Looked at by Marcus Ampe from a Christian viewpoint.
De wereld bekeken vanuit een Christelijke visie door Marcus Ampe
Monday 14 July 2014
Faalangst, en angst voor het onbekende
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Faalangst, en angst voor het onbekende
worden altijd verslagen door het geloof.
- Georgette Mosbacher
Thursday 10 July 2014
Believing what Jesus says
How many people are really willing to believe what Jesus says. In Christendom we do find many Christians who prefer to keep to the traditional doctrines of the doctrinal churches, instead of willing to take the words of the Bible like they are written there.
What does it mean to you when Jesus says God is greater than him? What does it mean when he says we do have to pray to God his Father and do not may worship him, but should give all honour to the Only One Divine God, Creator of heaven and earth?
Jesus concentrated himself on the words and works of his heavenly Father and asked others not to focus on his (Jesus) works, because he (Jesus) could do nothing without his Father. Jesus his focus was on his heavenly Father who had appeared above him and had spoken "This is my beloved son." How many Christians are willing to accept those words of God Who spoke about His only begotten son?
Do you want to focus on the doctrines of the many churches, or are you willing to focus on the Word of God as it is presented to the world in the Bible?
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Please read also: A Different Life Focus
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Evangelistar von Speyer, um 1220 Manuscript in the Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe, Germany Cod. Bruchsal 1, Bl. 1v Shows Christ in vesica shape surrounded by the "animal" symbols of the four evangelists. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
The barrier to fully accepting Jesus’ words is the cost involved in following him and his teachings. To follow his teachings, and the teaching of the Bible at large, requires a different type of focus. That is, one not focussed upon material or present benefits, but rather upon following the truths of God no matter what the present cost, because something far greater has been purposed and promised by God.You as a Christian or as a unbeliever, what do you want to come to believe? Where do you want to put your focus?
What does it mean to you when Jesus says God is greater than him? What does it mean when he says we do have to pray to God his Father and do not may worship him, but should give all honour to the Only One Divine God, Creator of heaven and earth?
Jesus concentrated himself on the words and works of his heavenly Father and asked others not to focus on his (Jesus) works, because he (Jesus) could do nothing without his Father. Jesus his focus was on his heavenly Father who had appeared above him and had spoken "This is my beloved son." How many Christians are willing to accept those words of God Who spoke about His only begotten son?
Do you want to focus on the doctrines of the many churches, or are you willing to focus on the Word of God as it is presented to the world in the Bible?
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Please read also: A Different Life Focus
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- God is not a Trinity (vanguardngr.com)
The word “Trinity” can be found nowhere in the Bible. It is completely incongruous with scriptural understanding of God. God is not three persons. There is only one God and it is the Father. Jesus says: “salvation is of the Jews.” (John 4:22). Salvation is neither of the Romans nor of the Italians. The Trinity is an unscriptural concept, smuggled into Christendom under Roman Constantine by cloak-and-dagger means.
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Jesus never says God is a Trinity. Instead, he reveals God is a family. The head of this family is the Father. God’s household include Jesus; God’s sons and servants; and angels. That is more than a trinity. The man-made concept of the Trinity makes God an exclusive triumvirate, limited to “the Godhead. ” - The Grid: 3 (endtimesprophecyreport.wordpress.com)
We will always have false brethren and false teachers within the church until Jesus Christ returns and sets up His visible kingdom upon this earth. Knowing this truth, what should our response be to those who are false? First we must recognize that false brethren are dangerous to our well-being. - Was Jesus a Christian? (thelifeofshawn1.wordpress.com)
did Jesus abide by the rules, teachings, and doctrines that we Christians do today? If you are wondering the answer is NO!! Jesus was NOT a Christian. He also didn’t work to establish Christianity as a religion. However, my brother (who is on a spiritual journey of his own) sent me a post on Facebook that I found intriguing that I thought I would share with you. - A Religion of Relationship (seekingtofindhim.wordpress.com)
“Christianity is not a religion, it’s a relationship.” This one sentence accurately sums up the popular theological viewpoint of an increasing number of people in this generation who profess faith in Jesus Christ. The sentiment expressed here is most commonly found amongst nondenominational evangelicals, but many mainline Protestant believers also subscribe to it. (I’m not sure, but I assume a fair amount of Catholics do as well, at least in our country). There seems to be a growing aversion to the terms “religious” and “religion,” and many people take special care to define Christianity in such a way as to deliberately exclude this language. - The Problem With God (new.exchristian.net)
If god can do anything, can he be bad? If he can’t be bad, he is limited and not all-powerful. If he can be bad, we can not trust him. What is Free Will? Biblical Free will is not “free”. If someone holds a gun to your head, but tells you that you are free to go, do you really feel free in that choice? What is the biblical definition of unconditional love? Telling someone to love you “or else” is not unconditional love. It is, in fact, the very definition of conditional love. Threatening someone with eternal torture if they will not stay with you and worship you is maniacal and abusive. - Cult Leader Jesus (acquiescere9.wordpress.com)
what is ignored by Christians is that their Lord and Savior, Jesus, exhibited exactly the same traits that zealous cult leaders do. Christians will close their eyes to the same things they find so disturbing in other cult leaders.
