Synovia Boží (muži aj ženy) walk in the light and are witnesses of Jesus Christ, the living Word and Son of the living God. They are saved by faith in Jesus Christ; cesta, pravda, a Život. They’re justified by His blood and live in the truth. Because they know the Truth and live in the truth, they speak the truth of God and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, which is the gospel of peace. They make Jesus Christ known to the people. So that the people can decide to repent and be saved or not . In this article, the third element of God’s armor is discussed, which is ‘the feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace’. What does it mean to have your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace?
The true witnesses of Jesus Christ deliver souls
Preto si vezmite celú Božiu výzbroj, aby ste mohli odolať v zlý deň, a urobiť všetko, stáť. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace (Efezanom 6:13-15)
A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies (Príslovia 14:25)
The sons of God belong to the Kingdom of God and represent the Kingdom of God on earth. They belong to Jesus Christ and are true witnesses of Jesus Christ; živé Slovo.
The Word reigns in their lives and they walk in obedience to His will, whereby they walk in love. By walking after His will in Jeho prikázania, they show that they love Him above all with all their heart, myseľ, duša, a silu.
By the Holy Spirit, Who dwells in them, they reprove the world of sin and call the people, who belong to the world and the ruler of the world, ktorý je diabol, k pokániu (John 16:7-11)
The sons of God walk in the truth and preach the Truth, cesta, a Život (Ježiš Kristus). So that many souls, who live in darkness have the ability to be delivered from the power of sin and death, by faith in Jesus Chris and regeneration in Him, and be reconciled with the Father and become a son of God.
Na tom nezáleží, how the person lives at that time and/or what the person has done in the past.
Every person is born as a sinner and walks in sin in darkness. And every person has been given the ability to be cleansed and purified by faith and by the blood of Jesus Christ of his or her sins and iniquities and to be delivered from the past and become nové stvorenie v Ježišovi Kristovi
Jesus came for all and not some.
That’s why the gospel of peace must be preached among the people. If Christians keep their mouths and don’t speak the truth of God, but talk along with the world and behave like chameleons, who are wishy-washy’s and please everyone by speaking what they want to hear instead of speaking the words of God, how do souls get saved? (Prečítajte si tiež: ‘Ak kresťania mlčia, ktorý oslobodí zajatcov temnoty?)
How can you be a witness if you walk in darkness?
A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health (Príslovia 13:17)
How can you save souls if you belong to the world and live like the world in darkness? What kind of message do you preach? What should sinners repent from and be saved from, if you do the same works as they do and live the same life as those, who don’t know God and are sinners? (Prečítajte si tiež: ‘Ak kresťania žijú ako svet, z čoho by mal svet činiť pokánie?)
Does the gospel of Jesus Christ, which must be preached contain that Jesus loves you despite the works you do and that you may stay the way you are and live the way you want to live?
Doesn’t it matter how you live, even if you do things that go against the will of God, because you are covered by the blood and no longer live under the law but under grace and therefore, it’s not your work and what you do but His work and what He has done?
That’s odd, since this message is nowhere to be found in the Bible.
This message is not written in the Old Covenant nor in the New Covenant. Therefore there is something wrong.
Or the message in the Bible, which was preached was not the message that should be preached or the message, which is preached nowadays by many Christians is not the message, that should be preached.
Since the Bible is God’s Word and God’s Word is the Truth and tells the truth, môžeme uzavrieť, that the message, that is preached today is not the message according to the will of God. Therefore it has become a false message, which is not based on the truth of God’s Word and doesn’t lead to repentance.
This message doesn’t bring healing (restoration of the spiritual state of fallen humanity through justification in Christ and reconciliation with God) through repentance and the removal of sin. This message doesn’t promote holy lives in obedience to God and His Word. But this message ensures that people persevere in sin and live as enemies of God after the flesh and shall eventually inherit eternal death.
God doesn’t want anyone to perish
God doesn’t want the people to persevere in sin and live like the world as His enemies and perish. But God wants the people to repent of their evil works as a sinners and don’t be sons of the devil, who belong to the world and do the will of the devil.
