpost, nou ka divize Bib la an twa dispansasyon: dispansasyon Bondye a, Jezi, ak Sentespri a. Sepandan, nan tout twa dispansasyon nou wè kolaborasyon kontinyèl ant Bondye Toupisan an, Jezi; Pawòl la ak Sentespri a. Nan premye dispansasyon Bondye, nou wè relasyon ki genyen ant Bondye ak pèp li a; pèp Izrayèl la.
Lè Bondye; El-Elohim te kreye lòm dapre pwòp imaj pa l, nonm te vin pafè. Jiskaske lèzòm deside ale pwòp fason li epi revòlte kont pawòl Bondye ak peche. Lespri a nan moun mouri, epi lòm vin tounen yon nanm vivan, ki te konn sa ki byen ak sa ki mal. Nou li sou relasyon ki genyen ant Bondye ak Kapab, Enòk, Noe, Abraram, Izarak, Jakòb, Jozèf elatriye. Yo tout te mache ak Bondye dapre volonte l. Pandan ke Bondye poko ba yo lalwa li a. But they listened to His words and believed His words. Therefore they walked in obedience to His words.
Sepandan, we also read about Cain, Esau, the sons of God, the people, who lived in Noah’s age, the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah etc. they all lived their own lives and didn’t live according to God’s will.
God gave His law
We read about God’s people, who lived in Egypt under the oppression of Pharaoh for 400 Ane, and how God saved them. God heard their cry and chose Moses, as His representative to redeem His people out of Egypt and from the oppression of Pharaoh. When God redeemed His people by His hand and had led them into the wilderness, God had already revealed Himself through all the signs and wonders. But God wanted a relationship with His people; He wanted to be their God and that they would be His people. Therefore He gave them the law, that revealed His will concerning their lives.
For 400 Ane, they lived after Pharaoh’s will and according to the Egyptian culture, behavior and rituals and had worshiped idols. They were defiled and that’s why it was time, that God’s people would be cleansed from all unrighteousness and put off their old life. The only way to do that was to renew their mind with God’s will because the mind determined their actions. Through the law of righteousness and life, God made His will known to His people and sin was revealed. The law represented not only His will but also His nature, righteousness, and holiness.
The holy law of God brought light in the darkness and gave life to those, who would submit himself to the law; the will of God and obey the law.
The law revealed the truth and exposed every sin, that would lead to death. Because God didn’t want anyone to perish. By keeping the law and all the regulations, that belonged to the law, His people would be blessed, saved and have life. But every person, who was part of His people, had a choice to obey the law of God or not.
Pandan tout dispansasyon sa a, we see that God’s people were devoted to God for a specific time and then turned away from Him. That’s the nature of the old man, ki mache dèyè kò a; devotion to God, a turn away from God, repantans, devotion to God, turn away from God, elatriye. Every time His people got into trouble by leaving His law and adopting the culture, customs, and behavior of pagan cultures, they cried out to God and repanti. Then God, who is faithful and full of goodness, saved them. But it didn’t take long before His people rebelled again and became disobedient to the law. But what exposed the sin in His people’s life? The law of God exposed the sin and apostasy of the carnal man.
The conviction of sin by the law
When the law of God was read before the people, the holiness of God became visible and sin was revealed to them. The law was their teacher, and showed them, how far they were driven away from God and His words. Then His people had a choice to repanti oswa ou pa.
Without the law of God, which represents the law of righteousness and life, they were not aware of the fact that their lives were full of sin. His people had rejected the law, the words of God, and lived just like all the other nations, after the lusts and desires of the flesh. They did their own will and were led by their flesh instead of the Word of God. They took strange women from other nations, they committed adultery, idolatri, there was sexual uncleanness and they allowed abominations in the house of the Lord.
But as soon as the law appeared and was being read, sin was revealed and convicted man of sin. Without the law of God, there was no awareness of sin.
The conviction of sin in the dispensation of Jesus Christ
In the second dispensation, we see the coming of Jesus Christ, Pitit Bondye a, Li travay redanmsyon, and His relationship with God’s people. He is the Word, that became flesh and lived among the people. Jesus was anointed by God with the Holy Spirit and power, and went about doing good, healing all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him (Zak 10:38). Jesus represented and brought the Kingdom of God, including the law of God; the law of righteousness and life, sou tè a. Jesus lived after God’s will and therefore He established and fulfilled the law. God’s holy nature lived in Jesus and He confronted the people of God with their sins.
