tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433839327819524642024-02-20T18:21:39.155+02:00Anita le RouxThe purpose of my blog posts are mostly to share the treasures I have discovered through living my life in relationship with God (The Father, his Son Jesus Christ, and his Holy Spirit).
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Anitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084188952984083644noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643383932781952464.post-64929490681284212712021-12-07T14:54:00.001+02:002021-12-07T14:59:10.899+02:00The End-Time Project: Building an Ark<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><span style="font-size: large;">The End-time
Project</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">This writing
is subject to change as the Holy Spirit reveals more to me, or corrects me in
any area in which I have previously had limited vision and understanding.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">The purpose of
this writing is to communicate the vision that I believe the Lord is giving the
end-time body of Jesus Christ. In February of 2011 I went to Taiwan to teach
English for a few months. During that time I was isolated from friends and
family. At the end of April the Lord started speaking to me about this matter
and consequently I continued to spend much time listening to His still small
voice. I believe He has given and is giving the body of Christ instructions for
preparing this generation for the end of end-times. This writing should
therefore be viewed as a prophetic instruction to the whole body of Christ. (I
shared this vision with my then pastors in 2011, who agreed at that time that
this was a word from the Lord).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">During the
time of the spread of COVID-19 and the 21-day lockdown declared by the
president of SA, I was reminded of this prophetic instruction, and felt that I
should dust it off and resubmit it to my current church elders for whatever the
Lord wants to speak to them through this. </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">(The feedback I received from my local
apostolic leader, Surprise Sithole, was that he could not stop reading this
document once he started, and that he believes I have very good insight into
world events. I give credit only to The Holy Spirit for this anointing and
gifting and I know that with it comes a responsibility to inform the body of
Christ prophetically.)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Furthermore, I
hope to make contact with any other person who have received prophetic visions
along the same lines, or who could contribute to The Project in one way or the
other. If you, reading here, should meet (or have met) such people, I would
greatly appreciate if you could connect me with them. </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">What I have
written below, I wrote in 2011 and only translated to English now, in April
2020.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Back to 2011</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">[All
insertions in these brackets were added in April 2020]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">It all started
when I had a powerful encounter with the Holy Spirit in a hotel room in Taiwan
on the weekend of the British royal wedding on 30 April 2011. I sensed that He
was saying to me that I had been chosen, although it was not clear to me what
He meant by that. However, measured by the intensity of the encounter, I
realised that it was something big, and it would involve great responsibility,
and it would be a task that wasn’t going to be easy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Earlier on the
evening of 30 April 2011 I read from Rom. 11: 5-6, in The Message<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: It’s the same today. There’s a
fiercely loyal minority still—not many, perhaps, but probably more than you
think. They’re holding on, not because of what they think they’re going
to get out of it, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">but because they’re
convinced of God’s grace and purpose in choosing them</b>. If they were only
thinking of their own immediate self-interest, they would have left long ago.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Monday morning
the 2<sup>nd</sup> of May 2011 I read a news report about the “death of Bin
Laden”. Halfway through the report, my spiritual eyes were opened and I knew
supernaturally that the report was a lie, a deception. This was before I had
done any research whatsoever about conspiracy theories. Before this day I had
absolutely no personal conviction of my own about so-called theories, and so I
was not biased when I read the report of the killing of Bin Laden. I did
however have a little knowledge of the relationship between the Bin Laden and
Bush families, through watching a TV program in December of 2010.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Purely on the
basis of what I felt in my spirit, I started with research on the internet and
found that in 2001 and 2002 there were reports of Bin Laden’s death as a result
of being a diabetes sufferer. It was no secret that he needed dialyses
treatment a few times a week. The medical treatment and equipment that was
needed and on which he was dependent, would’ve made it impossible for him to
flee, hide and survive in the desert for almost ten years from September 2001
(the Twin Tower collapse) until 1 May 2011 when he was reportedly killed by the
Navy Seals. The video and sound “recordings” of Bin Laden that were supposedly
made during those 10 years, and which was released to the public, was faked. I
could not find a single voice or video recording on the internet that convinced
me that Bin Laden lived longer than 2001. The reports of his death in 2001/2002
were not channeled through the mainstream news channels, because the US
government at that time needed Bin Laden to “live” in order for them to justify
their “war on terror” in the Middle East.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">During the
first week after the falsely reported killing of Bin Laden I had a few
conversations (over the internet) with people about this and other political
events in the past, and realized how misled the world is, and that this kind of
deception on a world-wide scale had been (and is still) going on for decades
and probably even centuries.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">During the
month that followed, I read through the book of Revelation again, while also
continuing research on the internet on everything that the Holy Spirit brought
to my attention. For the first time I became convinced that the body of Christ
is not going to be “raptured” to heaven before the time of Great Tribulation
(GT) and the coming of Christ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">It is a
well-known fact among Christians that, according to the book of Revelation,
every one that refuses the mark of the beast that will be enforced on the
world, will no longer be able to participate in the economic system of this
world as we know it. If we are instructed by God not to accept the mark of the
beast, and if we are not going to be raptured before the mark is going to be
enforced, then logically, there will have to be an alternative way of acquiring
food and other essentials for survival during that time, otherwise all who
refuse the mark of the beast will die of hunger. These days it is nearly
impossible to live without buying anything, except for those who have always
lived in the jungle. Who knows if authorities will allow us to grow our own
food in the backyard, and maybe keep a goat or a cow for milk?</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Although it is
not specifically mentioned in Scripture, I believe that the Lord is saying, and
it is obvious that Christians, who have already resolved to not taking the mark
of the beast, will have to receive the plan from the Lord to prepare for those
days. If we who live now and can hear and recognise the voice of the Lord, will
not start preparing the body of Christ for that time, we will be selfish,
disobedient and irresponsible. I believe many of us will live to see the return
of the Lord Jesus Christ, but many of us will die before that time. If we do
this, we will do it for our children and grand children. Not only for them, but
for every other person that will surrender their lives to the Lordship of
Christ before and during that time of Great Tribulation.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">During May
2011, every day, bit by bit, the Lord started to reveal to me the plan. I call
the plan “The Project”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">I realised
that the whole body of Christ will need to be informed about the current
political agenda of the “Establishment”, the people and organisations behind
the plans to form the one world government and the coming of the mark of the
beast. Many people are already informed, but I believe most are not. There are
already groups of people, especially in the USA who have been actively
informing the world about so called “conspiracy theories”, which are actually
“conspiracy truths”. They are being mocked and even persecuted by the
mainstream media and others. The general public who trust the mainstream media
channels (which are owned by “The Establishment”), share in the mockery and
slander of those who are trying to warn the world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; tab-stops: 75.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">In John 9:4,
New Living Translation: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned
us by the one who sent us. The night is coming, and then no one can work.</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>These words came to me and I realised
that it is specifically applicable to this instruction from the Lord. When
“night” comes, the Great Tribulation, it will be too late to make plans for
survival.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; tab-stops: 75.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">As I was
wondering how to go about in informing the world about all of this, in order
for Christians to catch the vision and start working together in order to get
prepared, I felt it pressed on my heart to write a book. [Now in 2020, I
received a word from my current pastor that I should start a YouTube channel
and release short videos.]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; tab-stops: 75.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">The first
purpose of the book [or the YouTube channel] will be to blow the shofar in the
ears of the body of Christ, causing them to become aware of what is going on in
the world, behind the curtains of the mainstream media. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Secondly, I will communicate what I believe to
be instructions for the end time body of Christ. We need to be instructed not
only in order for physical survival during that time, but we will have to know
how to suffer well. We will be the lights that point people to Christ during
that time and we will therefore have to understand the purpose for which the
Lord will allow us to go through such terrible times. Just like Jesus laid down
his life for our sake, we will lay down our lives for the sake of others who
don’t know Him yet. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">The world has
been misled and deceived about many things. All of us, every single person, are
deceived (or at least misinformed) to a lesser or greater measure. People so
easily believe what they hear, especially when the source seems reputable, but
it is time we all learn to do our own homework well and not be afraid to
discover the truth about a matter, however horrible or shocking it may be. We
all need some veils to be removed from our eyes, and we all need to hear some
truths that will set us free from our deceptions. It can only happen when we
humble ourselves and realise that we are mere human beings who cannot be right
about everything, even if we feel that whatever we think we are hearing from
the Lord, is actually from the Lord. Here is a truth that I have learnt from my
own life: not everything that we think the Lord is saying to us is actually
Him. Much of our thinking is guided by what we experience in our natural
surroundings and what we hear with our physical ears. Everything we hear and
experience must be measured by what we read in Scripture, ALL of Scripture, and
not only selected passages that suit our already existing and biased belief
system. When we think soberly about how easy it is to be deceived by even our own
thinking, the ground will be prepared for our eyes to be opened to the great
worldwide deceptions and lies of our time. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><span style="font-size: large;">The mark of the
beast</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">I watched a
documentary movie called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“America:
Freedom to Fascism”</i> by Aaron Russo. The first family in America received
the microchip voluntarily already in 2004. This microchip will be needed in
future for all transactions and most informed Christians believe that this will
be the mark of the beast. Rev.13:16: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“He
[the beast] also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and
slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, <span style="mso-text-raise: 1.5pt; position: relative; top: -1.5pt;">17 </span>so that no
one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or
the number of his name”</i>. The chip will also contain all personal
information about the person, such as location, identification etc. It allows
for total control by the governing authorities, with no place to hide. Your
bank account will also be completely controlled by this system. The current
financial systems in the world will be united and become completely controlled
by the antichrist regime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">[And now in
2020, it is becoming common knowledge that the governing authorities of the
world are planning to enforce COVID-19 vaccinations that will ultimately become
the marking system of the NOW, to mark its loyal subjects. It has become clear
that their intention is to change the DNA of human beings, causing us to become
less than human, and become units in a cryptocurrency monetary system, which
will work on the same principals as Bitcoin, but will have nothing to do with
Bitcoin. I believe that the mark of the beast will prevent you from entering
into eternity with Jesus, because it will rob you of your humanity.]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">But Christians
will be prohibited by God to receive this mark of the beast. We read in Rev.14:
9-10: “</span><i><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">A third angel followed them and
said in a loud voice: </span><b>‘If anyone
worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on
the hand, </b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1.5pt;">10
</span><b>he, too, will drink of the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured
full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning </b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Sulphur</b></span><b> in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb</b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">.’”</span></i> <span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">But we will
certainly be persecuted by the antichrist regime for refusing to take the mark
of the beast and worshiping its image. We read in Daniel 7:23 (NKJV): <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom
on earth, which shall be different from all other kingdoms, and shall devour
the whole earth, trample it and break it in pieces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ten horns are ten kings who shall arise
from this kingdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And another shall
rise after them; He shall be different from the first ones, and shall subdue
three kings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He shall speak pompous words against the Most High, shall persecute the
saints of the Most High, and shall intend to change times and law.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Then
the saints shall be given into his hand for a time and times and half a time.” </b></i>Scholars
interpret this period of time to be three and a half years. [In 2020 I don’t
believe this 3,5-year period is upon us yet.] Furthermore, according to
Rev.13:15: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-text-raise: 1.5pt; position: relative; top: -1.5pt;">15 </span>He [the beast from the earth] was
given power to give breath to the image of the first beast [the beast from the
sea], so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to
be killed.”</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Our purpose
for remaining alive throughout that time of great suffering will be to witness
to, to care for and to lead those whom the Lord will be bringing to Himself. Rev.14:14-16:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-text-raise: 1.5pt; position: relative; top: -1.5pt;">14 </span>I looked, and there before me was a
white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one “like a son of man” with a crown
of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="mso-text-raise: 1.5pt; position: relative; top: -1.5pt;">15 </span>Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud
voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle and reap, because
the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.” <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="mso-text-raise: 1.5pt; position: relative; top: -1.5pt;">16 </span>So he who was seated on the cloud
swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></i></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><span style="font-size: large;">A place of
safety and provision</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Since
Christians will not be allowed to get the mark of the beast, and therefore not
be able to buy or sell without it, we will have to have a system that functions
completely independently from the antichrist NWO system. Also, since we will be
persecuted for not accepting the mark of the beast and not worshipping him, we
will need places of relative safety to flee to when the going gets tough. With more
than a couple of billion Christians on the earth today, many will be able to
escape the wrath of the antichrist regime and able to survive, while shining
the light of Christ and drawing many more to salvation in His Name. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Think about
the story of Joseph. God saw that a famine was coming upon the whole world, and
prepared Egypt as the bread basket of the world during those seven years of
famine. If God did not prepare Joseph and the plan for survival, all the world,
including Jacob and his family, would’ve starved to death. Preceding the years
of famine, there was a seven year period of storing food. God had prepared
Joseph to oversee the collection, storage and distribution of provisions. I
believe that the Lord has been and is now raising up people with a Joseph anointing
and giving them similar instructions, and that He will reveal to us at what
point we will have to start stocking up on food and other necessities.
Everything will have to be in place at the time when the mark of the beast
device is being enforced on all humankind. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">I believe He
gave me two pictures to explain what needs to happen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">One picture
was that of a pregnant woman. The independent system that I believe the Lord
wants the body of Christ to create, will be like an unborn baby inside the
womb. There is a time of growth during which the baby is very dependent on the
mother [I believe that time starts now, in 2020], but when the baby is fully
developed and ready, it is born, i.e. released from the mother [this will be
some years into the future]. So when the mark of the beast is being enforced on
all of humankind, and Christians are left with no other choice, the time will
be right for this new system to begin to function completely independently. If
the “baby” is released too soon, it will not survive. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">The details of
this independent system will have to be determined by the Lord, who sees,
understands, and knows everything in advance. We will have to receive detailed
instruction and strategy from Him during this time of growing in the “womb” of
the existing world economic system. We will have to wait for the precise timing
to completely cut the ties (the umbilical cord, if you will) with the current
system in order to function completely independently. The picture I am seeing
is the scene in the movie Braveheart where William Wallace’s fellow warriors
are waiting for his command. “Wait… wait… wait…” There is heavy tension amongst
the warriors as the enemy’s cavalry is drawing closer and closer, but they keep
waiting for the command. Then at the very last moment, he gives the command.
They lift up long wooden poles with very sharp points, creating a wall of big,
sharp spears into which the horses and their riders crashed, killing or
injuring many a horse and rider. Wallace and his men won the battle that day.
It is a very powerful image of waiting for the command and not acting prematurely.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">When the
“baby” is born, we will continue to be completely dependent on God for
direction, protection and maintenance of this new system. This system will be
like Noah’s ark, which is the second picture I got. The “Ark” will provide food
for everyone who wants to flee the control and the wrath of the antichrist
regime during the final years of Great Tribulation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">No matter the
consequences, we must remain loyal and faithful to God and operate within the
Ark, while we work to bring into the Kingdom as many souls as possible. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><span style="font-size: large;">No
pre-tribulation “rapture”</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; tab-stops: 75.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">According to
the sequence of events as given in the prophetic vision to John (as written in
the book of Revelation), the greatest harvest of souls takes place only AFTER
the enforcement of the mark of the beast. This rules out the incorrect doctrine
that the church would be “raptured” before the time of GT. Many teachers of the
Bible unfortunately teach the pre-tribulation rapture, but this line of
thinking is not based on good principles of Bible interpretation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">The “rapture”
of the church before that time also makes no logical sense. We represent, in
the image of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Light of the world. Therefore, if there
is still a chance for people to turn to Jesus during that time, where will they
run to for help and guidance when the whole body of Christ has already been
“raptured”? They will have zero chance of survival if we are not present to
shine the light during the darkest time on the earth in human history. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; tab-stops: 75.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">During the
year that the Lord started speaking to me about all of this (2011), my
prophetic dreams about the GT increased in number. My family members and I are
often present in these dreams, which convey the message that we will be on the
earth during that time, and not “raptured”. I have also heard others who dream
apocalyptic type dreams, even those who are not yet born again. I believe that
the purpose of such dreams is to bring about a sense of urgency within our
spirits.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; tab-stops: 75.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">During 2012
while I was studying to acquire the BTh (hons) degree, I wrote an academic
essay on the end-time prophecies of Daniel. Along with my study of the
Scriptures, I researched the work of other scholars, and became convinced, on a
theological level, what I believed the Lord also revealed to my spirit, that
the saints (the body of Christ) will indeed have to endure during the time of
greatest suffering the earth has ever seen. This is what the Lord has to
prepare us for. [I will make this essay available for anyone who is brave
enough to read it – it is written in a very academic way]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; tab-stops: 75.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><span style="font-size: large;">What will the Ark
“look like”? </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">The Ark will
have to exist worldwide and in every country. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">It will be a
network of people that can function financially (and in other ways)
independently from the current world system, specifically during the time when
the mark of the beast will be enforced on all of humankind. Within this system
every kind of product or service which is essential for survival should be
available for a period of 3,5 years. This network will consist for example of
farmers, business owners, doctors and people from all kinds of professions and
all walks of life. The only factor that will prevent people from being a part
of this network, will be that they have taken the mark of the beast.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">The Ark will
have its own banking system, for functioning only within itself. Alternatively,
we will return to a system of trading physical goods and services with each
other, all within the Ark. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Every
community will have to be self-sufficient in producing food and acquiring
drinking water and water for cleansing purposes. Those communities that can’t
cultivate due to location will have to be taken care of by other communities.
Christians will also have to have capacity to take care of all of those who
will come to faith in Christ during the time of GT. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; tab-stops: 75.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">[Now in 2020,
looking back over the past nine years, I see how the Lord has been speaking to
others the same or similar message. I have a number of friends, and hear of
others who have been given or are acquiring land to farm on, and people are led
to live a more natural, organic kind of life. As voiced in many prophecies, I
believe SA will be the bread basket for Africa.]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We will have
an alternative way of fueling our vehicles, or sources of fuel that is not
controlled by the antichrist regime. I don’t know for how long fuel can be
stored in containers. Perhaps we will not be able to travel internationally at
that time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">We will need a
way to communicate with one another since the internet and phone networks will
probably be controlled by the regime. I believe we will also learn to be
extremely fine-tuned to the voice of the Holy Spirit in order to trust His
guidance to secret places of gatherings, like in the story of Brother Yun in
his book “The Heavenly Man”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">We will
probably need to get training in how to handle persecution, just like during
Brother Yun’s time in China. Jesus said that that time will be the worst time
in all of human history. We all need to be prepared for it, especially our
children. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">The building
of such an Ark may not make sense to many people, and will be just as strange
as when Noah built a big boat at a time when people had not seen rain before.
We have to discern the will of the Lord spiritually, like Noah did, and not
look at the physical circumstances or listen to the voices of reason. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In 2012 I once
saw a vision of an almost circle of people holding hands. They were all “able
bodied” adult people. They were all facing to the outside. They stood in the
shape of a boat, from a bird’s eye view and it came to me that it was the shape
of an ark. Their backs were obviously turned to the center of this ark-shape.
Inside this shape were other people, as if protected by those who stood facing
the outside. Those inside were the weaker ones, the fragile, the elderly and
children. There were strong winds (think Cape Town type winds) coming against
all those who were holding hands and facing the outside, but they remained
standing and the chain of people was not broken. I felt that the Lord told me
through this vision that the generation that needs to be prepared for the end
of end-times, are those who will be strong, those who will protect all the
others. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Just like Noah
must’ve felt overwhelmed at first considering the magnitude of the task that
lay before him, this task of building an invisible ark seemed almost
impossible. But the Lord soon provided some encouragement. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some have
already started building</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">During the
latter part of 2011, I believe through divine appointment, I met a man in SA
who told me about a network of, at that time, around 3000 people who had
already started to live “off the grid”, trying their best to live independently
of the world system. They had been busy separating themselves from the current
economic and political systems of this world, of which we all are subjects. He
explained that each one of us gets an ID number after birth and for the rest of
our natural lives, we belong to this system. We pay taxes, vehicle licenses etc. This man, and others like him, has an incredible amount of knowledge about
the extent to which we are being controlled, from a natural point of view. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">During my
conversation with him, the plan of God to build and invisible Ark became more
realistic. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">This man has a
very daring approach to the fact that we are slaves of the system. He wrote a
letter which he directly addressed to the queen of England. In this letter he
officially stated that he had separated himself from the highest human
authority on earth. He addressed the letter to her because he understood that,
although SA became a republic in 1961, SA has still been part of the
Commonwealth Countries. These are allowed to govern themselves, but the
authority that is represented by the queen has in actuality more control over
us than we realise. We are slaves of the system of which the queen represents
the highest authority. The man received no response from the queen. I
interpreted the lack of response as the queen not opposing him. He is therefore
now living as if he is his own government. He doesn’t pay taxes or vehicle
lisences, and when he has to use his ID number, he calls it a “redeemed” ID
number. This kind of attitude and behaviour is very radical and rebellious
towards all human authority. However, this is the kind of behaviour that all
Christians will have to display in the future, at the time of the revealing of
the one world ruler, the antichrist, and the enforcing of the mark of the
beast. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Although we
can learn much from the people who have already started separating themselves
from the current systems of the world, I believe it is unwise to do so now. The
time for this is not yet, and all who do so now are in opposition to the Word
of God. People who do this now are making themselves vulnerable for premature
prosecution by the authorities. We are more valuable alive than dead or in
prison, and we therefore need to be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“wise
as serpents, but innocent as doves”.</i> So for now we still need to remain in
submission to the system we find ourselves in, the one we have been born into.
Jesus said to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“pay the things of the
Caesar to the Caesar, and the things of God to God…” </i>He said this in a time
when the Jews were greatly oppressed by the Roman government, and exploited
even by their own people, the tax collectors. If we rebel against the governing
authorities too soon, we are rebelling against God. The right thing at the
wrong time is the wrong thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
like a baby being born too soon. He will not survive. And misleading other
people is a serious matter. But when God tells us to come out from under the antichrist
governing authorities, it will be rebellion against them, but obedience to God.
The “baby” will then be born at the right time, and we will survive. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Daniel and his
friends also submitted themselves to the government of their time, except for
praying to the king as god. Because of that, they were tested by fire (Daniel
in the lion’s den and his friends in the fire), but they all came out of the
testing unharmed, and those who witnessed their testing acknowledged their God
afterwards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">I was reminded
of the story of Moses who led the Israelites out of Egypt. Although we are
spiritually free in Jesus Christ, we are slaves of the systems of “Egypt”, the
systems of this world. We will all remain in forced submission to these systems
until the appointed time for our deliverance, when the “baby”, the “Ark”, the
new system is ready which we will need during the GT.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><span style="font-size: large;">When will the
“ship sail”? </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">In 2011,
during the first months that the Lord was speaking to me about this plan, I was
wondering about the timeline. How will we know more or less when to be ready to
break free from the world economic system? One day I read a typed prophecy
which a friend of mine, a lady, gave at the dedication of a baby of other friends
of mine. The lady is a well-known leading intercessor in Mpumalanga, South
Africa. From the prophecy one could gather that the boy would grow to adulthood
and he was going to be a strong leader, which meant that the Second Coming of
Jesus was not around the corner. I sent a message to her, my intercessor
friend, sharing with her my question concerning the prophetically estimated
timeline for the Second Coming. If a baby in 2011 would grow to adulthood and
become a strong leader, we can add at least 20 to 30 years. Her answer to me
was that God showed her the number of years ahead: 40 (40 years from 2011). A
day or two after she sent me this message, I was standing in the kindergarten
class where I was teaching English to the little Taiwanese kids. While they
were busy with some colouring activity, I pondered my friend’s words. I
pondered the number of years: 40. At that very moment one of the little boys
turned around and turned his back towards me. He had a little baseball shirt on
and on the back of this shirt, there was a big number 40! I had not seen it
earlier. Co-incidence? I think not. I think it was the Lord’s way of confirming
what He had told my friend. 2011 + 40 years would take us to the 2050’s. [This
is in line with the well know prophet, Bob Jones’s prophecy of the same year (see
YouTube: Bob Jones 100-year prophecy). He prophesied that we will see the
2050’s. I heard this prophecy only in 2020.]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Jesus spoke of
his Second Coming when He said, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Now
about that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of heaven nor the Son,
except the Father alone” </i>(Matt.24:36*). We will not know the exact timing
of any of the end-time events before they happen, but we can discern the
season, as Jesus explained just a few sentences before (Matt.24:32-33). I
believe that the closer we get to that time, the more detail we will receive
from the Spirit of the Lord. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">[When covid-19
hit South Africa, I felt in my spirit that this was not yet the end of end
times. I felt that this was a contraction, like a woman in labour has
contractions before the birth of the baby. I felt that we should view this as a
wakeup call, especially amidst all the talks of the mark of the beast, and that
we need to start preparing. I also felt in my spirit that the Holy Spirit said
that this was only a “dress rehearsal” and that the true fulfilment of Biblical
prophecies with regard to the time of GT was still in the future. I knew in my
spirit, and according to Biblical prophecy, that many things must still happen
before the antichrist ruler is revealed. And then on the 28<sup>th</sup> of
March 2020 I listened to Shawn Bolz speak on TV. He read some prophecies by
other well known prophets, and then confirmed in his own words what I believe,
which is that this virus outbreak is just the dress rehearsal of what is to
come in the future, and that we will see the end of this virus soon and life
will return back to “normal” (although the world will not be the same after
this) and we will have a time of peace after this. Bob Jones indeed said that
the 2020’s will be a time of rest. I believe we should allow this pandemic to
really wake us up and then use this time of rest to prepare for what is to come
in the future. ]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">In 2015 I
listened to a message by Bonnie Jones, the wife of Bob Jones (the video can be
found on the Morningstar TV website; the message was broadcast on 8 August
2015). The title is: The Army of God. She spoke about a prophetic word that the
Lord had given them in the 70’s, that those born after 1980 would be part of
the end-time army. If the Second Coming of Jesus will take place only after
2050, then it would make sense that the end-time army would be around 70 years
and younger. I personally believe that everyone else who was born before 1980
(including myself) is called to help prepare and equip those who will be the
end-time army. They are our younger brothers and sisters, our children and
grand children. If we love them and care about them, we will participate in
this preparation and equipping that must take place during the next few decades.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">*Interestingly,
the very next words of Jesus were as follows: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“… because just as in the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the
Son of Man; because as it was during the days before the flood – they were
eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, until which day Noah
went into the ark…”</i> (Matt.24:37-39). Can it be that Jesus also alluded to
the invisible Ark that would be built in the last days, so that we could read
between the lines when the Lord would speak to us about such an Ark? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><span style="font-size: large;">Where do we
start? </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">[It has
already started]. Church leaders all over the world need to be informed about
the plan. I believe God will confirm this plan through many prophets; otherwise
the body of Christ will not take this seriously. [With Covid-19 and many talks
of a vaccine, I think the body of Christ will now be receptive of instructions
for the way forward.] Many in the body of Christ will need to buy into the
vision and work together in order to build the Ark.</span></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">The Lord
strongly pressed upon me that we need to prepare the next generation, our children,
who will be adults during the time of GT, for that time. We cannot leave all
the preparations until the last minute. It is the duty of all of us who are
adults now to start looking ahead and start preparing the body of Christ for
that time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">We can take a
hint from the story of Noah. It took him around 100 years to build an ark which
he needed for only one year. We will need fewer years “to build the Ark” which
we will need for three and a half years. [I think now in 2020 we will start
using it right away, but we will still be dependent on the world systems for
quite some time.]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b>Self </b></span><span><b>defense</b></span></span><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">? </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">One day in
2011 while praying, I was reminded of the story of Esther. The king, advised by
the evil Haman, sent a delegation to inform all Jews that they would be annihilated
on a certain day. However, Esther fasted, prayed and intervened in order to
save the Jews. She pleaded with the king on behalf of the Jews. The king
listened and granted her request. He sent another delegation to convey the
message that the Jews would be allowed to fight back on the day of their being
attacked in order to defend themselves. I believe that the message here is that
God wants us to prepare for what is coming against us. I am not yet certain
whether it includes military opposition. It might be that we will be allowed by
God to protect ourselves with weapons, since everyone that will be coming
against us will have received the mark of the beast and will have no hope to be
saved for eternal life. When we defend ourselves against them and they die, it
will not be like taking a life, since they will be spiritually already dead,
with no hope of resurrection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">I was reminded
of the story of Nehemiah. When there was a wall to be built, he mobilised
everyone to just do their part in rebuilding a piece of the wall. They had to
have their building equipment in one hand, and a sword in the other to fend off
the enemy. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><span style="font-size: large;">In summary</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Thus far the outlines
of the plan are as follows (and are subject to change as the Holy Spirit leads
us and reveals to us): <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">To sound the trumpet call to the body of Christ to start preparing for
the end of end-times. The aim will be to: - <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Inform the whole body of Christ of the plans of the governments of the
world to create the New World Order, which will usher in the antichrist regime,
the one world government;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Prepare the body of Christ to resist the mark of the beast when it comes
to be enforced on all of humankind;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Give guidelines for the “building of the Ark” which Christians will need
for survival; <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Prepare the body of Christ to handle the times of suffering that will
come upon us, and possibly to be able to defend themselves against the enemy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Please ask the
Lord where you should be building and then get to work. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">May you find
that His grace is sufficient at all times and through all the stormy waters we
need to navigate. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">May the Lord
bless you and protect you; may the Lord make his face shine upon you and be
gracious to you; may the Lord show you favour and give you peace. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Anita<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Please e-mail
me with questions, comments or contributions: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:anita4theking@gmail.com"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-ZA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">anita4theking@gmail.com</span></a></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">(Prophetic
vision and instruction given to Anita le Roux, Nelspruit, South Africa)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="poet1-vnn" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Anitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084188952984083644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643383932781952464.post-80602548164360057152020-05-05T22:45:00.002+02:002020-05-08T21:31:03.958+02:00The lockdown: The Truth will set you free!<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For those who don’t know me, allow me
to introduce myself. Jesus Christ is my Lord and King. He is the risen Son of God
the Father, and the Firstborn of the new creation. I have been born from His
Spirit and his tangible presence is a daily reality in my life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I formerly studied Analytical
Chemistry, and for nine years served as a Forensic Analyst in the South African
Police Service. I also hold an honours degree in theology and I am currently
writing a book about the significance of the death and resurrection of Jesus. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In this blog post I state
the scientific, political and spiritual reasons why I believe that the lockdown
should be ended. I
believe in freedom of speech. It is not only my constitutional right, but more
than that, as a daughter of God I have to make my voice be heard. With this
message I am inviting you to do the same, and let your actions follow what you
believe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Since the start of the lockdown I
have studied many resources to understand what is going on in the world right
now. I trust that the sources I refer to in these videos proclaim the truth,
for the most part, and that I was directed and guided by the Holy Spirit to
read or listen to those sources. The links to the resources are posted below. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My revelations, conclusions and
opinions are my own and not necessarily that of my fellowship groups, family or
friends. I am however well connected in the body of Christ in my region, but I
am not naming my associations, in case trouble comes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I don’t actually like to talk about
topics that can be a cause for conflict, but I love the Lord and I must obey
Him. I also love the truth, since He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Some
Christians argue that topics like these distract us from our main purpose,
which is proclaiming the Gospel and making disciples. But my dear fellow
believers, how much disciple making are you currently doing while you cannot
meet with others? And if something is the truth, then Jesus is in it, since HE
IS THE TRUTH. ANY deception that is unveiled is a proclamation of the Gospel,
the Good News of Jesus Christ who came <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">to
earth to reveal the ultimate Truth, namely the true God</b>. Truth alone can
lift the veil of lies and deception behind which the enemy of our souls has
held humanity in darkness and captivity for six millennia. Furthermore, the
topic of the end times as we read in the Book of Revelation is a part of the
Gospel, the Good News that, in the end, Jesus wins! But right now we are in a
battle and there are things you and I need to do. The first thing is to proclaim
the Truth!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus said "... you will know
the truth, and the truth will set you free..." (John 8:32)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Like many other fellow believers in
Christ, I understand that God <u>allowed</u> this worldwide lockdown <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">for a time</b> to bring forth much good
fruit through it. I believe that the virus AND the lockdown was meant by man
for evil alone, but like God always does, He uses anything that the enemy
brings against his children, to show forth his superiority over the matter. It
is exactly what He did during the most evil of acts in human history, namely the
murder of his own Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Because Jesus showed, through
death, that He is victorious over the worst enemy, namely death, we can know
that, in Him, we can be victorious over absolutely anything. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The positive fruits from the virus
and the lockdown are amongst others: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It
is causing cleaner air in otherwise very polluted cities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It
has drawn many families closer together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It
has caused many people to turn to God, to buy Bibles for the first time, and to
get out of the rat race of life in order to become quiet before the Lord. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It
has caused the worldwide body of Christ to gather together and unite through
the internet like never before, encouraging each other with many prophetic
words that are confirmed over and over again, promises of the coming great
outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which will start in South Africa. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Also,
I believe that the way the church has been structured for centuries, is changing
forever. Yes, over the past few years I have become a believer in house church.
I believe that this lockdown has been used by God to detox many millions of
believers from church as we know it, and to prepare us all for the cross-over
into the Promised Land of fellowship like we see in the book of Acts chapter
2:42-47. Please read my blog article titled “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let’s bring back the love-feasts”.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">According
to what I understand from a number of prophetic words, God is also using this
lockdown in South Africa to reveal the corruption in government with regard to
its dealings with China. God is about to free us from the grip of the dragon
that has its head and torso in South Africa and its tail over the continent of
Africa (listen to the prophetic messages of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Charlie Shamp and Naomi Sheneberge</b>r.) Errol Naidoo, from the Family
Policy Institute, says the following: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">World Health Organization</b> (WHO) is
heavily complicit in the Chinese Communist Party deception and has lost much of
its credibility in its handling of this global pandemic. Alarmingly, SA’s
pandemic response is being guided by this corrupt organization. The SA
government’s reliance on corrupt and agenda driven UN agencies is cause for
major concern”.</i> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Please read the
article online In JOY! Magazine</b>. It is titled: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Contribute to SA’s Economic Revival by buying South African only! </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So, as far as God’s purposes with the
lockdown prevail, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I have been in full
support</b> of the lockdown. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But is God perhaps calling us to come out now? I believe so and you will see
why. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While the lockdown is continuing, I
am especially not in support of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">those
lockdown regulations that go</b> against Biblical values. Furthermore, you will
see that, from a scientific point of view, how the worldwide lockdowns
adversely affects the health of many otherwise healthy people. The lockdown is
actually achieving the exact opposite of what was proclaimed to be its
intention. For this and all the reasons I am going to mention, I am in full
support of ending the lockdown. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you have not realized it yet,
fellow believer, the main purpose of the lockdowns is not to protect us from
the virus. It is very obvious that many of the lockdown regulations make no
logical sense whatsoever, because it has nothing to do with protection from a virus.
Why is it unsafe for surfers to surf, while it is safe to wait in long queues
to collect food parcels? Why is it safe to go to the shop to buy food, but it
is not safe to visit friends in their own home? Why is it safe to ride with strangers
in a taxi, but not safe for a few friends to gather in a home to worship the
Lord? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I felt the Lord drop this in my
spirit: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the purpose of all of the
regulations is, amongst others, to break the strong free will of people</b>,
like that which is done in military settings, and it’s like breaking in a
horse, in order to get him to fully submit to you. You have to condition the
people to obey your every command. You have to make them believe that all of
the commands and regulations are for their own good, and the good of their
fellow countrymen and the world, and when they are used to obeying you in
everything, you can coerce them into taking a vaccine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Christians will argue that we are
commanded to submit and obey all the human authority over us. If you are
Afrikaans speaking, please read my blog article titled: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Is alle persone in gesagsposisies
deur God aangestel?”</i></b> I have also translated it into English with the
title: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Were all people in positions of authority appointed by God”?</i> </b>The
bottom line is basically that Romans 13:1 has been miss-translated from the
original Greek. This verse is NOT saying that it is God Himself who chooses and
appoints all those who come to be in positions of authority. If you believe
that, you would then have to believe that it was God who appointed Adolf Hitler
who went on to kill 6 million Jews. I show in my blog article that a correct
translation makes it clear that this verse does not support the notion that we
should blindly submit to and obey all human authority. The verse DOES however mean
that all man-appointed authority is automatically <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">under God</b>, because God will always be the highest authority, and good
Christians should obey such authority, as we obey God, as long as the commands
are meant for good (in other words, where it does not conflict with Biblical
principles). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We unfortunately now live in a time
where good is called evil and evil is called good. The government allows
abortions but does not allow surfing in the sea, as if Covid-19 floats in the
air above the waves. How many abortions take place in our country and in the
world on a normal day? According to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Worldometer</b>
it is for 2020 already 14.7 million worldwide. That is around 117 000 abortions
per day, while all the reported Covid-19 deaths in total worldwide over the
past few months are only around 250 000 (which is not more than 2000 per day).
Isn’t that the most ridiculous conflict of interests? Who determines who can
live and who can’t? Do they really care about saving lives? I think not.