God doesn’t want anyone to perish but to be saved. God wants everyone to become sons of God, who have been made righteous by the blood of Jesus Christ and have been set apart from the world and belong to the Kingdom of God and live after the Spirit after the will of God; vôľa Ježiša Krista; slovo.
Only when you repent and become born again in Christ and live out of Him after the Spirit, you shall be saved and be justified and be the light of the world. Just like Jesus, Who was the Light in the world (Prečítajte si tiež: ‘Once saved, always saved').
The message of repentance is the message Jesus preached
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! (Izaiáš 52:7)
Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! (Nahum 1:15)
From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Čiňte pokánie: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand (Matúš 4:17)
Jesus was righteous and walked in righteousness and the truth of God, whereby Jesus was the Light of the world.
Všade, kam Ježiš prišiel, the Light came and the Light exposed the works of darkness and testified to the people, that their works were evil. Jesus called those, who belonged to God’s carnal people, but walked in darkness, k pokániu.
Jesus didn’t approve of sin, not even after His death and resurrection. But Jesus confronted the people with the truth of God and called the sinners (those who persevered in sins) k pokániu (Matúš 9:13, Marka 2:17, Luke 5:32).
Jesus belonged to the Kingdom of God and was a faithful Witness of God and represented, preached, and brought the Kingdom of God to God’s people.
That was the life of Jesus and the message of the Kingdom, that Jesus preached. Because the message of the Kingdom calls people to repentance and to live holy lives and brings peace between man and God.
By His words and deeds, Jesus brought peace and the life of God. If there was discord and chaos and the results of the diela diabla were visible in the lives of people, Jesus restored (uzdravený) ich.
Jesus preached the gospel of peace and brought the light in places, where darkness reigned. (Prečítajte si tiež: ‘Aký pokoj priniesol Ježiš na zem?').
The true witnesses of Jesus Christ preached the message of repentance
Napriek tomu, I tell you the truth; Je pre vás výhodné, aby som odišiel: lebo ak neodídem, Utešiteľ k vám nepríde; ale ak odídem, Pošlem Ho k vám. A keď On príde, On bude karhať svet hriechu, a o spravodlivosti, a úsudku: Z hriechu, pretože neveria vo mňa; O spravodlivosti, pretože idem k svojmu Otcovi, a viac Ma neuvidíte; Súdu, lebo knieža tohto sveta je súdené (John 16:7-11)
Tak je napísané, a tak prináležalo Kristovi trpieť, a na tretí deň vstať z mŕtvych: A že pokánie a odpustenie hriechov sa má kázať v jeho mene medzi všetkými národmi, počnúc Jeruzalemom. A vy ste svedkami vecí týchto. A, hľa, I send the promise of my Father upon you: ale dechtujte v meste Jeruzaleme, kým nebudete vydržaní mocou zhora (Luke 24:46-49)
When the disciples of Jesus Christ received the other Comforter; the Holy Spirit on the day of Letnice, they didn’t stay in the upper room to enjoy the presence of the Holy Spirit and be ‘spiritually drunk’. The disciples didn’t act weird and didn’t fall on the ground and begin to shake and laugh uncontrollably and behave like animals. Nie, that didn’t happen!
When they received the Holy Spirit they spoke in other tongues and went outside and preached the good news of the príchod Mesiáša; Jesus Christ and His death and resurrection. And so they preached the gospel of peace to the house of Israel.
Aj napriek skutočnosti, that the disciples were mocked and ridiculed, urobili to, čo im Ježiš prikázal.
Did they preach to the house of Israel that they could live the way they wanted to live and that they were saved, because they were God’s people through natural birth?
Nie, they called the Jews, who had come to Jerusalem from all places around the world, to celebrate the feast of firstlings (the feast of weeks), k pokániu.
Cez krst Duchom Svätým, the disciples were clothed with power, and in the Name of Jesus Christ; v Jeho autorite, they preached in boldness the message of repentance, just like their Lord and Master; Ježiš Kristus.