This is understandable to some extent because Christianity is above all else, a religion that promotes itself through aggressive advertising and the unquestioning submission to a superficial God, a God of shine and little substance.
Believers are told to do the “will of God” and serve him totally.
After all, Jesus himself gave Christians their marching orders in the Gospel of Matthew. - Is Jesus a fundamentalist? (weoccupyjesus.org)
I’ve come to realise that every single Christian (or person) has his/her own individual idea of who Jesus is. And it’s not just about the theology we’ve been taught or the denomination we belong to. Our concept of Jesus is influenced by our whole life experience, our personality, and our experience of church and of other Christians. It’s dawned on me that, often, the Christians I disagree with theologically also differ widely from me in their personality, whereas Christians who are similar to me in nature are more likely to be like-minded in their view of Jesus and of the various thorny issues that we grapple with. Personality may play a bigger part than we realise in our theology and our view of Jesus.
- The new Reformation (theway21stcentury.wordpress.com)
I remember about 40 years ago coming to the conclusion that the church in the western world was, in the next few decades, going to go through changes as significant as the Reformation. I felt we had got away from the truth in several important areas – introspective & hierarchical churches, dead orthodoxy in many christians’ lives (including me), and failing to heed Jesus’ teachings on non-violence, acceptance and the perils of wealth – and God surely wouldn’t allow this to continue unchecked.
I think we are now in the middle of a new reformation, and here are some of the signs I see.
- A Sunday Message (thoughtprovokingperspectives.wordpress.com)
I started with the Council of Nicea that took place more than three hundred years after Jesus lived in 325 A.D. This historic meeting, by order of the Roman Emperor Caesar Flavius Constantine, who by the way was a murder, defined or created Christianity as we know it. Nicea was located in Asia Minor, east of Constantinople. At the Council of Nicea, Emperor Constantine presided over a group of church bishops and leaders with the purpose of defining the true God for all Christians and eliminating all the confusion, controversy, and contention within Christ’s church.
The Council of Nicea affirmed the deity of Jesus Christ, painted by a European around the same time, and removed his blackness from the consciousness of the faith. There is no need to debate Jesus’ completion because, at that point in time, there were only two people in the region – Romans and Jews to which it is a fact that black people was the original Jew. At that conference, Constantine established an official definition of the Trinity – the deity of The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit under one God head, in three co-equal and co-eternal Persons.
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The main theological issue and focus had always been about Christ or so His-Story tells us. Since the end of the Apostolic Age and beginning of the Church Age, saints began questioning, debating, fighting, and separating over the question, “Who is the Christ?” Is He more divine than human or more human than divine? Was Jesus created / made or begotten? Being the Son of God, is He co-equal and co-eternal with Father God, or less and lower in status than the Father? Is the Father the One and only True God, or are the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit the One true God? “True God of True God,” “One Being, Three Persons”, a tri-unity called “Trinity”? Jesus said, “Who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15).
- Ye Must Be Born Again! The Doctrine of Regeneration by Timothy A. Williams (ilyston.wordpress.com)
The beginning of Christianity consists in this, that we know ourselves not only to be corrupt in part, but to be wholly dead in sin: so that our nature has need to be created anew, with regard to its qualities, which can be done by no other power, but by the divine and heavenly, by which we were first created.