Protecting the world population is not the real motivation behind the
lockdowns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In South Africa the reported death
toll due to Covid-19 after two months is approaching only 200, but the whole
country is in lockdown. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is a Biblical principle that we do
not have to submit to any commands if such commands are unconstitutional, let
alone unbiblical and ungodly. Think of Daniel and his three friends. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I will mention some more examples of
regulations that go against the grain of what we believe: </span></div>
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have a 93 year old grandmother in an old age home. She does not have Covid-19,
but none of her healthy children is allowed near her. She could die any day
from old age, and die very lonely and alone. How is that Biblical and humane? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You
are not allowed to feed the poor without a permit. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">There is a regulation that prohibits South Africans to give food to
foreigners.</b> How is that Biblical and humane? Is this not xenophobia at its
best? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Only
people who perform essential services are allowed to work. But to many millions
their work is essential because it feeds their families. Now they have to be
satisfied with R350 per month? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You
cannot buy underwear for children, because it is viewed as a non essential
item. What is the logic behind that? You can buy cloth to make a face mask, but
you cannot buy wool to knit a jersey. The list can go on and on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’d like to quote Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of the assassinated US president JF
Kennedy. You can follow Robert F. Kennedy on Instagram. He says this about the
situation in the US: </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Does anyone else feel that this is the first wave of compliance and
obedience training for something more permanent? Are powerful state and
corporate entities using the current crisis to remove basic rights and
intensify pressures to promote vaccines and surveillance? Does anyone else feel
the suffocating darkness of tyranny descending on our nation? And finally, does
anyone share my dread that Bill Gates and Toni Fauci will somehow be running
our Brave New World?” </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Does this sound like the situation in
South Africa also, or what?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Deception and conspiracies have been
with us for as long as humanity has been on earth. Satan deceived Adam and Eve
and conspired with them against God. The religious leaders in Jesus’ time
conspired to kill Him. After Jesus rose from the dead, the leading priests
conspired with and bribed the soldiers to deceive everybody by telling them
that Jesus’ disciples stole his body (Matt.28:11-15).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the greatest worldwide
deceptions in modern history has been taking place these past few months. Brave
doctors in the USA have been revealing the truth to us, names such as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, Dr. Rashid Buttar, Dr.
Cameron Kyle-Sidell,</b> and Doctors <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dan
Erickson and Artin Massihi.</b> Yes there is Covid-19, the specific version of
the coronavirus that was cultivated and manipulated in the Wuhan laboratory and
funded by the previous US government under Obama. This is not a secret anymore.
I saw and heard on a video that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">President
Trump confirmed this in person</b>, that Dr. Anthony Fauci gave the Wuhan lab
3.7 million US$ to develop the virus. Furthermore Doctor Judy Mikovitz, who has
a PHD (a molecular biologist and medical researcher) confirms scientifically
that this virus is not naturally occurring, but was manipulated by man. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You will see why the reports on
mainstream media channels cannot be believed. Please watch the documentary
titled <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Out of the Shadows”</b>. It is
enough to cure anyone of his mainstream media dependency. You will also learn
when and where the term “conspiracy theory” originated. It is very eye opening.
So, don’t you believe that this virus originated from a fish market in Wuhan.
It is an absolute lie, and very conveniently resembles the narrative in the
Hollywood movie Contagion, which they released to condition us to accept the
lockdowns as a necessity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Lord opened my eyes in 2011 to the
many lies of mainstream media, but that is a story for another day. Perhaps the
virus is as contagious as they say. However, the reported numbers of infections
and the numbers of deaths because of Covid-19 is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">much, much lower than predicted</b>. Furthermore, the reported numbers
of positive cases are being inflated and we will never know exactly how many
people actually died purely because of this virus infection. I have seen the
news reports where US doctors reveal that they were <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">instructed by their hospital administration to, </b>whenever a person
dies in hospital, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">state Covid-19 as one
of the causes of death</b>, even though there may be no certainty that the
person was indeed infected with the virus. The hospitals in turn were
instructed by the World Health Organisation. Hospitals in the US are paid <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">13000 US$ per Covid-19 patient treated, and
three times as much, i.e. 39 000 US$ if the patient goes on a ventilator</b>.
This financial gain most certainly motivates hospitals to falsely report
infections and deaths due to Covid-19. The false reporting of Covid-19 as cause
of death on many death certificates are meant to increase the numbers in order
to justify the next step which will be encouraged and even coerced by the World
Health Organisation, if we do not intervene. The reason for this Covid-19
deception is well known and very well explained by doctors Shiva, Buttar,
Mikovitz and many others that are revealing the truth openly. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Gates Foundation</b>, supported by the
WHO, wants the world vaccinated. It is not a secret anymore, unless you only listen
to mainstream media news reports.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We hear from Dr. Cameron that
ventilators actually worsen the condition of patients, that they are treating a
sickness they have never seen before, and that what he sees in the people’s
lungs is not a viral infection, but rather something like altitude sickness.
The people are suffocating because their lungs are unable to absorb oxygen. It seems
therefore that some patients are treated as Covid-19 patients, while something else
may be going on. Dr. Buttar explains how he believes it is caused by 4+1G. Furthermore,
I saw the videos where the nurses tell of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">neglect and even murdering of patients in the hospitals</b>. Can
humanity be so cruel, you ask? Apparently, YES! Because the main aim of the WHO
driven agenda is not to save lives. The plan is depopulation by any means. To understand
the depopulation agenda, I have posted a link to a video which you can watch. And
the lockdown itself is destroying more lives than Covid-19 has been doing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now, I don’t have knowledge of
financial motivation for South African government, but you can use your
imagination, since South Africa’s response to the virus is also being driven by
the WHO, in close association with the Gates Foundation. The agenda is the push
for vaccines. The ultimate endgame is the implanting of RFID chips, which means
you will be implanted by an artificial intelligence device, with which they
hope to gain 24/7 surveillance and control of every human being on the earth. I
quote Robert Kennedy again: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Bill Gates
wants to chip us and not only for vaccines – for surveillance and trans-humanism
using 4+1G”</i> This is why the government need 4+1G towers to go up everywhere,
for without these fast internet connections they will not be able to accomplish
their goal. It may not be news to you that Microsoft already owns a patent for
this microchip, and the Gates Foundation has held a patent for the coronavirus
since November 2019, a month before the outbreak of Covid-19. Interesting,
isn’t it? You can watch the video’s and check it out yourself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The other reason why we should not
believe the reported number of infections and deaths is that the PCR test that
is being used to test for Covid-19, was not at all designed for the identification
of a virus. The man who invented the test, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kary
Mullis</b>, said this himself. Unfortunately he passed away last year. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will post the link to an article that was
written by the journalist who knew him personally. Quoting from the article <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Kary
did not invent a test. He invented a very powerful manufacturing technique that
is being abused. What are the best applications for PCR? Not medical
diagnostics* </i>[in other words, its purpose is not to identify viruses]<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. He knew that and he always said that.”</i>
</b>Please<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>read the article, and do
your own research to check the facts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The test was created for research
purposes and not for identifying viruses, because it would require a gold
standard and the only gold standard is purification of the virus and according
to scientists interviewed for this article, Covid-19 has not yet been
purified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The conclusion is that when
people with light flu symptoms are tested positive for Covid-19, it could very
well be another strand of the flu, since the PCR test is unable to accurately
identify which strand of the flu it is. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Another quote from the article is
this: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“There was a famous … paper that
estimated that if you’re testing asymptomatic people, up to 80% of positives
could be false positives.”</i> This means that if you have no symptoms, but
test positive, it is not a sure sign that you are indeed infected, and you most
probably are not. Imagine the unnecessary anxiety that people have when they
are told they were tested positive, but are not! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I saw an interview by a journalist in
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Germany, with a Swedish doctor</b> who
revealed that the coronavirus has been around for many years, each year during
the flu season, and that it was previously tested for by using another kind of
test. But all of a sudden, when Covid-19 appeared, they were instructed by the
WHO to use the PCR as testing method. I believe this test is prescribed
specifically because it produces false positives and so would be beneficial to
their agenda. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I saw a video that reports that in
Taiwan only 429 people were tested positive and only 6 people died of the
virus, even though they are so close to China. The reporting of positive cases
stopped. And Taiwan did not go into lockdown! The schools remained open and it
has been business as usual. They do wear masks and practice social distancing,
but I lived in Taiwan for more than a year, and I know how most of them live. I
don’t believe the low numbers are because of social distancing, because on that
densely populated little island, and without lockdown, there is simply not
enough space for much social distancing. My feeling is that because the WHO
does not recognise Taiwan as a country, its government does not allow itself to
be intimidated, blackmailed or bribed into submission to the regulations of the
WHO. They have therefore no reason to falsify death certificates and to inflate
the numbers. The first woman president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen says this on the
video: Taiwan is a free, democratic, open and amazing place! God bless you Tsai
Ing-wen!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The incorrect testing and inaccurate reporting
of positive cases in other countries keeps on promoting panic and fear, and the
reporting of false positives will continue endlessly so that it may seem as if
there is no end to the virus. Fear and panic causes the immune system to
weaken, and does much more damage to humans than the virus itself. A weakened
immune system makes people more susceptible to all kinds of other illnesses,
let alone the illness of depression caused by long periods of self-isolation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Please watch the documentary video
(Plandemic) where Doctor Judy Mikovitz explains, as doctors Erickson and
Massihi, that wearing masks and isolating yourself while you are healthy
actually weakens your immune system. Why, because we need to be exposed to
bacteria and viruses for our immune systems to develop and stay strong. They
call it herd immunity. We have to stay in close contact with other people in
order for our immune systems to stay up to date with what’s going around.
Isolation actually achieves the opposite of its intended goal. Dr. Mikovitz says
that<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> “Wearing a mask literally activates
your own virus. You’re getting sick from your own reactivated coronavirus
expressions…”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The interviewer said to Dr. Mikovitz:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“If we activate mandatory vaccines
globally, I imagine these people stand to make hundreds of billions of dollars
on the vaccines”.</i> Her answer was this, I quote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“And they will kill millions as they already have with their vaccines. There
is no vaccine currently on the schedule for any RNA virus that works…” </i>end quote.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>Covid-19 is an RNA virus… There exist
therapies that is very effective against Covid-19. We heard of it. It is the
same medication that is used to treat malaria, but, again quoting Dr. Mikovitz <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“the game is to prevent the therapies until
everyone is infected and push the vaccines knowing that the flu vaccines
increase the odds by 36% of getting Covid-19”. </i>And then all beach lovers
will love Dr. Mikovitz for saying this:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> “why
would you close the beach? You’ve got sequences in the soil and in the sand.
You’ve got healing microbes in the ocean and in the salt water. That’s
insanity.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Doctor Mikovitz wrote a book titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in
the Promise of Science.”</i> The foreword was written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is also the video footage of
independent journalists who went to some hospitals in the US and Germany, only
to find that the so-called crisis at hospitals that is reported in the media,
is not the reality at those hospitals. Instead, many people seem to stay away
from the hospitals in fear of Covid-19, because of all the media reports. Those
journalists even report that some of the footage we see on TV has been staged. The
video by the German journalist is still available. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What am I getting at? I believe that
the fear that people all over the world has for this virus, is not warranted,
and that the lockdown is doing much more harm to humanity than the virus can
ever do. For example, like doctors Erickson and Massihi, rightly pointed out,
many more children are being molested during this time than during any other
time. Many more wives and children are being physically and verbally abused.
The suicide rates have gone up. Many people have to die alone, their family
members not being allowed at their bedside. Many more people suffer from
depression. Many people with other serious illnesses don’t go to hospital for
fear of catching the virus that would probably and ironically not be the cause
of death, should they die. Many people go hungry. Many people lost their jobs.
Many lost their small businesses. Many learners in their last year of school
are missing out on their last opportunity to perform in sports and other
cultural and extracurricular activities, a time of their lives that they will
never get back. The sportsmen and women who planned and trained for four years
to be at their peak performance for this year’s Olympic Games have to plan all
over again, and some will probably not be able to compete next year, for
various reasons. We can go on and on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A good friend of mine lost her
brother in law because of the lockdown. I cannot reveal the details, but we all
agreed that if it were not for the lockdown, he would probably be alive right
now. Loneliness and depression are some of the factors involved in his death.
Only a person who has really been lonely for long periods of time, can
understand the massive negative impact of that. Many, many people experience
extreme loneliness at this time. There are many who don’t live with their
families and are prohibited from visiting them. Loneliness and depression are
one of the main reasons why people commit suicide, and it also causes weakened
immune systems. People need to work to have a sense of purpose. If they cannot
do their work, they lose motivation for living, and it is a great cause of
depression.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Quoting again from Robert F.
Kennedy’s Instagram page: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“A highly
respected 1982 academic research book “Corporate Flight: The Causes and
Consequences of Economic Dislocation”</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">estimates
that every additional 1% rise in unemployment causes 37 000 excess deaths
(including 20 000 heart attacks, 920 suicides, 650 homicides), 4000 mental
hospital admissions and 3300 state prison admissions. On 24 March 2020 the FED
predicted a 30% rise in unemployment from the Covid lockdown. That equals 1.1
million additional deaths in the US, almost 5x the government’s worst predictions
for CV-19 deaths.</i>” I don’t know what the numbers will be in South Africa,
but if you are a mathematician, please calculate that for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Quoting further from Kennedy (He mentions
his resources, but I will just quote him): <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“A
growing body of research finds social isolation is lethal…. It is as strong a
factor in mortality risk as smoking and higher than having high blood pressure.
Loneliness and social isolation have the same cardiovascular effects as smoking
15 cigarettes per day and also increase the risk of all-cause morbidity.
Loneliness increases the risk of developing dementia by 50% and stroke by 32%
while dramatically increasing cancer risks… Researchers found that isolation
increases susceptibility to the common cold and respiratory infection. More
diverse social networks were associated with greater resistance to upper
respiratory illness. A 2015 study found that men experience an 85% increased
risk of mortality following losing their jobs. Moreover, a 2020 Lancet study on
the ‘Psychobiological effects of quarantine and how to reduce it’ found that
most of the adverse effects (like suicide, anger and illness) come from the
restriction of liberty and separation from loved ones”</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Another friend of mine voiced her
concerns over ending the lockdown. Her fear, like I believe many others have,
is for her elderly parents who have weak health and therefore in much more
danger of catching the virus and not having the strength to fight it off. I
understand such concerns. To watch a person suffer in pain, and then lose such
a person to death is one of the most traumatic things that can happen to a
human being. Last November I had to watch my other grandmother go through a
horrible and very painful death. I saw how the lack of oxygen caused the colour
in her fingers to disappear and never return. I literally prayed for hours that
she would be relieved of her pain, while she cried out in agony. I was the only
one at her bedside when she passed on. I know my grandmother is with Jesus in
heaven now, but that experience affected me to such extend that I suffered a
depression for a while such as I had not had in about 15 years. Were it not for
the fact that I could freely meet with fellow believers who could pray for me
at that time, who knows where that could’ve ended. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I few years ago I also lost a very
good friend when he was murdered during a hijacking. I understand loss and
pain. I have a lot of compassion for people in pain. I understand that the
lockdown still makes sense to some, maybe for many people who are still in fear
of Covid-19. But when we look at the real stats, when we look at the damage to
the economy, when we look at all the secondary side effects of the lockdown, when
we look at the big picture, the lockdown makes no sense at all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But, you may ask, like my friend,
what about the small picture – what about the threat of the virus to my elderly
parents? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My answer to that is, to rest
assured, because whatever they may catch, I don’t believe it will be Covid-19. I
want to point you to the prophecies that have proclaimed the end of the
Covid-19. Many have read or listened to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Will
Ford tell of his 7 year old son</b> who dreamt the same dream for four nights
in a row, that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">30 April 2020</b> would
mark the end of Covid-19. I choose to believe that the Lord would not have
given such a dream to a young boy if it was not going to come to pass. There is
also the prophetic word by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Katie Souza, (perhaps
not coincidentally published on 30 April)</b> that the “famine”, the pandemic
is over, and that we can come out of isolation. Both Will Ford and Katie Souza
are well known people in international Christian circles and therefore their
messages carry credibility. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I therefore personally believe that
Covid-19 is no more, and any so called positive test results from here on, are
false positives. Any reported deaths from Covid-19, will be falsely reported
causes of death. But that’s just me, what can I say, I am a believer. I believe
in the word of the Lord above the untrustworthy PCR results and consequently
the false reports in the news. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But what if you get flu symptoms, or
any other virus infection? Many people die of the flu every year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A week after the start of the
lockdown in South Africa, I wrote a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">blog
article</b> titled: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">When coronavirus is
here, NO FEAR, because the KING IS HERE!</b> I quoted from the book written by
South African <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Doctor Michelle Strydom: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Healing through sanctification of the heart</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i> Perhaps not so co-incidentally, I
recently watched a TV program where both Katie Souza from the US and Doctor Michelle
were interviewed together in a South African TV program. They are sisters in
Christ and speak from the same Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In my blog article I explained what a virus is and that, as a Spirit
filled believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, you have authority over that virus.
You can speak to any virus and command it to leave your body. From the time
that I started to really believe this, years ago, I have not had even the flu.
Other things have happened to me, such as a broken patella, but no virus has
been able to make me sick in years. A virus is not the creation of God, but a
by-product of the fall of mankind, and I believe, a creation of satan. What was
therefore created in the Wuhan laboratory is absolutely evil. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As a Spirit filled believer in
Christ, I honestly have no fear whatsoever of any virus. It is also a spiritual
truth that whatever you fear, you attract to yourself. The best thing you can
do for yourself and your family is to arm yourself with the truth. Jesus Christ
is the Truth. When you are born again, you are a new creation and in union with
the Son of God. As a new creation, no virus has any legal right to attack your
body, unless you fear it and allow it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On the morning of 6<sup>th</sup> of
May 2020, I woke up with a message from a friend, who had not yet read this
article or knew anything of the contents I intended to share. This was the word
of the Lord to me, in part:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Jesus was in the wilderness 40 days.
Lockdown has been 40 days. Then the angels came to help Him. Then his ministry
started. 40 Days in lockdown is finished.”</i> 5 May was day 40 of the
lockdown. Believer in Christ, we were instructed by Scripture <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not to give up meeting together, but to
encourage one another, especially now that the day of our Lord’s return is
drawing near</i> (Hebrews 10:25). We are instructed to meet together and have
fellowship and worship together. The law of God, the law of the Spirit of Life
in Christ Jesus is a superior law than the law of the land, if such law is
unbiblical and even unconstitutional, like it is right now. According to the
Bill of Rights of the Constitution Section 31 we cannot be denied the right to
“practice our religion”. For Christians this means that we cannot be denied our
God given instruction to fellowship and worship with other believers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Are you going to obey the government,
when its commands are unconstitutional and unbiblical, and when it is clear
that the worldwide regulations prescribed by the WHO are motivated by an evil
agenda? Or are you going to obey God? Brothers and sisters in Christ, we are
getting a taste of what it means to be persecuted for our faith. I know people
of other faiths are also not allowed to meet, but WE need to do what WE need to
do, which is to obey the God that we know. I heard one prophet say that God is
now ridding his church of Comfort, Convenience, Cowardice and Compromise. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We desperately need another big C to
replace these four in the body of Christ – COURAGE.</b> If only 10% of our
nation stand together, there will be 6 million of us who stand up against
unconstitutional commands and regulations. They cannot put all of us in prison,
for the prisons are full past their capacity already, and even if they arrest
some, the legal system will not be able to handle all of the cases. We will
then have to stand together to help those who were brave enough to fight on the
frontlines. This may even mean that we make contributions to cover their legal costs.
Who will be brave enough? Desperate times call for desperate measures. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The advice I am leaving you with is
as follows:</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Speak up. Speak the
truth. Shout it from the rooftops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let
your voice be heard. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you have Jesus Christ as your Lord</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, you need not fear anything. Not the
virus. Not the economic crisis. Not where you will live, not what you will
wear, not what you will eat, not what you will feed your children. The Lord
knows what you need and He will provide for you one way or another, even if it
is a strategy which you need to follow in order to provide for your family
(Matt 6:33). I have been living by faith for more than three years now, meaning
that I don’t have a regular income, I don’t have a husband that provides for
me, and I can testify that the Lord always provides. And now is the time that
we need to look to Scripture for guidance. The words of Acts 2:44-45 will now
really challenge the level of our love for our fellow brothers and sisters in
Christ. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Furthermore,
you need to get your marching orders from your Lord. If He tells you to stay at
home, and obey the president, and wear your mask, then that is what you do. But
if He tells you to join a #endthelockdownmzansi Facebook group, you do that. If
He tells you to go out and feed the poor, even the foreigners, you do that. If
He tells you to go and visit your grandmother, you find a way to do it. If He
tells you to make a Youtube video, or to host a Zoom meeting, you do that.
Whatever you hear in your times of intimacy with Him, that is what you do. Whatever
you can do with a clear conscience, and the peace of the Holy Spirit in your heart,
if it adds value to someone’s life, do that, say that, and declare that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you do not have Christ as your
Lord, someone else is lording it over you. Do you trust that being?</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> You should know that God loves you,
but if you have not responded to His love and not turned away from a carnal way
of life, you do not have His protection. His covenant promises (like the
covenant of marriage) apply to those who have come into personal relationship
with Him, through faith in the risen Jesus Christ. You cannot have eternal life
if you do not believe in the eternal Christ. By now you should understand that
there are powers in this world that seek to have total control over your life,
and if you do not have the Spirit of Christ, you do not have spiritual
discernment and you are a soft target. It is difficult for you to notice the
work of satan, because he always comes in disguise, in sheep’s clothing. Union
with the Victor, the Lord Jesus Christ, through his Spirit is the only way for
you to enjoy his protection. Surrender your life to the Lordship of Christ, and
ask Him to baptize you in His Holy Spirit and you will be saved. If not, you
are automatically under the lordship of his enemy, the devil, whether you have
chosen it or not. Jesus said that: </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"...
when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you
into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth)" (John 16:13)</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Do
not connect to the next generation (4+1G) cell phone connection that is coming.
That will be the beginning of your union with the beast of Revelation 13:11-18.
It will be like your first kiss. After you do this it will be very difficult to
become free from the matrix, and your every move will be tracked for as long as
you live. I will probably discuss this further in a later video. And if you are
a Vodacom, MTN or Rain customer, why don’t you consider taking your business
elsewhere, for they are the ones installing the 4+1G towers and rolling out the
next generation cell phone radiation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Migrate
to Cell C, and hopefully Cell C will get the message to not try and do the
same. Or can someone please launch a new cell phone network that will never
implement the 4+1G? And if the Lord tells you to take on ICASA in a court of
law for violating basic human rights in allowing the radiation that causes
damage to all living beings, then do that. Please do that! (If you are not sure
yet that cell phone radiation, especially 4+1G is going to be very destructive
to the environment and to humans, then watch the video for which I posted the
link.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Whenever
a vaccine comes to your country for Covid-19, STAY AWAY! Please watch the video
Plandemic to understand why a Covid-19 vaccine will not work! And whatever else
they are going to try, will at the very least, cause vaccine injuries, and even
deaths. Today, on 5 May 2020, this article was published in BUSINESSTECH: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">South Africa begins Covid-19 BCG vaccine
trial.</i> It has begun. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Read
the articles by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Errol Naidoo</b> and
watch the video by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Scott Cundill</b>,
and buy South African products only. Let’s boycott all products coming from
China. Only buy what you really need, and support South African services in
order to cushion the fast approaching economic melt-down. This is Scott’s
advice, amongst others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If
you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you still don’t believe there
is a worldwide conspiracy going on to get the world vaccinated, as the next
step in population control, then you need to fall on your knees and ask the
Holy Spirit to open your eyes to the truth. If you will not do that, and if you
will not read the articles and watch the video’s I have recommended, please
just keep quiet and do not be a hindrance to the truth reaching every human
being on earth. (And please, please, please do not call a fellow brother and
sister in Christ a conspiracy theorist. I consider it the same as swearing at a
fellow Christian AND you are helping the enemy to keep on deceiving people. It
is time for you to wake up and see the conspiracy TRUTH).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We
are now in the period of 50 days from Passover to Pentecost. Many prophets
believe that Pentecost this year, on 1 June and beyond, will be like the first
Pentecost after Jesus’ ascension to heaven. Make time to pray and seek the face
of the Lord Jesus Christ, like the 120 did in the upper room after His
ascension, and have an expectation for the greatest outpour of His Spirit and power
that the world has ever seen! </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"Stand therefore [hold your
ground], having tightened the belt of truth around your loins and having put on
the breastplate of integrity and of moral rectitude and right standing with
God" (Eph.6:14)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lastly,<b> </b></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">allow me to encourage you with the words
of William Wallace in the movie Braveheart. Wallace was not a nobleman, which
means not in official government. The nobles of Scotland were subservient to
their masters, the English, who bribed them with titles and land and castles in
exchange for keeping the Scottish people in submission to England. Wallace was
just one of the people, but he was a trained and educated soldier and when
Scotland needed a saviour, here came Wallace. He said to the nobles and the
future king of Scotland, Robert de Bruce, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You
think that the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I
think your position exist to provide those people with freedom. And I’m going
to make sure that they have it.</i>” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">De Bruce replied… <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“…but from top to bottom this country has
got no sense of itself. Its nobles share allegiance with England. If you make
enemies on both sides of the boat, you’ll end up dead.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wallace replied <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“We all end up dead. It’s just a question of how and why. Now tell me, what
does that mean - to be noble. Your title gives you the claim to the throne of
our country. But men don’t follow titles. They follow courage… Now when people
know you, noble and common, they respect you, and if you would just lead them
to freedom, they’d follow you, and so would I.” </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The rest is history. In the end, De
Bruce followed Wallace’s advice and Scotland won their freedom. And we will
have our freedom too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I appeal to the government of South
Africa to no longer allow our country to be in the captivity of the WHO and UN,
but to lead us to freedom. However, whether you listen to the voices of the
people or not, Jesus will win this battle. Amandla awethu, in the Name of
Jesus, and in the power of His Holy Spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">South Africa,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">May the Lord bless you and protect you;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">May the Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">May the Lord look with favour on you and give you peace.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let’s
bring back the love-feasts:</span></div>
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<a href="https://anitaler.blogspot.com/2017/10/lets-bring-back-love-feasts.html"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">https://anitaler.blogspot.com/2017/10/lets-bring-back-love-feasts.html</span></a></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Naomi
Sheneberger: Word for South Africa 30 April 2020</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejp1JwoH6-A&t=329s"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejp1JwoH6-A&t=329s</span></a></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Prophecy
for South Africa – Prophet Charlie Shamp</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86g5DFguCQ8"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86g5DFguCQ8</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When
coronavirus is near, don’t fear, because the King is Here!</span></div>
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<a href="https://anitaler.blogspot.com/2020/04/when-coronavirus-is-near-no-fear.html"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">https://anitaler.blogspot.com/2020/04/when-coronavirus-is-near-no-fear.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Errol
Naidoo: Buying South African only.</span></div>
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<a href="https://joynews.co.za/contribute-to-south-africas-economic-revival-by-buying-sa-only/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">https://joynews.co.za/contribute-to-south-africas-economic-revival-by-buying-sa-only/</span></a></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Is
alle persone in gesagsposisies deur God aangestel?</span></div>
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<a href="https://anitaler.blogspot.com/2018/02/is-alle-persone-in-gesagsposisies-deur.html"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">https://anitaler.blogspot.com/2018/02/is-alle-persone-in-gesagsposisies-deur.html</span></a></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Worldometer:
</span><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">https://www.worldometers.info/</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
the Rapport newspaper of Sunday 3 May it was written that only people with
South African ID’s are allowed to receive food, and you have to have a permit
to give out food. This is not only total human rights violation, but also
ungodly and inhumane. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Exclusive: Top Doctor Exposes Everything The Deep State Is Trying To Hide
About CV | Dr. Shiva. (Also watch all you have time for from Dr. Shiva. He is
the inventor of e-mail and has a number of degrees in science. He is also on
Facebook and Instagram)</span></div>
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Dr. Shiva Exposes Fauci, Birx, Gates, And The W.H.O. Covid-19 Endgame</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmD3EoSRgsI&t=6s"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmD3EoSRgsI&t=6s</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Microsoft patent for the RFID chip:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For all Dr.
Rashid Buttar’s video’s on Covid-19, please go to his website, register and you
will find all his video’s. They are regularly removed by the owners of Youtube,
therefore it is better to view them on his website. I will post one link here,
but I cannot guarantee that it will take you to the correct video on Youtube.
His website name is </span><a href="https://www.advancedmedicine.com/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">https://www.advancedmedicine.com/</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> But if you
simply type his name in Youtube you will find the latest of his posts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">13.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dr. Rashid
posted a video on 5 May. In this video he shows that the Gates Foundation
patented a vaccine for the coronavirus, before the pandemic even broke out. The
video was since removed from Youtube. Please contact me and I will send you a copy
of the video.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">14.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">President
Trump confirms the 3.7 million $ payment to the Wuhan lab: In this video you
will see Trump confirm this, from 7:45 minutes. Dr. Rashid is one of the
interviewees in this video: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8qJMbNwheA&t=20s"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8qJMbNwheA&t=20s</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">15.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Doctors in
Black – PlanDemic, global plan to take control of our lives, liberty, health
& freedom. This video is constantly being removed from Youtube everytime it
is loaded. Contact me and I will send it to you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">16.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell: NYC-ICU DR
unknowingly describes the effects of 60GHz on patients:<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS9NOJv91CA"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS9NOJv91CA</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">17.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dr. Dan
Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi: Brave doctors demand end to Covid-19 lockdown
and social distancing:</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.trunews.com/stream/brave-doctors-demand-end-to-covid-19-lockdown-and-social-distancing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">https://www.trunews.com/stream/brave-doctors-demand-end-to-covid-19-lockdown-and-social-distancing</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></div>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f0VRtY9oTs"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f0VRtY9oTs</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">18.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Death certificate
fraud:</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eyD3MXwrb8&t=26s"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eyD3MXwrb8&t=26s</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">19.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The doctor
reporting that they are paid for Covid-19 patients:</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwk8SQNojVA&t=10s"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwk8SQNojVA&t=10s</span></a></div>
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speaks out about forced deaths in her hospital:</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYQhnP75KNc"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYQhnP75KNc</span></a></div>
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definitely wants to inhibit the population growth in Africa under the guise of
helping Africa and the poor:</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MMifQvuN08&t=29s"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MMifQvuN08&t=29s</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l11 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">22.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Busted!
Bill Gates slips, reveals terrifying Coronavirus endgame, Ted Talk covers it up</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMkZ5_BZ7rM"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMkZ5_BZ7rM</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></div>
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Shadows Documentary (CIA, mainstream media, Hollywood and paedophilia ): </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wTiCxXgrJw"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wTiCxXgrJw</span></a></div>
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l11 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">24.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The article
about the PCR test which is being used to test for Covid-19:</span></div>
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<a href="https://uncoverdc.com/2020/04/07/was-the-covid-19-test-meant-to-detect-a-virus/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">https://uncoverdc.com/2020/04/07/was-the-covid-19-test-meant-to-detect-a-virus/</span></a></div>
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to show empty ER sections of hospitals, and other video’s:</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.davidicke.com/article/567397/vital-videos-watching-david-ickes-london-real-interview-today"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">https://www.davidicke.com/article/567397/vital-videos-watching-david-ickes-london-real-interview-today</span></a></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Will
Ford sharing his son’s dream about Covid-19 ending (watch from 1:01:43)</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w05dYkHRtNU&t=3588s"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w05dYkHRtNU&t=3588s</span></a></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Katie
Souza’s word on 30 April 2020: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilE5kMY4JnE&t=319s"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilE5kMY4JnE&t=319s</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
video by Scott Cundill about the South African economy</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s1xSY81Dr4&t=3s"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s1xSY81Dr4&t=3s</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">5G
Towers effect bees, birds, trees & people – Fact or Fiction</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOGGUM1M508"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOGGUM1M508</span></a></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Understanding
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqTRRm_ffog&t=1932s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqTRRm_ffog&t=1932s</a></span></div>
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Anitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084188952984083644noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643383932781952464.post-36226674034237854812020-04-04T00:23:00.000+02:002020-04-06T02:05:15.012+02:00When coronavirus is near, NO FEAR! Because the KING is HERE!<span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Hello<b> </b>dear friends and family. The purpose of this writing is to give
information that I believe will set many people free from the fear that they
have been feeling due to the covid-19 scare. We read in Scripture, <i>“then you will know the truth, and the truth
will set you free” </i>(John 8:32). Truth works like a bright light which lights
up the soul in order to bring to light every lie that keeps a person in bondage
to fear, so that one can be free from fear. We also read <i>“There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear,
because fear involves punishment. So the one who fears has not reached
perfection in love”</i> (1 John 4:18). When we hear the truth of a matter, and
we receive God’s love into our spirit, soul and body, we will have no reason to
fear. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In order to bring you some truth, I
am sharing the following from a medical perspective. I am not a medical
practitioner, but I can read and I can think, and so can you. The source I consulted
is a book that was written by South African medical doctor MK Strydom. The name
of the book is <i>“Healing begins with
sanctification of the heart”.</i> Her style of writing makes it easy for anyone
to understand it. You don’t need any prior medical education. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I trust this source, since Dr Strydom
is an outspoken fellow believer in Jesus Christ and in addition, she doesn’t
look at only one aspect of the human being, namely the body. She addresses the
fact that there is a connection between our spirit, our mind, and our body. She
states that NO DISEASE IS INCURABLE if you address the disease from this
holistic spirit-mind-body point of view. Dr. Strydom has also appeared on at
least one TV channel that I have watched, sharing her insight into the causes
and cures for diseases. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Dr. Strydom’s book is available as a
PDF document on the internet. Google: <i>MK
Strydom pdf</i> and click on the first result. Her website is
www.eagleswings.co.zw. You can download the book and read it yourself. This
will be time well spent during lockdown. This is edition 4 of her book.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I have also checked these facts with
a few friends who have studied in the fields of medical science and
microbiology, who are fellow Christians and also read this blog. However, I’d
like to encourage you to do your own research. In addition please ponder and
pray about everything I am saying here. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I am pointing to some portions of her
book. My comments are indicated. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">On page 600, under the heading
Viruses: <i>“When we get an infection, it
can be caused by parasites, a fungus, bacteria or viruses. These organisms are
not able to infect our bodies <b>unless our
immune system is weakened and compromised</b>. <b>A thought life that is dominated by fear, anxiety and stress will
result in high levels of the stress hormone cortisol in the blood. In large
quantities cortisol kills the cells of the immune system.</b> <b>The consequence is that you are now
vulnerable to infections because your immune system is weakened.”</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">My comment: Think about all the fear
that is being produced in people through all the reports on the news and social
media of infections and deaths due to coronavirus. What can enhance these feelings
of fear, anxiety and stress is the lockdown in many countries, something that
none of us alive have experienced in our lifetime. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">P.601: <i>“Bacteria, fungi and parasites that infect the human body and cause
disease are living organisms – they are able to reproduce and are able to
survive on their own… they are like little animals. <b>But there is something very different about a virus:</b> <b>a virus does not have an original life form
of its own.</b> That is an important point and you’ll see why later” </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">She then describes what a virus
actually is. (I am summarizing this part) It basically consists of a defective
piece of genetic material that is encapsulated by a protein coat. Both of these
elements were originally <b>derived from
another life form</b> – so, <b>firstly, a
virus does not have an original life form of its own</b>. It is not a little
animal. God did not create viruses.<b>
Secondly, a virus is not able to live and survive on its own.</b> I understand
this to mean that outside of a human or animal body, a virus cannot survive. <b>Thirdly, it continually changes its genetic
material and appearance</b> by taking pieces of the body cell’s genetic
material and membrane as it moves from one body cell to the next. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">“There are no medical drugs that have
been invented that have ever cured a viral infection. One of the reasons is
because the virus is continuously changing.”</span></i></b><i><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><span style="line-height: 115%;">She then quotes Henry W. Wright, a
pastor who has prayed for many people who then got healed of even incurable
diseases. He wrote in his book (“A More Excellent Way”) the following: <i>“There is an intelligence behind viruses
that defies imagination. A virus is an aberration of a genetic life form that
seems to have a mind of its own.” </i>She continues:<i> “Even the medical community has the most astounding definition of a
virus: ‘Viruses are an alien genetic life force’. <b>The genetic code material that the virus is made up of, does not think,
but behind viruses is an invisible being that does think. There is a type of
intelligence and it is not from God.</b> <b>There’s
something alien about a virus that is an intelligent, invisible being that
afflicts man’s flesh with a highly calculated destructive mission.”</b> </i>(*See
my comment on this section further down)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Now, let’s look at what Dr. Strydom
says about the flu and the common cold: (p.371)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">“<b>The common cold</b> is mostly
caused by the rhinovirus, although it <b>can
also be caused by other viruses such as the coronavirus</b>, enterovirus, adenovirus
and respiratory syncytial virus.”</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Let’s look at the symptoms of the
common cold: <i>“runny nose, sneezing and
nasal congestion. The throat is often sore and sometimes is the initial
symptom. The person does not usually get a headache or fever”</i>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">My comment: These certainly don’t
seem like the only symptoms that people have who reportedly have died and are
dying from coronavirus! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Let’s then look at the flu: <i>“<b>Outbreaks
of flu that vary in severity occur every winter</b>. The symptoms of flu are <b>fevers</b>, chills, headache, muscle pain
etc. and <b>respiratory symptoms such as
cough, sore throat and discomfort in the chest</b>. The symptoms generally last
for 2 – 5 days and most people recover within a week. However a few people
(especially the elderly who tend to have weaker immune systems) may experience
fatigue /loss of energy for several weeks. <b>The
flu will also last longer and get progressively worse if it is complicated by a
secondary viral or bacterial infection of the lungs (pneumonia).</b> <b>Most people who die in flu pandemics are
those that already have another underlying illness, especially chronic heart,
lung and kidney diseases.”</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I continue on p.371<i>“… the subtypes of influenza type A viruses
that caused epidemics and pandemics are summarized on the following page”</i> -
p.372. After giving the summary, she writes: <b><i>“The most severe and extensive
outbreaks are caused by the influenza A virus because of the ability of this
virus to periodically change its structure (mutate).</i></b><i> When the virus changes the structure… it is
more difficult for the cells of the immune system to recognize the new virus
and produce antibodies to kill it. <b>The
greater the change in the structure of the virus, the more severe the outbreak
of flu… A major variation in the structure of a virus will result in a pandemic
which is a worldwide outbreak of severe flu that kills a lot of people.”</b> </i>She
then gives an example of this in history, namely the flu pandemic of 1957 which
killed over 70 000 people in America alone. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">My comment: Judging by the symptoms
that are reportedly caused by covid-19, this information makes it clear that
covid-19 behaves like a type of influenza, and not just a common cold. The
pandemic reportedly caused by covid-19 looks a lot like a pandemic of seasonal
flu. Notice that the countries that are hit hardest are all currently in
winter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">P.373: <i>“The factors that result in the start and termination of flu outbreaks
are not completely understood yet by the medical community. However they have
recognised that <b>a major determinant of
the extent and severity of a flu outbreak is the level of immunity in the
population at risk</b>, i.e. how strong the people’s immune systems are….” </i>The
viruses that cause <b>influenza and the
common cold <i>“are only able to infect the
body when the immune system is weakened.”</i></b><i> </i>As already explained, <i>“when
your body is in stage 2 or 3 of stress, the high levels of stress hormones such
as cortisol destroy the cells of the immune system, thereby weakening the
immune system and leaving you with little defence against viruses. The body is
put into a toxic state of stress in the following situations</i> (amongst
others): </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">1.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></i><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Not looking after your body, for e.g.
over working, not resting enough, not enough exercise, unhealthy diet with
excess sugar, processed foods etc.; </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">2.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></i><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Athought life dominated by fear and anxiety</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">3.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></i><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">A thought life dominated by bitterness and
unforgiveness</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">4.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></i><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Strife and gossip. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">The best thing you can do when you have the common cold or flu is to rest
and get lots of sleep.”</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The question arises, why did covid-19
(or perhaps a mixture of flu viruses – how will we know for sure?) cause a
pandemic during this 2019/2020 winter? What is different about this winter for those
countries that are currently in winter? Why do people seem to be more
vulnerable than previous years, especially in the modern era, and in first
world countries where people have arguably been healthier than in any previous
age? Can it be that on top of the factors mentioned by Dr. Strydom, there is
another factor that is currently greatly weakening people’s immune systems? We
will come back to this question a little further down. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Let’s get back to the matter of the
intelligence behind viruses (p.601). This to me was an amazing piece of
information, because it sort of confirmed for me a thought that the Lord shared
with me a day before I read this in her book. During lockdown, on 1 April (no
jokes), I was reminded of the following: Everything that was created was spoken
into being by God. Even Lucifer, the angel of light, was created and he was
perfect at first. But he rebelled and consequently became corrupted and was
therefore cast out of heaven by God (</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Is.14:12-15; Ez.28:12-19; Luk.10:18</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">). I believe the Lord then gave me this metaphor: Satan, who
was once an angel, became like a virus. He can produce nothing good, and can
only take what God had made, mess it up, and then create something that is
destructive, something that does not give life, but which kills. This is
exactly the characteristics of viruses. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So, if there is a type of
intelligence behind viruses, but it is not from God, then what is the source?