The gospel of peace produces life
The message Peter preached wasn’t soft, but it was a hard message. Avšak, this hard message brought the people to repentance and saved them. Because by hearing the confronting words of Peter, 3000 Jews were touched in their heart and were convicted of their sins and repented and gave their lives to Jesus Christ. They were saved from the perverse generation of fallen man and reconciled with the Father.
Through faith in Jesus Christ and regeneration in Him (krst vo vode a baptism with the Holy Spirit) they were redeemed from the power of death and became sons of God, who also became witnesses of Jesus Christ. In the power of His Name and the Holy Spirit, they preached Jesus Christ and revealed and brought His Kingdom to the people. They were the light that shew in darkness.
The sons of God have their feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace
When you are born again and have received the Holy Spirit, you are clothed with Christ, and your feet are shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.
Your feet are not shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace once in a while, for example when you go outside on the street to evangelize.
Nie, if you are clothed with Jesus Christ and have become a witness of Jesus Christ, your feet are always shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Just like your loins always girt about with truth and you always have on the breastplate of righteousness. (Prečítajte si tiež: ‘Bedrá sa opásajú pravdou‘ a ‘Having on the breastplate of righteousness')
Unfortunately not many have always shod their feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace and behave like undercover Christians in their daily lives at school, at their job, in their family, among friends and/or acquaintances or in other places, where they put their feet. They keep their mouth shut about the truth of God and instead they speak the words of the world.
Their feet are only shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace when it suits them.
“Ak niekto za mnou príde, nech sa zaprie, a vezmi svoj kríž, a nasleduj Ma”
Potom povedal Ježiš svojim učeníkom, Ak niekto za mnou príde, nech sa zaprie, a vezmi svoj kríž, a nasleduj Ma (Matúš 16:24)
But as a son of God and true witness of Jesus Christ, your feet should always be shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, which brings peace between man and God. Avšak, this is only possible, when you have died to yourself.
Because the gospel of peace is a hard message that opposes the gospel of the world and is not always appreciated by everyone.
But it is important and necessary that you preach the truth of God, despite the consequences.
Because without preaching the truth of the Word, many people shall keep walking in the lies of the devil and live in the bondage of darkness and be lost.
Therefore open your mouth and dare to take a stand for Jesus Christ.
Dare to be a true witness of Jesus Christ in this world and preach Him among the people.
Preach the truth of God, Jeho vykupiteľské dielo, and call the people, ktorí chodia v tme, k pokániu, so that many shall be saved and redeemed from death.
The sons of God reject the lies of the world and speak the truth of God
Don’t be led by your flesh and the words of the world, but be led by the Holy Spirit and the words of God. Don’t speak any more lies and don’t say that it doesn’t matter if someone lives in sin and that Jesus loves the person despite his or her perseverance in sin and that the person is saved. Because that is only part of the truth and not the whole truth and therefore a lie.
If that were the truth, then Jesus’ sacrifice wouldn’t have to die and become a Náhradník for fallen man, because the blood of animals would be sufficient (Prečítajte si tiež: ‘The difference between the sacrifice of animals and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ').
And if it doesn’t matter how someone lives, then the apostles and disciples of Jesus Christ would not have called the people to repentance and Jesus would not have confronted the seven churches in the Book of Revelation with their works, which were not according to His will and would not have called them to repentance (Prečítajte si tiež: ‘Výzva k pokániu').
Ježiš povedal, “Každý, kto sa teda bude hanbiť za mňa a za moje slová v tomto cudzoložnom a hriešnom pokolení; za neho sa bude hanbiť aj Syn človeka, keď príde v sláve svojho Otca so svätými anjelmi” (Marka 8:38)
Každý, kto ma teda vyzná pred ľuďmi, toho aj vyznám pred svojím Otcom, ktorý je na nebesiach. Ale ktokoľvek by Ma zaprel pred ľuďmi, aj ja ho zapriem pred svojím Otcom, ktorý je na nebesiach (Matúš 10:32-33).
„Buď soľou zeme’