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Much of the New Testament illustrates the endeavour of Christ and the Apostles to make this happen. Yet in the centuries that followed the purity of the “new wine” has so often been diluted and polluted. We must recapture the purity of the “new wine” if we are to be wondrously blessed in participating at the return of Jesus in “the marriage supper of the Lamb” (Revelation 19:9)
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Looking for something or for the Truth and what it might be and self-awareness
What can be the truth and what do we understand under ‘the truth’? Are we speaking of man
made sets of concepts and beliefs, or the accumulation of scientific
knowledge, or mathematical certainties?
How can we find the truth and do we need to examine only all the NT writings or do we have to look at the OT writings also?
How can we get the full story of early Christianity and how much interest do we have to have for theological writings or to church letters and books written after the gospels and epistles?
Are you not curious what those Christians in the Old Times believed and how believes changed and churches found ways to grow? But those growing churches did they keep to the Truth? Did they not bring in teachings to become more popular and to have more people who could find their traditional events integrated in the church?
With education, we are able to discern between right and wrong, good and evil, and make what we might term moral choices. The human being is privileged that it has a brain which can be used to get such an insight. We as human beings can have a level of awareness and with it an ability to come to a natural expression of our physical organisation or being, and that it is an innate capacity or potential that we are uniquely born with.
In any case are there 5 teachings in the Bible which stand out and upon which all the others are based. Each of these are intimately connected, and none stands fully alone or independent. Other important teachings such as Law, sin, righteousness, faith, grace and salvation are all connected to these central themes and in some measure they are built upon them. These core teachings stand therefore in some measure as a foundation, and upon them and around them can be built a fuller understanding of the ways of God.
At the new website you may find core concepts for your investigation.
Where is the source of true meaning? Is it found in the world; in its philosophy, science, education, religions, or worldly wisdom?
While all of these fields are capable of helping us in our day to day struggles, they are not able to give us an answer to the larger question of purpose. They certainly may be treasured, but they are not that which really counts, which is more valuable than the sum total of all else. The Bible informs us many times that this treasure can only come from above, i.e. from God.
Find more about it in:
How can we find the truth and do we need to examine only all the NT writings or do we have to look at the OT writings also?
How can we get the full story of early Christianity and how much interest do we have to have for theological writings or to church letters and books written after the gospels and epistles?
Are you not curious what those Christians in the Old Times believed and how believes changed and churches found ways to grow? But those growing churches did they keep to the Truth? Did they not bring in teachings to become more popular and to have more people who could find their traditional events integrated in the church?
With education, we are able to discern between right and wrong, good and evil, and make what we might term moral choices. The human being is privileged that it has a brain which can be used to get such an insight. We as human beings can have a level of awareness and with it an ability to come to a natural expression of our physical organisation or being, and that it is an innate capacity or potential that we are uniquely born with.
The 21st century has brought us to an age of increasing complexity and sophistication, which is being driven by scientific advancements on a scale never seen before. These advancements are coupled in a strange way with a veneer of rationality that is difficult to reconcile with the advances in science. As science seeks to explain and explore every detail of the material world, the media and entertainment industries bombard us with increasingly puerile levels of information, often delivered in oversimplified sound-bites backed by expertly crafted graphic imagery for easy acceptance. The outcome is a society which has generally lost the ability to think and reason critically on the deeper questions of life.On the net you shall be able to find a new website which shall look at the way how we can look and interpret the Bible. There are numerous teachings in the Bible, but it can be good to now and then just to look at some basic elements which are not so hidden in that book that it would be to difficult to find.
In any case are there 5 teachings in the Bible which stand out and upon which all the others are based. Each of these are intimately connected, and none stands fully alone or independent. Other important teachings such as Law, sin, righteousness, faith, grace and salvation are all connected to these central themes and in some measure they are built upon them. These core teachings stand therefore in some measure as a foundation, and upon them and around them can be built a fuller understanding of the ways of God.
At the new website you may find core concepts for your investigation.
- God’s revealed purpose with both mankind and with the earth: God's Plan
- The revealed Creator of heaven and earth: the Elohim Allah God: Jehovah
- God His Revelation – God has spoken and revealed Himself and His ways. This is in His Word, in the book we commonly call the Bible.
- Human being, animals and plants, the elements in the universe.
- Jesus Christ – God’s son, whom God raised up to be a saviour. He is the completion of God’s purpose, the very image of the invisible God. The Nazarene man whom was called Jeshua, but of whom people changed his name in Jesus 'Hail Zeus' and made him a god of a threesome.