Satan of course! He is the virus that causes sin, sickness and death everywhere
he goes, and he is the one who invented, and has the power to create viruses,
since he is still the god of this world (2 Cor.4:4), even though we who are in
Christ (Col.1:27) has authority over him. If you doubt whether satan can
create, just look at what he did through the magicians in Egypt who copied the
miracles that God did through Moses, such as letting their staffs also become
snakes. Satan’s works are however always only counterfeits of what God creates,
so don’t be fooled by them. The snake of Moses swallowed the snakes of the
magicians.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">P.602: <i>“Henry Wright suggested that viruses are the spirits of infirmity in
tissue that the Bible talks about, and considering the characteristics of a
virus, I believe that makes a lot of sense. There is no medical drug that has
ever been invented that has ever been able to kill a virus because <b>we are trying to kill something that is
already dead.</b>” </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">When I read this, I must admit that I
laughed out loud as if laughing in the face of satan! The viruses that he creates
are DEAD! Yes they can make people sick and sometimes also kill them, but if people
only knew the authority (in Jesus Christ) that they can over him and all of his
little viruses, his little sons that he created in his image, then the battle
could’ve been won quickly! Satan is the
author of viruses and since there is no medical cure for viruses, guess what
the cure is? Quoting Dr. Strydom: <b><i>“You cannot kill a virus, you cannot destroy
it, but you can divert it…”.</i></b><i> </i>In
other words they just need to get out of the body for then they will cease to
exist. How are viruses diverted? I am not going to quote Dr. Strydom on this.
Please read it yourself on p.602. And then also read p.596 – 600. She also
strongly suggests that a person read the first 3 chapters of her book before
reading anything else.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But I can testify from my own life,
that what she describes, is basically what I have understood and been doing for
years whenever I felt a cold coming on. I cannot remember when last I had
either a cold or the flu (perhaps 6 years ago), even while others around me had
the flu. At the very most, I have woken up in the morning with a throat that
feels a little croaky, almost sore, and maybe also a sneeze. I then always,
just in case, say this out loud: <i>“I
command whatever virus may have entered my body, to leave, in the Name of
Jesus”.</i> The little bit of sore throat then always goes away almost
instantly. I don’t say this arrogantly. Every single person can take this stand
against viruses, if you are in Jesus Christ (Col.1:27).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I also have never had a vaccination
against flu or the common cold, and I will never get it, because a vaccination,
for those who don’t know, is basically an injection with a low dosage of those
horrible things, those little demons if you will, in order for your body to
learn to fight it. But I believe that God created my body with the ability to
fight and repel the virus whenever it makes its appearing, and that I don’t
need a practice run through getting a vaccine! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Let’s get back to our present
situation. Thus far the tens of thousands of deaths caused by covid-19 (and
what else?) occurred mostly in first world countries during winter time. As on 4<sup>th</sup>
of April the countries which have more than 1000 deaths each, were as follows:
USA, Italy, Spain, Germany, China, France, Iran, UK, Belgium, and Netherlands.
Should we not expect similar numbers in third world countries that are also in
winter now? What about all the Eastern Europe countries? India? The Middle
East? These are countries where people live closer together and under more unhygienic
circumstances. I ask the question again: Could it be that these first world
countries have an element that greatly compromises the immune systems of the
people living there - something that is absent in the third world countries? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Let’s see… You should know by now,
because it’s all over social media – 5G. I know that the few people, who
propagated this, are labelled and sharply criticised as being conspiracy
theorists. But let’s push all of that aside and think about this
scientifically. (I am not a biologist, a physicist or a medical doctor, but I
do think like a scientist since I studied science and worked as a forensic
scientist for about 9 years. I don’t see any clash between my knowledge of and
faith in God and real science and I see God as the creator of all the
principles that real science is based on. And since God created those
principles, He can bypass them whenever He wants to in order to do a miracle.
He often does his miracles through believing believers.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">If you have been out of the loop with
regards to the big debate, then you can read this article on </span><a href="http://www.iol.co.za/"><span style="line-height: 115%;">www.iol.co.za</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"> <b>Watch:
Debate raging on link between 5G technology, coronavirus pandemic.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">With what I understand so far, it
seems highly probable that 5G (5<sup>th</sup> generation wireless technology
for internet data transmission for mobile devices) radio frequency (RF) radiation
is what causes people’s immune systems to be compromised so that they are more vulnerable
to virus infections. Is there any scientific proof for this statement? <i>“Wireless technologies (microwaves) have
been shown in countless peer reviewed studies (links below) to have negative
effects on cell health, be they minor and debilitating, or severe.”</i> This
quote comes from the article by change.org, named: <i>Stop 5G rollout in Cape Town, South Africa…</i> You can find that
article and read all the articles that support their argument. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But if you don’t have time for that,
here is an explanation that is easy to understand if you have a microwave oven
in your kitchen, as I do. I have learnt from a young age that microwaves are
very bad for the human body. I have heard of the man who managed to operate his
microwave oven without a door in his cafeteria, selling pies. He used to put
the pies inside the microwave oven to be warmed up, with his bare hand, while
the oven was running, because it saved him time. One day, after doing this for
who knows how long, his hand just fell off. Why? The radio frequency (RF)
radiation of microwaves is high and is harmful to animals and humans. The
microwave frequency range is 1GHz to approximately 100 GHz. It is within this
range that mobile data is transmitted. <b>My
microwave oven operates at a frequency of 2.45 GHz (2450MHz), and it cooks my
food!</b> (You can read the label on your microwave oven to see what microwave
frequency it emits). While 3G and 4G (which most people use at the moment)
operates at approximately 1.8 GHz up to 8 GHz, <b>5G will operate at between 24GHz and 72GHz.</b> Notice the jump! It is
at least ten times stronger than in my microwave oven! If my food cooks at 2.45
GHz, what effect will 72 GHz have on my body?! Some articles will tell you that
microwaves are non-iodizing radiation and therefore not harmful to your body.
Believe me that they are the promoters of 5G, and they tell you this only to
sound clever so you will believe it is a valid argument. It is not! They know
that people with no science background will not know what this means. Yes
microwaves are non-iodizing, but if my food is cooked by non-iodizing radiation
of a lower frequency (2,45GHz), how much more will non-iodizing radiation of a
higher frequency (72GHz) do damage to my body?! So, we can expect health
effects to our bodies when 5G comes to our area. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But why would the authorities push
for the implementation of 5G when it is so harmful to us? The answer: they need
it for artificial intelligence, smart homes, driverless cars, etc. The
advancement in technology is more important to them than the lives of human
beings. Don’t be surprised by this… let me rather not go any further with this…</span></span></div>
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cities of the world is the cause of the many weakened immune systems in people,
which greatly promotes the pandemic in countries that are in winter right now. This is the first winter they have had since 5G has been in operation. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">How did this pandemic start? There
are a number of different reports (from a monkey in a fish market – mmm… sounds
like the movie “Outbreak” that was released in 1995), rumours (a virus created
in a lab, like in Episode 10 of Season 1 of “My Secret, Terrius”, on Netflix –
mmm… very conveniently timed) and other conspiracy theories (or conspiracy truths?). We may never know the truth, but let me just
say that I believe that the purpose of all of these reports, theories (and
movies!) are meant to try and distract our attention from the greater long-term
danger, which is 5G. These all serve as the scapegoat - some ideas, some things or some people to
divert the blame to. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Let me just mention what I heard from
a source I am not going to reveal here (but I will send it to you if you ask me
privately for it). I am part paraphrasing, part quoting: <i>Angela Merckel recently said (reported on BBC news) that 70% of the
people in Germany would probably be effected by coronavirus. But if we look at
the stats, we see that over a period of time 70% of any population get seasonal
(winter) flu at one time or another. This is nothing out of the ordinary. But
if there is no direct</i> <i>proof as to
which virus caused that flu, then it is dumped into this big basket which is
called flu… But</i> <i>then if you have
enough of this hype (of coronavirus), then everybody suddenly has coronavirus</i>.
<i>What is also happening now is that
covid-19 is singled out when tests are done, rather than testing for the whole
spectrum of common cold and flu viruses. Why would they do that? Furthermore, Dr.
Marc Siegel said on Fox News on coronavirus: ‘I think it is a <b>whopping amount of cases undiagnosed’</b>.
This doctor addresses the fact that they are not allowed to see patients in
order to test and make correct diagnoses. <b>He
says that most people who have symptoms of flu are not tested to confirm
whether it is indeed caused by coronavirus. </b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It seems probable that in the case of
a pandemic, it is not possible to keep track of exactly which virus/es infected
every individual person. It is possible that many cases are reported as
covid-19, without proof to show otherwise, in the name of ‘fear of infection’,
and that they are added to the covid-19 stats anyway. Why would they do
something like this? Why would they want the covid-19 stats to be high? Let me
not go there… except to say that time will tell. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Johannesburg and Pretoria also
already has 5G, but we have seen only a small number of deaths thus far. I have
hope that there will not be a significant rise in deaths due to 5G and the flu,
in SA, anytime soon, for a few reasons: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">1.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">From
a natural point of view, we are not currently in winter, although it is
approaching. Furthermore, because of lockdown and everyone been made aware to
take precautions, we have a better chance against any type of flu this year
than in the northern countries. </span></span></div>
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may soon come to its sudden end, as with flu pandemics in the past. A doctor
friend explained to me that covid-19 is an RNA virus which means it multiplies
rapidly, but with the disadvantage that it doesn’t copy itself accurately,
which weakens the virus and causes the pandemic to peak relatively soon and is
then brought to a sudden end. </span></span></div>
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read on the website of ‘rain’ (the company responsible for launching 5G in SA),
that <i>“In some areas of the world, 5G
networks are built using millimetre wave spectrum bands”</i> (higher frequencies)
<i>“this requires far denser networks (i.e.
more towers) at much greater cost compared to rain’s NSA design, which is more
appropriate for the South African context.” </i>If this is the truth, then the
health risk at this stage is a little bit less than in those other countries.
Nonetheless, the health risk remains, and I for one, will do everything in my
power to prevent 5G from coming to my town. Other than the health risks, there
are other reasons why we should resist 5G for as long as possible, but again, I
won’t get into that now… </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">4.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Those
of us whose ears are prophetically tuned to the voice of the Lord believe and
are expectant of a mighty outpouring of the Spirit of God that heals and
delivers. We believe that this move of God will occur all over the world, and
that it is coming soon, in fact it is right at our doorstep. The Lord revealed
to many of his children that this lockdown period is a time given to us for
rest and to draw close to him, to have our lamps filled with oil, and to
prepare and be ready for the greatest show of His glory and for the greatest
time of our lives! So moenie worry nie, watch net! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">1.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">We
first need to get the fear out of our systems, as much as possible. Unless you
can find good reason to prove me wrong, then give this information the benefit
of the doubt, and let the truth drive out the fear in your heart. Fear and
anxiety will weaken your immune system, so your main priority is to get to a
place of being filled with peace. Read Philippians 4:6-7, and pray. Take this
time to really draw close to God, and let his love wash through you and drive
out all the fear. The only person who should fear is the one who does not have
the right relationship with God.</span></span></div>
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the enemy planned for evil, God intended for our good. These three weeks at
home with your family is one of the best things that can happen to us as a
nation, because this is a time of bonding with family members. And if the basic
building unit (family) of a nation is strong, the nation can be strong. So
don’t worry – be happy!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">3.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Take
good care of your body. Most of us in lockdown have all the reason in the world
to rest right now. Do all you have to do to keep a healthy lifestyle. Don’t be
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not connect to 5G. Most of us don’t really need faster internet speeds anyway,
unless you’re creating an artificially intelligent robot. Rather get fibre in
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the Holy Spirit to open your eyes to this truth, if you have not believed it
yet. Jesus is the Light that shines in the darkness, so that we can choose to
step out of the darkness into His marvellous Light (1 Pet.2:9). He is our Way
back to the Father. He is our Truth that sets us free from sin, disease and
death. And in Him, we become a new creation, when we receive His Life inside of
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A story that reveals the importance of valuing the Person of Jesus, more than his gift:</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Many years ago, in 2005, I was going
through a very rough time emotionally. During that time I was invited by a
friend to a weekend conference for intercessors who were quite powerful in
spirit. The friend ended up not going, so here I was, in a state of brokenness
and depression, at a conference for the spiritually mature, and knowing no one
there. On my way there (to Hermanus) I contemplated just turning my steering wheel
sideways and driving off the cliff into the sea. It was not the first suicidal
thought I had during that time. Fortunately I kept my cool long enough to get
to safety. Long story short, those ladies prayed for me like few others
had until that time, and I received some inner healing and freedom to carry on. At one point,
one of them (Carmen) stood in front of me, tears running down her face, with a
golden cross (a pendant for a necklace) in her hand. She told me that it was a
very precious gift that someone gave to her, gave me the background, and then
said that God told her right there and then to give it to me. They removed the
cheap jewellery from my neck and threw it in the bin (I didn’t have a choice),
and she gave me the cross. I will never forget the look on her face, how
painful it was to her to give that cross away to someone she had just met, to
some “broken person who attended the wrong conference for where she was at in
her spiritual life”. But I also remember
wondering over the years, if God would ever expect such a thing from me, to
give something so precious away while it is hurting so much that you cry over
it. I had hoped that He wouldn’t. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">A few months ago, one day while I was
somewhere between awake and sleeping, a vision popped into my mind of me giving
my most precious and expensive piece of jewellery to someone who has not added
any value to my life. I don’t mean it in a nasty way. It is just that I have
reached out to this person (who is poor in every way) and helped and tried to help her
in a number of ways, without getting or expecting anything in return. She has not
done me wrong, but I did feel that she considered me good enough to help her in
practical ways but she has shown little to no interest in building relationship
with me for the emotional and spiritual value I can add to her life, which she
desperately needs. Someone who wants to know you for what you can give and do
for them, but is not interested in knowing your heart, only uses you. So, upon
“seeing” this vision, I immediately discarded it as a very bad one. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">After a few months the thought
started making its way back into my conscious mind. I tried my best to shake it
off, but it kept creeping up on me, presenting itself as a thought from God.
Anyone who knows me well will know that I always try my best to be obedient to
the voice of the Holy Spirit and I have done some crazy obeying over the years,
doing things that others will deem foolish. Well, even to my mind, this was a
foolish thought, if ever there was one. For weeks I tried my best to reason the
thought away, even arguing with the voice in my heart, hoping that it was not
the voice of Holy Spirit, but struggling to deny it... One day I said something
to Him about this being some test, when He answered <i>“It is not a test”.</i> This usually means that He is serious and that
this is real life and that there is no way out. The problem I have if I don’t
obey, is that I am at a place in my walk with God where I don’t have the luxury
of claiming immaturity or ignorance or any kind of excuse for not obeying. I am
living a life of faith, including faith for even my most basic needs. I don’t
earn a salary, and so while I am doing what He has instructed me to do, I am
fully dependent on Him (through his chosen vessels – other people) providing
for me in every way. If I don’t obey Him, who knows what consequences will come
to me? I have come too far in my walk with God to risk being hindered or
delayed towards deeper intimacy with Him and towards my destiny, because of an
act of disobedience. Then there are Biblical stories that have the power to
haunt one, such as that of Moses who was not allowed to enter the Promised Land
because of one act of disobedience, or the Israelites who were not allowed to
enter because of their grumbling and complaining. Another time when I was awake
in the middle of the night, I felt God was saying that us people have absolutely
nothing that did not originate from Him, yet when He asks one to give something
to another, we don’t want to do it, just like small children who sometimes
don’t want to even share their candy with a brother or sister, even though the parent,
the provider, asks them to. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Those who know me well will also know
that during the times I have had enough to give, I was always giving. I gave my
tithes to the church, I supported missionaries and orphans, and mostly gave as I
was led to give (I missed windows of opportunity here and there). I remember
twice paying for international flights for friends and once for a local one
(all for Kingdom purposes), and other times gave expensive gifts. Always when traveling overseas, I brought back gifts to family and friends. I have given
away many thousands of hard earned Rands. So the problem is not that I have a
heart that is unwilling to give. The problem is that, in my mind, the gift
doesn’t match the value I feel I have in the eyes of the receiver. It feels as
if I have given up so much already (for e.g. in financial ‘security’ and
independence, time, effort, comfort and luxury) for the sake of the Kingdom,
and other times lost things or people precious to me, which makes me feel quite
unwilling to give up something I have treasured so much to someone who doesn’t
deserve (in my eyes) to receive it from me, especially since she did not
respond to my efforts to build relationship. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">While I was working in Taiwan in
2012, my mother wanted me to try and find pearls of great value there. The most
valuable kind of pearls is the most round and smooth ones. I found such pearls
and ordered two rather long strings, one for my mother and one for me. It was
the most expensive single piece of clothing / accessory I have ever bought
myself or anyone else, and nothing more beautiful. It is so beautiful and
valuable that it just doesn’t look right with ordinary every day clothes, the
kind that I usually wear. As a result I have worn it very seldom, and only on
special occasions where I had opportunity to dress up. But even just owning it,
and knowing it was kept safe in a jewellery box, made me feel valued. Since I’m
not the kind of girl who has ever spent much on “bling” for myself, this string
of pearls was really outstanding. But when I realised that the Holy Spirit was
on my case to give it away, I suddenly tried to find opportunities to wear it
more often, and so I did wear it to church a number of times, since those are
mostly my only opportunities to dress up a little bit these days. I wore it
expecting compliments, but no compliments came. </span></span></span></div>
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that I have walked on difficult faith journeys for as long as I have known God
and it has been hard. There are some things I have been trusting God for, for at
least two decades, things that He has promised and were prophesied, things that
have not materialised even way long after I thought it should’ve, some of which
are too personal to talk about on a public platform. Not only have those
promises and expectations not been fulfilled, but as time progressed, it felt
as if I lost more and more what I valued in this life. Whatever I gained,
seemed to be spiritual only, which of course is of inexpressibly greater and
eternal value, but it would be nice if I could at long last enjoy some things
that I have never had, which most people have and take for granted. The journey
of faith has become much longer and harder than I have ever anticipated, but if
you have come this far, there is no turning back and undoing all that you have
already left or lost for the sake of following Jesus. I simply have to keep
doing what He has called me to do, and live in the way He wants me to live. I
have to finish the race of life He has enrolled me in. It is too late for me to
try and live a life that looks like someone else’s, trying to fit in and be
“normal”. I will never be satisfied with just looking “normal” for the sake of
“fitting in” and not being judged by people for my unusual life “choices”. And
if I choose what some people think I should, I will probably die of depression
caused by a feeling of failing in my God-given pursuit of my destiny. Ten years
ago I continuously fell into cycles of depression because I didn’t “fit in”,
until God told me one day, (based on the story of Elijah calling Elisha to
follow him) <i>“if you want to fit in, you
are not worthy of following Me on this journey”</i>. What seems to others as
normal options, are not options that He is allowing me to have and I know that
I am sometimes judged by people for my decisions, but I mostly only have the
decision to obey or not. I am on a very
specific path, and even received a prophecy in 2010 about the very specific
path He has me on. </span></span></span></div>
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harder and way much longer than I had anticipated, at this point in time I
really don’t have it in me anymore to carry on much longer without some relief
in the form of fulfilled promises. I cannot adequately describe my desire to be
able to say “aaaah, at long last, a much deserved holiday”. For the past 9
years I have been living like a nomad, never quite feeling at home and settled.
I have been living without a regular salary for three years, and although the
Lord always provides in some way or another in my most basic needs (because I
am doing what He has called me to do), </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">because of financial restraints </span></span></span></span></span></span>there have been many things I have not been
able to enjoy like I see family and friends
often do</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">. On top of that, in the last year only I have lost a healthy knee and
with it being physically active, which is possibly my greatest loss ever,
having always been the sporty kind. I have also lost dear friends who moved
away (although I have gained others), my parents’ house (lots of sentimental
value), and my cats (which hurt more than anyone really knows). So, I would’ve
preferred to hold on to some of the little bit of luxury I still have, which in
this case is the most beautiful string of pearls, and definitely not “lose” it
to someone that doesn’t seem to value me in the way I am able to add real
value. Previously I had the most beautiful silver and gold Fossil watch which I
bought in the US in 2003, which was stolen in 2012, and still when I think
about it, I wish I was able to replace it. Last week (the last week of October)
I had a dream of a huge open truck, loaded fully with the ashes of everything I
experienced as loss throughout my life. I was woken up by my spirit and led to
pray that I should cut myself loose from those things I have lost. I did that,
even though I didn’t want to acknowledge to myself that some things I will
never get back. So, I really, really did not want to let go of this piece of
fine jewellery. I didn’t even want to journal in this time, which I often do,
writing what I feel Holy Spirit is speaking to me, for fear that it would make
his instructions final and undeniable. </span></span></span></div>
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it. So, eventually I decided to make a plan to manipulate the situation to see
if I can keep my pearls through some clever God-allowed scheming. <i>“Wise as a serpent, gentle as a dove”</i>. I
decided to find clothes I hardly wear anymore or could live without and cheaper
jewellery in my closet and ask the lady if she wanted to have it. I was going
to lay out about ten pieces of cheaper jewellery (made of small sea shells or
beads etc), amongst which would be the pearls, and tell her to choose five
strings. I would then tell her beforehand that God wants me to give a specific
string, but I will let her choose, and if she chooses that string, then I will
ask her to only borrow it for a while, because maybe He just wants to deliver a
message to her in a tangible way, such as that He really loves and values her.
So she chose the pearls amongst others... and when she scooped it up along with
the others without looking and adoring it for one second longer than all the
rest, as if it was just another string of cheap jewellery, my heart throbbed in
my throat, and I couldn’t let it go... I told her that that was the string that
I felt God wanted me to give, but could she please only borrow it and give it
back whenever she feels ready. What a relief I felt when she decided not to
take it at all, saying <i>“you are not yet
done with it”.</i> I responded only with the thought <i>“I will never be ‘done’ with it”.</i> She left happily with a bag full
of stuff I valued less than the pearls (and almost all of the jewellery – she
liked more than five strings, so she took it, without apology). <b>What shocked me the most, was that I
realised she had absolutely no understanding and appreciation for the great
difference in value between the pearls and the cheap jewellery. There was no
emotion of awe on her face, of shock that I would want to give something so
expensive away so easily, no emotion of <i>“wow,
do you really want to give it to ME?”. </i>I think that if she were knowledgeable
and aware of the value of the pearls, and greatly amazed that I would want to
give it to <u>her</u>, there could’ve been a chance that I would let go of it.
But since there was clearly no indication of appreciating its value, I couldn’t
get it over my heart to let it go...</b></span></span></span></div>
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pearls, but the only problem was, I didn’t feel the release from the Holy
Spirit. My scheming didn’t impress Him. At one point during all my reasoning
with Holy Spirit, I said “<i>thank You for
releasing me from this instruction”</i>. He answered <i>“I didn’t release you”</i>.... Ugh... </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So, for the first time ever in my 23
years of knowing Him, I tried to bargain with Him. I tried all sorts of
reasoning to get out of this. If Moses could reason with God to spare the
Israelites when they made the calf, so could I. If my friend could make a deal
with God, which she successfully did according to her testimony, and change His
mind about something, so could I. Or I would say to Him <i>“fulfil only one of the promises You gave me, and I will do it; I have
sacrificed enough – it is Your turn to fulfil a promise in my life”</i>. Or <i>“give me a supernatural experience with You like
no other I have had, and I will do it”.</i> Or <i>“speak to me audibly, and I will do it”.</i> Or <i>“send someone who will tell me in exact words to do what I hear You are
telling me to do, and I will do it”.</i> One time one of my pastors even asked
from the “pulpit” <i>“if there are people
who know they are being disobedient to the voice of the Holy Spirit, come
forward”</i> (to confess and repent). I went, but did not change my mind. One
time before a prayer meeting I made up my mind to obey the next day, but right
after the prayer meeting I reversed my decision again! I even asked a friend to
ask God for me if I were being disobedient, hoping that it was the devil
tormenting me, so that he could just be chased away, but He wouldn’t answer her
question and showed her nothing about my situation. And then another pastor
would come and pray for me and, without knowing anything, would say <i>“the Lord says ‘you are faithful and
obedient, and it’s all I want’”</i>, after which I would hear his voice echo in
my mind <i>“you are obedient; that is who
you are; act according to who you are and be obedient”</i>. And then I would
try and drown out that voice with some kind of reasoning. This sort of
reasoning went on for weeks. One day while I was reasoning with Him again, He said <i>"why do you limit Me like this?" </i>I back-chatted Him, <i>"I'm not limiting You</i>..." and tried to think of something to prove Him wrong, but failed. Those who know me know how much I love God and
the presence of the Holy Spirit, so for me to speak to God in this way is
extremely unusual. Very few times in my life did I get angry at Him;
heartbroken over his choices for me - many times, but angry and arrogant -
very seldom. I felt that perhaps God wanted my level of trust in Him to
increase, and my releasing the pearls would do it. I felt that perhaps He
wanted me to get to a higher level of obedience, because He wanted to entrust
greater spiritual responsibility to me. And I ‘coincidentally’ read something I
have written myself, perhaps last year sometime, about the sacrifices of the
Old Covenant. <b>I wrote that the
sacrifices were to God like a sweet smelling aroma, not because He likes the
death of an animal, but because of what it cost the person who brought the
sacrifice. A person’s obedience shows the value he has placed in God. And when
you give a gift to someone, the value of that gift is determined by how much it
hurt you to give it, </b>even if only in Rands (or Dollars), i.e. how many
hours you had to work to be able to afford to give it. </span></span></span></div>
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November 2019, we had a conference at church and Vance Murphy from the US
addressed us. He spoke about Acts 2:42, a verse I know very well and have spent
time in writing and advocating that we should follow the example of the early
church (See my blog post: “Let’s bring back the love feasts!” - 2017). He also
spoke about bringing the first fruits to the house of God, and about Ananias
and Sapphira falling down dead after lying to the Holy Spirit and to the
apostles. That was enough to put the fear of God back into me! I could not
disobey Him any longer. I realised that I “coincidentally” had the pearls in my
vehicle that night, and in an instant felt that I should “hand it over” to a
very specific “elder”, someone from whom I have received much spiritual
treasures over the past three years, someone who values me and loves me and
have given of her time to me and many others. If I was going to let go of the
pearls, let it at least be to someone who deserves to have it (in my eyes). After
the preaching we were called to the front for individual ministry by the
visiting team from the US. The power of the Holy Spirit was visibly and tangibly
present. As I was sitting there, I started crying. I cried, and cried - loudly,
like a child... it was as if all the
feelings of loss that I have recently been experiencing, those which I had not yet
cried over, suddenly surfaced, along with the thought of letting go of the
pearls. I also felt that I had only a window of opportunity with no room for
disobedience this time around. So I hurried to get it from my vehicle, and if I
could run, I would’ve. I went to sit next to the “elder” on the red carpet in
front of the “pulpit”, still crying, and fighting the tears to be able to talk.
I explained to her that God wanted me to give it, and that I couldn’t give it
to the one I first felt He directed me to. In a sense I was relieved that God
allowed me this option, one that I felt peace about, and one that was easier to
obey, since there is an appreciation of each other’s value between us. In that
moment I didn’t know if I was to give it to her to personally wear, or for her
to just keep it for a while, or sell it, or give it to someone else that God
would point out to her. All I knew was that I couldn’t have it in my possession
any longer. It had become a hurdle in my relationship with Holy Spirit and it
robbed me of my peace. So she sat with me for a while, praying in tongues,
until I calmed down. I went back to my seat, thinking over what had happened,
but felt a definite relief and that I did the right thing. I also felt led to lie
on the floor, flat on my stomach and asked God to wash me clean of all the
disobedience during the past number of months or weeks – I don’t even know how
long it took me to get to this point. I strongly felt his presence and knew I
was clean. </span></span></span></div>
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first understandable words (not in tongues) since I gave her the pearls (in a
black velvet sachet). She had not yet opened it. She said <i>“I don’t know what you gave to me, but I kept on hearing this word
‘upgrade, upgrade, upgrade’ and I saw the Lord mixing something (like in a bowl)
and mixed in there is the pain that you are feeling, but it is like a <b>fragrant offering</b> to Him and He says
that He is going to give you your heart's desire – <b>open heavens</b>...” </i>And at those words
<i>“open heavens” </i>I released a loud cry
from relief and joy in hearing that God is answering my prayers, because
despite all the material losses I have felt, my heart’s greatest desire, even
above all the promises I still need to see fulfilled, is to go deeper and
higher in relationship with the Lord than ever before, to walk in my spiritual
destiny and to move forward and upwards, even though in the natural it looks
like I am not progressing in any way materially. Most of my prayers and
thoughts over the past months have revolved around this theme: breaking through
and ascending higher spiritually, and most people did not know this, the
“elder” included. So this was the best news that the “elder” could give me at
that point in time! </span></span></span></div>
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asleep. I couldn’t stop thinking about the value of those pearls, and tried to
understand why I cried so much having to give up something so earthly and so
temporary. I realised only then that it represented all of the uncontrolled losses
over the years. In giving that to Him (because I really gave it to Him and not
to a person), I demonstrated that He is still more important to me than having
earthly riches, and that I will continue to obey Him (eventually!) even when it
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why the pearls were so valuable to me. The next evening at the conference,
during worship, I realised why it was important to me to have the “elder”
understand the value of the pearls, and how the Lord used this whole incident
to give me greater revelation of the role of the cross in his relationship with
human beings. He needed me to write about it in the book that I am busy
completing (of which the intercessor ladies at the conference in Hermanus in
2005 prophesied!). Someone who gives something of personal value away needs to
see a sign of appreciation from the person who received the gift. The giver
then feels valued as a person and is likely to continue giving gifts to that
specific receiver. The receiver therefore needs to understand the value of what
was given, in order to show appreciation appropriately, relative to the value
of the gift. Even the appropriate facial
expression and choice of words can be enough. And the lack thereof can make a
huge difference in the attitude of the giver, causing him to say “<i>I’m not giving anything to him ever again</i>”. </span></span></span></div>
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the Holy Spirit definitely does not represent the character of Jesus, and I am
reminded of the words of Jesus, explaining how difficult it is for rich people
to enter into heaven (Matt.19:24). I am a 100% sure that my relationship with
the Lord would’ve been halted and stagnated if I didn’t obey Him in letting go
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give to someone who had no interest in knowing my heart, but only in what I can
give, definitely represents God’s way of responding to such people. I was created
in his image and since it is important to Him that we seek Him for relationship
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that, because Jesus died on the cross, all of humankind will be saved, whether
in this life or the next. In this life people just need to “become aware” of
the fact that they are already one with their Creator, and that any sense of
separation is only an illusion and not the real truth. Others say that because
Jesus was the “Lamb that was slain before the creation of the world”, no one in
all of history was ever really lost. In the end all of us will arrive in the
same place, which is heaven. It would’ve been nice for those who never chose
Jesus in this life, to receive eternal life anyway, and I am sure that if it
was like that, us who chose Him in this life, would’ve accepted his choice to
save all of mankind, whether they believed or not, because at least we would’ve
still enjoyed knowing Him in this life already. But the problem is that nowhere
in Scripture is it taught that this will be the case. To believe that people
will be saved irrespective of what they believe about Him and how they respond
as a result of their faith, is making Him a liar, and who wants to have a lord
and king that is a liar (Matt.7:19-23)? It is very clear in Scripture that the
separation between mankind and God was and is very real and only personal faith
in and union with Jesus can heal that separation wound. I elaborate on this
greatly in my book, exploring most of the relevant passages of Scripture from
Genesis to Revelation.</span></span></span></div>
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Lord highlighted a truth that was revealed to me before. It is a truth of great
importance and it therefore needs to be preached in this day and age. This is a
summary of his message through the story of Him that I am writing: <b>The cross and resurrection is not a
transaction, but an invitation to a wedding celebration and everlasting Life
with the Saviour of our souls. </b>Those who have treated it over the centuries
as a transaction, tend to preach that it is because of the cross that we are
set free. Technically this is not the whole truth. What happened through the
cross and resurrection was meant to reveal to us the character of God in the
most dramatic way possible, <b>in order for
us to be able to see clearly and therefore make the right choice.</b> We were
meant to see the extent, the greatness of his Mercy, the full value which could
only be witnessed and understood when He extended forgiveness to the ones who
killed his Son. At the cross, the greatest Mercy was revealed in the face of
the greatest sin, which is the rejection and killing of the Son of God. The greatest
Light was seen against the backdrop of the greatest darkness. The invitation is
this: <i>“Understand the value of the Gift I
am giving you, the Gift of Mercy and Life, which is embodied in the death of My
Son. Then, <b>make the choice to accept the
Gift</b>, and come, have Life. Like a bride to the Bridegroom, you have the
choice to say ‘yes’ to My Son.” </i>The cross happened and was meant to benefit
all of mankind; therefore we say that “Jesus died for all”. BUT, not all people
<u>receive</u> the free Gift of Mercy, Forgiveness and Life that is offered in
the package of Jesus Christ. The covenant that God made with mankind has always
been based on his Love and Mercy, <u>and</u> our choice to respond in faith. So,
the truth is that it is because of OUR FAITH in the cross and resurrection of
Jesus Christ that we CAN be set free. Our faith is the sign that the Father is
looking for, the sign of appreciation and acknowledgment of the value of Jesus
Christ. It hurt the Father immensely to give up his Son in order to reveal to
us his Mercy. The value of his Gift to us is immeasurable. If we don’t give Him
the sign that we value Him, the Gift, we CANNOT have the Gift! The Father will not give his most treasured Pearl to the one who will not show appreciation by way of FAITH, which is proven by actions that follow faith (refer back to Jesus’
words in Matt.7, and also according to what James teaches –James 2:14, 17-18, 20-26). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And after we have come to faith in
Jesus initially, and keep on valuing Him, which is shown in our obedience to
Him (He said <i>“if you love Me, you will
obey Me”- John.14:15;23-24</i>), He will continue to give us more heavenly
gifts, for example as He told me, <i>“open
heavens”</i>. The person who treats Jesus in a way to only try and get from Him
what He can give and do, as if He were a genie in a lamp, will receive nothing
of real value from Him. What He wants from us is a response that shows our
appreciation of his value, a response of desire for union and intimacy with
Him. What we will continue to receive as a result of the correct response is of
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Will we sell (or give away) our
“pearls of great price” in order to have Him, our Pearl of Great Price
(Matt.13:45-46). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The revelation that I received
through my act of obedience (thanks to his persistence and patience with me!)
is of greater value than a string of the best pearls, especially if it will
inspire people to greater intimacy with the One who deserves that we give Him
our very best! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">What will happen to the pearls? I am
so glad it is out of my hands. But after all of this, its value increased even
more… </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">To be continued....</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">(I continued writing the next day)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This morning (5 Nov) I felt that I
wanted to lie at the feet of Jesus again. I thought about the pearls again. I
thought of how pearls are formed when a grain of sand or some other foreign
object enters an oyster, and the oyster produces a pearl around it. I thought
of my broken and non-aligned kneecap and wiring (a literal foreign object) in
my knee and hope that it has somehow produced a beautiful pearl in me that I
can worship Jesus with, which is represented by one of the pearls in that
string. I realised that there were many difficult, challenging and painful
times in my life and each one of them is represented by a pearl on that string.
