Kan jy Jesus weer kruisig en Hom openlik beskaam? Wat sê die Bybel? In Hebrews 6:6 we read that you can crucify Jesus again and put Him to an open shame and since the Bible; the Word of God is the truth, this is the truth. People can say all kinds of things and substantiate their opinion on the basis of their own experiences, gevoelens, en emosies. But in the Church, it’s not about people’s feelings, emosies, Menings, bevindings, en ervarings, but it’s all about what the Bible says. Since the Church is the Body of Christ and founded on the Word of God instead of the experiences, Menings, gevoelens, emosies, and words of people. God wants you to get to know His will, deur Sy Woord, and accept and follow His will. So that you, as seun van God (beide manlik en vroulik) shall walk after His will and through your gehoorsaamheid and life exalt Jesus Christ and glorify the Father instead of putting Jesus Christ and the Father to an open shame.
The basis of repentance
On what ground do people repent and come to faith in Christ? This question is crucial and determines the walk of a person for the rest of his or her life. Ongelukkig, many believers, Insluitende gelowiges, who have a leadership position in the church, come to faith in Christ for the wrong reasons and because of that they put God and His Kingdom to an open shame.
They defile the church by their own way of free-thinking, doctrine, and speech, and their way of living and believe that by doing humanistic deeds (charity works) they make up for it.
But they are rebels of God’s Word and don’t walk in love, because they don’t submit to God and His Word, but adjust His words according to their will and opinion.
They pull on the emotions and feelings of the people and manipulate people and win people over, making them believe that they are speaking the truth and walking on the right path of life.
As long as believers remain carnal and live after the flesh instead of the Spirit, they shall be influenced by the knowledge, Wysheid, and words of the world.
They shall be influenced and misled by valse leerstellings and allow the knowledge, Wysheid, and works of darkness into the church.
As gevolg van hierdie gedrag, many churches are no longer founded on the true Foundation; die woord, but on a human foundation; the words of people(Lees ook: ‘Jesus Christ thrown out of the church‘ en ‘Die kerk het voortgebou op die mening van mense').
Faith has become more an addition to life and a way to become prosperous and successful in life on earth, instead of being the life of people and people have completely consecrated their lives to God and a change of life (lewensstyl) has taken place.
Vandag, in many churches the roles have been reversed. Instead of people having a fear of God (awe for God) and being devoted to God and serving God, God has to serve the people. God has to adjust to the time and the will of people, instead of people adjusting themselves and their will to the will of God and His eternal Truth (Lees ook: 'Sal God sy wil verander vir die begeerlikhede en begeertes van mense?’)
True repentance
There are many reasons why someone repents and come to faith and visits a church, like tradition, the pressure of surroundings, social aspect, for the blessings and prosperity, the promises, asylum, genesing, Tekens en wonders, fear for hell, ens. But there is only one reason, whereby one comes to true faith in Jesus Christ and will stand in the faith in Him and that is through a personal encounter with Jesus Christ and the conviction of the sinful state of fallen man.
The conviction of sin by the Word and the Holy Spirit and your filthy state as a sinner is the only thing that will cause ware bekering en 'n lewensverandering.
Because without a conviction of sin and a conviction of your sinful state as a sinner, you won’t feel the need to change your life and remove sin.
You shall not see the necessity of salvation, bekering, and regeneration. Because you are not convinced that you are evil and you don’t consider the things, which are defined in the Bible as sin, as evil but as normal. You consider sins as something that is just part of humanity and the time we live in.
Because of the fact that the basis of repentance is not right, it often happens, that after a while believers fall away from the faith and return to the world and because of that reject Jesus Christ deliberately.
The good fight of faith
Ek het 'n goeie stryd gestry, Ek het my kursus voltooi, Ek het die geloof behou: Voortaan is daar vir my weggelê 'n kroon van geregtigheid, wat die Here, die regverdige Regter, sal my op daardie dag gee: en nie net vir my nie, maar ook aan almal wat Sy verskyning liefhet (2 Timoteus 4:7-8)
Many are not able to finish the good fight of faith for a lot of reasons. One of the main reasons is that they love themselves more than they Wees lief vir God. They don’t hate their own life after the flesh, but love their own life and therefore they are not prepared to lay down their own life after the flesh and/or the attraction of the world is too strong for them.
Therefore it’s important to count the cost, before making a decision to obey and follow Jesus Christ and make Him the Lord of your life (Lees ook: 'Tel die koste’).
Crucify Jesus again and put Him to an open shame
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame (Hebreërs 6:4-6)
Die Woord sê, that it’s impossible for people, who were once enlightened and have tasted the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, but have left the Way deliberately and have fallen away from the faith deliberately, to renew them again unto repentance, since they crucify to themselves Jesus, the Son of God again and put Him to an open shame. And this is not written before, but after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ (Lees ook: ‘Verlore in die see van genade‘ en ‘Sodra gered, altyd gered?').
Therefore let us fear God (have great awe of God) and be serious with the Kingdom of God and guard ourselves against apostasy from the living God and a return to the state of perdition. And instead of putting God the Father, Jesus Christus, and the Holy Spirit to an open shame, let us honor and glorify God with our lives.
‘Wees die sout van die aarde’