- Self-Awareness – and the Choices this Awareness Brings?
Most of us don’t really seek for answers but are somewhat satisfied by the consensus of opinions advanced by the experts and thought leaders we follow, whether consciously or subconsciously. The added complexity to the question of existence is the self-evident fact that total objectivity is rarely possible, since every one of us has prejudices that colour our reasoning and conclusions. This often works in ways that we are not even aware of. This is a peculiar quirk of the human condition. Our ability to be totally objective is often challenged by our education, culture, peer group or simply our preferred group’s prejudices. Most of us have an innate bias or need to conform to the consensus position of the particular group that we most closely identify with. This causes most people to rely upon the conclusions of those they respect and identify with, and who are often experts at articulating their positions. We rationalise, that if they cannot get it right and tell us the answers, who really can?Many may be looking for a long time in their life for true knowledge and wisdom. Do you have any idea where you or others can find it?
Where is the source of true meaning? Is it found in the world; in its philosophy, science, education, religions, or worldly wisdom?
While all of these fields are capable of helping us in our day to day struggles, they are not able to give us an answer to the larger question of purpose. They certainly may be treasured, but they are not that which really counts, which is more valuable than the sum total of all else. The Bible informs us many times that this treasure can only come from above, i.e. from God.
Find more about it in:
- Chapter 1 - General Introduction to the Blog Basic Bible Teaching: The Core Teachings of the Bible.
- 1.The Core Teachings of the Bible 1. TheCore Teachings of the Bible
- The Core Teachings of the Bible Chapter 2 - Self-Awareness – and the Choices this Awareness Brings?
- The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth
- The Core Teachings of the Bible Chapter 2 - The Common Human Experience: 1. The Common Human Experience
- Is There a Greater Purpose to Life?
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The Christadelphian magazine 150th anniversary
This month is the 150th anniversary of The Christadelphian magazine.
It began life in July 1864 as The Ambassador of the Coming Age, changing its name in
1869 to The Christadelphian, and under seven different editors a total of 1,800 continuous monthly issues have been published to date.
To mark the occasion a special 16-page centre section has been added to the July 2014 issue, reflecting briefly on the history of our community as seen through the pages of the magazine. For those who do not subscribe, individual copies are available from the Office and online. http://buff.ly/1oABJer
It began life in July 1864 as The Ambassador of the Coming Age, changing its name in
1869 to The Christadelphian, and under seven different editors a total of 1,800 continuous monthly issues have been published to date.
To mark the occasion a special 16-page centre section has been added to the July 2014 issue, reflecting briefly on the history of our community as seen through the pages of the magazine. For those who do not subscribe, individual copies are available from the Office and online. http://buff.ly/1oABJer
Monday 7 July 2014
Goede mensen en verborgen christenen
Lenin (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
In de landen waar men houdt aan het economisch systeem dat gebaseerd is op het idee van eindeloze groei houdt men er graag aan vast dat die landen waar men niet aan de mantra houdt van ‘meer, meer, meer’ of waar men er aan houdt om alles te delen met elkaar, dat daar geen plaats zou zijn voor een Christendom.
Op 29 juni gaf de paus in Il Messaggero, een lokaal dagblad van Rome een interview, waarin hij voor sommige mensen andermaal straffe uitspraken deed. In dat interview wordt de paus onder de neus gewreven dat hij “zoals Lenin spreekt”. Daarop antwoordt Jorge Bergoglio het volgende.
“Ik kan alleen maar zeggen dat de communisten onze vlag hebben gestolen. De vlag van de armen is christelijk. De armoede staat centraal in het Evangelie. Nemen we Mattheüs 25, die de procedure aangeeft op basis waarvan we zullen beoordeeld worden: "Ik was hongerig, dorstig, in de gevangenis, ziek, naakt." Of kijk naar de zaligsprekingen[1], een andere vlag. De communisten zeggen dat dit alles communistisch is. Ja, oké, twintig eeuwen later [kunnen ze dat beweren]. Dus, wanneer je met hen spreekt, dan kan je hen zeggen: "maar jullie zijn eigenlijk christenen.”Al eerdere had de paus in La Stampa gezegd dat hij in zijn leven al veel marxisten ontmoet had
“die goede mensen waren”.