Each time we face a challenge, or heartache, or a loss, or pain, or whatever it
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invisible beautiful pearl is created. So, this morning, through my tears, I
said to Him <i>“You alone are worthy of my
pearls. I’ve given them to You because You alone are worthy of them. I worship
You with all the pearls You have created in me. I return them to You as
worship. It is all for You and for Your glory. Do with them what You want. They
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<![endif]-->Anitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084188952984083644noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643383932781952464.post-32622172005062083052019-03-11T18:43:00.001+02:002019-03-21T10:30:28.314+02:00The message of your cross<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When Jesus started his ministry on
earth, He started by stating his purpose for coming, saying that He had come to
bring a message, which is to proclaim and teach about the Kingdom of God (</span><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Luke 4:43</span><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">). He
did this through words and actions throughout his 3 years of ministry. He
performed many miracles, and He said to those who didn’t believe his message,
to believe the works that He did (John 10:38). Satan deceived and blinded
mankind which necessitated the Father to send Jesus to come down to help us see
the truth again (of course the Father had decided this before the foundation of
the world, because satan had already rebelled and God knew that mankind would
be vulnerable to satan’s deception). Therefore Jesus was hated by those who
were deceived by satan, and they were responsible for his death, which God the
Father allowed for the purposes that He had determined beforehand. Before He
went to the cross, Jesus prayed and stated that He had completed the work that
the Father gave Him to do (John 17:4), and He mentioned what it was, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I have revealed Your name to the people
whom you gave Me out of the world… the words that You gave to Me I have given
to them and they accepted it … and they believed that You sent Me”</i> (John
17:6-8). Jesus’ purpose for coming was to reveal to people who the Father was
through the message that was delivered in words and actions. Before the ascension Jesus delegated this work and gave the great command to his
disciples to continue the work that He had started, to preach the gospel of the
Kingdom (to deliver the same message) and to make disciples as He did
(Matt.28:18-20). The message that Jesus came to bring to mankind was that of a
Creator God who loves like no other, and who has mercy on sinful man, a message
of forgiveness, healing, freedom and restoration, and of eternal life with an
eternal God. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Most of you reading here will know
about the trial I have been through concerning my left knee. After two failed
operations I am in need of a miracle. I believe that God could’ve given success
at the first operation, but He didn’t, even though we prayed for success. He
then allowed the second operation, also without success, because based on
everything He has been telling me, I believe that He wanted me to come
completely to the end of my rope, so that there was nothing I or anyone else
could do for my knee. I could ask for a financial miracle so that I could go
for a third operation, but I don’t believe that it is his will (my medical aid
will only allow another operation in 9 months). If He wanted to heal me through
the hands of man, He could’ve done it at the first opportunity. So I trusted,
waited, prayed, fasted, and many people from all over the world laid hands on
me and prayed (I fellowship in Iris Revival Church where we receive many
missionaries from all over the world). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">During the last couple of months
especially, I have been receiving messages from God, directly or through other
people that it is time to rest and that I should delight myself in the Lord; I
have to be full of joy. But I thought and prayed, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“God, don’t You know how full of joy I will be if you will just heal my
knee and also fulfil the promises You’ve made to me, if You will only do this
and that and the other…?”</i> I didn’t understand the messages of joy and rest
while my healing wasn’t taking place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A few weeks ago I had a great
expectation for his supernatural healing on a very specific day. I was prayed
for by pastor Surprise and Edi and some others, and the Holy Spirit was
obviously present and something must’ve happened in the spirit, but my kneecap
from heaven wasn’t delivered. I felt very disappointed. I had done and prayed
everything I could think of and even felt led by the Holy Spirit to do, but
with no success. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Over the next few days I started
feeling that the only thing left to do, was to surrender completely to God, not
as another thing I could do to get Him to heal me, but just to surrender
whatever may come, healing or no healing. I was inspired by the song “I raise a
Hallelujah” from Bethel. All that was left to do was to surrender and praise
God, come what may. So that is what I did. I basically said, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Father, I don’t understand, but I trust,
and I surrender”</i>. After that surrender I was so surprised at how clearly He
started speaking to me and revealed this message I am sharing here. I heard Him
say: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I set up the privileges and
responsibilities in your life…. And I even set up the disappointments, because
how will you be relevant in this world if you don’t go through the same disappointments
as other people do?”</i> I was a bit taken aback by these words, but He
continued to speak and I realised that He was delivering a powerful message to
me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus did not only deliver his
message to us through his words and miracles. But while Jesus was being tortured and dying, I believe the Father continued to deliver the message through his dying Son. Everything He said on the cross, and
the way He handled his suffering, was part of the message about who the Father
his. The first three things He said revealed that while being in the greatest
amount of pain one could think of, He wasn’t consumed by his own need, but the
needs of others. He told John to take care of his mom, Mary. He told the sinner
next to him that he would enter paradise that day, and He prayed to the Father
to forgive his murderers, because of their ignorance. His next two statements
showed his humanity: He was thirsty, completely emptied out physically and
spiritually, and He felt even separated from the Father. His last two
statements wrapped things up. Tetelestai. It was done. Everything that the
Father had to allow to happen was completed. And then Jesus surrendered his
Spirit to the Father. He trusted his Spirit into the very hands of the One who
allowed all of this to happen to Him. Complete surrender. Complete obedience.
Complete submission to the will of the Father. If Jesus was a mere human being
and didn’t understand what was going on, He could’ve said “Father, I don’t
understand, but I trust, and I surrender”. But Jesus did understand what it was
all about, and He knew that the resurrection awaited Him, as John explains when
Jesus said <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“destroy this Temple and in
three days I will raise it up” </i>(John 2:19-21). Jesus was the real Temple. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus suffered in such a way that the
Roman Centurion exclaimed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Truly this was
the Son of God!”</i> </span><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">(Matt.27:54). </span><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He had seen nobody else die in the
way that Jesus died, in a Godly way, without sinning. Not one vile word came
from his mouth. He didn’t curse man and He didn’t curse God. Jesus said <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“When I am lifted up from the earth I will
draw all to Myself</i>” (John 12:32-33). I believe that what He referred to is
the fact that we see the nature of God so clearly in the Godly way in which
Jesus suffered and when people’s spiritual eyes open up to see God through the
suffering of Jesus, then we are attracted by what we see about Him. Because
Jesus was the perfect man, the second Adam, He also suffered perfectly, without
ever sinning, and that’s why people could see God in Him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And this was my great revelation: The
cross and resurrection of Christ is a pattern for our own suffering and our
breakthroughs. Jesus, when He had finished delivering his message, the very
purpose for which He came to earth, and when He had fully surrendered and been
fully obedient, He was ready for his Resurrection. Jesus came to deliver the
greatest message of all time, a message that pointed mankind to the real God,
the eternal God who created us for fellowship and unity with Him. All of us who
now belong to Christ, are “little Christs”, which is the meaning of the word “Christians”,
and each one of us also carry a message to the world. If Christ was a big
letter written by God the Father to the world, then all of us are smaller
letters being delivered. Sometimes we will deliver our message through the words
and the works that the Holy Spirit do through us. Other times He will deliver
his message through our suffering or trials - first to us, until we surrender,
and secondly through us, to the world. No wonder that Jesus said <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“if someone wants to come after Me, let him disregard
himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me”</i>(Luke 9:23-24). If you have
picked up your cross, where are you going with that cross? To be crucified of
course. We must allow our sinful flesh to be crucified in the fire of our trial
that God has to allow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus didn’t need any character
development while He suffered, because He was already perfect and sinless. But
we the seed of the first Adam, still sin, and so God may allow our suffering
for a time, because in and through the fire, our desperation causes us to draw
closer to God in intimacy. He allows the suffering to gain our full attention,
because He wants us to go deeper in relationship with Him. It is like a Father who has something in his hands that we need or want, but He will not give it until we look at his face long enough to hear what He has in his heart for us. Sometimes we want what is in his hands, but what is more important to acquire is that which is in his heart, his message to us and which He wants to send through us to the world.When we are closer
to Him, He changes us more into the image of Christ, so that we will shine
brighter for others to see His light shining through us, so that they will be
drawn to Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is more concerned with
our character than our comfort, for our character is the only thing that we can
take with us into eternity (Rick Joyner’s revelation). When we shine bright in
the midst of our suffering, people who don’t know God, sees that, and they are
drawn to the light, which gives us an opportunity to testify about the God that
enables us, whose grace is sufficient for us amidst our trial. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What Holy Spirit also revealed to me,
is that when I have this eternal perspective, that my trial have the higher
purpose of being a channel for a message from heaven, then my joy, my peace and
my rest must not be determined by my circumstances. In Psalm 16:11 it says that
in the presence of God is fullness of joy. Not in my circumstances, but in his
presence. It became clear to me that because I have relationship with an
eternal God, I can always have an eternal perspective, and a joy and peace that
are eternally sourced. I don’t have to and must not wait for my circumstances
to change to experience fullness of joy! In fact, my circumstances may never
change until I have learnt and experienced fullness of joy only because I am in
his presence! What if He waits for us to get this revelation before He changes
our circumstances?! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But I believe God is faithful, and if
we are determined to follow in Jesus’ footsteps, to be fully obedient and fully
submissive, and if we will endure to the end, and when we start looking like
Jesus, not only when it’s going well with us, but while we are in a trial, and
when He has delivered a message to us and through us, then we will experience a
kind of resurrection, like Job did, where God will restore us to a state that
is better than we were before. So let us be encouraged by the ultimate example
of this, that of Jesus Christ, our Messiah, the very Son of God! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Our suffering can be as a result of
sin, but it can also be just that God allowed it for his purposes in and through
us. When we have sickness or injury in our body, God can heal us instantly like
Jesus healed so many people just because God loves us and because He is good.
When God doesn’t heal us instantly, it might be the trial that He has chosen to
allow for the purposes I have mentioned. We should never assume that someone is
sick or injured because of sin in their life, and we should never accuse them
of not having enough faith for healing. We need to ask God how we are supposed
to support that person and love that person through their trial. There is a
saying in the world<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: “when times are
hard, friends are few”.</i> It should NOT and must not be the case in the
church. We need to be aware of each other’s trials and we need to support each
other more through our trials, because this also sends out a message to the
world. Jesus said, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“by this everyone will
know that you are My disciples – if you have love for one another (</i>John 13:35<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">).”</i> There is a good chance that some divine
message is being downloaded into every person who is going through a trial with
the help of the Holy Spirit, so make sure to spend time with them for you will
be the one walking away blessed and enriched. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Imagine, if we as the body of Christ
can really grasp this message, there is absolutely nothing that the enemy can
throw at us that is able to stop us or silence us. This is the enemy’s aim. He
always tries to get us into a state of depression. He hopes that we will be
discouraged, that we will be silenced, that we will draw away from God, and
that we will become ineffective because of the attacks. But if we can imagine
how much God the Father loved Jesus while He was hanging on the cross, even
while Jesus felt as if the Father had forsaken Him: the Father was right there,
having nothing but love in his heart for his Son. God the Father LOVES us and
is drawing us close to Him through our trials. If we as the body of Christ can
learn that we can always have joy despite our trials and circumstances, if we
can always keep an eternal perspective, and can always trust that God knows
what He is doing, and if we will endure to the end, He will be faithful to the
end, and we will be a force in the world to be reckoned with! We CAN be
victorious just as Jesus was victorious, especially since we already have his resurrection
power working inside of us. Jesus is going with us through our cross. He said <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I am with you all the days up to the end of
the age.”</i> (Matt.28:20)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Someone might argue that this
approach means to say that what Jesus “did on the cross” was not enough, was
not “finished”, and that there is something more that we need to do. The exact
opposite is true. What I am trying to communicate is not a message of having to
do something in order to be victorious, but of deciding to cease from all our self-effort
and striving, everything we think we need to do to try and earn the
breakthrough, and a message of entering the place of rest, the place of full
surrender, full submission, fullness of joy, of complete peace and of praising
and worshipping while enduring all the way, despite our feelings and
circumstances, for when we have reached that place, I believe God will “raise us
up” at exactly the right time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A few days ago I was again tested
and challenged by this message. I had an expectation of another kind (not
healing), and I was disappointed. But I knew better than to allow the enemy to
distract me with a disappointment. God wants us to know that the enemy will
always try to distract us from what He wants us to be in this world, and he
will always try to steal our joy and dim our light. And so God needs us to
learn how to never allow a personal disappointment to succeed in getting us to
a place of depression and ineffectiveness. So I chose to “raise a hallelujah”,
to say to God, with tears running down my face, that “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that thing will not matter in eternity, so I will not allow it to
matter now. Thank You for the fullness of joy in Your presence. Fill me up with
Your peace and Your joy.”</i> I can testify that my feelings of disappointment
ended there and I did not enter a state of depression, and the rest of that day
and thereafter was wonderful! If God sometimes sets us up for disappointments,
it is only to allow us the opportunity to learn to press into his presence, so
that we can become a focussed army that will remain full of joy and victorious
no matter what the enemy throws at us. We can come against the attacks of the
enemy in the powerful Name of Jesus, and we must seek his face always to hear
from Him if there are open doors in our lives (sin, either personal or
generational) which gives legal ground and makes it easy for the enemy to steal
from us, but when we always keep an eternal perspective, and if our peace and
joy is always eternally sourced, we will always, always be victorious, no
matter why we are attacked, whether because of sin or just because God allowed
it for his kingdom purposes in our lives. Everything the enemy throws at us
with the intention to destroy us, God will turn and work for our good, so the
only one that will be left feeling frustrated will be the enemy himself. The
presence of troubles in our lives does not mean the absence of God. Every
trouble and every trial is only an opportunity to grow victorious muscles. So
let us learn to praise and worship God especially in hard times, because, when
we access that eternally sourced joy, that joy will be our strength that we
need during these times!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the meantime, my suggestion is to do
like Jesus: look away from yourself and find someone whom you can bless with
your words or prayer or in any other way. Sow into the area where you want to
reap a harvest. If you need healing, sow prayers of healing. If you need a
financial breakthrough, give something away to someone in need. If you want a
family, sow into family life in another way, perhaps by inviting spiritual
family over for dinner. If you want to be successful in business, or ministry,
serve in someone else’s business or ministry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When we have surrendered, when we
have changed, when we have received and delivered the message, the breakthrough
will come! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Have you heard of people who had
illnesses or injuries that healed as they were preaching? I have heard of at
least three such instances, Heidi Baker being one of them. I believe the reason
why God does that is based on this revelation: sometimes God delivers the
message through our suffering or trial, which is when people are most receptive
of the message. I therefore don’t believe it is wrong of me to expect my
miracle on a day and in a moment while I will be sharing this message. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Please pray with me that everything
that needs to be accomplished will be accomplished in my life. I am looking forward
to my “resurrection”. For the joy set before me, I endure this “cross”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It doesn't make sense to the rational mind to pray this, but "Thank You Lord for the privilege of getting to go through disappointments and trials, so that we can become more like Jesus, and so that the world can relate to us, and we get the opportunity to communicate your messages to them through the way we handle our trials and disappointments."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">God is keeping us in the palm of his hand. Everything that happens to us in life is firstly only temporary. The way we handle them, determines if and what its eternal value will be!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">The greatest example we have from history and from Scripture that God
allows suffering for his kingdom purposes is the suffering of Christ. That was
God’s grace. The meaning of the word grace is ‘gift’, something that is given
which the one receiving doesn’t have to or cannot deserve. The suffering of
Christ is God’s gift to humankind. How is that possible? How can such a
terrible event be a gift from God? I explore the significance and the sense in
Christ’s suffering and death in the book I am busy writing. We look to Christ
for encouragement because we can identify with Him in his sufferings. And so we
who are Christians, a term which literally means “little Christs”, when we follow in Christ’s
footsteps, we will not be spared from suffering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The work that God needs to do in us and through us can sometimes only come through the pain of the "cross". Jesus said "take up your cross..."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Phil 3:8-11 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“... I even consider all
things to be loss because of the surpassing greatness of the knowledge of
Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom I have suffered the loss of all
things, and consider them dung, on order that I may gain Christ and may be
found in Him.... through faith in Christ<u>... so that I may know Him and the
power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings</u>, being
conformed to death, if somehow I may attain to the resurrection from the dead” </i>(LEB)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">1 Pet 4:13<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> “But to the degree that
you <u>share in the sufferings of Christ</u>, rejoice, so that also at the
revelation of his glory you may rejoice <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and</span>
be glad.” (LEB)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Although much has been written about “why bad things happen God’s people”,
I don’t think I’ve ever read someone else’s view on the topic. It is not a
comfortable topic to read or talk about. In this article I write from my
personal experience of pain and difficulty, and from my personal viewpoint
based on what God has revealed to me through his Spirit and Word. But this is
more than a statement about the purpose of our suffering. It contains a
prophetic message to the body of Christ which I believe I will continue to talk
about for the rest of my life, one of the most important messages I will bring
as a servant of God to the body of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is only the beginning of my message, the introduction... </span></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Extract: </span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">All of us will go through some
kind of suffering to a certain extent. We were never promised a life without
suffering. Sometimes God will allow us to suffer and then we need to suffer in
a godly way and I can truly testify that in those times of great pain and
extreme weakness, it is easier to experience the presence of Holy Spirit the
strongest. I’ve had deep and intimate experiences in His Presence during my
time of great pain and I believe it was revealed to me that I am sharing in the
sufferings of Christ just because I am in Christ. Those are the most precious
times. That is when you consider that what happened to you is a gift from God
because it takes you to a level of intimacy, a level of maturity, a level of
authority in Christ where you have not been before. (Not all suffering comes as
a result of sin or bad choices. The suffering is not punishment from God. Just
as I believe Job’s suffering was not punishment from God for his sins. Just as
the suffering of Jesus was not punishment from God for his sins.) And sometimes
you will recover what you have lost. You may regain your health. You may heal from your emotional wounds. Your body may
be healed and you will only have the scars to show the damage that was done to
you, but you will have had this rich, rich experience with God’s Spirit, your
spirit man will have grown and you will have acquired riches in heaven that no
money on earth can buy. But other times you will not recover what you have
lost. You will lose a child, a friend, a husband, a wife, a sister, a mother, a father, a brother,
a cousin. You will lose someone and that person will never return. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">That wound in your heart will heal </span></i>but you will
never get that one person back. However, when you have been strengthened by Christ, you
will be able to strengthen others with words of encouragement that there is a
light at the end of the tunnel, that the healing will come. Other people will
be able to identify with you in your pain and you have the opportunity to
encourage them to keep going, to keep putting one foot in front of the other.
And there is the hope that one day in heaven we will see all of them. All of
them that knew the Lord, we will see them. And we will rejoice and there will
only be joy and no more tears, no more darkness, no more sadness, no more brokenness,
no more sin, no more pride, no more jealousy, no more walls around our hearts.
There will only be God, and light, and Jesus and Holy Spirit, and the angels
and the people that we loved. And it will only be good. And so this life of
suffering is temporary. </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">We have one chance to suffer
well. It is in this life because when this life is over there is no more chance
of suffering well. So let’s not run away from our suffering. Let’s face our
suffering head on with Jesus Christ as our perfect example; He went before us,
the One who didn’t spare Himself the suffering. And we will not be spared
either. But when we suffer in Christ, when we share in the sufferings of
Christ, we will be comforted. There is great value in that.</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Background</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">On 18 September 2018 at a prayer meeting, the Holy Spirit started talking
to me about a topic I am not unfamiliar with. I thought it was a prophetic word
for one of the ladies in the meeting, but little did I know how soon after I
received this reminder of the purpose of suffering, it would hit me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">At the prayer meeting I saw in my mind’s eye an image of a lighthouse on
the rocks. There’s a storm and the waves are beating against the lighthouse,
but it remains steady and strong and it keeps shining the light, indicating to
ships on the ocean where land is. When we go through difficult times, facing
the storms and the trials of this life, through the Holy Spirit dwelling inside
of us, we are able, and we should be the shining examples of God’s strength
made perfect in our weakness (2 Cor 12:8-10). We can be the pillar, the strong
one in the family, the community, the workplace, because his Holy Spirit inside
of us strengthens us and enables us to be the light towers in our world,
showing those who don’t know Him, those caught up in storms without Him, where
land is, where He is. God has to allow righteous suffering in the lives of his
children, (Rom 5:3-5; James 1:2-4; 1 Pet 1:6-8), firstly because it makes us
relevant in this broken, fallen world. We develop compassion for those who are
going through challenging, painful times, so that we will know how to love and
support them. And others who are suffering can relate to us in our suffering,
and we then have an opportunity to point them to Christ who strengthens us in
our weakness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suffering also causes us
to cry out to God, and He always responds to his children who are desperately
crying out to Him. It is during those times that we draw closer to Him, and
when our characters grow the most to become more like Him. It is extremely
important how we handle the suffering, because our lives have to testify of
God’s goodness not only when we feel blessed with what the world sees as “good
things”, but also when we don’t feel so blessed, when we’ve been blessed with
the “gift” of pain. The light from the light tower must shine especially
brightly during the storm! The way we handle those situations, the way we allow
Holy Spirit to strengthen us in those situations, determine the brightness of
the Light that shines through us for others to see. So God will often not take
us out of those situations quickly. Sometimes God will allow us to stay in the
storm for a while because He knows that his Light through us will shine
brightest against the backdrop of the dark storm. Somebody needs to see the
Light more than we need for the storm to calm down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Why did the Roman Centurion and others who stood at the cross of Christ,
proclaim that “truly, this was the Son of God”, only after Jesus breathed his
last breath (Matt 27:54)? I believe that the Holy Spirit revealed to me that
one of the things that they saw was that Jesus suffered and died in such a
Godly way, that God’s Spirit at work in Him was undeniable. Indeed, He had to
be the Son of God (1 Pet 2:21-23). Jesus said “And I, when I am lifted up from
the earth, will draw all <i>people</i> to myself.” (John 12:32-33). Could it be
that what Jesus meant was that in the way in which He would suffer and die,
people would be able to see God in Him and be drawn by what they see? A friend
of mine had a dream about a “pain offering”. So I believe that sometimes God
allows the circumstances in which we can bring that “pain offering” for the
sake of others, but for our own sake as well. Rick Joyner says: “The Lord does
not always come to excite us—at times He comes in silence, and demands silence
to do a surgery on our hearts.”</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">The story</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">The following weekend I was with my family at a holiday resort (Die Eiland),
where I slid down the super slide many times over two days, accompanying my
little niece and nephew. On Sunday the 23rd of September, late in the
afternoon, I told the little 4-year old that this was to be the last slide for
the day. She agreed. Once again we went up the many wet and slippery steps to
the top. About 10 steps to go, my foot slipped and with my left kneecap, and my
full body weight behind it, I hit the ridge of a step. I’ll spare you the
details of initial emotions amidst the shock and trauma, but what is worth
mentioning, is the fact that I did not feel close to God for the rest of that
day. It felt as if He was absent, even though I knew people were praying for me
(lying on my back on the wet floor, waiting for around an hour for paramedics
to arrive, I asked for my phone to be handed to me so I could send messages to
ask people to pray). I know in reality God is always present, but it is not how
I felt during those first hours. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my
mind I kept asking God “why?” Why did He allow this to happen to me? But no
answer came. I was reminded of the words of Jesus on the cross, “My God, My
God, why have You forsaken Me?”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">(I don’t believe that it was possible for God to forsake Jesus, for Jesus
declared “we are One” John 10:30. Since Jesus was completely human and suffered
like us, He experienced the same kinds of emotions. In the darkest moments of
your life, every one of us will feel as if God has left the room. In reality He
never leaves us, never forsakes us, but in your moment of great pain and
weakness it will feel as if He is not your caring, loving Father, as if He is
not personally involved. It will feel as if He has forsaken you. A good article
on this topic can be found at<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;"><a href="https://melwild.wordpress.com/2014/11/24/the-father-did-not-abandon-jesus/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%;">https://melwild.wordpress.com/2014/11/24/the-father-did-not-abandon-jesus/</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Despite the shock and trauma on that day, I noticed something. All of the
people who attended to me, the first responders, the paramedics, the doctor in
the casualty ward, were all so friendly, so helpful, so patient and so
compassionate. At least three of them revealed that they were children of God.
One prayed for me in the ambulance. Even though I didn’t feel his presence
spiritually, I saw God in the people who attended to me. I saw his hand. I saw
his provision. All the logistics ran smoothly and everyone we encountered were
skilled and friendly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">I was taken by ambulance to hospital. The x-rays revealed a broken kneecap,
a clean break which caused the two pieces to move away from each other. I
needed an operation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">That night in hospital, as the pain meds had worked out and the nurses had
not yet topped it up, I was just crying in agony, and praying, in faith <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“thank You Lord for relieving my pain... I
worship You... I worship You... I praise Your name. You are so good Lord.
There’s none like You. You went through all of that pain. You didn’t have to go
through it. It was not Your pain to have. You didn’t deserve it. You didn’t
need to subject Yourself to that much pain for Your own sake. You didn’t need
to come to us. Not for Yourself. How did You do that? Lord Jesus... You can
take the pain away. You went through all of that pain, for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">my</b> benefit, so that we would know that You know us in our pain, You
felt the pain and so You feel us in our pain...”</i> I didn’t experience Jesus
taking my pain away supernaturally. Eventually strong pain meds gave me relief
again. But for the next few days, I experienced Him to be closer than usual,
hearing his voice crystal clear, mostly in the early hours of the morning. I
was so aware of his love as He gave me insight and explained why He had allowed
this to happen to me. I was so thankful for his tangible presence and hearing
his voice that clearly. God doesn’t cause our suffering, but He does allow it
sometimes because He has foresight and He knows what good He can cause to come
out of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">The next day was a public holiday and I had to wait until Tuesday morning
for the orthopaedic surgeon to come on duty. In the meantime my knee had swollen
up to almost the size of a rugby ball. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">A pastor in town came to visit me in hospital. He made a very interesting
but true comment: We have only one chance to suffer well, which is in this
life, because when we spend eternity in heaven there will be no more suffering.
So we can choose now to make the most of our suffering and suffer well. He gave
me a prophetic word. He saw in a vision that an angel was standing behind me,
giving me a telescope through which I could see into the future and God his giving
me prophetic foresight so that I can pray into it. Immediately I was reminded
of the prophetic visions of the prophets Daniel and John, of the end times, and
the great tribulation that will come upon the whole earth. Years ago already
the Holy Spirit revealed to me that the church would go through the great
tribulation with the rest of the world, and He is calling some of his children
to prepare the church for that time of suffering. Following this revelation I
conducted a thorough study of the books of Daniel and Revelation and discovered
a strong Biblical basis for this truth, but will not go into the details here. The
reason why we have the prophecies of the end times is so that the church in the
end times can pray and prepare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">In the early hours of Tuesday morning, not having had much sleep because of
the pain, the Holy Spirit spoke to me so clearly. “This is to prepare you for what
is to come”. I know this doesn’t sound like God to some of you, but God
sometimes does prepare his children for the difficulties that lie ahead. For
example, Jesus told the apostle Peter how he was going to die (John 21:18-19). Paul
also knew that he was going to imprisoned and that hardships lay ahead (Acts
20:23). Hettie Brittz has a powerful testimony of how the Holy Spirit prepared
her for her suffering, although she only realised it when it happened (read her
book Vreesloos Vry). And because she was prepared, and because she knew her
Saviour and Healer of her soul, she experienced emotional healing
supernaturally fast. Suffering is inevitable, but God graciously wants our soul
and spirit to be prepared. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">I came to the conclusion that God did not lose control of my life for even
one split second. But an angel must’ve been given permission to look away for
one split second, to not catch me when I fall, because God wanted to bring
something of great value forth through my suffering. We have the promise as in
Romans 8:28. </span></div>
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time and told me that he
would operate on me that day to fix the kneecap, an
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Also on Tuesday a friend of mine told me that she had negotiated with God
about something which He told her to do, and she felt that God allowed her to have
her way on a certain condition. I sensed that it was true. Sometimes we are
able to negotiate with God successfully. God once wanted to destroy Israel, but
Moses negotiated with Him and He listened. So, the next day I tried to negotiate
with God as well, but it was as if I just couldn’t get the conversation going,
as if God wasn’t giving me that option. Sometimes God says “no” and all we can
do is to accept that. When we are prepared, when we have foreknowledge, it is
so that we can be the lighthouses in the storms, so that we can encourage and
support others who are with us in the storms, while we are suffering together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">That evening, hours after I woke up from the anaesthetics, my leg wrapped
up and straight again, while eating supper, the Holy Spirit dropped a song in
my heart. It was a song from my childhood and I couldn’t help but shake my head
and smile at God. He has such a sense of humour! Of all the beautiful songs He
could remind me of after this big operation, He chose this one, which I hadn’t
heard in a while: “Higher higher, higher..... lift Jesus higher. Lower lower,
lower..... stamp satan lower”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">The other song that kept repeating in my mind that week was “Take me into
the Holy of holies; take me in through the blood of the Lamb... take the coal,
cleanse my lips, here I am...” And I can testify to the fact that in suffering,
it is as if the door is wide open and it is easier to reach a place of intimacy
with the Holy Spirit that usually takes longer to reach. We are taken into the
Holy of holies where we are able to hear his voice so clearly! When our bodies
and souls are weak, our spirits can connect with God easier. For this reason
fasting also helps us to draw nearer to God. Fasting is voluntary suffering,
the denying of the flesh for the sake of the spirit. (I have jokingly told a
few friends now that if one wants to hear God’s voice clearly, you can either
choose to fast or break a kneecap. Both have the same results of intimacy with
God...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">That night the pain was again not well controlled with medication. But the
Holy Spirit continued to be so tangibly present. When I was only thinking of
asking Him to come close again, to ask “where are You?”, He was there in a
split second! I realised again how He knows my every thought and answers me before
I could even formulate the question in my mind! Whatever troubled me, when I
mentioned it to the Lord, He answered me, comforted me and gave me fresh
perspective so that I knew what I needed to do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">He continued to speak to me about the benefits of my suffering, in specific
detail. One thing that being in a situation like this does, is that it forces
you to have to depend on other people for assistance. It humbles you more than
before and causes you to be more thankful for those people and so improves
relationships with them. You are also thankful for other things for e.g.
everything else in your body that DOES work well and thankful that your
injuries are not more serious. And for a believing room mate... She was a lady
who had had a foot operation on the same day by the same surgeon. She was in
pain too. She introduced herself and then asked if she could read me something
from the Bible. What?! God sends a fellow patient to encourage me?! Of course I
wanted her to read to me. She read Isaiah 43. You should read it now to see how
relevant it was on that day. Other precious people I know in Tzaneen, and still
others who were asked by my pastor at home to come and pray for me in hospital,
also came a few times during the four days I lay there. God took care of my
fellowship needs during that week!</span></div>
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When the physiotherapist was done getting me back on my feet for the first time
since the accident and walking a few small but daring steps, the man introduced
himself to me. He was a pastor in a local village nearby. He asked if he could
talk to me a bit and then pray for me. “Of course”, I said. He spoke about the
benefits of going through pain... God always does something else through it... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">But despite what I believed I heard the Holy Spirit spoke to me about his
purpose through all of this, I did struggle a bit with the thought that I
wasn’t protected from being injured like this. Some people believe that when
something bad happens to you, it is because satan has some legal right, some
“open door” to bring calamity on you. Was there some “open door”, some sin in
my life, some blind spot that gave the enemy the right to steal from me? The
Holy Spirit then reminded me of the tower of Siloam (Luke 13:1-4). We should
not assume that hardship or an accident or death comes as a result of sin. Jesus
was completely without sin and still God allowed that He be crucified. Satan
had no legal right to attack Jesus, none. He had nothing on Jesus for He was
without sin, and yet Jesus was tortured and murdered by the children of satan
(John 8:37-46). The devil comes and he says that he wants to test us (as we see
in the book of Job), to take us through a trial. The devil’s intention is to
destroy us, but God still decides what He will allow satan to do to us. When we
belong to Him, He intends to work out his Kingdom purposes through those
trials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so I believe I have my
answer. I am convinced that God, in his wisdom, allowed this to happen to me,
for He saw the end from the beginning and knew how He could use it for his
Kingdom purposes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">A few weeks ago my pastor prophesied that gifts and surprises were coming
my way and I expected ‘good’ things, things that one would normally consider to
be ‘blessings’. I did not expect trouble, difficulty, a trial. And most
certainly this trial came as a big surprise, although not a nice one. I didn’t
see it coming. While I was laying there in hospital the one morning He said to
me “what I allowed to happen to you is really just the answer to your prayers;
you asked me to help you with those things; you asked me to help you to break
through the walls in your heart; this is it; this is the answer to your
prayer”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while I was praying one day,
I realised that this was actually a gift.... (Perhaps now you’re thinking,
“with the kneecap that broke, her common sense also shattered to pieces...” </span><span style="font-family: "segoe ui emoji" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%;">😊, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji"; mso-no-proof: no;">but continue reading..</span><span style="font-family: "segoe ui emoji" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%;">)</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;"> And so it wasn’t only my kneecap that
broke... In God’s great wisdom He knew that only when I was in a place of such
weakness and such pain, He could break some things off of my heart, some walls
of self protecting pride that were a bit stubborn and wouldn’t break off any
other way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">On Thursday morning again I experienced the Holy Spirit being so close,
present at only the thought of Him! I had such an overwhelming feeling of his
love, and said in my heart “You loved me so much that You would die for me...
and You did! I felt so peaceful, and to a great extent realised that I had
surrendered to God’s will through this time of difficulty, that which is to
come, according to his wisdom, his great plan for our lives and his Kingdom. On
this day I was discharged from hospital and felt ready and happy to be able to
go home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">At home the intimacy with the Holy Spirit continued. (See my blog post
“Prayers in pain” for some of what I prayed during this week.) As I was
pondering how it can be that a kneecap broken at a holiday resort can be
counted as “sharing in the sufferings of Christ”, I realised that the Holy
Spirit was beginning to explain it to me. When we are “in Christ” when we
suffer, then our suffering is not worthless. “Sharing in the suffering of
Christ” doesn’t only happen when we are persecuted for our faith. It includes
any suffering that we go through while we belong to Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In any suffering our intimacy, our experience
of Him and our relationship with Him can deepen because there is something to
learn from Him during times of suffering. And so our suffering can be an
extremely rich experience. He needs us to become weak, because it is in our
weakness that his strength in us can be made perfect and can be seen by the
world. If we are not weak, we cannot experience his strength. We have to be
willing to be weak, and sometimes He will allow circumstances that will cause
us to be weak, especially when we pray prayers like “change me Lord”... Sometimes
He will allow the carpet to be pulled from under our feet because He wants to
encounter us in that place of deep intimacy when we suffer while being in
Christ. We grow in intimacy with God and people when we are vulnerable, when
our hearts are open and we are weak and dependent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">And so God has called us amongst other things to be the lighthouses in this
dark world. Sometimes we will reach people through evangelism. Other times they
will see the light shining in us in the midst of great difficulty, heartache,
pain in our lives. Those who are still adrift at sea need to see the
lighthouses so that they can know where land is. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">29 September, Saturday,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>back
home, again I was awake very early in the morning and heard the voice of the Holy
Spirit so clearly. He gave me a word for my local church, but which I believe
applies to the whole body of Christ worldwide. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was still in a lot of pain, but felt that
God wanted me to deliver the message while I was that weak. (In hindsight, I
think that when we are in pain, we don’t use colourful words. We say it just
like it is and God wanted me to deliver it without any sugar coating.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">This is a message He started giving me 2 years ago. I talked about it
before, in cell group, at prayer group, in church and have written about this
in my blog post called “Let’s bring back the love feasts”, in October 2017, </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;"><a href="http://anitaler.blogspot.com/2017/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%;">http://anitaler.blogspot.com/2017/</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">In the book of Revelation we read the letters to the seven churches. God
praises each of them for what they have done right, but He also tells them what
He is displeased with. Hopefully there are many things God is happy with
concerning the body of Christ currently, but one thing He is not happy with, is
the way we are not the close knit family that He desires, especially the
western church. We may feel love for each other, but we deceive ourselves in
claiming to be family, because families don’t only meet for corporate prayer,
worship, and teaching. Families visit and eat together in each other’s homes,
share in each other’s joys and sorrows and go through life together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">All over the body of Christ people testify of how God has been giving them
the message that He wants his church to gather in small groups, to have house
fellowship, and table fellowship. This is how the early church gathered, and He
wants us to not see our Sunday services where we gather in larger groups, as
sufficient for fellowship. The Sunday service is more like a team meeting, but
real heart-to-heart fellowship happens in our homes, where we will get to know
each other, where we eat together, pray together, serve each other with our
spiritual and natural gifts and where we start sharing whatever we have with
each other, like the early church did (Acts 2:46-47). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">When I talk about this with friends, I often hear that people don’t really
experience fellowship in church as we know it, because there’s no time for deep
conversations. It is mostly small talk and catching up. They experience true
fellowship only in small gatherings. These days church is not the place where
true fellowship takes place. And this is not right. It should be THE place
where people experience fellowship, and so “church” needs to also move into our
homes. Fellowship according to the example of the Acts church is not us coming
to the pastor, to listen to the message and to just watch and experience the
pastor exercise his/her spiritual gifts. In larger gatherings, even though our
spirits might be engaged and we may be worshipping God in spirit and in truth,
we don’t truly fellowship because most of us in the meeting are spectators and
receivers and we don’t exercise our own spiritual gifts. God doesn’t want
spectators in his church. He wants sons and daughters who have received the
gifts of the spirit to minister to the other parts of the body. The only way
that is going to change is when we fellowship in our houses where we don’t have
the pastor to lead us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">We need to create this culture in the church, not only because we need each
other now, but also to prepare for what lies ahead for the body of Christ. Great
suffering is coming upon the whole earth in the years before Christ returns.