The conviction of sin by the Word
Jezi; the Light shone in the darkness and brought all things, that were hidden in darkness into the light. The Light confronted man with their sins. Moun sa yo, who were willing repanti. They were batize and removed the sins out of their lives and followed Jesus.
But those, who were rebellious and stubborn and had the devil as father, weren’t willing to repent.
They rejected Jesus Christ; the Word and remained living in sin. They hated Jesus because Jesus testified of their evil works.
The world cannot hate you (the old man) since you are part of it), but it does hate Me (new Man filled with the Holy Spirit) because I denounce it and testify that its deeds are evil (Jan 7:7)
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin. He that hates me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. (Jan 15:22-24)
The confrontation with the Word, Who represents the righteousness and holiness of God, revealed the sin in man. The Word convicted man of sin.
The conviction of sin in the dispensation of the Holy Spirit
In the third dispensation, we see the birth of the new creations and the relationship with the Holy Spirit. What the devil had destroyed in the jaden Edenn was restored by Jesus Christ. Jesus established the law and dealt with the sin problem of man. By His dying and resurrection and by the coming of the Holy Spirit, alèji new creations were born. Through rejenerasyon, the flesh of the granmoun was crucified and the spirit was raised from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit. The new man was born by water and Spirit and was no longer a son of the devil but had become a son of God. Man was reconciled in Jesus Christ with the Father and had received His Holy Spirit. Man didn’t belong to the world, but to the Kingdom of God.
Lespri Sen an, Who bears witness of Jesus Christ; the Word and Who represents the Kingdom of God, and the law of righteousness and life, live inside the new creation. Just like God had prophesied:
After those days, saith the Lord, I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be My people (Jeremiah 31:33)
By the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, God’s will and His nature live in the heart of the new creation.
The old nature of the devil, which is present in the flesh doesn’t exist anymore but is crucified in Christ. Kounye a, God’s holy nature lives inside of the new creation. When the new creation walks after the spirit, he shall submit himself to the Word and the Holy Spirit and shall obey the will of God. Therefore the new creation shall establish the law (wom 3:31)
The conviction of sin by the Holy Spirit
Jesus bore witness of the Holy Spirit and said that the Holy Spirit reproves (convicts, confute, admonishes, exposes, rebukes) the world of sin, and of righteousness and of judgment (Jan 16:8-10)
The Holy Spirit represents the will of God and convicts the sins of man. Just like Jesus convicted the sins of man and called man to repentance and put away sin. And just like God convicted the sins of man, by the law and called His people to repantans and to put away sin.
Bondye, Jezi, and the Holy Spirit are One, and therefore They have the same nature and the same will. They shall never contradict Each Other!
Sentespri a se Lespri verite a epi li ekspoze tout manti dyab la. Se poutèt sa, tout sa k ap pase nan fènwa, Li pral pote nan limyè a. Li konfwonte moun ak eta peche yo epi li revele yo move zèv yo soti nan pwen de vi Bondye olye de pwennvi lèzòm..
Se poutèt sa nou bezwen Lespri Sen an. Se li menm sèl ki pral kondane moun nan peche epi montre li nati peche avili li.
San yon konviksyon nan peche, yon moun pa ka repanti epi bay lavi li epi wete peche l yo. Se paske moun nan pa konnen peche l. Moun nan pa wè nesesite pou l depoze kò l epi li fèt ankò nan lespri a.. Li pa dwe konsidere zèv lachè yo kòm move, e se poutèt sa li p ap janm retire zèv lachè yo.. Moun nan pral fè sa sèlman si Bondye revele li eta espirityèl li.
Konviksyon peche a mennen moun nan repantans
Bondye pa vle pèsonn peri. That’s why, akoz bonte li, Li te bay lalwa li a, Pitit li a, ak Sentespri li. Se konsa, peche yo nan mond lan, ki kache nan fènwa epi yo kache pou je natirèl granmoun gason an, pral ekspoze ak moun gen opòtinite pou yo repanti, retire peche l yo, dwe sove, epi vin yon nouvo kreyasyon nan Jezikri.
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