English: Cardinal Jorge M. Bergoglio SJ, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, celebrating mass at the XX Exposición del Libro Católico (20th Catholic Book Fair), in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Español: Cardenal Jorge M. Bergoglio SJ, Arzobispo de Buenos Aires, celebrando misa en la XX Exposición del Libro Católico, en Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
De marxistische ideologie is volgens hem verkeerd en bovendien zal je in zijn doctrine niets terugvinden over strijd of over klassen, laat staan over klassenstrijd.
Hij gelooft niet in de werking van de vrije markt (de onzichtbare hand) en de zogeheten trickle-down-theorie waarbij voordelen voor de rijken - zoals belastingsvermindering - uiteindelijk ten goede komen aan de armen.
Het is een totaal verkeerde opvatting om telkens te denken dat zij die tegen de ongelijkheid zijn en dat als oorzaak zien van alle sociale wantoestanden, communisten zouden zijn.
“welvaartprojecten die bepaalde dringende behoeften voldoen, moeten beschouwd worden als louter tijdelijke antwoorden”.Prioritair voor hem zijn de werkloosheid en de kloof tussen rijk en arm.
Het is een onverholen kritiek op de neoliberale koers die gemeengoed geworden is bij de politieke elite. In rechtse kringen beschouwt men de uitspraken van de paus Franciscus als oubollig en radicaal. Maar het is natuurlijk ver gekomen als zelfs de sociale leer van de kerk al radicaal overkomt.
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Vindt ook om te lezen:
- Vrijheid van mens en centrale plaats in ons wereld- en mensbeeld
- Marx, het Volk, Religie, Christendom en verwrongen ideeën
- Kuddedier doet liever wat het niet mag
- Hoe de rijken de wereld regeren
- Virussen van onze maatschappij
- Wat betreft Waar ELKE mens recht op heeft
- Stichters van de Nieuwe Wereld en Godsdienstvrijheid
- God meester van goed en kwaad
Israël en Gods koninkrijk hand in hand
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Zo ontdekte Ruben Ridderhof langzamerhand dat Israël en Gods koninkrijk hand in hand gaan. Na diverse keren naar Israël te zijn gereisd en bij Christenen voor Israël aan het werk te zijn gegaan, drong Gods plan met het Joodse volk langzamerhand bij hem door.
"Als kerk spelen we een 'supporting rol' ten aanzien van Israël."
Pas laat leerde hij dat binnen Gods boodschap het Joodse volk een belangrijke plek inneemt.
"Als journalistiek-student liep hij stage bij Christenen voor Israël. Langzamerhand drong tot mij door dat Israël meer is dan alleen een land."Door de Bijbel te gaan lezen ontdekte hij een rode lijn in het Woord van God. Voortdurend wordt er een link gelegd naar het Joodse volk. Van Abraham tot het Nieuwe Testament.
"Voor mij heeft dat echt Gods Woord geopend en licht gegeven op Zijn plan met Israël."Ruben staat op de sprekerslijst van Christenen voor Israël.
"Regelmatig leg ik voor groepen Gods plan met Israël uit,"maakt hij duidelijk.
"God koos Israël niet zomaar uit. Het volk van Israël krijgt de belofte mee dat zij een koninkrijk van priesters zullen zijn. De heerser van dat koninkrijk is God Zelf. Via Israël worden alle volken op aarde gezegend. Dat kreeg Abraham te horen in Genesis 12."Zoals vandaag mensen de Verlosser niet verwachten was het destijds. Ook waren de ideeën over die Verlosser wel anders dan diegenen die Christenen vandaag hebben. Zij zagen uit naar een echte wereldse koning, in politieke zin. Daarover spreken de profetieën in het Oude Testament: een koning op de troon van David die recht en gerechtigheid zou doen en over de wereld zou heersen vanuit Jeruzalem.
Ridderehof vindt dat het mooi zou zijn geweest als naar aanleiding van de gesprekken die Jezus voerde met zijn disicpelen, een bijbelstudieboekje was verschenen.
Vlak voordat Jezus opstijgt naar de hemel, vragen zijn discipelen:
'Heere, zult U in deze tijd voor Israël het Koninkrijk weer herstellen?'Ridderehof vond dat altijd een domme vraag.