Jesus said that it will be the worst, unlike mankind has ever seen (Matt
24:21). We read about it amongst others in the prophecies of Daniel, Jesus and
the apostle John. There’s going to come a persecution of Christians on the
earth like never before and we will not be able to gather in large groups. And
so one day when we are forced to gather “underground” in small groups, we will
no longer have a pastor to tell us “now do this and now do that”, or to give us
a word from the Lord. It will be us and it will be the Holy Spirit leading us.
God wants us to be that right now, because we need to teach and train our
children to be church in that way. God doesn’t want us to view fellowship as a
nice-to-have in church. Fellowship must become a priority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In many countries in the world people have
not been able to gather in large groups for a long time because of persecution,
and so we are still privileged to be able to do so without fear, but God wants
and needs it to change, especially in the western culture where we live very
individualistic lives. I am jealous of cultures that socialise much more than
we do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Yes we are busy and we’ve got plans for the weekend; yes you enjoy your
family at home; yes you have a job and when you get home you’re tired; yes
you’ve got your favourite programs to watch on TV, even Christian TV. We can
think of many excuses why we don’t make time to fellowship with others, why we
don’t make it a Christian priority. Often times when I hear or read of someone
who is sick, in trouble, dying, someone who has this need or that, I assume
(and I assume that most people assume like I do) “that person has his support
around him, his close friends and family who will visit and have coffee and
will help him with the practical stuff. Perhaps I’ll pray for him/her and perhaps
I’ll send a whatsapp.” And then it often is a matter of “out of sight out of
mind”, and I will do nothing more because surely “that person will have his own
support around him”. And now that I am dealing with a crisis in my life, I get
to experience what others go through when very few people are supporting them
and visiting them. We should stop assuming and start caring. If I can’t name
the people whom I know will gather around that person to support him, then I
cannot make the assumption. It is my duty to find out, because that person is
in my church family and it is my family responsibility just like it is everybody
else’s, to support that person. It is not enough that we support each other in
prayer and through messages on whatsapp. If someone is going through a
difficult time, that person needs people to visit, to be there in person and to
be ready to help with practicalities just as much as they need prayer. Some
people have to be the answer to the prayers. If I don’t know who your inner
circle of friends and family are who will support you when crisis hits you, then
I don’t really know you and you don’t know me and we are not a strong church.
We are not a strong close knit family. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">When
you’re going through a painful and/or difficult time, it is not only
your body that is affected, but also your soul. You may have a wonderful
relationship with God and spiritually you may be doing great, but your
soul
goes through all kinds of emotions which I believe are coped with easier
when
you have fellowship with people who can speak into your situation from a
place
of knowledge and wisdom and good perspective. It’s the blessing of the
presence
of supportive people around you. I am so thankful for the few friends
that have come to visit a few times, in hospital and at home, for their
prayers and treats and flowers, but mostly just their presence. One
friend took care of me for a whole
weekend! Being a medical doctor, it was not beneath her to even wash my
feet and paint my toe nails, because I cannot
reach my left foot to do it myself. I experienced so much love in that
act and
it means so much more than just a symbolic washing of feet that we
sometimes do
in religious settings. When Jesus washed the disciples’ feet, He met a
very
real need. Heidi Baker says “love looks like something”. If we don’t
love each
other in practical ways, we shouldn’t pride ourselves that we love like
Jesus
did. I am thankful to God for the “small” blessings which are actually
very big
blessings when in a situation like this. I am thanking God and am
blessed to be
able to stay in my parents’ house at the moment where all of my basic
physical
needs are being met. I’m also thankful for the people who are praying
even
though they are not present with me, but I must emphasize what a huge
difference it makes when someone comes to visit and prays for you in
person. I
have experienced “cabin fever” perhaps for the first time in my life (I
have
not known this term before), but what a huge relief when someone comes
to spend
time with you! </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">When someone goes through a difficult time that you cannot relate to, maybe
you would rather not do anything because you don’t know how to support that
person. Let me tell you, all you need to do is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">be there! </i>With this injured leg of mine, I have pondered the fact
that my right leg knew instinctively what to do to support and help the left
leg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t trained and had no
experience in supporting an injured left leg. The only qualification it needed
to be fit for the job, was to “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">be there</i>”.
The rest came naturally. So when we are filled with God’s Spirit and we get
together in our homes, we will instinctively know what needs to be done, just
like my right leg knew how to support my left leg. And if you really don't know what to do, the person in desperate need of your support will tell you exactly what he/she needs. Each of us will realise our purpose, what we're good at, and not so good at, in what position we
function the best. We are all a part of this one body of Christ, and every
part, whether you are the eye, the ear, the toe, the foot, the leg, whatever
you are, you will be led by God’s Spirit to act according to your God-given
design and gifting and you will know what to do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">There will be times when we will be alone with Holy Spirit and those times
are important. The Holy Spirit wants us for Himself sometimes. Those are the
times when we grow in our intimacy with Him, but God wants us to get together
for times that we grow strong as a unity, as one body, times when we share and
when we give. There’s the saying that goes “when times are tough, friends are
few”. How sad it is that this is a fact also in the body of Christ. It must be
the opposite! When the tough times come, solid friendships must already be
established. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">When I injured my leg, the holiday resort, the paramedics and the hospital
had the systems in place to handle the crisis. The practical help I needed, the
manpower and the resources was available and ready. I believe that the body of
Christ is NOT ready for the storms that are coming against us. And God is not
happy with those of us who have heard the message and have not put it into
practice. God wants his body, his bride to be ready when the tough times come,
because we will be the lighthouse during that time. We cannot wait any longer
to start to prepare. We can’t wait for the pastors to do this for us. All of us
need to do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s time for us to do
according to the Word of the Lord, to obey his voice, to act. We need to wake
up and make arrangements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">This is not just ‘n nice idea. It is extremely important that we
intentionally start obeying God in this. We need to slay the giant of comfort
in our lives. How often in the last year have we invited people into our homes
to eat with and to have fellowship with them? Not only to have a fun time but
to really to listen to their hearts, and to find a way to serve and love on
them. How often did we go to visit a sick or injured or emotionally hurting person? </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">It is time.</span> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">(I
realise that an injured leg is not the worst thing that can happen to
a person, but the trauma and pain I experienced was enough for the
message that had to
come through it. I am thankful for being given the opportunity to bring
this "pain offering", for all the good that God could and can still do
through it. It would've been great if the message could come without the
pain, but I guess some things can only come through the pain of the
"cross".) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">“Lord Jesus thank You for allowing me to share in Your suffering, not
suffering caused by anyone else’s or my sin, but suffering that You allow to
purify my character, to draw me closer to You in intimacy and to grow in
compassion for others who are suffering. You will allow suffering in the lives
of Your children, and it is necessary because You are purifying Your bride. But
You want us to support each other when we are suffering. You want us to be a
family. So help us, Lord.”</span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: AF;">When we think of
the Cross, we often think of the physical pain that Jesus were suffering. But
how often do we stop to imagine what his mental and emotional suffering was
like? Recently I experienced a little bit of emotional pain, but just enough to
motivate me into the presence of Jesus. As I started speaking to Him, all of
that emotion in my heart just started to be released in His presence and I
allowed myself to feel the intensity of the pain. Suddenly I started to get a
revelation of his own pain at the Cross. I more or less said-prayed-cried the
following to Him:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: AF;">“You went
through your own unique kind of suffering. You were betrayed, denied and
deserted by those closest to you, by Your disciples that were with You, often
day and night for three and a half years. They were with You. Lord Jesus, You
are the perfect Son of God and still, Lord… they were afraid and they deserted
You, they left you, they betrayed You, they denied You. How that must’ve hurt.
How that must’ve hurt You. How lonely You must’ve felt. Not only lonely because
You felt as if the Father has left You, but also because Your disciples, all
but John, left You. They left You hanging alone. Hanging alone. To go through
your suffering alone. And even though, Lord, You were hurt physically beyond
our comprehension, how torn apart You must have felt emotionally. How hurt. How
deserted. How lonely. Suffering unjustly. You did no wrong. You did nobody any
wrong. You came to save them Lord and they deserted You. They left You hanging
alone. You came to save them, You came only to do good to them, You came to
love them, Lord. You came and You gave everything. You sacrificed everything.
Jesus, You laid down Your life, and they left You. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: AF;">It is perhaps
understandable that the Romans made fun of You and took pleasure in crucifying
You, because to them it was only an exciting day at the office where they got
to kill a Jew. And it is perhaps even understandable that the religious leaders
falsely accused You and handed You over for crucifixion because they saw You as
a threat to their self-help religion, where they were comfortably in control.
They wanted You out of the way. They wanted to kill You. They didn’t realize
that You were their salvation, that You were their Messiah. They refused to
believe that. You were a threat to those who were legalistic, self-reliant and
self-righteous. You were a threat to those who thought that their human way of
doing things would be their salvation. And now I understand why You said,
‘Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.’ They did not
have the spiritual understanding and insight into the way in which You came to
be their Messiah. They just couldn’t see it. And You said, ‘Father, forgive
them for they don’t know what they’re doing, they don’t know, they don’t see
it’. You allowed them to kill You because You knew how Your death and
resurrection would benefit them and us. Because for those loving God, all
things work together for good for those who are the called according to His
purpose. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: AF;">So You suffered
excruciating physical pain because of the religious leaders and the Romans, but
I don’t know what was worse, the physical pain, or the emotional pain that You
felt when You were betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, and deserted by all the
rest, except for John.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: AF;">And yet Lord
Jesus, and yet, You had NO resentment in Your heart towards them! How was that
possible?! You felt hurt Lord, but You did not take offense. You were
able, despite all of Your physical and emotional pain, Lord Jesus, You were
able to restrain Yourself. You were able to not be angry at them. You were able
to not even accuse them. You did not call Peter a liar, Judas a betrayer, and
all the rest cowards. You did not say one word to make them feel guilty about
what they were doing. Not one word about how much pain You were experiencing
and the emotional pain caused by the disciples deserting You like that. While
suffering severely, You did not speak one curse word. You did not fight with
them because they were afraid or because they had lack of insight, or lack of faith,
or because they were cowards, or because of their disloyalty, their loyalty
being replaced by fear. You fought with them about nothing. Lord Jesus
how strong You were on that Cross. Perfectly human, experiencing the whole
spectrum of emotions, but not sinning once. You prayed not only for the Romans
and the Jewish leaders, but also for Your disciples, and how strong You were to
be able to say ‘Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they’re doing.’
Lord Jesus. King of kings. Lord of lords. King of kings. Lord of lords.
To share in Your sufferings is to share in Your joys… for the joy set before
You Lord, You endured the Cross, You despised the shame. You are worthy Lord
Jesus, You are our worthy King. You are our worthy King Lord Jesus. Your example.
Hurting, but NO resentment. NO offense. You understood that they didn’t
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You felt was a thousand times more intense than what I have felt, but thank
You, for through my hurt, You have taken me into that place where I can feel
and get a glimpse of the pain of the Cross, and once again I am absolutely
astonished in realizing that Jesus, You did not say a word, not one word of
accusation, not one word to make them feel guilty, not one word to explain to
them how much pain they’ve caused You. Not one word. All You said was ‘Father,
forgive them for they don’t know what they’re doing’. You only directed Your
pain to the Father and You said Father ‘Why have You forsaken Me?’. You felt
even forsaken and left by the Father. Yet, You asked the Father to forgive
them. Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Because of
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Him at the Cross lifted those feelings off of me. And now, from a better
perspective, I was astonished to see how small and insignificant my little bit
of feeling hurt had become, compared to the Cross of Christ. I was encouraged.
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(Verskoon die
Engels en Afrikaans deurmekaar in hierdie blog)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“All
authority is appointed by God” - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dit</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EL;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">is deesdae ‘n gewilde
stelling in kerk-kringe mbt leierskap in die kerk, nav die manier waarop
Romeine 13:1 vir ons vertaal is in die Engels en Afrikaanse vertalings van die
Bybel wat ons lees. Maar is dit regtig wat die teks in die oorspronklike Grieks
beteken? </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Is alle persone wat in posisies van gesag en leierskap is, deur God
aangestel? Was Adolf Hitler appointed by God? How about Joseph Stalin? </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mao Tse-Tung? Robert
Mugabe? Idi Amin Dada? How about all the leaders of church sects, some who
don’t even acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the risen Son of God and part of
the God-head? So, who is appointed by God, and who not? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ek wil graag
deel oor wat ek uitsluitlik in die Skrif hieroor sien. As ons wil weet wat die
Woord van God sê oor enige, maar veral ‘n kontroversiële onderwerp, is dit
belangrik dat ons die oorspronklike teks bestudeer, en nie slegs staatmaak op
iemand anders se vertaling daarvan nie. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Eerstens kyk
ons na die aanstelling van leiers in die kerk van Christus (ek het ‘n semester van
Griekse studie agter die blad en ek het ook die hulp van ‘n Grieks-Engels
liniêre verklarende woordeboek):</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As ons kyk na
wat Paulus vir Titus (Titus 1:5-9) geskryf het oor hoe om leiers te kies, “…<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I have left you behind in Crete so that you
put in order the things needed and so that you <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">appoint</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">elders</b> from town
to town…</i>”. Hierdie woord “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you appoint</i></b>” (Grieks “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">katastysys</b>”) beteken “<u>to assign to
someone a position of authority over others</u>”. Die woord “elder”
(presbuteros) beteken “<u>a person of responsibility and authority in matters
of socio-religious concerns, both in Jewish and Christian societies</u>”. “Elder”
beteken ook “ouer persoon”. Verder sê hy “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">if
someone is without accusation, husband of one wife, having trustworthy
children… because the church leader as manager of God must be without accusation,
not arrogant, not quick tempered, not a drunkard, not a bully, not shamefully
greedy…. So that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">he may be able indeed
to encourage by sound teaching</b></i>”. (Kommentaar oor die “vrou en kinders”:
Paulus was ook ongetroud en het geen kinders gehad waarvan ons weet nie, so ek
glo dat die werklike saak van belang hier is om in goeie verhoudings te wees
met die mense rondom jou en jou basiese verantwoordelikhede as volwasse man of
vrou na te kom.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As ons kyk na
Hand 14:20 “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">then <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">having appointed</b> for them elders from church to church, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">having prayed with fastings</b>, they
entrusted them to the Lord…”</i> dan beteken “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">having appointed</i></b>” (Grieks
“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">geirotoneow”</b>) hier “<u>to appoint
or assign someone to a particular task / to choose or select, presumably by a
group and possibly by the actual raising of the hand”</u>. Maar wat meer
belangrik is om hier te sien, is dat die apostels <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">gevas en bid</b> het voordat hulle iemand aangestel het as “elder”!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In Hand
13:2-3 “… <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">while they were worshipping the Lord and fasting</b>, the Holy Spirit
said ‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">appoint</b> then for me Barnabas
and Saul for the work for which I have called them’, then <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">having fasted and having prayed</b> and having laid their hands on them
they sent them off</i>” Die woord ‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">appoint</i></b>’ is hier (Grieks “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">aforisate”) </b>wat beteken <u>“to set
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><u> </u> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Dit is dus duidelik
dat drie skrifgedeeltes waar die Griekse woorde verskil (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">katastysys, geirotoneow, aforisate)</b> is net een Engelse woord vir
elkeen gebruik, naamlik “appoint”. Om iemand te “appoint” as “elder” of vir ‘n
spesifieke taak in die liggaam van Christus, is dus nie ‘n eenvoudige taak nie,
en ‘n aksie wat beslis moet gepaard gaan met vas en bid. Net omdat iemand
opleiding gekry het en ‘n sterk natuurlike leier is, beteken nie dat dit
outomaties die Here se keuse is om ‘n groep geestelik te lei nie. Ek self wil
ook glad nie in ‘n posisie wees as die Heilige Gees nie self vir my leiers gesê
het dat ek in daardie posisie aangestel moet word nie. Ek sal met vrymoedigheid
‘n groep lei as ek weet die Here self wil my daar hê, want dan weet ek dat Hy
my sal lei, sal Hy my broodjies en vissies vermeerder en wonderwerke doen met
dit wat ek het om te gee. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Tweedens kyk ons na die aanstelling
van leiers van lande:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Die bekende Romeine 13:1
word verskillend vertaal, maar bv in die NLT is dit “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Everyone must submit to governing authorities. For all authority <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">comes from God</b>, and those in positions
of authority have been <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">placed there by
God</b></i>.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In my Grieks-Engels
liniêre Bybel is dit as volg: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">let every
person submit to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except
under God (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">hupo theou</b>) and those
existing are established (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">tetagmenai</b>)
by God (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">hupo theou</b>)</i>”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sien hier dat
die woord<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">tetagmenai</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">nie dieselfde is as enige van die ander woorde wat vertaal
word “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">appoint</i>” nie. Hierdie woord
word in verskillende vertalings vertaal as o.a. “placed there; instituted;
appointed; established; ordained; set up”. My Griekse woordeboek sê dit beteken
“<u>to cause someone to be in a state involving an order or arrangment</u>” wat
heel verskil van die vorige drie Griekse woorde wat as “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">appoint</i>” vertaal is. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hupo theou</i></b> beteken streng gesproke “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">under God</b>”. Daarom kan ons hierdie sin
vertaal as “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for there is no authority
except <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">under God</b> and those exisiting
are <u>caused to be in that order of arrangment <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">under God</b></u>”</i>. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Hierdie gedeelte in
Romeine 13 volg op die konteks van Romeine 12 waar Paulus vir ons leer hoe om
teenoor ons vyande op te tree. Romeine handel dus ook oor hoe ons optree
teenoor mense in die wêreld waarin ons leef, en hier spesifiek in <u>sekulêre
leiersposisies</u>. Paulus sê in werklikheid vir hulle “onthou, God is nog
altyd die hoogste gesag, maak nie saak wie as leier heers in die land
nie”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alhoewel God <u>toelaat</u> (nie
“appoint” nie) dat leiers deur mense in hul posisies aangestel word, is die
leier nogsteeds <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">onder God, </b>want God
sal altyd die hoogste gesag wees<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. God
respekteer die mens se vrye wil – God laat ‘n land se mense toe om hulle leiers
te kies.</b> (Ek het na die Amerikaanse verkiesing gehoor iemand getuig dat,
toe hy vir God vra wie sy keuse as president is, God geantwoord het “I am
giving them the president that they want”). Dit is verder vanuit Rom 13:3
duidelik dat Paulus van ‘n spesifieke konteks gepraat het. Hy sê “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">because <u>the rulers are not a source of
fear to good work</u>, but to evil work. Now if you want not to fear the
authority, do good, and you will have praise from it</i>”. Die leiers van wie
Paulus praat is leiers wat ons nie hoef te vrees solank as wat ons goeie dade
doen nie. Die idee wat oorgebring word, is dat God nogsteeds die hoogste gesag
bo daardie regeerders is, en as ons onderdanig is aan <u>goeie leiers</u> wat goeie
werke prys, dan is ons onderdanig aan God.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
</b>Paulus sê vir die Christene in Rome dat hulle onderdanig moet wees aan
hulle leiers asof hulle onderdanig is aan God self. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">En die wat, volgens die
konteks, goeie leiers teëstaan, weerstaan in werklikheid vir God self. Ter
wille daarvan om die karakter van Jesus aan die wêreld te wys, moet ons dus
onderdanig wees aan wêreldse leiers (sover as wat hulle <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">nie</b> mense vervolg vir die goeie dinge wat hulle doen nie) sodat
hulle Jesus in ons kan sien. Dieselfde idee word oorgedra wanneer Paulus sê “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">doen alles asof julle dit vir die Here doen</i>”
(Kol 3:23). Dit gaan oor ons hartsgesindheid en die beeld van Jesus wat ons wys
vir die wêreld. In hierdie geval het Paulus met slawe gepraat, oor hoe hulle
optree teenoor hulle eienaars. Die idee was om deur hul optrede teenoor hul
ongelowige eienaars die Jesus-beeld uit te dra. Paulus het glad nie slawerny
goedgepraat nie. Dit was nie slawerny wat in fokus was nie, maar hoe ons leef
in die wêreld waarin ons onsself bevind. Paulus sou ook nie slegte leiers
goedpraat nie. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ons kan dus nie sê dat Adolf
Hitler ‘n aanstelling van God is nie. God laat bose regeerders toe wanneer die
mense self daardie regeerders kies, maar dis nie God wat hulle aanstel nie! Ons
weet ook dat Hitler en baie ander regeerders was beslis “a source of fear to
good work”. Enige iemand wat die Jode wou help (good work), het in die moeilikheid
gekom, is vervolg en baie maal doodgemaak! <u>Paulus moedig ons dus aan om
onderdanig te wees aan sekulêre leierskap sover as wat hulle “not a source of
fear to good work” is nie</u>. So nie, dan sal ons moes sê dat die Duitste
prediker Dietrich Bonhoeffer God se gesag deur Hitler teëgestaan het deur as
spioen te werk in verset teen die Duitse regering. Ons sou moes gesê het dat
dit ‘n goeie ding is dat hy gehang is 8 dae voor die einde van die Tweede
Wêreld oorlog! Ons moet ons verstand gebruik en die Griekse teks raadpleeg as
iets in ons Engelse/Afrikaanse vertalings net nie sin maak nie. Ons kan nie vir
mense vertel Hitler is deur God aangestel nie. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Die punt is, ons kan glad
nie die gedeelte in Romeine 13 gebruik om vir mense te vertel “elke persoon in
leierskap is deur God aangestel en dat ons altyd moet submit, anders is ons
gekant teen God en in rebellie” nie. Dit is manipulasie en misbruik van die Skrif.
</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Hierdie
lering het al tot baie pyn en lyding gelei in die kerk van Christus, terwyl
liefde by die deur uitgewaai het. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Submission to true Holy Spirit directed authority is
belangrik. Maar uit Paulus se woorde in Titus en die voorbeelde in Handelinge, <u>ontvang
ons riglyne om onder leiding van Heilige Gees, self “elders” in die kerk te
kies</u>. As daar riglyne is sodat ons wyse Heilige Gees geleide aanstellings
kan maak, dan is dit natuurlik ook waar dat onwyse aanstellings gemaak kan
word. Nie elke persoon wat in ‘n leiersposisie in enige kerk aangestel word, is
deur God self daar geplaas nie. As dit so was, het ons nie so baie probleme
gehad nie. Dis ons mense wat hulle daar plaas, en as ons onwyse besluite maak,
sonder om die Heilige Gees te raadpleeg (deur te vas en te bid), en net op
grond van mense se goeie “performance”, dan moet ons probleme in die kerk
verwag. Nie alle probleme in die kerk is mense wat “offence” vat of in rebellie
is nie. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Die ander
probleem met die lering oor authority and submission in die kerk, is die vrees
wat ingeburger word by mense deur aan te haal uit 1 Samuel 15:23. Mense word
vertel dat as hulle nie in “submission” is nie, dan is hulle in rebellie, en
“rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft”. Maar as ons een sin verder lees, dan
staan daar “</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Because you have rejected the word of
the LORD</span></u></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">, he has rejected you as king</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">”. Die vraag is nou, of
elke opdrag wat ‘n persoon in leierskap vir iemand gee, die Woord van die Here
is, veral as leiers in posisies is waar hulle nie veronderstel is om te wees
nie. Ek dink ons moet bitter bitter versigtig wees voordat ons hierdie versie vir
iemand kwoteer wat nie na ons sin gehoorsaam is en na ons sin optree nie. Dit
is suiwer manipulasie. Terwyl ons soms besig is “with our own mission, and not
necessarily with the Father’s mission”, het dit te maklik geword om Skrif te
gebruik om mense te beheer en te manipuleer. Ek weet daar word ook gesê dat,
“as die leier ‘n fout maak, sal hy self daarvoor verantwoording doen voor God.
God sal nie die persoon wat in submission is verantwoordelik hou vir iets wat
die leier gesê het hy moet doen nie.” En so stel ons die mense gerus dat hulle
maar net kan submit en al die gevolge aan die leiers oorlaat. As leiers weet
dat al die opdragte wat hulle vir mense gee, die wil van die Here is (wat dit
kan wees as hulle die hart van die Vader ken en sy stem mooi hoor), dan gaan
hulle nie verkeerde opdragte vir die mense gee nie, en dus hoef hulle nie mense
deur vrees in submission te hou met 1 Sam 15:23 nie. Mense moet die vrymoedigheid
geleer word om vir hulself te dink in die kerk, en alles te toets teen die
Skrif (soos die dissipels in Berea) en teen wat hulle self hoor die Heilige
Gees sê vir hulle. Net soos wat leiers verwag dat mense hulle (die leiers se)
verhouding met die Heilige Gees vertrou, moet daardie leiers die mense in hulle
gemeentes se verhouding met die Heilige Gees kan vertrou, en aan hulle kan
leiding gee, sonder om hulle met vrees te probeer beheer! Die wêreld beheer en
regeer deur vrees. Die kerk van Christus moet in liefde mense leer en leiding
neem deur ‘n voorbeeld te wees. Dit is hoe Jesus dit gedoen het. Hy het niemand
gedwing nie, maar was altyd besig om sy dissipels in elke situasie te leer, deur
woorde en deur sy voorbeeld. Hy het bv met Judas Iskariot en Petrus ruimte
toegelaat vir die natuurlike gevolge van hulle keuses en aksies. Hy het nie die
situasie probeer manipuleer nie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Soos altyd verwelkom ek vrae en kommentaar. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">The purpose of this article is to share the vision I believe
God has given me to start meeting a very real need in the body of Christ. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">Many people in church still don’t have the feeling of family
in the spiritual family, the body of Christ. Many only go to church on a Sunday
and maybe once during the week to a cell group or a prayer meeting, but feel isolated
the rest of the week, whether they are single or married. We often don’t really
know the brother or sister that sits next to us in church on a Sunday. We don’t
know about their joys and heartaches, or perhaps unmet practical needs they may
have, because we don’t fellowship with them other than during the two hours at
church on Sunday. Not only do we often not really know our brothers and sisters
in Christ, but we don’t realize that some of them feel really lonely, and those
who don’t feel lonely often don’t know about it. Even people in marriages
sometimes feel really lonely. I firmly believe God wants this to change and He
wants us to become like real family, and not only organised religious
get-togethers. If we bring back the love-feasts, we create more opportunity and
time to become what God desires his children to be – family. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">(Please read my article “Let’s bring back the love-feasts”. This
article is in a sense an extension of that article, but with a specific focus
on singles in the body of Christ. It is however not only for singles to read,
but also for married people, to be aware of the need.) </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">Statistics show that many singles in their thirties and older
leave church because of unmet fellowship needs. This is a reality which I
believe saddens God’s heart so much, because those who leave church, often also
stop growing in their relationship with God, being absorbed again in the ways
of the world and ultimately not fulfilling his plans and purposes for their
lives. And at this age a person already has so much life experience, knowledge
and wisdom that they can share with younger people in church. How unfortunate
that all that gets lost from the church when a single person leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">God wants happy singles in his kingdom, and He is helping us
to get to that place. Happy singles first, and who knows perhaps how many happy
marriages later… There are obviously a number of reasons why people are not
married. And not all people who are single necessarily want to be married. Some,
who had been married before, but not anymore, would like to stay single. Others
feel called like the apostle Paul, to ministry as a single person. But all of us
need friends and fellowship, with both genders. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">Young people organise themselves in friendships and groups
more easily, but the older we get, from say late twenties and onwards, as our
friends get married and start having children, it becomes harder for single
Christians to make new friends. We have to make more focussed effort. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">Family is very important to God and He doesn’t want any of his
children to remain lonely, instead as it is written in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Psalm 68:6 “God sets the lonely in families…”</b> God can accomplish
great things in his Kingdom with happy singles. And happy singles will very
likely stay happy, but not stay single… </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">I believe God is leading me to facilitate a platform where
people can come together to fellowship and make new friends and where many
relationship tools, wisdom and advice can be shared. So I have already started
an initiative locally where I live, namely friendship feasts, where everyone is
invited (married and single), but with the aim that we draw in as many as we
can, especially those whom we know have drifted off and away from healthy
fellowship in the body. I hope to, over time, inspire and encourage and
facilitate the initiative as far and as wide as we can possibly go. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">And this is the vision in a nutshell: </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">I will take the lead in organising events
where Christians can get together to spend quality time with each other, to get
to know each other, to form friendships and to fellowship. I will only be the
facilitator and anyone may contribute their ideas for events and locations. We
want to have lots of table fellowship, but we can also just do fun things
together or organise small outreaches. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-no-proof: no;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">This initiative will initially spread by word
of mouth, but I foresee visiting all the churches in my town to introduce it to
the leaderships of the churches. The idea is that we organise an event once a
month on a Saturday, and keep it affordable for most people. We will call these
events “Friendship Feasts” and I have created a whatsapp group where I will add
anyone who would like to receive information about these events. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-no-proof: no;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">In due time I will reveal the full extent of
the vision and plan from God, but it will include a web-based platform where,
amongst other things, we can talk about relevant topics regarding relationships. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">While still very single at this very moment in my life, I am
more at peace, and more content and feel more fulfilled than I have ever been
before. And it has nothing to do with my personal circumstances, but everything
to do with the fact that I reached a place in my journey and relationship with
God where I see and experience the fulfilment of his promises to me. But this
could not have happened had I been in isolation and not in fellowship with good
friends around me. God wants us to be happy singles before we are happily married.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">If you would like to get a little more insight, please read
further. I have written the following about three years ago and now expanded it
a bit. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">1.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Singles can learn how to be happy
singles</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">In our western culture it is often expected of people to be
married by a certain age. And if they don’t, it is often assumed that something
is wrong, and singles themselves start to believe it as well. But the apostle
Paul seems to have placed more value on the single life in the Kingdom than on
the married life. There is therefore no reason why singles should feel
pressured to get married and nothing wrong with being single. The only thing
that is wrong is when singles (including single parents) feel isolated and
lonely in the body of Christ. The belief that we need to be married by a certain
age and then are not, can rob a person of their joy, increase their sense of loneliness
and even be the cause of depression. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their
attention is diverted away from what God wants to accomplish in and through them
during the single season of their lives, and focussed on a perceived problem which
need not be a problem. Precious emotional energy and time may be wasted in this
way. All of this is so unnecessary if we educate singles as well as the rest of
the body of Christ to value and to encourage singles to be all that God has
called them to be during this season of their lives. Singles need to be treasured
and encouraged by the rest of the body, giving them more reason to rejoice
always, regardless of how long the season is.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">First things first, which is that singles must embrace the command
of Jesus to seek the Kingdom first, because then everything we need will be
added to us (Matt 6:33). Since I became born again almost 22 years ago, by the grace
of God I have never left the body of Christ or turned my back on God. I have
sought the Kingdom and pursued relationship with God always. I have lived a
full single life until now. Those who know me will know the details. I have an
adventurous soul and I have done much and travelled quite a bit. I have sought
to fulfil the plans and purposes He had and still have for my life, and because
of Him, I have accomplished much (and I believe there is much more to come).
But if I had a mentor early on in my life that could encourage me to embrace
the single life with joy and helped me to get a good perspective on the value
of being single, it would’ve been much better. If someone who had lived a full
single life and still got married in her 30’s or 40’s were there to encourage
me, I may have done even more in the Kingdom and enjoyed life more. Older,
wiser people need to help younger people to have the right perspective on their
single status. Single Christians must be taught how to be happy and seeking the
Kingdom while their friends get married and start having babies. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">2.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Singles in church desire the feeling of
family</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">Apparently in Jewish culture singles are effectively included
in the community and singles introduced to one another. Even when they do not
get married, their friendship circles just get bigger and they never need to be
alone on for e.g. a Friday evening. Unfortunately this is not the case in our modern
western culture. But it is actually very easy to help relieve the loneliness
that singles often feel, especially those who also live alone in a house or apartment.
Married couples with children, i.e. families are often so busy with their own
family lives that they don’t notice that other people in church feel lonely. I
encourage families to declare Saturdays or Sundays family days, not only for
biological family, but for spiritual family. I realize that sometimes a family
just needs to spend time alone, and they should. But as soon as they start
inviting friends over, they ought to make sure they throw some singles in the
mix. I encourage families to, when they arrange get-togethers with their
friends, to not only invite other families and married couples, but to make a
point of inviting singles as well. There should not be a single person in
church who does not spend time with a family in church at least once a week. Singles
also want to be invited to a weekend away, or to a braai or a holiday. They
will pay for themselves and they will play with the kids (well, they should). We
don’t even mind to be the only single between married couples, because we still
have a lot to talk about as children of God. It is way better than to sit home
alone. And sometimes a single lady just needs a strong arm to throw out a
rotten dishwasher or drill a hole in the wall, but they feel awkward to ask. And
singles can lend a helping hand to a family (in exchange for only enjoying the
feeling of family), but families need to draw them in. Singles need family, but
families often don’t realize how much value a single friend can add to their
lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">3.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Singles need to be taught about courtship
and dating. </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">(Obviously not applicable to those who have no interest in
getting married)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">We live in a very individualistic society where young people
don’t get the advice and protection from their parents as in the Jewish
culture. Parents are often too busy taking care of their children’s
materialistic needs and often times the spiritual and emotional needs are
neglected. Children are raised in Hollywood’s church. All that most young
singles have to work with is human instinct, peer pressure, imagination and
Hollywood. This is very unhealthy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">Many churches have marriage preparation courses, but there are
hardly courses or seminars on how to be a content single or on courtship and
dating. Only once ever did I see an advertisement in church for a seminar
titled “single and satisfied”. And this was a few weeks ago. Courses should not
be available only to people who are engaged and married. There is a whole lot
that need to happen before a couple gets engaged. And a “relationship week”
once a year for singles is not enough. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">A few years back I attended an event for singles older than 28
which was organised by a church. There were 100 – 150 singles above 28 years of
age in attendance. They had a panel existing of married couples who were
available to answer any questions that singles asked them. These type of events
need to be organised in every church community. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">I believe that the body of Christ by enlarge is poorly
equipped to take care of its singles. If we spend more time on singles, the
church will have fewer problems with broken or hurting marriages. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">4.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Men and women who receive prophecies
about their marriage partners </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">This is something that happens quite often in church, and if
handled incorrectly, it can cause a lot of confusion and pain. People need to
be taught and coached on how to treat such a word of prophecy. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">From the very beginning of my life as a born-again believer I
received prophetic words about marriage and along the way also about children,
so I was in a sense set-up to wait for the fulfilment of those words, and I
prayed many prayers with this in focus. Hindsight is 20/20 vision, and only
much later did I realise that I could’ve spent the waiting years much more
productively. I would’ve waited less and lived even more. So, I believe that a
lot of effort must be made to coach Christians in handling prophetic words
about marriage with wisdom and to coach young people through the single season
of their lives. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Often times when Holy Spirit wants to reveal something of
significant value to me, He will allow a set of circumstances in my life in
which I can have the experience which prepares me to understand the truth and
importance of what He is about to discuss with me. A wonderful woman of God
once said to me that when we experience frustration in a certain area in our
lives, then it is often the area where the Lord wants us to bring change to the
body of Christ. This frustration often leads to the greatest revelations from
the Holy Spirit. In my experience, during such a time, He will initiate the
conversation which leads me to search and meditate on the Scriptures, and to
pray for the full revelation. What I learn through the process, is sometimes
not just a greater revelation of truth, but profoundly different than what we
have been taught or practiced for centuries.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Such revelation knowledge came to me after I had a prophetic
dream during the night of 6 June 2016. I dreamed I was visiting a small church
where I knew no one. I introduced myself as a teacher, and then a little while
later someone else introduced me to the pastor there as a “good teacher”. The
pastor then said that I should preach a message to the congregation, right
there and then, and it had to be from Genesis 14. In protest, being
inexperienced, I then said that I don’t consider myself a “good teacher”. But
there was no way I could talk myself out of this situation. I was also nervous
about having to preach a message about a passage which I don’t even know! (I’ve
read it before but didn’t meditate on it). In the dream I frantically searched
for Genesis 14 in my Bible, and couldn’t find it. After I calmed down a bit,
hiding in the ladies’ room, I found it! That was the end of the dream. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">So the next morning I read Genesis 14 in my Bible and at first
couldn’t see an obvious message from the passage. But something grabbed my
attention: Gen.14:18 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Then Melchizedek,
king of Salem, brought out bread and wine; he was a priest to God Most High.”</i>
I immediately remembered that, in the book of Hebrews, Jesus is described as
being our High Priest of the same kind as King Melchizedek. I realised that
there must be something significant about Melchizedek inviting Abraham to a
meal at his table, with the specific mention of bread and wine, and Jesus (our
everlasting king, one like king Melchizedek), who also served his disciples
with bread and wine, which resembled his body and his blood. He said “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;">as often as you do
this, do it in remembrance of Me</span></i>”.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">I noticed that after Melchizedek provided Abraham with a meal
and also blessed him, Abraham gave Melchizedek a tithe of the spoils of the
battle he had just won. I realised that there could be a message for us here,
in that, the church or person by whom we receive a blessing and are spiritually
fed, is that church or person we can honour with our finances, or other
material blessings. This is probably a good principle for bringing a financial
blessing to a church. If you are spiritually starving there, and you are not
blessed there, than it is probably not the spiritual house where you are
supposed to be. But this was not the point on which the Holy Spirit led me to
dwell. (Indeed, a year later, in August 2017, I listened to a message by Robert
Henderson about Genesis 14, where he explained how we can align ourselves with
those from whom we receive spiritual blessing/teaching/revelation, by giving to
them of our finances. His teaching opened up more revelation which has been
hidden in Genesis 14, which I will write about in a next article). What I
believe the Holy Spirit led me to meditate on, was the way we, ‘celebrate’ the ‘communion’
meal of which Jesus said “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;">as often as you do this, do it in remembrance of Me”.</span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">I looked at the Scriptures where there is reference to, what
we now refer to as the ‘communion’ and realised that every time there is a
reference to this meal in Scripture, it seemed like a full meal, where people
came together around tables and had fellowship with each other. I realised that
at some point in church history this practice must have been discontinued and
replaced with only the eating of a piece of bread and taking a sip of wine. So
I did a little reading on the subject and discovered that indeed, in early
church history, within a few centuries of the first churches, partly due to shameful
behaviour at love-feasts, the breaking of bread and drinking of wine (to
remember the sacrifice of Jesus until He comes again), was separated from the
love-feasts. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">(This article does not discuss the meaning of the body and
blood of Jesus, as symbolised by the bread and wine taken in ‘communion’. It
discusses the way we ‘celebrate communion’. I will write a future article to
discuss the significance of ‘fellowshipping with / participation in’ the body
and blood of Jesus (1 Cor 10:16))</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Biblical and
Historical Background</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">(The writing in
italics are quoted from external sources of reference, as listed at the bottom
of the article) </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">This ‘love-feast’ as it was known in the New Testament church
(Jude verse 12) and was written about by historians and theologians in the
first few centuries, can be described as follows <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“It is generally agreed that the believers each brought food, as their
means allowed (a potluck), and placed it on a table (<b>"the Lord's
table"</b>). Centrally located on that table was the loaf and wine
to be used in the Remembrance (also called the Eucharist, which means
“Thanksgiving” or Communion) after the meal. Once the body had all
arrived, they were to equally eat and fellowship around the table as the Lord
equally saved every member of the body. This time of fellowship
encouraged Christian love and brotherhood.” (Dr. Christian Pope)</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">The love-feast was a community creating practice in the early
church. After the meal and the breaking of bread, it was a time of
fellowshipping with each other and in the Holy Spirit, with teachings,
conversations, singing, prophecies etc. As people came together for the
love-feast, each brought their contribution of food to the Lord’s Table to
share with others, as well as their spiritual gifts to share in a spiritual
meal as well.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>(Note, the word in
Greek (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">agapais</i>) as in Jude verse 12 which
is translated ‘love feasts’ literally means the plural form of love, and
referred specifically to the love feasts of the early church)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Matthew 26:26, <b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>26 </sup><u>While
they were eating</u>, </i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks,
he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my
body.<b> </b><sup>27 </sup>Then he took a cup…</span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Luke 22:19-20, <b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>19 </sup></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is
my body given for you;<b> <u>do this in remembrance of Me.”</u></b></span></i></span></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">20 </span></sup></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-no-proof: no;">In the same way,<b> <u>after the supper he took the cup</u>, </b>saying,
“This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you<b>.</b></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Acts 2:42-47,<b><sup> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">42 </i></sup></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
they were devoting themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to<b> <u>fellowship
to the breaking of bread</u> </b>and to prayers<b>….</b></span></i></span><sup><span lang="EN-ZA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;"> </span></sup><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">46 </span></sup></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-no-proof: no;">And every day, devoting themselves <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">to
meeting</span><sup> </sup>with one purpose in the temple <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">courts</span> <b><u>and breaking bread from
house <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">to house</span>, they were
eating <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">their</span> food</u> with joy
and simplicity of heart, <sup>47 </sup>praising God and having favor with
all the people. <u>And the Lord was adding every day to the total <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">of</span> those who were being saved.</u></b></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-no-proof: no;">The words in Greek that was
translated “breaking bread” (κλωντες αρτον) in verse 46 comes from a Greek
idiom which is used when referring to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘having
a meal, without reference to any particular time of the day or to the type of
food involved’</i> (which probably always included bread). The words literally
mean ‘to break bread’, but is used here as the idiom. Verse 46 according to my
Greek –English linear Bible: “…<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and day
after day devoting themselves with one mind in the temple and <u>having meals</u>
from house to house, they were sharing their food with <u>extreme joy</u> and
humility of heart.</i>” <b>They were literally feasting, extremely joyful!</b>
The humility that is referred to here is specifically “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">humility associated with simplicity of life</i>”. (Source: Scripture
Direct)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">The letters of Paul
and the Acts of the Apostles make it clear that early Christianity believed
that this institution included a mandate to continue the celebration as <u>an
anticipation in this life of the joys of the banquet that was to come in the
Kingdom of God. </u></span></i><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">(Source: Wiki)</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Please see end of the article for my analysis of the Greek
text for a better translation of verse 42.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Acts 20:7, <b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>7 </sup></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">On
the first day of the week we<b> <u>came together to break bread</u>. </b>Paul
spoke to the people…. </span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">According to my Greek-Linear English Bible this sentence reads
“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">on the first day of the week we gathered
together for a meal</i>”, and the commentary, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no doubt the reference here is to the ‘fellowship meal’ called ‘agape’,
which constituted the early Christian form of the ‘Lord’s Supper’</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">It seems clear that eating together was a very important part
of coming together as a church family. They did not come together only to “have
church” (praying, teaching and worshipping), but to have real fellowship which
included dinner/supper, followed by Paul’s preaching. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-no-proof: no;">In Acts6:1-7 we see that the
love-feast was such an important part of coming together as believers, that
they even appointed specific people to help with the practicalities in order to
free up time for others who were ministering to the saints. Seven men full of
wisdom and the Spirit were put in charge for this purpose. In verse 7 we read “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and the number of disciples in Jerusalem was
increasing greatly”. </i>This is similar to what we see in Acts 2:47: an
important ingredient that resulted in people being added to the church in great
numbers, were the love-feasts. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">1 Corinthians 5:6-11, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"...Christ our Passover is sacrificed
for us: Therefore<b> <u>let us keep the feast</u>... </b>I have written unto
you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator,
or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner;
with such an one no not to eat."</span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Christians are not to eat the love-feast with the professed believers
who are unrepentant in their sin. This was exactly the case with the Passover
feast (Exodus 12:14-20) upon which our Supper is based.” (Dr. Pope) </i>See
also 2 Pet 2:13 and Jude verse 12.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">In 1 Cor 10:14-22 and 1 Cor 11:20-34 Paul is here condemning
the Corinthians for shameful behaviour at the Lord’s Table, which clearly
included a full meal, and gives instructions for proper behaviour. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Galatians 2:12-14, <b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>12 </sup></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For
before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles… </span></i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">“It appears that
Paul's dissension with Peter was similar to that of the Corinthians. Peter
"perverted" the gospel by partaking of the Supper in disunity.
We are to "eat" in unity, without cliques/ sects/ heresies/
social classes as the gospel is not a respecter of persons. </span></i><i><span lang="EN-ZA" style="line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: no;">THE ENTIRE MEETING, STARTING WITH THE LOVE-FEAST, IS
DESIGNED TO BE INCLUSIVE, NOT EXCLUSIVE</span></i><i><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">.” </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">(Dr. Christian Pope)</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">The love-feasts are not meant for only “our own kind” (as we
often do when inviting people to our homes for dinner). This is the perfect
opportunity to show that in Christ there should be no class, race, gender,
social status, etc distinctions between us (Gal 3:28).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">We read that Jesus and his twelve disciples did life together.
Discipleship took place outside the temple and synagogue, in each other’s
homes, in the field, on the water, etc. Jesus often ministered to people in
their homes, around the dinner table. He even taught about inviting people to a
banquet (Luke 14:12-15). Clearly, fellowshipping in small groups was, in the
time of Jesus and the early church, a very important part of church life, a
non-negotiable. Jesus, by example, demonstrated the importance of sharing a
meal, and somehow the church has missed this for centuries.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Someone said that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"The
Eucharist that Christians now celebrate is what the Church, under the guidance
of the Holy Spirit of the risen Jesus, and over the course of generations and
centuries, learned to do as it celebrated table fellowship with its risen
Lord."</i> – I don’t agree at all that this happened as a result of the
guidance of Holy Spirit. It is not the kind of fellowship that Jesus
demonstrated throughout his earthly life and ministry. I believe this is merely
an assumption, one that is not in line with what Scripture teaches. Here is a
truth to consider: ‘communion’ is not ‘communion’ without the fellowship of
people. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Some Christian groups around the world still have the love-feast,
and it has been revived in some denominations, including the American House
Church movement. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Back to the drawing
board</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">I thought and prayed about the significance of sharing a full
meal (love-feast including Eucharist/Communion), as opposed to only ‘taking communion’.
When we share a meal with other people, we tend to open up and share about our
lives with each other. It often leads to heart-to-heart conversations. When we
have quality time together, we really get to know each other and build
relationships. We grow to love each other and opportunity is created to learn
how to serve one another with what we have to give. In our culture we often
find a reason to come together with friends and family to eat together and
‘kuier’ (Afrikaans for visiting with friends or family). Sometimes it’s the
celebration of a birthday, or a wedding, or graduation, or Christmas (which
many Christians don’t celebrate anymore). Even at funerals people eat together.
Often times there are no reason other than to ‘kuier’, so we organise a ‘braai’
(barbeque). But in my experience, this is not something we do often enough as a
church family. I know that in many homes, families don’t sit around a table to
eat dinner anymore. People have dinner in front of the TV and spend many hours
watching other people’s imaginary lives on a screen while God’s purposes with
their lives waste away and relationships deteriorate. Many Christians live no
differently than unbelievers. What if every dinner could become a love-feast,
whether a family invites other people over or not? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">I believe one of the main purposes of Jesus’ commandment to “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as often as you do this, do it in
remembrance of Me</i>”, was to have us centre our fellowship with each other
around Him, placing Him at the centre of everything we do, especially when
eating together. How often have I sat at a lunch or dinner table with people
and some start telling coarse jokes or the conversation turns to gossip or
slander of people who are different than us? What if we as Christians started
to make a habit of celebrating Jesus at every single meal we share, so that
when unbelievers join us at the table, it is an opportunity for them to see
that we don’t practice a religion, but that we have a real relationship with
this Jesus whom we are welcoming at the table. Often times we just say a quick
prayer at the dinner table and then eat and then continue with everyday talk.
What if we start the conversation with a testimony of what God through the
Spirit of Jesus has done for us during the day or week or month or year? Our
fellowship with friends and family will be transformed to true ‘holy communion’!
This is what will please God’s heart the most.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I for one certainly desire more (in quantity and quality) fellowship,
the type that can be found only in people’s homes, where there is not always the
time restriction like the two hours at church or small group once or twice a
week (or worse, one hour in many churches!). I believe the Lord wants to pour
new wine into his church, but He is waiting for the church to become like
family again. The feeling of family is especially experienced when we eat together,
an opportunity that is created to ‘kuier’. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">While unbelievers (or immature Christians who were never loved
to wholeness and guided to maturity) find cause for feasting at every occasion,
we as believers often don’t, so sometimes we end up feasting at the feasts that
unbelievers organise, or we stay at home and entertain ourselves with
technology. We should be known for organising the best parties, ones that don’t
leave you with a hangover the next day, and the feeling of emptiness and
loneliness which you tried to drink away, back the next morning. Church should
be a place where we offer true fellowship to people, so that they don’t have to
go and look for it in the world. Because we don’t organise love-feasts, we have
no alternative to provide for people in the world who like a good party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Paul said, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">don’t get drunk with wine,… but be filled with the Holy Spirit</i>”
(Eph 5:18), wasn’t he perhaps referring to the love-feast where we can be
filled with Holy Spirit, as opposed to a secular feast where people get drunk
with wine? Many unbelievers, and even believers, don’t dare to set their feet
in church these days, for various reasons, but probably, most of all, for many
it has become a place where the love of the Lord is proclaimed, but not
demonstrated. What if we started inviting them to love-feasts, where they can
relax and just watch Christians love the Lord, love each other and love them,
without a feeling that there is any ulterior motive attached? I believe that
many people, who have left church, would be willing to join in a love-feast
where they could see actions matching the teaching about the Kingdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And the
Lord would daily add those who are being saved</i>. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Also, when we bring back the love-feasts, I believe that the
problem with many pastors and counsellors, who experience burn-out, will be
solved. Every Spirit-filled believer in church has received spiritual and
natural gifts from the Lord, but because of current church structures and
methodology, most believers never reach their full potential as intended by the
Lord, because a selected and appointed few do most of the ministry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the 80/20 principle where 20% of the
people do 80% of the work. If we changed back to the biblical model, where
coming together in small groups occurred more often than coming together at the
synagogue (as a large gathering in the church auditorium), people would grow
faster in using their gifts, more people would be effective in ministry and
less people would be only spectators, more people would experience real, Godly
love and we would be more aware of each other’s needs in order to serve each
other not only spiritually but practically.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">I believe that, through this practice, Jesus made provision
for setting lonely people in families (Ps 68:6 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">God sets the lonely in families…</i>). This is another reason why we
need love-feasts. I pondered over my experience in church during the years. In
our modern churches today, there are many lonely people, especially those who
are not married, or divorced, widowers and widows. Because of our
individualistic culture, these people often feel lonely and excluded. This has
certainly been my experience as well in some of the churches I’ve been involved
in (I have written a separate article on this which I will also post on this
blog) and I know enough people like me. People who are in families, who are
mostly surrounded with other people, don’t realise and often have no frame of
reference for what loneliness feels like. But even when people do have
families, often those families don’t know the Lord, and sometimes a person just
needs to enjoy ‘family’ life where we are of the same mind and we enjoy the
same things. Such a person may also feel extreme loneliness. Depression is one
of the most common illnesses of our time, and I believe one of the main reasons
for it is loneliness. Never underestimate the destructive power of loneliness. This
is where love-feasts can make such a difference in the lives of many lonely
people. If we don’t have love-feasts to which we can invite them, we have no
right mocking them to say “Jesus is all you need”. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Did Jesus assign any spiritual significance to the
‘Remembrance’ as it is consumed separately from the love-feast? Has it not
become merely a ritual on most occasions, since very seldom do we actually talk
about the death and resurrection of Jesus while having ‘communion’? Very
rarely, if ever, do we talk about the significance of the body and the blood of
Jesus. So ‘taking communion’ has become for us some ritual that we do, with
many people not really understanding the reason for it. We can hardly talk
about it while we are ‘taking communion’ silently and individually in church.
If it is only about being reminded about the sacrifice of Jesus, and looking
forward to his coming, while excluding the love-feast, do we really need a
another reminder? Are we not constantly reminded in sermons, songs and prayers?
Is it even possible to say the name of Jesus without also seeing the cross?
What are his body and his blood for us if it does not still our hunger and
quench our thirst, as physically felt when we have the love-feast? Was Jesus
not saying to us: “every time you have a love-feast, let it be about Me”.
Jesus’ whole purpose for coming, was to love people and draw them into a
relationship with a loving Father. If we keep the ‘Remembrance’ (which we do
anyway all the time in our prayers and praises), but cut out the love-feast,
has the ‘Remembrance’ in this context not lost its original purpose? 2000 years
ago Jesus loved to minister to people around the dinner table. I believe He
wants to do it again. He can only do it through us, by his Spirit. In most
church set-ups today, the ministry of the Holy Spirit is extremely limited. I
believe it is as if He is saying “<span style="color: red;">It’s nice that you
are thankful and that you remember Me (“taking communion”) and that you look
forward to my coming again, but I want to minister My love to people, the poor,
the marginalised, the sinners who don’t feel welcome in church. I want to have
table fellowship again.”</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Apart from the fact that it is not the Biblical pattern, I
prayed and asked God earnestly to tell me what would be the problem with
‘taking communion’ the traditional way, separating it from the love-feast. I
now understood the value of the original way (love-feast included), but what
exactly is it about the traditional way (love-feast excluded) that bothers Him?
I believe Holy Spirit answered me and said “because it is selfish”. Mostly when
‘communion’ is served in church, it is done in a quiet reverent atmosphere.
Each takes his piece of bread and cup of juice quietly, with one person leading
the proceeding with Scripture reading and a prayer. It is selfish because it is
all about me and my own relationship with God, as if somehow, with every time I
have ‘communion’, some spiritual requirement is met. But what if Jesus were to
say to us that it was never his intention to separate the love-feast from the
‘communion’? What if He was just telling us to place Him at the centre of every
one of our love-feasts, to add ‘Remembrance’ to every meal, and never to turn
it into a religious activity that excluded real fellowship between people?
Indeed, there is not one example in Scripture where this was the case. I
believe that Jesus added the ‘Remembrance’ to the love-feast, so that our
love-feasts could be all about Him, his love for us and through us. The
love-feast was the occasion where people could encounter the real experience of
the love of this Jesus, who gave Himself for the ones He loved, in a practical
way. Much of the way He loves his people today happens through the work of his
Spirit in and among his followers. Most church structures and methods are
limiting Him. The Biblical practice that I read about is a far cry from what we
have in most churches today. We cannot have only services where people come in,
worship and listen to a sermon and even get prayed for, followed by small talk
over a cup of coffee, and for many people, only to go home still feeling lonely
or hurting. Especially in larger congregations, some people may come into a
service, and go home afterwards without anyone making that person feel welcome
and loved.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">(I must say that after being involved in different
denominations and churches my whole life, what I currently experience in church
life is closer than the Biblical model than what I have ever experienced
before. I love and extremely appreciate my spiritual family in Nelspruit. We excel in many ways - especially in flowing in the Holy Spirit - , but we still have
a long way to go with regards to building community, if we want to draw many more people into a loving spiritual family.) </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">I have heard some testimonies of people of some blessing or
breakthrough after “having communion” (for example a home where ‘communion is
taken’ is a home that is protected by the Lord). I believe that the name of
Jesus alone is powerful enough and no material matter is needed to add power to
the prayer. Nowhere in Scripture is ‘communion’ added to any type of prayer or
practice. It is only added to the love-feast. Sometimes all that God is looking
for is sincerity of heart, or a desperation that causes you to earnestly pray
about something. The communication we have with God comes through fellowship
with his Spirit. When we bring the name of Jesus on our lips, and when we yield
to Holy Spirit, our prayers become powerful. We need nothing else. The cup and
the bread represent Jesus just as much as his name represents Him. When we pray
in the name of Jesus, nothing else can give our prayers more power (except
faith and, ironically, fasting – abstaining from food). No material thing, no
custom and no ritual or religious activity (like lighting a candle) makes us
more spiritual than when we have fellowship with Holy Spirit. It may cause us
to <u>feel</u> more spiritual, and it may even be emotionally touching, but the
true spiritual significance is not greater. Paul says “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>food does not bring us close to God</u>. For neither if we eat do we
have more, nor if we do not eat do we lack</i>” (1 Cor 8:8). (I know this verse
is from another context in Scripture, but the principle remains.) If it is to fulfil
some requirement, I don’t see such a requirement in Scripture. So when you take
communion while praying, and there is answer to your prayer, perhaps consider
that the answer came because you simply prayed the prayer of faith in the name
of Jesus. You may credit your breakthrough to your taking communion, while in
actual fact it is just God answering the “earnest prayer of a righteous
person”, because of his mercy and grace and love for you. I believe we are a
bit presumptuous to think that adding material substance to our prayers can be
the cause of a breakthrough. But if you truly believe that, then let it be
according to your faith. It is not my intention to in any way devalue your
experience with what I am writing here. There may be other revelation knowledge
about ‘taking communion’ that I have not received, even though it is a constant
prayer for Holy Spirit to reveal to me what I may possibly be missing. I am
open to new revelation or illumination from Scripture, but in the meantime I
have to stay true to that which I believe. Scripture says “that, which is not
of faith, is sin”. Each of us must act according to our own belief and
conviction about everything in Scripture. If we act contrary to our beliefs, it
is sin. If we do not know what to believe about a certain topic, we need to
pray about it, study Scripture, and then take a stand.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">‘Taking communion’ may never be enforced as a pre-requisite to
participate in some other spiritual activity. There is no such requirement in
Scripture, and such an institution would amount to a human law, which is not
the original intention of the ‘Remembrance’. People may ‘take communion’ if
they want, but no one can be excluded from some activity because they refuse to
separate ‘communion’ with the love-feast. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Objections that may
rise</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">The greatest objection to a modern-day love feast could be
that, because of the size of most of our western congregations, it is simply
not practical anymore to have a full meal, because it would be extremely and time-consuming
to arrange a whole meal for the whole congregation. But if we follow the
Biblical pattern, which is that the love-feast took place in Christian homes,
with no more than twelve participants at a time (with the Spirit of Jesus
present it will be 13 </span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">), then it is very practical and
easy to achieve. The host of a love-feast can invite different people for every
different love-feast, so that over time, you get to know and have fellowship
with many people in your congregation. We can continue what we usually do to
prepare a meal for our immediate family, and just invite other people to bring
their food and join in, with simple house-hold rules such as ‘nobody leaves
until everything is cleaned up afterwards’. Once in six months or once a year
the whole congregation could get together for a big feast, which, in the South
African context will probably be a braai. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Another objection could be the one that caused the early
church to stop having love-feasts, namely shameful behaviour such as
overindulging on food and/or wine. But I felt Holy Spirit say to me that this
is no justification for the early church discontinuing love-feasts and
replacing it with a religious activity (‘communion’) that keeps Jesus, but limits
the fellowship with people. We might as well sit in church and eat a full meal,
each one eating quietly and hardly saying a word to the person sitting next to
you. It is really silly, if we think about it. Peter warned against false
teachers, and to this day there are many false teachers, but we have not
forbidden teaching in church because of the possibility that they could be
false teachers. That would make no sense! In the same way we should also not
forbid the love-feasts because some people may abuse food or drink. People who
are legalistic make laws to exercise control over people. The leaders of the
early church made this law to eliminate any chances of abuse, so that they
could ensure good behaviour and order while people were ‘having communion’. While
they now had 100% well behaved people in church, the heart-to-heart fellowship
that occurred around the dinner table was also eliminated 100%. I firmly
believe that this was not what Jesus wanted and I also believe that the people
in the early church, who forbade the love-feast, were not guided by the Holy
Spirit in doing so. I believe that it is important to God that we bring back
this practice of “breaking bread from house to house”. And I hope that there
will come a time when we will again “have all things in common” in the house of
God. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Some people like ‘taking communion’ when they are alone with
God. I have too. When I was living in Taiwan for a few months, I would have
communion all by myself every Saturday morning, believing that somehow it had
spiritual significance for me, even though I saw no fruit directly resulting
from ‘taking communion’. My time in Taiwan was extremely lonely. Thinking back
now, it would’ve been much less lonely had I sought some other lonely person
and had breakfast with them every Saturday morning, sharing about Jesus. If you
have no choice but to be alone with Jesus, have the full meal in his presence! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">People also ‘take communion’ on other occasions, such as
during a small/cell group fellowship, where they are not also sharing a meal.
The small group fellowship in many churches today is probably the closest we
currently get to the Biblical model and in our current church context probably
the best place to add the ‘Remembrance’, since it can be combined with true
fellowship and ministry in an intimate setting. So people may argue that it is
close enough to the Biblical model, but it is not yet the Biblical ideal,
mostly because of the time-limit. Because of the time-limit, one or two hours
per week, it takes a really long time to get to know and trust the people in
the group. It can also be too structured and controlled by a facilitator, with
a lot of controlled talk (to stay with the topic) in the group, but very little
ministry and prayer. It is sometimes a setting where people don’t feel at liberty
to share anything that’s on their heart, for fear that the facilitator will
want to bring the conversation back to the chosen topic for the session. Sharing
meals together will bring people closer together much sooner. Unless a small
group meeting is intended for a specific purpose like Bible study, the
facilitator should take great care not to control the meeting, but to
facilitate the flow of Holy Spirit. A facilitator can start a meeting with a
certain topic, but should be able to allow Holy Spirit to take over completely
and let it go in the direction that He wants. This is the closest our small
group meetings will come to the love-feast, if there is a corporate decision
not to include a meal in the meeting. I think that ‘taking communion’ without
the full meal is probably not wrong <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">per
se, </i>as long as there is good fellowship with people and Holy Spirit. Surely
Jesus appreciates our celebration of his sacrifice, but we should take care not
to turn it into one of the ritualistic activities on the program for the
meeting. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Conclusion </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">The golden principle is, if it is not combined with the
love-feast (or at least a close resemblance), it is not a command from Jesus,
and we are under no obligation to take it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You may ask ‘don’t you believe it is important to take communion?’ My
answer is: ‘Of course it is… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">in the way
Jesus envisioned it</b>’. If you share a meal three times a day with friends or
family, you can ‘take communion’ three times a day. It is as simple as that. I
believe Jesus instituted the Remembrance meal in order that, because we eat
often, we share the good news of Jesus with friends and family as often as we
eat together. I believe this is the true value of the institution of the
Remembrance meal. Not to keep Jesus to ourselves, but to share Him with others
as we share food with others. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">When someone, or a church, decides to ‘take communion’ to
honour the Lord, but separated from the love-feast, care should be taken that
this is not done as a ritual, and not in complete silence, for this is the
religious tradition that has been passed on for centuries. Ministry and
fellowship should be encouraged when people ‘have communion’. If we want to
really honour the Lord, we need to obey his commandment to love one another.
The ministry of the love of Christ is more important to Him than us keeping a
religious tradition.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">I will respect every person’s belief and way they ‘practice
communion’. I understand the importance of doing everything in love (Rom 14, 1
Cor 8:9, 12, and Eph 4:15) and will continue to do so, as an outflow of obeying the
voice of Holy Spirit. But I can no longer ‘take communion’ religiously, which
is when it is done while we make no effort to understand the spiritual,
emotional and physical needs of those with whom we are (supposed to be) in
fellowship. I feel convicted by Holy Spirit every time I do so and I feel like
a hypocrite, believing one thing but doing another. Now that I have made public
what I believe, I will take great care how and when I participate. If we know
of people in church who are poor and barely have food to eat at home, or
struggling to pay their children’s school fees etc, how can we ‘take communion’
while ignoring our brothers’ and sisters’ real need for food that can still
their hunger? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">I believe (through many prophecies that have been spoken over
South Africa) that there comes a harvest of souls, and like catching fish, if
our nets are not ready and prepared, they will be torn. If we don’t make a
habit of having people over for fellowship in our homes, our current church
structures and methods will become too small and ill equipped to handle the
influx. The “fish” will be lost because we have not learnt to take care of
them. There will be too many for the experienced pastors and elders to handle.
I also believe that the body of Christ worldwide will experience increased
persecution in future, forcing us underground, even in the West as it already
is in many countries that are currently violently opposed to Christians. I
believe we should start preparing ourselves for when it becomes necessary to
meet only in small numbers and in homes. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Holy Spirit is busy pruning churches worldwide. He is cutting
off the branches not bearing good fruit, so that the branches that are bearing fruit
can bear even more fruit. Cutting away branches that don’t bear fruit is always
painful and uncomfortable, but the end result makes the difficult process worthwhile. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">I have read this statement “new truth (I would add “or old
truth that’s been dusted off”) is first ridiculed, then violently opposed, then
accepted as the norm”. I know that I may get some opposition for proposing that
the body of Christ worldwide changes its practice of ‘taking communion’ only in
the traditional way. This is what the religious spirit wants. It is opposed to real
love that draws people to Christ. So I am sending this message out and will not
try and force it on anyone. I trust that Holy Spirit will do what He does best.
And I pray and believe that He will cause like-minded people, who will also get
the revelation, to come together to meet for supper in homes, where Jesus is remembered
and shared with others, so that He can become the centre of each of our fellowships
with friends and family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are
convinced that this is the will of the Lord, please pray and start organising a
love-feast in your home. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">(After writing this article, someone referred me to the ministry
of Francis Chan. Please see <a href="http://www.wearechurch.com/">www.wearechurch.com</a>
for his thoughts on organising church as the first Christians did. Also see Youtube
for more teachings by him.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-ZA">Thank you for taking
the time to read this article. If it added valuable knowledge to your life, and
if your spirit agrees to the truth of what you have read and you feel blessed,
please consider blessing me financially. </span></span></div>
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to the church, but in the final analysis in doing so he is giving to God (see </span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank"><i><span lang="EN-ZA" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Proverbs 19:17</span></i></a></span><i><span lang="EN-ZA">; </span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank"><i><span lang="EN-ZA" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Matthew 6:2-4; 22:17-21</span></i></a></span><i><span lang="EN-ZA">; </span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank"><i><span lang="EN-ZA" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Acts 5:4</span></i></a></span><i><span lang="EN-ZA">; </span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank"><i><span lang="EN-ZA" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Romans 14:4-8</span></i></a></span><i><span lang="EN-ZA">; </span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank"><i><span lang="EN-ZA" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">2 Corinthians 8:5</span></i></a></span><i><span lang="EN-ZA">; </span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank"><i><span lang="EN-ZA" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Colossians 3:22-25</span></i></a></span><i><span lang="EN-ZA">)</span></i><span lang="EN-ZA">.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Footnotes</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-no-proof: no;">1.My analysis of Acts 2 Verse 42 “…<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and they were devoting themselves to the
teaching of the apostles <b>and</b> to the <u>fellowship (koinonia) <b>to</b>
the breaking</u> of the bread <b>and</b> to the prayers</i>.” Looking at the
Greek text (which did not include punctuation marks), it is clear that no “<b>and</b>”
occurred in the phrase <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fellowship to the
breaking of the bread</i>, which suggests that it is a combined action and the
comma that appears in English translations after the word ‘fellowship’, should
not be there and changes them meaning of the sentence. The meaning of ‘koinonia’
(<u>a noun,</u> translated as ‘fellowship’) that fits the best in this sentence
is ‘willing contribution / gift’ (it can also mean 1.‘An association involving
close mutual relations’; 2. Sharing of possessions). Furthermore the preposition
‘to’ (between ‘fellowship’ and ‘breaking of bread’) in the English text does
not occur in this sentence in the Greek text. According to the Greek grammar
used (dative case), the possible prepositions that can be added to the
translation to ensure proper English, are any one of these: <u>by/with/to/for/in/from</u>,
and must be chosen according to the context. <b>Conclusion:</b> <b>I believe
the most accurate reading of this phrase is ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">willing gift/contribution <u>for</u> the breaking of bread’</i></b>.
This fits what we know historically about the love-feasts, where every
participant willingly brought food to the table. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-no-proof: no;"></span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-no-proof: no;">(Note: I am not a Greek expert, but
during my first semester of studying Greek, nouns and prepositions formed part
of the curriculum. I believe I have a good understanding of the material.)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">2.We shouldn’t expect only the pastors to get all the revelation
for the way God wants us to have fellowship in the ekklysia. God also raised up
Teachers whose gifting and function it is to search the Scriptures and to
discover truths that others sometimes overlook. Teachers are the slow ones who
take time to chew and meditate on Scripture for hours and days and sometimes
months and years before they even release what they discover. Throughout
history Teachers have been burnt at the stake for introducing new or old truths
on which lay layers of dust. Martin Luther was one such person who was
persecuted for proclaiming that the “just shall live by faith”. How did the
church misunderstand Scripture for so many centuries? The truth is, we still misunderstand
and misapply Scripture to this day. It’s human nature to believe that what you
have been taught since childhood, is absolute truth. We often believe what we
have been taught and continue in the same practice, without turning to
Scripture to verify if our forefathers’ teachings and practices were true to
Scripture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 500<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the great German Reformation is being celebrated this year, but
we should be reforming all the time. It is the job of Teachers (sometimes
referred to as theologians) who sacrifice much on order to get to the truth, to
guide the church to stay true to the Biblical teachings. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Resources consulted:</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://bible.org/article/biblical-principles-concerning-contributions-church"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">https://bible.org/article/biblical-principles-concerning-contributions-church</span></a></span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;"></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">Scripture Direct</span></u><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;"> android app: Greek-English
linear Bible with dictionary and commentary, an aid in analysing Scripture. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100106205222/http:/www.sanctification.com/supper.php"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;">https://web.archive.org/web/20100106205222/http://www.sanctification.com/supper.php</span></a></span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-no-proof: no;"> - This is a good article to read for practical guidelines for
a love feast. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This blog article unintentionally continues the topic of sacrifice. My
previous article was written a year ago and since then I have not felt the need
to write another article, until now. The previous article was written in
Afrikaans. For the English readers who cannot read Afrikaans, I will translate
that one on request. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As usual many of my revelations into the character of God comes as a
result of God leading me into situations to show me his perspective and for me
to feel a little of what He feels. The deeper truths of Scripture often does
not come from a plain reading or even analytical study of the Scriptures. Such
truths are often only revealed when we live life and only during or after our experience,
the Holy Spirit reveals to us the hidden truth in Scripture. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Earlier in this year I met a man who loves Scripture and who loves
Jesus. On the night we first met, and were visiting with some friends, a topic came up which I have studied, and are still studying
extensively and intensively. Much of what I understand about the topic did not
come as a result of studying Scripture alone, because often times Scripture alone
does not reveal hidden truths. Much of what I understand now came as a result
of meditating and praying about what I read in Scripture. When such revelations
come, my eyes are opened to see that those truths are in fact there, in
Scripture, but hidden in plain sight and is only revealed to us as we converse with
the Holy Spirit. Often times those truths are hidden because we have been
conditioned from childhood to believe things which are actually not in
Scripture. So, on this night, the topic came up, starting a conversation about
it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I don’t try to force anything I believe to be the truth on anyone else.