"Het lijkt of de discipelen nog altijd niet begrepen hebben wat Jezus' koninkrijk inhoudt. Maar in feite is het de meest logische vraag die de discipelen kunnen stellen en de meest relevante, gezien alle profetieën. Wanneer de engelen na Zijn hemelvaart zeggen: 'Hij zal op dezelfde wijze terugkomen als u Hem naar de hemel hebt zien gaan', valt bij de discipelen het profetische kwartje. Als Jezus straks terugkomt, zullen de profetieën worden vervult. Dan komt Hij als koning in heerlijkheid."
Bemoedigingssamenkomsten
Zaterdagavond moest de climax van de week worden voor vele Belgen. Hiervoor moesten in vele geloofsgemeenschappen, waaronder ook de onze, moet ik toegeven, keuzes gemaakt worden om voor lege banken te zitten of de dienst af te lassen. Vele zaterdagavond diensten in België werden voor alle zekerheid ook afgelast omdat zij door het omgevingsgeluid toch ook te veel zouden gestoord worden. Vele kerken bevinden zich namelijk rond dorpspleinen of openbare ruimten waar de menigte samenkwam om de voetbalmatch België-Argentinë te zien.
Ook Nederland kamte met hetzelfde fenomeen.
Wanneer het overgrote deel van Nederland achter een scherm naar Nederland - Spanje zat te kijken was er ook de mogelijkheid God te aanbidden. Maarten Baan en Christian Verwoerd organiseren namelijk tijdens de wedstrijden van het Nederlands elftal bemoedigingssamenkomsten.
Maarten Baan:
Lees ook: "God verdient meer aandacht dan WK"
Ook Nederland kamte met hetzelfde fenomeen.
Wanneer het overgrote deel van Nederland achter een scherm naar Nederland - Spanje zat te kijken was er ook de mogelijkheid God te aanbidden. Maarten Baan en Christian Verwoerd organiseren namelijk tijdens de wedstrijden van het Nederlands elftal bemoedigingssamenkomsten.
Maarten Baan:
"Graag willen we als Nederland zo in de ban is van voetbal ons richten op God. Hij verdient veel meer eer, roem en aandacht dan dat WK en wat dan ook op aarde. Juist op zulke avonden - waar het lijkt dat heel de wereld vol is van Koning voetbal, verdient Koning Jezus onze tijd en aandacht! Ik ben er ook van overtuigd dat als we zijn, in de gemeenschap met broeders en zusters, in aanbidding van de hemelse Vader, elke wedstrijd van het WK vervaagt."Mensne moeten een keuze maken om al of niet koning voetbal te gaan eren of koning Jezus. zij moeten kiezen voor de wereldse geneugten van het rechtstreeks bijwonenen van een voetbalmatch, waar geen leven van af hangt, of het bijwonen van een dienst die iets moet toevoegen aan het geestelijk leven.
Lees ook: "God verdient meer aandacht dan WK"
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Niemand kijkt uit naar komst van Christus
"De Bijbel leert dat niemand God zoekt of verwacht," vertelde Ds. A. Simons, predikant van de hervormde gemeente in Montfoort.
God heeft Zijn Zoon gezonden opdat ‘doden’ levend zouden worden. Volgens de prediker ben je als je niet in aanraking gekomen bent met Christus, nog ‘dood’.
"Ik verlangde niet naar God. Dat wist God van tevoren. Daarom heeft God van jou en mij niets verwacht. Want Hij weet dat er vanuit ons niets goeds komt. Het spijt me. Het lijkt liefdeloos en keihard. Je zou er radeloos van worden. Tenminste, als je het van jezelf verwacht. God heeft zijn Zoon niet gezonden naar mensen die naar Hem uitkeken. Ondanks dat heeft Hij het liefste wat Hij had naar de wereld gezonden. Hoe kunnen wij ‘dode’ mensen dan geestelijk levend worden? Dat is toch onmogelijk?"Velen willen alles zelf regelen in hun leven en denken dat zij alles zelf kunnen klaren.
God heeft Zijn Zoon gezonden opdat ‘doden’ levend zouden worden. Volgens de prediker ben je als je niet in aanraking gekomen bent met Christus, nog ‘dood’.
"Daarom moeten we levend gemaakt worden. Levendmaking is in aanraking komen met de Zoon van God. Wie levend wordt, gaat verwachten. Kinderen van God hebben verwachting."Lees meer: "Niemand keek uit naar de komst van Christus"
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