If someone is not interested in what I have to say and wishes to end the
conversation or the topic, I respect that and I move on. But if someone wants
to talk, I talk, and I greatly enjoy sharing with others what I have learned. It
is to me like having found a valuable treasure which I should not be keeping to
myself. Often times I have shared in this way with friends who were willing to
listen. (I also enjoy listening to others, when they have discovered truths and
treasures which they have to share.) Their responses to my treasures differ.
Some of them see them quickly and appreciate my sharing with them. Others
struggle to see. As long as they are willing to continue the discussion
peacefully, by the grace of God I remain patient to explain to them what I see
and understand. When someone just can’t see what I’m trying to show them, and
they seem to give up or explicitly state that they choose to believe otherwise,
I respect that and would rather end the conversation and keep the relationship.
I have learned that no one will ever agree
with you on everything, but as long as there is enough common ground, we should
focus most of our attention on the common ground in order to maintain
relationship. In this way we will be rich in friends. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So, over the span of a few weeks, I have had a number of conversations
with this man about various topics, conversations we have enjoyed. We have much
common ground to stand on when it comes to our worldview and understanding of
Scripture. But four of those conversations did not end well. Two of them about
the topic of the first night’s discussion, the topic I have studied
extensively. Whenever a topic arises that he has already made up his mind about
(or was conditioned since childhood), but which he is interested in discussing
anyway, he tends to interrupt me often and starts to speak while I am still
speaking. He doesn’t wait for me to finish what I was busy saying, and he doesn’t
ask to interrupt. He just interrupts rudely. Because of this tendency, I have
not been able to give him the full picture, like I have given to others who
have listened patiently, who saw and understood, and appreciated the treasure. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I experienced this man’s behaviour towards me as utterly disrespectful.
Not because he has a different belief or interpretation of the relevant Scriptures,
but because he doesn’t respect me enough to even finish my sentences, while he
still wants to continue the topic. He has not been schooled formally in
theology, and so has not learned to treat another scholar’s work with patience
and respect. He came to the conversation with the assumption that his
understanding is correct and complete and therefore it is not possible that I
can have some knowledge or insight or understanding which he can learn from. What
another person chooses to believe is really none of my business. So I really
don’t mind him having a different understanding. What bothers me is the fact
that, because of his prideful assumption, he engages me in conversation, not to
gain understanding of my viewpoint or to learn something, but only to “correct” me
according to his understanding, and this while rudely interrupting me often. I
can maintain relationship with someone who believes differently than I do. It
is everybody’s right to disagree with another person. There is a way to
disagree respectfully. But a relationship with someone who continues to act
disrespectfully towards you, is nearly impossible. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As this situation bothered me and I talked to God about it, a great
truth about God’s character was revealed to me. What I value greatly, this man
has treated with disdain. As I explained in the previous article, when we spend
so much time, energy and resources on something which will ultimately benefit
someone else, it can be considered a sacrifice. Not only do I experience his
behaviour as disrespectful towards me personally, but also towards my
sacrifice. Even though he does so in ignorance (because he doesn’t see the
extent of my sacrifice) and unintentionally, his behaviour and attitude sends the
message that the result of my sacrifice, which is my treasure to share with
others, is worth nothing to him. This behaviour and attitude further implies
that he believes that I have not received my instruction from the Lord and have
therefore wasted my time. He must be hearing from God. Not me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And so I realized that this is exactly, and much more so, the way God
feels when people treat Christ with disdain. Even though they may do so in
ignorance, being blinded by satan, we read in Scripture that God resists the
proud but gives grace to the humble (James 4:6). Now I understand why God relates
to prideful people in this way. Jesus said “<span lang="EN-GB">Do not give
dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may
trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.” (Matt 7:6). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">God’s greatest
gift to the world is Jesus, his only Son, conceived by himself. The rest of us who
came to God through Christ, are all adopted. For those who are still
unbelievers, the only way to receive this gift, the Son, is to come to God
humbly, believing that without Jesus, they will remain dead in their sins. If
they don’t believe that they need Jesus, they can never receive Him. God the
Father will never force Jesus on anyone. Only when their spiritual eyes have
opened up and they begin to see glimpses of the value of his Son, are they able
to receive Him. This is why Jesus said that “it is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom
of God.” (Matt 19:24). [Someone explained once that in the Middle East in
Biblical times, camels had to crawl on their knees through a small opening (called
“the eye of a needle”) in a wall to the holding where they stayed overnight.
All the luggage on their backs had to be taken off in order for them to fit and
crawl through the opening. In this way a rich man often has to throw off his
worldly possessions and get on his knees in a humble position before he can receive
Christ and enter into the kingdom of heaven. (I have seen such an “eye of the
needle” in a wall in Egypt, at the pyramids.)] Those who do not come to God humbly
to receive, will receive nothing. God’s great gift to the world will not be
forced down the throats of the proud. But the gift of life in Jesus Christ is a
free gift to all who humbly recognize the great sacrifice of the Son of God,
and acknowledge their need of Him. </span>If
they don’t take the humble position and allow themselves to be informed by the
Word and Spirit of God, there is no way they can be reconciled with God. They
will be lost forever. Those who think that they can have a relationship with
God apart from honoring and worshiping his Son Jesus, is greatly mistaken!
Those people are ignorant and self-righteous (they don’t believe that they need
Jesus to be right with God – they believe they are right in themselves). They
honour their own thoughts, opinions and assumptions above the Word of God. But
the voices that they are hearing are only the voices in their heads and not the
voice of God, because God resists those who do not honour his Son. Those who
have not bowed the knee to the risen Son of God, will not get any revelation
from God. God will not speak to them, because He will not share his pearls with
swine. He has already spoken to us through his word, the logos who became
flesh, Jesus his Son. If we don’t receive Him, no other treasure from heaven
will come to us. The first treasure we need to receive is the Son. Once we
honour, respect and worship Him as our Saviour, more treasures will come as we
spend time with Jesus, in his Word and with his Spirit. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And since we were created in the image of this God, we too, when we have
submitted to God’s will for our lives and sacrificed our comforts to benefit
others, desire to share our treasures with those who treat them with respect. Jesus
is the only one who should be worshiped for his sacrifice, because He is God.
But we can expect respect from people. Now I understand why Paul says to wives
to respect their husbands. Because the husbands (are supposed to) lay down
their lives for their wives as Jesus gave his life for the church (Eph.5:25).
Husbands must take the humble position, like Jesus took the humble position, to
serve and love their wives. For that, they need the respect of their wives. Children
need to respect their parents because they sacrificed a lot in order to raise
their children. Patients must show respect to the doctor because the doctor
sacrificed much in order to get trained and equipped to care for the sick and
injured. Members of a church should respect their elders who sacrifice much in
order to serve and care for their members. School pupils need to respect their
teachers who work until late at night to mark assignments and prepare lessons. It
is your human right to disagree with someone else, but at least give your
leader the benefit of the doubt and show them respect and appreciation for the
sacrifices he has made. When we respect someone else, we acknowledge the
sacrifices they have made to benefit others, and when we respect them, we open
the way for them to share their treasures with us. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">What I believe
the Holy Spirit is saying to me, is that I don’t have to tolerate a
disrespectful brother. Because if I tolerate him, he will not change his
attitude. Loving my brother in Christ in this instance is to distance myself
from him for a while (which I have done after obeying the instruction of Christ in Matt 18:15, but without fruitful result), while also praying for the work of the Holy Spirit in his
life.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">God, please help
me to show proper respect to others simply because they were created in Your
image. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">Your comments are welcome and appreciated. </span></span></span></div>
Anitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084188952984083644noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643383932781952464.post-74369251256613361142016-05-06T19:46:00.003+02:002016-05-06T20:20:02.781+02:00Celebration of a sacrifice (Afrikaans)<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ek het die titel in Engels geskryf want dit klink <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">dalk 'n bie<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tjie meer treffend as</span> in</span> Afrikaans: Die viering van 'n opoffering. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hierdie inskrywing is 'n uittreksel van iets wat ek moontlik sal insluit in die boek wat ek besig is om te skryf. Ek skryf oor die betekenis van die kruis van Christus. <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Soos jy, het ek ook aangeneem ek verstaan hoekom Jesus moes sterf, want ons hoor dit mos van kleins af van die kansel af. Maar meer daaroor <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">in die boek. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Soos wat ek oor die onderwerp bid, oplees, dink en skryf, openbaar die Heilige Gees gedurig dieper waarhede aan my. Hierdie inskrywing gaan oor een so 'n openbaring wat ek deur 'n persoonlike ervaring ontvang het.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Die waarde daarvan om my persoonlike ervaring oor te vertel </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ek het op die 23e April 2016 die SATS gradeplegtigheid
bygewoon. Ek het laas jaar die BTh(hons) voltooi. Ek kon gekies het om tevrede
te wees om die sertifikaat in die pos te ontvang, maar het gekies om die
plegtigheid by te woon, miskien omdat ek gevoel het dat die prestasie die
plegtigheid waardig is. Of miskien omdat ek die kursus deur die pos gedoen het
en ek ten minste een keer wil deel voel van die groter groep mense wat ook betrokke
is by SATS. Of miskien eenvoudig net omdat ek voel dat sekere mylpale gevier moet
word. Of miskien omdat ek diep binne my gevoel het daar is ‘n oorwinning of
iets wat gevier moet word, vir watter waarde dit ookal kon wees. Ons vier tog
ook verjaarsdae, verlowings, huweliksherdenkings ens. Dis so ‘n antiklimaks om
die sertifikaat deur die pos te ontvang, met niemand wat jou gelukwens, hande
klap of ‘n foto neem nie. Ek het egter gewonder of dit nie die meer nederige
posisie is om te neem om nie die plegtigheid by te woon nie. Soos Max Lucado
verkondig in sy storie “Jy is spesiaal”, moet ons die tipe mense wees aan wie
sterretjies en kolletjies nie kan vasplak nie. Maar dalk is die begeerte om
blydskap met ander mense te deel, met ander woorde te vier, net natuurlik, iets
wat God in ons menswees ingebou het, en daar dus niks verkeerd met ‘n gradeplegtigheid,
selfs vir teologie nie. Maar om die waarheid te sê het ek egter die
gradeplegtigheid bygewoon terwyl ek onseker was oor wat God se wil daaroor is.
Ek het dus geen verwagting gehad dat dit vir my ‘n spesiale dag sou wees nie.
Ek het eerder verwag dat ek ‘n bietjie skuldig sou voel omdat ek nie die meer
nederige posisie inneem deur ‘n gesindheid van “laat die regterhand nie weet
wat die linkerhand doen nie”. Ek het gedink ek sal net deur die formaliteite
gaan en mooi glimlag, dan het ek darem ‘n mooi foto wat ek kan raam, vir myself
en die enkeles wat in my huis kom. Ek moet beklemtoon dat ek regtig verwag het
dat die dag soos net nog ‘n formaliteit sou voel, iets waaroor ek eintlik skaam
moes wees, dat ek so wêrelds georiënteerd is om ‘n gradeplegtigheid by te woon
vir ‘n graad wat ek ontvang het omdat ek ‘n formele studie oor God (teologie)
gedoen het. Ek het beslis nie verwag om weggeblaas te voel nie... </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ek moes deur die loop van die middag baie hard veg teen trane:
nadat ons die items vir ons uitrustings ontvang het, deur die loop van die
fotosessie, later in die ry waar ons gewag het om in die ouditorium in te gaan,
en dwarsdeur die verloop van die plegtigheid, van begin tot einde. Ek het die
geveg verloor en het maar net probeer om die trane ongesiens weg te vee. Ek was
so emosioneel en oorweldig deur die waarde en grootsheid van die dag. (Ek is
oor die algemeen ‘n baie emosionele mens en huil maklik oor beide hartseer en
blydskap. Ek kan bv. vir 2 minute lank ‘n rugby wedstryd kyk en huil van
blydskap wanneer ‘n drie gedruk word omdat ek my vereenselwig met daardie man
en sy span se vreugde terwyl ek hom of sy span glad nie ken nie en nie eens ‘n
rugby ondersteuner is nie.) Tussen die trane deur het die rede waarom die gebeurtenis
my so diep raak, tot my deurgedring. Dit was die herinnering aan alles wat ek
opgegee het (of in goeie Bybelse taal, opgeoffer het), en al die harde werk om
hierdie kursus te voltooi. Deel van die herinnering is ook die swaar tye
(emosioneel en fisies) wat ek deur is in dieselfde tydperk as die studies, maar
wat nie direk verband hou met die studies nie. Dis dinge wat meeste mense nie
van weet nie (want mens deel sekere dinge net met jou binnekring), want God is
altyd besig om aan ons karakter te werk om ons meer na die beeld van Jesus te
vorm en in dieper verhouding met Hom te trek. Soms sluit dit moeilike tye in. Dit
is ‘n lewenslange proses. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dis nou nie nodig om alles te noem wat ek opgegee het of
“gely” het sodat ek tyd kon hê om hierdie studie te voltooi nie. Wat saak maak
is dat daardie gevoel van opoffering my op die dag van die gradeplegtigheid
oorweldig het, en die gevoel van dankbaarheid dat ek hierdie mylpaal gehaal
het, daarmee saam. Verder het ek nie hierdie studie gedoen net om ‘n graad te
ontvang en ‘n beroep te oefen nie. My verhouding met God en sy roeping op my
lewe is absoluut die middelpunt en rede vir my bestaan. Elke spreker wat by die
plegtigheid gepraat het, het dinge gesê wat my op ‘n baie diep vlak raak. Die
dag was toe nie vir my net ‘n formaliteit nie, maar soete intimiteit met God.
Dit is vir Hom en sy mense wat ek hierdie opoffering gemaak het. Hy het my
geroep vir ‘n spesifieke taak en hierdie studie vorm deel van my toerusting vir
hierdie taak. Dis Hy wat my gelei het om die studie te onderneem. Hy het my
geseën en in staat gestel en alles gegee wat ek nodig gehad het om dit te
voltooi. Ek probeer hard, maar woorde skiet te kort om te probeer beskryf hoe
spesiaal die dag vir my was. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Die aand toe ek totaal uitgeput na die lang dag by die
huis kom, het ‘n groot waarheid tot my deurgedring. Noem dit ‘n openbaring. Die
dag was vir my so spesiaal omdat dit die <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“viering
van ‘n opoffering”</b> was. Ek het besef dat dit presies is waarom ons Jesus
aanbid en oor Hom juig. Wanneer ons aan Jesus dink, dink ons aan die kruis.
Maar Jesus se hele lewe was ‘n opoffering. Sy hele lewe het nie gegaan oor
homself nie, maar oor die mensdom wat nodig gehad het om te sien hoe God aarde
toe kom in die vorm van ‘n Mens om ons te leer en aan ons demonstreer hoe om in
sy Koninkryk te leef, en ‘n voorbeeld te wees van hoe om swaarkry te verduur ter
wille van ander, sodat ons ook, soos Hy, een dag uit die dood na die ewige lewe
toe kan opstaan. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As ons werklik hierdie
openbaring het van Jesus se gee van sy lewe (“offer”) ter wille van ons, en
wanneer hierdie besef ons vul met intense waardering en nederigheid, sal ons
almal tot ‘n meerdere of mindere mate so emosioneel wees soos wat ek was op die
dag toe my “opoffering” gevier is. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wanneer Jesus se woorde “wie agter My aan wil
kom, moet homself verloën en sy kruis opneem en My volg” [1953] dan in ons ore
ego, kan ons moed skep uit die voorbeeld van Jesus se opoffering. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hy verwag niks van ons wat Hy nie self deur is
nie, en Hy gee sy Heilige Gees om ons te help met alles wat Hy van ons vra. Om
jouself te verloën (“to deny”), is om jouself te ontneem van die reg om vir
jouself te leef, sodat jy vir God se doeleindes kan leef. Die Skepper God kon
gekies het om elke wese (soos Satan) en mens wat teen Hom in opstand kom, net
te vernietig. Hy kon sodoende almal basies gedwing het om aan Hom onderdanig te
wees. Maar gedwonge “liefde” is nie ware liefde nie. Ter wille van ware
verhouding en liefde, moes God die Satan toelaat om te bestaan. En omdat die
Satan bestaan en mense verblind en mislei sodat hulle nie kan sien wie God is
nie, het God sy gemak in die hemel prysgegee sodat Hy in die vorm van ‘n Mens
Homself kon onderwerp aan die beperkinge van sy eie Skepping. Jesus het alles
behalwe ‘n gemaklike lewe op aarde gehad. Ek onthou altyd die woorde in Jesaja
53:3: “... a man of sorrows, and familiar with pain”. Hy het dit alles gedoen
ter wille van ons, die mens, sodat Hy ons in ware verhouding met Hom kon bring.
Daar is niks meer waardevol as ware verhouding en opregte liefde nie. Maar soos
die Engelsman sê, “it takes two to tango”. God vra van ons om ook ons lewens
neer te lê ter wille van verhouding: elkeen van ons se verhouding met Hom, en
ander mense se verhouding met Hom. Alles wat Hy ons vra en lei om te doen op
hierdie aarde, gaan uiteindelik daaroor om eerstens ware verhouding met Hom te
kan geniet en tweedens om ander mense te help om ‘n beter prentjie van die ware
God te kry, sodat hulle ook in ware verhouding met Hom kan inbeweeg, en sodat
hulle op hul beurt die proses kan voortsit. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dink daaroor: Jesus se woorde dat die wat Hom wil volg
hulle kruis moet opneem, het Hy gesê <u>voor</u> sy eie kruisdood! Jesus het
niks verkondig<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wat Hy nie self deur sy
eie lewe ook gedemonstreer het nie. En dink daaraan, as ‘n mens ‘n kruis dra,
waarheen dra jy dit? Jy dra die kruis na die dood van jou vlees toe! Om ons
lewens te gee (op te offer) ter wille van God se plan met ons lewens (wat altyd
gaan oor ander mense), is om ons vlees met sy begeertes te kruisig, en op te
staan in die krag van die Heilige Gees. Net vanoggend is die betekenis van ‘n
teksvers aan my openbaar. Ek het al ‘n paar maal gewonder wat die teksvers in 1
Petrus 4:1-2 beteken. Die Engelse vertalings sê dit beter: “...because the one
who suffered in the flesh has finished with sin...”. Jesus se lyding en kruis
is vir ons ‘n metafoor vir hoe ons ons eie vleeslike, sondige begeertes moet
kruisig, sodat ons kan opstaan en lewe in die krag van die Heilige Gees, sodat
ons God kan behaag met ons lewens. Almal wat die keuses maak om hulle “vlees”
te kruisig, ervaar dit soms as pynlik. Almal wat kies om Jesus te volg, gaan
hulle gemak en ander dinge moet prysgee in die proses. Maar die oorwinning is
so soet! As ‘n mens die waarde van jou “lyding” besef, dan verloor sonde sy
aantrekkingskrag, en begeer jy meer en meer om die Here se wil te soek en te
doen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Die beloning van ware intimiteit
met God, deur sy Gees, is absoluut die moeite werd. Dink aan ‘n ma wat geboorte
skenk sonder pyn medikasie. Ons hoor altyd die stories van hoe swaar en pynlik
dit was, maar die vreugde wat daardie ma ervaar wanneer sy haar baba in haar
arms hou, maak dit alles die moeite werd. Paulus het van Jesus gesê “For the
joy that was set before Him, He endured the cross”. Jesus het ons redding en
maw ons verhouding met God in gedagte gehad toe Hy die pyn van die kruis
verduur het, en dit het Hom bemoedig om deur te druk.</span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Wanneer ons dus Jesus se opoffering vier en Hom aanbid
vir wie Hy is en wat Hy gedoen het, dan moet ons terselfdertyd herinner word
daaraan dat ons as sy dissipels ook gekies het om ons gemak en selfgesentreerde
ambisies en begeertes prys te gee sodat ons dit wat van baie meer waarde is, kan
bekom, naamlik ‘n dieper verhouding met Hom en om te lewe om sy wil op aarde te
doen. Dit mag miskien klink soos werk, maar die intimiteit wat ons met God mag
geniet omdat ons Hom ken en sy wil doen, is onbeskryflik. Dit is natuurlik diep
geestelike intimiteit waarvan ek praat, dikwels sonder woorde. Hierdie tipe intimiteit
kan ‘n mens slegs ervaar as jy “jou kruis opneem en Hom volg”. Dis nie kerkgangers
wat intimiteit met God ervaar nie. Dis hulle wat waarlik hulle rug op hul sondige
natuur gedraai het en gekies het om in Jesus se voetspore te volg. En elke mens
wat getroud is het ‘n prentjie van intimiteit tussen God (bruidegom) en mens (bruid).
Twee mense in ‘n huwelik, in ideale omstandighede, doen alles wat hulle doen
uiteindelik sodat hul maat en kinders daaruit voordeel kan trek. Altwee werk
hard en maak sekere opofferings, maar dan het hulle ook die voorreg om
intimiteit met mekaar te kan geniet. En ek wil raai dat hoe groter die opoffering
van beide kante, hoe groter die liefde, hoe beter die intimiteit... (Ek gee
huweliksraad en ek’s nog nie eens getroud nie... maar ek glo dis ‘n beginsel wat
in ideale omstandighede waar moet wees.)</span><br />
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Anitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084188952984083644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643383932781952464.post-89979449251099169402016-01-01T16:31:00.003+02:002016-01-01T16:31:59.449+02:00'n Kort geskiedenis van kersfees (historiese feite) <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Vir hierdie artikel het ek die
artikel oor kersfees (of die Christusfees, ‘n beter beskrwing) op Wikipedia
gelees. Ek glo dit is ‘n goeie en betroubare bron van inligting omdat dit
gebaseer is op geskiedkundige feite uit meer as 234 literatuurbronne. Die
inskrywing “Mag ons kersfees vier en hoekom?” het ek geskryf nadat ek ervaar
het dat die Here aan my openbaar het dat die 25e Desember aan Christene behoort
en ons met vrymoedigheid aan die feesvieringe kan deelneem soos Hy ons lei en
soos dit Hom verheerlik en mense nader aan Hom bring. Hierdie artikel gaan meer
oor die geskiedenis van kersfees. Hierdie
is maar ‘n opsomming en dit sal goed wees as jy jou eie navorsing kan doen,
maar as jy nie tyd of lus daarvoor het nie behoort hierdie volledig genoeg te
wees. Lees dan ook die inskrywing oor die <b>“contextualization
of the Gospel”</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Volgens die Wikipedia artikel is daar
nie sekerheid oor wie eerste feesgevier het op die 25e Desember nie, Christene
of heidene. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b>Die een moontlikheid
is dat die feesviering op die 25e Desember plaasgevind het voordat dit deur
heidense praktyke beïnvloed is.</b> Kersfees, die viering van die geboorte van
Christus, is so vroeg as die vierde eeu na Christus gevier is (so vroeg as 311
nC). Dit blyk dat die dag aanvanklik gekies is om ooreen te stem met die dag
presies nege maande nadat die vroeë Christene geglo het die dag is waarop Maria
swanger geword het, naamlik die 25e Maart. Dit is nie onmoontlik dat Jesus in
Desember gebore kon gewees het nie. Die herders het hulle skape nie net in die
somer in die veld opgepas nie, maar ook in die winter. Ons lees in Genesis
31:38-40 dat Jakob in die winter skape moes opgepas het want hy het soms in die
nag bitter koud gekry. ‘n Spesiale groep bekend as die herders van Migdal Eder
(Genesis 35:19-21, Miga 4:8) het dwarsdeur die jaar hul skape in die nag
opgepas wat uitgehou was vir offerhandes in die Tempel naby Bethlehem. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wat baie interessant is, is dat daar
geglo was dat die 25e Maart (volgens die Joodse kalenderdag 14 Nisan), die
eerste dag van die Skepping was, asook die dag waarop die Israeliete uit Egipte
bevry is, asook die dag waarop Jesus deur Maria van die Heilige Gees ontvang is
en die dag waarop Hy aan die Kruis gesterf het. (Sien die Wikipedia artikel vir
meer hieroor.) Die geboorte (Skepping van die son) en Maria wat swanger geword
het met Jesus val dus min of meer op dieselfde dag.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As hierdie eerste moontlikheid die
waarheid is, dan is kersfees mettertyd beïnvloed deur heidene wat voorheen een
of meer afgodsdiensfeeste gevier het tydens “southern solstice”. Ek weet nie
hoe om dit te vertaal nie, maar gaan lees op oor dit; dit gaan oor die posisie
van die aarde teenoor die son in Desember wanneer die noordelike halfrond in
die hart van die winter is en die suidelike halfrond hoogsomer het. Hierdie
heidene het tot bekering gekom en hul heidense praktyke in kersfees ingebring. Die
rede waarom heidene in Europa in die eerste eeue na Christus tydens winter meer
fees gevier het, was dat hulle meer tyd op hande gehad het omdat hul werk in
boerdery dan afgeneem het en omdat hulle bly was oor die vooruitsig van lente. Sommige
van die hedendaagse gebruike tydens kersfees kom moontlik oorspronklik uit
hierdie feeste uit, soos byvoorbeeld die gee van geskenke en aalmoese, liggies,
immergroen plante en sekere disse. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b>Die ander
moontlikheid waarom die 25e Desember gekies was as Christus se geboortedag-vieringe,
was om daardeur die heidense fees wat moontlik in Rome gevier was op daardie
dag te vervang met kersfees</b>. Die heidense fees ter sprake sou wees "the
birthday of the Unconquered Sun" (of in Latyn <i>Dies Natalis Solis
Invicti)</i>, ‘n fees wat deur die Romeinse heerser Aurelian (wat tussen 270 en
275 nC geheers het) ingestel was om die songod te vier tydens “winter solstice”
op 25 Desember. Op grond van hierdie <b>teorie</b>
het Christene in die ampstydperk van die Romeinse heerser Constantine (306-337
nC) hierdie fees verklaar as die verjaarsdag van Jesus en Hom geassosieer met
die “Son van geregtigheid” in Maleagi 4:2.
Blykbaar het sommige Christene ook deelgeneem aan die feesvieringe vir
die songod en daarom het die kerkleiers daaroor gepraat en besluit om die dag
te verklaar as die verjaarsdagvieringe van Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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andersom gebeur het en dat die heerser Aurelian die “heilige dag”, "the
birthday of the Unconquered Sun" ingestel het deels <b>in ‘n poging om heidense betekenis te gee aan ‘n dag wat ALREEDS
belangrik was vir die Christene in Rome</b>. Met ander woorde kersfees was
gevier VOOR daar ‘n verjaarsdagviering vir die son bestaan het. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nog ‘n ander bron sê dat die heidense
fees om die <b>songod</b> te vier apart
gesien moet word van die fees om die geboorte van die <b>son</b> te vier (want die son en die songod is twee verskillende dinge).
Hy het gesê dat alhoewel die “winter solstice” op of naby die 25e Desember
gevestig was op die Romeinse kalender, <b>is
daar geen bewys dat ‘n heidense viering van die son plaasgevind het VOOR die
viering van die kersfees nie.</b> ‘n
Ander kenner het gewys dat alhoewel die heerser Aurelian ‘n tempel gewy het aan
die songod (in 274 nC) en dit waarskynlik plaasgevind het op die 'Birthday of
the Invincible Sun' op die 25e Desember, <b>het
die “sekte van die son” in heidense Rome ironies genoeg nie die “winter
solstice” gevier nie. <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As jy nou deurmekaar is, moenie bekommerd
wees nie. Al wat duidelik is, is dat daar volgens die geskiedenisboeke <b>nie sekerheid is</b> oor watter fees eerste
plaasgevind het nie. Maar al wat belangrik is, is dat die 25e Desember nie aan
die songod – wat nie bestaan nie - behoort nie, maar aan Jesus Christus. Niks
en niemand is so “unconquered” (onoorwonne) soos Jesus nie en Hy is werklik die
“unconquered Son of God”. (Onthou om my ander twee inskrywings te lees.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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feite oor kersfees. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Eerstens, die woord “Christmas” in sy
ou Engelse vorm is eers in die jaar 1038 gebruik en verwys na die viering van
nagmaal wat deur Jesus ingestel is. Om hierdie rede alleen kan ons nooit sê dat
“Christ was never in Christmas” nie. Nagmaal kan immers nooit apart staan van
Jesus nie. Kersfees behoort dus nie ‘n fees te wees waar ons net die geboorte
van Jesus vier nie, maar veral die reddingswerk van Jesus deur sy dood en
opstanding. Die Afrikaanse woord kersfees word gebruik omdat kerse wat gebruik
word tydens die fees simboliseer dat Jesus die Lig vir die wêreld is.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Die “nativity scene” (toneel van
Josef, Maria, Jesus en die diere in die stal) was reeds in die 10e eeu in Rome
bekend. Saint Francis of Asissi het dit in 1223 begin bekend maak en dit het
vinnig oor Europa versprei. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tydens die Middeleeue het die sing
van liedjies gewild geraak en was dit oorspronklik ‘n groep dansers wat gesing
het. Daar was ‘n hoofsanger met ‘n ring dansers wat die refrein gesing het.
“Ivy” en “holly” en ander immergroen plante was gebruik vir versierings.
Ongelukkig was dronkenskap, sedeloosheid en dobbelary ook gepleeg gedurende
hierdie tyd (net soos dit vandag die geval is met mense wat die dag misbruik). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In die 15e eeu het was die simboliek
in die hartjie vormige “ivy” blare dat Jesus aarde toe gekom het. Die dorings
en rooi bessies van “holly” het Jesus se doringkroon en sy bloed wat gevloei het
gesimboliseer. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tydens die Reformasie het Martin
Luther ‘n tydperk ingehuldig waarin Duitsland ‘n unieke kersfees kultuur gevorm
het. Dit het na Amerika toe oorgewaai. Die fees was in die NG kerk gevier as
een van die hoof evangelistiese feeste. Verskillende denominasies het egter
verskillende sentimente gehad oor die fees. In sommige denominasies was die
fees vir tydperke van jare of dekades verban. Daar was onenigheid oor kersfees
net soos wat dit vandag is, maar in daardie jare was dit soms ‘n groot twispunt
in die kerk.</span></span></div>
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en kerk-gesentreerde fees het in die laat 18e en vroeë 19e eeu vervaag, maar
Charles Dickens het ‘n novelle geskryf naamlik “A Christmas Carol” waarin hy
die fees as ‘n gesinsgesentreerde fees van vrygewigheid voorgestel het. Dickens
het baie van die hedendaagse kersfees gebruike in die Weste beïnvloed, soos bv.
familie byeenkomste, seisoenale kos en drinkgoed en feestelike vrygewigheid.
Die woorde “Merry Christmas” kom uit sy storie uit. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Die tradisionele kleure van kersfees
versierings is rooi, groen en goud. Rooi verteenwoordig die bloed van Jesus.
Groen, veral die immergroen boom, verteenwoordig die ewige lewe. Goud
verteenwoordig een van die geskenke wat die wyse manne vir Jesus gebring het en
simboliseer koninklikheid. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hoe ookal bome in die verlede gebruik
was in afgodsdiens, het Saint Bonaface (634-709), ‘n sendeling in Duitsland, ‘n
eikeboom wat opgedra was aan die afgod Thor afgekap en toe ‘n <b>denneboom gekies as ‘n meer gepaste boom
vir die Kersfees omdat dit opwys hemel toe en sy drie-hoekige vorm verwys na
die drie-eenheid van God</b>. Die moderne kersfees boom tradisie het in
Duitsland in die 18de eeu begin alhoewel sommige glo dat dit Martin Luther was
in die 16e eeu. Die kersboom was in Engeland begin gebruik in die vroeë 19e
eeu. In 1832 het Koningin Victoria geskryf oor haar blydskap oor ‘n kersboom
gehad wat met ornamente en liggies behang was met geskenke wat onder die boom
gelê het. Teen 1841 het die gebruik meer verspreid geraak in Engeland. Teen die
1870’s was dit ook gewild in Amerika. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Die hart van Christenskap is die
inkarnasie van Jesus. Jesus is God se geskenk aan ons en die gee en ontvang van
geskenke tydens kersfees het dus ‘n Goddelike fondasie, ongeag van wie hierdie
gebruik eerste in kersfees ingebring het. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Saint Nicholas (kersfeesvader) was ‘n
Griekse biskop van Myra in die 4e eeu, ‘n stad wat in Turkeie gestaan het. Hy
was bekend vir sy omgee vir kinders, vrygewigheid en die gee van geskenke. Sy
feesdag was op die 6e Desember en was in verskeie lande gevier met die uitdeel
van geskenke. Teen die 13e eeu was hy bekend in Nederland en die gee van
geskenke in sy naam het toe na ander dele van Europa versprei. Tydens die
Reformasie in die 16e eeu het baie Protestante die bringer van geskenke
verander na die Jesus Kind en die datum het geskuif van die 6e na die 25e
Desember. Die moderne beeld van kersvader was in New York geskep na die
Amerikaanse Rewolusie, toe inwoners van New York gesoek het vir simbole van die
stad se nie-Engelse verlede. New York was aanvanklik ‘n stad naamlik Nieuw
Amsterdam in ‘n Hollandse kolonie en daarom het hulle besluit om Saint Nicholas
te laat herleef. By sy eerste Amerikaanse verskyning in 1810 het hy Biskopsklere
gedra maar soos die tyd verloop het, het mense vir hom meer sekulêre klere
aangetrek. <b>In sommige lande is Jesus die
Een wat geskenke bring en ek dink ook ons moet ons kinders van kleins af reg
leer en dat mens hulle nooit moet leer dat kersfeesvader geskenke bring net om
later wanneer hulle groter word te moet uitvind dat daar nie meer so iemand
bestaan nie. ‘n Mens moenie jou kinders mislei nie</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Die feit dat sommige regerings kersfees
verbied en ander groepe binne lande hard werk om die woord Christus (of Christ)
uit die Christmas woordeskat te haal, dui daarop dat daar wel krag lê in die
feit dat Christene hierdie fees in die openbaar vier. Die wêreld word op
hierdie dag gekonfronteer met die persoon van Jesus Christus en die feit dat
hulle nie daarvan hou nie is ‘n goeie teken. Dit beteken dat kersfees nie net
‘n betekenislose gebeurtenis op die jaarlikse kalender hoef te wees nie. Terwyl
dit nog in baie lande ‘n vakansiedag is, moet ons die dag benut en Christus
vier op ‘n manier wat ander mense vir Hom kan wen op daardie dag. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sedert die tyd van die Reformasie was
daar nog altyd kerkgroepe wat gekant was teen die Kersfees en was daar
argumente hieroor. Dit is jammer om te lees dat dit so was en te besef dit is
nogsteeds so. Dit is jammer dat daar in die Christendom onenigheid oor hierdie
groot dag op die Christenkalender is en dit is nog meer jammer as die wêreld
daarbuite, nie-Christene weet van die onenigheid in Christen kringe daaroor. Ek
dink dat as ons almal ingelig moet wees oor die basiese geskiedenis van hoe die
Christendom oor die eeue heen die fees gevier het en waar al die gebruike vandaan
kom. Tweedens moet Christene verstaan dat die evangelie gekontekstualiseer kan
word binne verskillende kulture. Elke Christen moet dan ‘n ingeligte besluit
maak oor hoe hy en sy gesin gaan kersfees vier. Elkeen moet ook gereed wees om
enige ongelowige of gelowige te kan antwoord oor waarom hy kersfees vier of nie
vier nie, en as hy dit vier, waarom hy dit so vier. Op hierdie manier kan elke
Christen elke ander Christen se keuses rondom hierdie fees respekteer sodat ons
kan fokus op die belangrikste van alles, naamlik om ‘n wêreld wat verlore gaan
te bereik met die goeie nuus dat Jesus Christus ons Redder is en dat elkeen wat
na Hom toe kom in nederigheid, berou het oor sonde en tot bekering kom, gered
sal word. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084188952984083644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643383932781952464.post-79593620179151282532016-01-01T14:46:00.000+02:002016-01-01T14:49:38.523+02:00What does "contextualization of the Gospel" mean and how does it apply to Christmas<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">During my studies for the BTh(honors) degree, the Missiology module, I had to answer a question from the prescribed text book for this module. The question was:</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Give examples of the contextualization of the gospel from Christian history and outline the
principles underlying them. Give your own evaluation of them.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">When St. Augustine of Canterbury and forty other monks
ministered to the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms from 597AD onwards, he became troubled
about the pagan customs that were being brought into the church. He wrote a
letter to the Pope, who sent them on the mission, who then replied with sound
advice. Concerning the pagan temples containing all their idols, he said that
the well built temples needn’t be destroyed but only cleansed of the idols, <b>and then adapted to be used for worship
services</b>. The <b>“principle of
adaptation in relation to cultural forms”</b> underlies this example. I agree
with Pope Gregory’s advice. God, unlike us, <b>does not look through cultural glasses when we worship Him. He is not
concerned about objects we use as part of our worship culture, and He is not
offended when we use or consume things that were formerly dedicated to idols,
as long as our worship is directed towards God alone. As long as the things we
use are not sources of the contamination of our souls, they are permissible</b>.
<b>God is Spirit and we worship Him in
spirit and in truth</b>. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">The question that the early church posed to Paul about
whether or not it was permitted to eat meat that was sacrificed to idols comes
to mind. Paul pointed out that in essence, it was not wrong to eat meat that
was sacrificed to idols, because in the New Testament period we are permitted
to eat anything. By eating the meat, the person <b>doesn’t</b> declare that he
worships the idol to which the meat was offered. He only wants to fill his
stomach. Only if the act of eating meat would offend somebody, then it would be
wrong to eat the meat, for the sake of the immature faith of that offended
person. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;">The other problem that St. Augustine also had with the Saxon
people was their custom to sacrifice oxen to the devil. Pope Gregory’s advice
was to not prohibit this act altogether, but to appoint a Christian festival
where the slaying of oxen would be allowed in honour of God, the One who
provides their sustenance, and then to eat the slain animals while giving
thanks to God for his provision. This example is underlain by the <b>“principle of exchange in relation to pagan
practices</b>”. An example comes to mind, given by Dr. Sugden in the lectures
related to this module. The decoration of the Christmas tree and the
celebration of Christmas is not something which originates from Scripture, but possibly
from a pagan festival. However, some Christians decided to transform the pagan
festival into a Christian celebration of the birth of Christ and even use the
same symbols. Christmas has become the most well known Christian celebration known
to unbelievers, even celebrated by unbelievers, and is used by believers to
proclaim the coming of our Messiah into the world. A pagan festival has become
an <b>opportunity to preach the gospel to a lost world.</b> <b>God</b> does not harbour petty
offences about trivial matters, but <b>allows us to use any means to proclaim the
gospel message</b>. In the case of the Saxons’ slaying of oxen, the exchange allows
for an opportunity to create a culture of thanksgiving towards God. As Paul
testified, <b>we should also become all things to all men in order to win some</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: no;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Pope in essence said to St. Augustine that the
transformation of the Saxon community would take time and allowing them time to
adapt to Biblical ways are the best route to take. The “<b>principle of gradual transformation</b>” applies here. This is the way
most Christians experience growth. The process of cleansing (sanctification) by
the washing of the Word (renewal of the mind) is often slow, depending on the
amount of time the new believer dedicates to the Word and the degree to which
the new believer yields to the work of the Holy Spirit to cleanse and transform
the person into the image of Christ. </span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
Anitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084188952984083644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643383932781952464.post-45967304760692983632015-12-26T22:33:00.002+02:002016-01-01T17:05:12.041+02:00Mag ons die Christusfees (kersfees) vier en hoekom? <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Miskien is jy as ‘n Christen bewus
daarvan dat baie Christene in die hedendaagse tyd nie meer kersfees vier nie. Hulle rede daarvoor is die feit dat die feesvieringe op die 25e Desember ‘n
heidense oorsprong het, en ook omdat hulle glo dat Christus se geboorte nie in Desember sou
plaasgevind het nie aangesien dit dan bitterkoud is in die noordelike halfrond. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px;">As die oorsprong van kersfees jou interesseer kan jy maklik ‘n studie gaan doen hieroor. Ek gee 'n kort opsomming in 'n volgende inskrywing "'n Kort geskiedenis van kersfees".</span><br />
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nie-Jode wat bome afkap en dit dan met silwer en goud versier. Maar as mens
hierdie gedeelte in die konteks van die hele boek lees, blyk dit duidelik te
wees dat daar nie van kersbome gepraat word nie, maar van bome wat afgekap word
om beelde van te maak sodat die beelde aanbid kan word. Verder staan daar niks
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Jy sal lees dat daar 'n moontlikheid is dat die feesvieringe op die 25e Desember dalk eers gevier was ter ere van die "songod" (wat niks anders as 'n afgod is nie, en dus nie bestaan nie). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Iemand sê dalk vir jou dat as jy
kersfees vier, dan neem jy deel aan afgodediens of vereer jy bose geeste. Maar as dit werklik </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">vir jou gaan
daaroor om Jesus se geboorte en eintlik lewe te vier, hoef jy nie bekommerd te
wees dat jy per ongeluk ‘n ander gees gaan vier en eer nie. <b>Ek is oortuig daarvan dat net soos wat dit wat Jesus aangeraak het
genees en geheilig is, is daar sekere dinge wat ons ook in sy Naam kan “redeem”
en heilig. Die </b></span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">25e Desember het eerste aan God behoort.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> Dit was miskien in die Romeinse tyd 'n groot dag
op die okkultiese kalender (en miskien is dit nogsteeds), maar Christene het in die verlede het die dag teruggevat en
geheilig. <i>Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world</i> (1 John
4:4). Hoekom moet ons optree asof dit nogsteeds die duiwel se dag is? Ons kan
die heidense wortels van enige ding afsny en dit herwin (“redeem”) vir God se
doeleindes omdat alles eers aan God behoort het. Net soos sommige van die
apostel Paulus se bekeerlinge heidense name gehad het voor hul bekerings en hul
nie hulle name daarna verander het nie. Die Skrif noem net hulle heidense name,
en dit nadat hulle tot bekering gekom het. As jy in jou huis en in jou familie
in die gesag van Jesus Christus staan teen enige bose werke en planne, dan hoef
jy niks te vrees nie. Ons hoef nie kersfees te vier nie, maar as ons motivering
vir die nie-viering is dat ons tog net nie die gees van die songod wil eer nie,
dan verstaan ons nog nie die gesag wat ons het in die Naam van Jesus nie. (As
jy hier lees maar nie seker is of jy verstaan wat ek in hierdie paragraaf
verduidelik nie en nie seker is dat jy in die gesag van Jesus kan praat en bid
nie, gaan lees dan eers my blog inskrywing “Toe ek die Heilige Gees ontmoet
het” en “Verband tussen redding en doping in die Heilige Gees” en maak seker jy
behoort heelhartig aan Jesus. As jy hulp nodig het, is jy welkom om vir my ‘n
e-pos te stuur.)</span></div>
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iets wat nie vir God ‘n “issue” is nie. Paulus sê in Romeine 14:5-6: “</span><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Die een ag die een dag bo die ander, die ander ag
al die dae gelyk. Laat elkeen in sy eie gemoed ten volle oortuig wees. Hy wat
die dag waarneem, neem dit waar tot eer van die Here; en hy wat die dag nie
waarneem nie, neem dit nie waar nie tot eer van die Here..”</span></i></span></span></div>
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maak vir enige iemand wat ‘n spesifieke dag wil afsonder vir feesvieringe of
enige saak tot eer van die Here. Ons moet dus mense toelaat om dit te doen
sonder om hulle te belaai met skuldgevoelens, al is dit hoe effens of subtiel.
Dit is nie verkeerd om mense in te lig oor die heidense wortels van die
feesvieringe op die 25e Desember nie, maar dalk heeltemal onnodig inaggeneem
die feit dat ons nou ‘n Christusfees vier op hierdie dag. Dit is egter beslis
vekeerd om veroordelend te wees teenoor mense wat kersfees vier, veral as dit
hulle opregte bedoeling en begeerte is om Jesus te vier, al is dit nie Jesus se
werklike geboortedatum nie. Ons weet in elk geval nie op watter dag Hy gebore
is nie, so wat maak dit saak of ons Hom in die winter of somer vier? So ‘n veroordelende
gesindheid van ‘n Christen is onnodig, liefdeloos, hoogmoedig en doen geen goed
nie. Ons moet liewer uit nederigheid die geleentheid gebruik om met mense te
gesels oor wat dit vir hulle beteken dat Christus in die wêreld ingekom het,
wat Hy gekom het om te doen en wat die waarde van sy dood en opstanding is. </span></span></span></div>
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mense wat “al die dae gelyk ag” (alhoewel 'n atmosfeer van feesviering vir my ook aansteeklik is). Ek glo dat die viering van Christus se lewe,
dood en opstanding ‘n leefstyl moet wees, iets wat elke dag gebeur in verskeie vorme
deur die Christus gesentreerde lewe te leef. Ons kan dit o.a. doen deur nagmaal
te hou. Jesus het gesê dat wanneer ons eet en drink moet ons dit doen ter
herinnering aan Hom en dat elke keer wanneer ons dit doen, ons sy dood (en
opstanding) proklameer totdat Hy weer terugkom (1 Kor 11:23-26). Ons eet en
drink elke dag en kan dus elke dag teenoor mense getuig wie Hy is. Maar as daar
‘n geleentheid is waar familie bymekaar kom om Paasfees of kersfees te vier,
sal ek saam deelneem. Kersfees is immers die een dag in die jaar waarop groot
dele van die wêreld gekonfronteer word met die Christus van die Christusfees.
Regoor die westerse wêreld, maar in meeste ander lande ook hou mense op werk en
kom families op hierdie dag bymekaar, beide Christene en nie-Christene. Ek glo
dat die God van liefde wat ek ken nie sal wil hê dat hierdie Christusfees soos
ons dit ken net wegval nie, maar liewer dat ons die geleentheid wat reeds daar
is, gebruik om die waarheid te verkondig, om mense te vertel dat hulle ‘n
Redder nodig het, en Jesus Christus is die Een! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Solank mense kersfees
vier op 'n manier wat God verheerlik, is dit meer verkeerd en groter sonde vir iemand om
hulle wat kersfees vier, se dade te oordeel as sonde, as wat dit sonde sou wees om kersfees te vier. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">As jy dus nie
met of van mense wat kersfees vier kan praat sonder om te spot of veroordelend
te wees nie, hou liewer jou opinie vir jouself. Jy sal sodoende baie minder
skade aanrig. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Jy
hoef nie ‘n kersboom in jou huis te hê nie en jy hoef nie geskenke uit te deel
nie en jy hoef nie op kersdag kerk toe te gaan nie, maar jy mag beslis nie
iemand oordeel wat dit wel doen nie of die spot dryf met iemand wat
"Christ back into Christmas" wil plaas nie. Dit is wat jy ook behoort
te doen. Vandat daar die woord “Christmas” bestaan, is “Christ” veronderstel om
in “Christmas” te wees. Terwyl dit jou volste reg is om nie kersfees op die
tradisionele manier te vier nie (kersboom, kersvader, geskenke ens.) kan jy en
jou gesin besluit hoe julle die dag wil benut en spandeer op 'n manier dat dit
iemand anders nader aan Jesus bring. Ons kan dit vier op ‘n manier waarop dit
nie oor ons pret en plesier gaan nie. As ons geld spandeer moet dit nie wees om
onsself trommeldik te eet aan te veel kos of om ons kinders te oorlaai met baie
geskenke nie. Gee liewer vir jou kinders die geleentheid om geskenke uit te
soek om vir kinders in ‘n kinderhuis te gaan gee. So sal jy en hulle ervaar dat dit meer
geseënd is om te gee as om te ontvang (Hand. 20:35). Jy en jou gesin kan op
hierdie dag vir iemand iets gaan doen wat hulle nie vir jou kan terugdoen nie. Ek
dink die dag moet gaan oor gee en veral aan hulle wat groot behoefte het om te
ontvang.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Iemand daarbuite is honger. Iemand is
eensaam. Iemand het nie ‘n dak oor sy kop nie. Iemand het nie familie nie. Iemand
is in die tronk. Iemand is in die hospitaal. Iemand is in die ouetehuis. Iemand
staan op die straathoek. Iemand is in ‘n kinderhuis. </span><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Maar wanneer jy ’n feesmaal gee, nooi armes,
verminktes, kreupeles, blindes, en jy sal gelukkig wees, omdat hulle niks het
om jou te vergeld nie; want dit sal jou vergeld word in die opstanding van die
regverdiges.” </span></i><span style="line-height: 115%;">(Lukas 14:13-14). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Ek het op die 25e Desember 2015,
nadat ek ‘n kersfeesmaal saam my ouers geëet het, die plaaslike vuil
staatshospitaal en die ouetehuis gaan besoek. Ek het vir ‘n paar siek
kindertjies lekkers gegee en saam ‘n paar mamma’s gebid en saam gehuil. Ek het
vir ‘n paar oumatjies lekkers gegee en saam gebid. Maar my “divine appointment”
vir die dag was ‘n middeljarige man (40’s) wat die oggend van 25 Des in ‘n
staatshospitaal opgeneem is vir depressie. Hy het by ‘n venster gestaan toe ek
uit die kindersaal oppad was na die hysbak toe om die hospitaal te verlaat. Ek
het toe net gevoel ek moet vra of hy o.k. is. Dit was vir my 'n geleentheid om liefde te betoon deur net te luister toe hy my
vertel het van die aaklige dinge uit sy kinderdae wat nogsteeds ‘n effek het op
die man wie hy is vandag, en toe vir hom gebid. Hy
het toe vir my vertel dat hy in die hospitaal se gang was omdat hy gaan soek het
vir ‘n venster om uit te spring… Gelukkig het al die vensters diefwering op. Die
punt is, die man was baie depressief, maar iemand het gekom om te luister en te
bid, en toe ek wegloop was sy woorde “Jy is ‘n engel wat gestuur is op ‘n baie donker
dag”. Dit sê ek nie om my eie beuel te blaas nie, maar om vir jou te sê dat op die
25 Desember 2016 en elke kersfees daarna, sal daar iemand wees wat jou nodig het.
Vra die Here om jou te lei sodat jou pad met daardie persoon kan kruis. </span></span></span></div>
Anitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084188952984083644noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643383932781952464.post-38642028458328044472015-12-24T19:19:00.000+02:002015-12-26T19:52:38.416+02:00Christ, culture and Christmas - a more excellent way (by Theuns Jacobs and Lucille May)<br />
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by myself, but I could hardly have written it better. Before reading their
article, please consider what I'd like to add: The Apostle Paul say</span>s in Romans 14:5-6 </span><span class="text Rom-14-5" id="en-HCSB-28285"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup><i>One person considers one day to be above another day. Someone else considers every day to be the same. Each one must be fully convinced in his own mind. </i></span><i> </i></span><i><span class="text Rom-14-6" id="en-HCSB-28286"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>Whoever observes the day, observes it for the honor of the Lord</span>.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span class="text Rom-14-6" id="en-HCSB-28286">Personally, I am one of those </span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span class="text Rom-14-5" id="en-HCSB-28285">who<i> </i>mostly <i>"considers every day to be the same". </i>I believe that the celebration of Christ's life, death and resurrection should be a way of life, an everyday occurrence in various forms through living the Christ-centered life and should be celebrated often through communion. </span></span></span></div>
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you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you
were redeemed <u>from the empty way of life handed down to you from your
forefathers,</u> but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish
or defect." (1 Peter 1:18-19, NIV) </span></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
<br />
Jesus, in his preaching of The Kingdom, leaves us in no doubt that it differs
fundamentally from all other kingdoms, kingdoms which are often diametrically
opposed to His. Consider for a moment that He, in His lifetime on earth, left
us no tangible monument, palace or building. His approach differs radically
from the rest, whose great kingdoms all aspire to construct imposing edifices
of architectural wonder and to entrench a plethora of traditions and rituals,
aimed at encapsulating and sustaining an assumedly glorious legacy. In other
words every earthly kingdom seeks to impose its <u>culture</u> on us. <br />
<br />
Jesus would not for a moment indulge in the pursuit of the superficial ideals
of human culture, whose buildings eventually crumble and whose traditions and
values evolve and ultimately become extinct. He was emphatic that the only way
to relate to God and His Kingdom is through a personal relationship with
Himself - the <u>ever-living</u> Christ. In fact Christ in Scripture directs us
to celebrate only three ordinances namely, communion, baptism and the Christian
wedding. All these in their original design were hard to ritualize or abuse!
Furthermore He commanded us to impact cultures through the Great Commission,
that is, our mandate to 'make disciples of all nations'. But nowhere in
Scripture were we commanded to celebrate His birth. This leaves us with the
critical task of learning to distinguish between 'Gospel' and 'culture'.
Christians in every culture have the duty to discern and discard "the
empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers". <br />
<br />
At this time of year the world celebrates Christmas. Different cultures do it
somewhat differently, and for the most part its focus in the Western world is a
commercial one. When one considers the origins of this celebration, many would
be shocked to learn that it in fact has nothing to do with Christ whatsoever!
Christmas was instituted centuries after the life of Christ, and its chosen
date happens to coincide with the 'birth-date' of other ancient pagan deities.
From Scripture it is also clear that Jesus was not born in the heart of the
Northern hemisphere's winter! Most of the symbols and rituals associated with
Christmas are also of pagan origin. <br />
<br />
This creates a quandary for the believer. Do we celebrate an empty ritual
handed down from our forefathers, fully aware of its idolatrous roots? Or do we
refuse to celebrate Christmas and run the risk of confusing and offending
friends and family who would desire to 'put Christ back into Christmas' and to
'keep the spirit of the celebration pure'? To this, and other cultural issues,
Scripture proposes another, a more excellent, way. <br />
<br />
Note how Paul puts it: <i>"When I was with the Jews, I lived like a Jew to
bring the Jews to Christ. When I was with those who follow the Jewish law, I
too lived under that law. Even though I am not subject to the law, I did this
so I could bring to Christ those who are under the law. When I am with the
Gentiles who do not follow the Jewish law, I too live apart from that law so I
can bring them to Christ. But I do not ignore the law of God; I obey the law of
Christ. When I am with those who are weak, I share their weakness, for I want
to bring the weak to Christ. Yes, <u>I try to find common ground with everyone,
doing everything I can to save some.</u> I do everything to spread the Good
News and share in its blessings." (1 Corinthians 9:20-23, NLT) </i><br />
<br />
The more excellent way then, is to remember our mandate: to bring unbelievers
to the knowledge of God through Christ - by all means possible. And if that
means seeking common ground with all people and cultures in order to engage
them for the sake of the Gospel - we should. This does not mean we are to
ignore, or worse still, immerse ourselves in the idolatry and excesses of
Christmas. But it does mean that we should see the fact that many people only
go to church on Christmas Day as a marvelous opportunity to share the gospel in
its full meaning, especially in desperate times like these. <br />
<br />
So we encourage you as conscientious believers to refrain from any form of
judgment or condemnation toward others in this regard. Remember that we have
all been saved by His grace. Let us continue to walk in that grace. So rather
than judging those who celebrate Christmas let us use this time as an
opportunity to find 'common ground' with friends and family. Invite them to our
church service for that day, or accompany them to theirs and so seek to engage
them in 'questioning evangelism'; or even share your testimony! But above all
remember that even though the celebration may be a misguided one, God's love
'covers a multitude of sin'. Let us opt for the more excellent way and through
our love and acceptance show forth the 'goodness of God, which leads people to
repentance'! God's love for the world remains as strong as ever! </span>Anitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084188952984083644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643383932781952464.post-11298876998563892322015-11-23T16:22:00.002+02:002016-02-13T15:23:20.228+02:005. Die bekeringsdoop (water)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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inskrywing is deel van 'n reeks vir mense vanuit/ steeds in die
Gereformeerde tradisie (kerke wat gegroei uit die die reformasie in die
16e eeu).</span></span><br />
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Jesus het vir
sy dissipels gesê </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Hy <u>wat glo</u> en hom laat doop, sal gered word; maar hy wat nie glo nie, sal
veroordeel word.”</span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (Markus 16:16). Toe die Etiopiese hofdienaar gedoop wou
word nadat Filippus vir hom die betekenis van die Skrif verduidelik het, het
Filippus ingestem daartoe op een <u>voorwaarde</u>, naamlik “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As u <u>glo met u hele hart</u>”</span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (Hand. 8:37).
Die hofdienaar het geantwoord “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ek glo dat Jesus Christus die Seun van God is” waarna
Filippus hom gedoop het. Die waterdoop kan dus slegs volg nadat ‘n persoon
geloof in Christus geplaas het. Lukas het gesê dat “baie van die Korintiërs
het, toe hulle hom hoor, gelowig geword en is gedoop”</span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(Hand. 18:8). Paulus
en Silas se instruksie aan die tronkbewaarder van Filippi was “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Glo in die Here Jesus Christus en
jy sal gered word, jy en jou huisgesin.”</span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (Hand. 16:31). Die
tronkbewaarder se hele huisgesin moes eers die Woord van die Here hoor en almal
van hulle moes dit glo voordat hulle gedoop was. (</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Acts 16:34 He brought them into his
house, set a meal before them, and rejoiced because <u>he had believed God with
his entire household.)</u></span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Paulus leer (Rom.6:3-7:6)
dat die waterdoop moet volg wanneer ‘n pesoon besluit het om sy rug op sonde te
keer (v.11) sodat hy saam met Christus kan lewe (v.8) as slawe van geregtigheid
tot heiligmaking (v.19).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hy het ook
getuig hoe, na sy bekering op die pad na Damaskus, Ananias vir hom gesê het </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“En nou, waarom versuim jy? Staan
op, <u>laat jou doop en jou sondes afwas</u>, terwyl jy die Naam van die Here
aanroep.”</span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (Hand. 22:16).</span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ek ken ‘n
sendeling in ‘n land in die Midde-Ooste wat getuig het hoe sy vyf mense gedoop
het wat deur haar en ander bedien was met die Woord. In haar eie woorde in ‘n
brief het sy gesê </span></div>
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<u><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">were baptised</span></u><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> and filled
with the Holy Spirit this morning! We celebrated afterwards with communion and a
meal. How precious it was to see the joy on their faces! <u>Some shared
that it felt like the dirtiness of their past lives went out of
them!</u></span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Hierdie woorde
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Paulus het gesê “</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Want
julle is almal <u>kinders van God deur die geloof in Christus Jesus</u>; want
julle almal wat <u>in Christus gedoop is, het julle met Christus beklee</u>.</span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (Gal.3:26-27). Hulle wat die opdrag om gedoop te word
gehoorsaam (Mark 16:16) <u>beklee hulself</u> met Christus. Die waterdoop is ‘n
besluit en ‘n aksie wat slegs geneem kan word deur die gelowige self. Iemand
anders kan nie daardie besluit namens daardie persoon maak nie. ‘n Gelowige
moet sy eie besluit maak en volgens sy besluit handel. Indien ‘n persoon
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duidelik van Petrus se woorde (Hand. 2:38) dat <u>beide dope net kan volg na
bekering</u>. Nêrens in die Skrif kan ons ‘n voorbeeld sien waar enige vorm van
doop plaasvind voor bekering nie. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Wanneer Paulus vra “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Hy wat julle met die Heilige
Gees toerus en kragtig onder julle werk, doen Hy dit omdat julle die wet
onderhou of omdat julle die evangelie glo?” (Gal.3:5), dan verwys hy nie na die
Gees wat hulle in die verlede toegerus het nie, maar tans toerus. Hierdie teks
ondersteun miskien die waarheid dat die Heilige Gees se bekragtiging van
gelowiges nie ‘n eenmalige gebeurtenis is nie, maar gedurig plaasvind in die
lewe van die gelowige. Dit is amper soos ‘n selfoon wat gedurig herlaai moet
word. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Wanneer
Paulus met geesvervuldes praat (soos gesien in Ef.4:3), gebruik hy ook die
teenwoordige tyd wanneer hy vir hulle sê “laat die Gees julle vervul”
(Ef.5:18). Waarom sal hy vir mense wat reeds Geesvervuld is sê om hulle weer
met die Gees te laat vul? Omdat God nie vir ons ‘n geskenk gegee het en ons
alleen verder op ons weg gestuur het nie. Net soos in ‘n verhouding met ‘n
mens, kan daardie verhouding net groei en bly lewe wanneer mens tyd met mekaar
spandeer. Wanneer ons tyd in die Heilige Gees se teenwoordigheid spandeer, word
ons gevul met Hom en met sy krag. Dit moet gereeld gebeur. Die aanvanklike
dinamiese en sigbare ervaring van die Gees na/tydens bekering bly dinamies en
is hernubaar. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Markus </span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(16:20) het
getuig dat die dissipels </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“toe die evangelie oral gaan verkondig [het], en die Here het
met hulle saamgewerk en hulle prediking bekragtig deur die wondertekens wat
daarop gevolg het.” soos wat Jesus gesê het dit sal wees (vv.17-18). “Die Here”
in vers 20 verwys sekerlik na die Heilige Gees, siende dat Jesus Christus in
die vlees teen daardie tyd reeds opgevaar het na die hemel. Jesus het immers
vir hulle gesê dat hulle sy getuies sal wees nadat die Heilige Gees oor hulle
gekom het (Hand. 1:8). Paulus het gesê dat die evangelie nie slegs in woord na
hulle toe gekom het nie, maar ook in krag en in die Heilige Gees</span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (1 <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Tess.1:5; </span>1 Kor.2:4-5; 4:19-20). Beide
die skrywer aan die Hebreërs (2:4) en Paulus noem die gawes van die Heilige
Gees en Paulus lys nege gawes (1 Cor.12:4,7-11). </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Die getuienis
van die Handelinge van die Apostels is dat die manifestasie van die Geestelike
gawes ‘n baie sigbare en onderskeibare demonstrasie van die Gees se
teenwoordigheid en werk is binne-in en tussen gelowiges. Die manifestasie van
ten minste een of meer van die gawes soos deur Paulus genoem behoort sigbaar te
wees in die lewe van elke gelowige (soos die Heilige Gees kies (v.11)) want </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“aan elkeen afsonderlik word 'n
werking van die Gees gegee tot voordeel van almal.” As daar nie ten minste een
van die gawes van die Gees sigbaar is in ‘n persoon se lewe nie, het daardie
persoon baie waarskynklik nie die doping in die Heilige Gees ontvang nie, selfs
al glo hy/sy dat Jesus die Christus is en ‘n gereelde kerkganger is. Daardie
persoon het dan kopkennis oor Jesus Christus, maar nie verhoudingskennis nie,
net soos wat ‘n mens kopkennis kan hê dat Mel Gibson ‘n akteur is, maar as jy
hom nie persoonlik ken nie, kan jy hom nie jou vriend noem nie, en kan jy geen
voordeel trek uit ‘n vriendskap wat nie bestaan nie. Selfs die Satan weet dat
Jesus die Christus is, maar die Satan is nie “gered” nie want hy is in rebellie
teenoor God. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Die getuienis van die Skrif is dat
bonatuurlike gawes en vermoëns diegene gevolg het wat nie slegs geglo het nie,
maar ook gedoop was in die Gees. Ons lees van wonders, tekens en wonderwerke (Hand.
2:43; 6:8; 8:6,13; 13:11-12; 14:3; 15:12; Rom.15:19; Heb.2:4), die
vrymoedigheid of dapperheid van die apostels om te preek</span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(4:13, 31, 33; 9:20; 14:3; 18:5), wysheid
(6:10), mense wat uit die dood uit opgewek is (9:40-41), gebed of praat in tale
(Hand. 10:46; 19:6), <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>profesie (Hand.
11:27-28; 19:6; 20:23; 21:9-11), genesende wonderwerke (Hand. 14:8-10; 28:8-9),
die uitdryf van bose geeste (Hand. 16:18) en die woord van kennis (Hand. 8:23).
Baie mense was by die kerk gevoeg deur die getuienis en bediening van die
apostels (Hand. 2:41, 43, 47; 4:4; 5:12-16; 6:7).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Terwyl die
manifestasie van die gawes van die Gees die invulling van die Heilige Gees
bevestig, dui ‘n sondige leefstyl op die afwesigheid van die invullende Gees
van God. Paulus sê dat iemand wat ‘n slaaf is van sonde, vry is van die
geregtigheid van God (Rom.6:20). Dit beteken dat ‘n mens nie heilige gedrag kan
verwag van iemand wat nog nie “in Christus” is nie. Paulus sê vir die kerk in
Filippense “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ek
het dikwels vir julle gesê en tot my verdriet moet ek dit nou herhaal: Daar is
baie wat as vyande van die kruis van Christus lewe. Die verderf is hulle einde;
die maag is hulle god; hulle skande is hulle trots; hulle is aardsgesind.” (Of
in Engels</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For I
have often told you, and now say again with tears, that many live as enemies of
the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach;
their glory is in their shame. They are focused on earthly things</span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">.”) (Phil.3:18-19). Ek het iemand gehoor sê “my sonde is soos
skarlaken maar ek was nooit boring nie”. Dit is vir my ‘n voorbeeld van iemand
wat sy skande verheerlik. Paulus sê “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Vir die reines is alles rein,
maar vir die besoedeldes en ongelowiges is niks rein nie, want hulle verstand
en hulle gewete is besoedel. Hulle gee voor dat hulle God ken, maar hulle dade
weerspreek dit. Hulle is verfoeilik en koppig en deug vir geen goeie werk nie.”</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(Titus 1:15-16). Die
aardsgesinde (of vleeslike) verstand en leefstyl is een van die duidelikste
tekens dat ‘n persoon nie die invulling van die Gees ontvang het nie. Selfs al
glo ‘n persoon dat sy saak reg is met God, kan sy woorde, gesindheid en dade ‘n
ander getuienis gee. Hulle wat in Christus Jesus is, is hulle wat nie vleeslik lewe
nie, maar onder leiding van die Gees. Paulus sê “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dié wat
hulle deur hulle sondige natuur laat beheers, hou hulle besig met die dinge van
die sondige natuur, maar dié wat hulle deur die Gees laat beheers, hou hulle
besig met die dinge van die Gees. Die dinge waarmee die sondige natuur van die
mens hom besig hou, loop uit op die dood, maar die dinge waarmee die Gees Hom
besig hou, bring lewe en vrede. Die dinge waarmee die sondige natuur van die
mens hom besig hou, is immers vyandskap teen God. Die sondige natuur onderwerp
hom nie aan die wet van God nie, dit kan trouens ook nie. Dié wat hulle deur
hulle sondige natuur laat beheers, kan nie die wil van God doen nie.” (Rom.
8:5-8)</span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Paulus sê “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">God het sy liefde in ons harte
uitgestort deur die Heilige Gees wat Hy aan ons gegee het.”</span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (Rom.5:5). ‘n
Persoon wat die Heilige Gees ontvang het sal die liefde van God op ‘n werklike
manier ervaar. So ‘n persoon sal ook mense van ander kulture, tale en sosiale
statusse kan liefhê en is in staat om nie voorveroordeeld te wees teenoor hulle
wat anders is as hy nie. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Iemand wat die
Gees van Christus het, sal ook die Woord van God verstaan, aanvaar, gehoorsaam
en verkondig. So ‘n persoon sal nie probeer om sy sonde te regverdig terwyl die
Skrif duidelik daaroor is nie. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Soos die
profeet Jesaja gesê het </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Ellende wag vir dié wat sleg goed noem en goed sleg, wat
van duisternis lig maak en van lig duisternis, wat bitter soet noem en soet
bitter. Ellende wag vir dié wat dink hulle het die wysheid in pag, wat dink
hulle het baie verstand. Ellende wag vir dié wat helde is by wyndrinkery, dapper
by die meng van hulle drank…” (Jes. 5:20). </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Daar kan baie meer gesê word
oor die verskillende maniere waarop die inwoning van die Gees sigbaar kan wees
in die lewe van ‘n gelowige, maar hierdie wat hier genoem is, is sommige van
die eerste tekens wat dui op die inwoning of afwesigheid van die Gees.</span><br />
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span>Anitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084188952984083644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643383932781952464.post-21895574371983148072015-11-16T14:10:00.000+02:002016-02-13T15:22:53.622+02:004. Die babadoop in die Gereformeerde tradisie<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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inskrywing is deel van 'n reeks vir mense vanuit/ steeds in die
Gereformeerde tradisie (kerke wat gegroei uit die die reformasie in die
16e eeu).</span></span> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lees asseblief eers "Die getuienis van die Heilige Gees" alvorens jy hierdie inskrywing lees.</span><br />
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Aangesien dit
die ontvangs van die Heilige Gees is wat ‘n persoon deel maak van die familie
van God (<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">1 Kor. 12:13)</span>, en
aangesien dit die menslike wil en verstand betrek, is dit maklik om die
gevolgtrekking te maak dat ‘n persoon nie by die familie van God ingesluit kan
word deur as baba gedoop te word nie. Vir ouers om in die openbaar te verklaar
dat hulle onderneem om hul kind in die weë van God groot te maak, is ‘n heel
ander saak en hoef nie met ‘n ritueel gepaard te gaan nie. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dit is alreeds
gewys dat geloof in Christus en bekering altyd die water en Heilige Gees
dopings vooraf gegaan het, of ten minste is daar geen aanduiding in die Skrif
dat die waterdoop plaasgevind het alvorens ‘n persoon tot geloof in Christus
gekom het nie. Enige teologie wat probeer regverdig waarom babas gedoop moet
word eerder as gelowige kinders of volwassenes, is ‘n teologie wat die lering
van die Skrif minag of ignoreer. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In reaksie tot hierdie argument teen die
babadoop, dat daar geen enkele teks in die Skrif is om hierdie praktyk te
ondersteun nie, bied Heyns [1978:342] aan dat die betekenis van die verbond in
die boodskap van die hele Bybel vervat word. Alhoewel dit waar is dat die hele
Bybel handel oor God en sy verbondsvolk, is Heyns se afleiding dat, omdat
kinders dmv die besnydenis ingesluit was by die verbond met Abraham, kinders
van gelowiges in die Nuwe Testament (nuwe verbond) ook ingesluit word deur die
babadoop as ‘n vervanging van die besnydenis [p.342-343], ongegrond deur die
getuienis en lering van die Apostels. So ‘n stelling word nêrens in die Skrif
gemaak of geïmpliseer nie en kan daarom nie afgelei word nie. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Presies die teenoorgestelde is waar. Dit
word duidelik genoem dat geloof in Christus alleen die gelowige in die regte
verhouding met God kan bring <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(Gal.3:24,
26; Ef.2:8-9; Rom.1:16-17; 3:28; 5:1-2). Wat ons in Abraham het is geregtigheid
deur geloof wat slegs kom wanneer ‘n individu bekeer en tot geloof in Christus
kom. Abraham </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“het in die Here geglo; en Hy het hom dit tot geregtigheid gereken”
(Afr53) </span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(of in Engels “believed the LORD, and He counted it to
him as righteousness” (Gen. 15:6; Rom 4:3, 9, 22; Gal.3:6; Jak. 2:23). Paulus
verduidelik dit duidelik in Rom.4:11-12. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Die
geregtigheid van Abraham was nie verkry deur die besnydenis nie, maar deur
geloof. Hy is die vader van almal wat glo, nie van almal wat besny is nie. Maar
as mense dmv die besnydenis ingesluit was by God se familie, en die babadoop
het dan die besnydenis vervang, dan kom geregtigheid voor God volgends die Nuwe
Verbond nie deur geloof nie, maar deur werke (die moeite van die mens). En ‘n
geregtigheid deur werke is presies dit wat Paulus verduidelik <u>nie</u> die
Goeie Nuus nie. Dat babas gedoop moet word om hulle by die Nuwe Verbond in te
sluit, is presies die tipe denkrigting wat vir Paulus so woedend gemaak het oor
die Joodse gelowiges se skynheiligheid. Hulle het die nie-Jode gedwing om soos
Jode te lewe, deur hulle sover te probeer kry om onder die wet te leef nadat
hulle met die Gees vervul is (Gal.3:3). Paulus se reaksie daarop was </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“O,
ONVERSTANDIGE Galásiërs, wie het julle betower om die waarheid nie gehoorsaam
te wees nie, julle voor wie se oë Jesus Christus afgeskilder is as onder julle
gekruisig? Dit alleen wil ek van julle weet: het julle die Gees ontvang uit die
werke van die wet [besnydenis = babadoop] of uit die prediking van die geloof?
Is julle so onverstandig? Nadat julle met die Gees begin het, eindig julle nou
met die vlees?” (of in Engels</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span lang="AF">“O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched
you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as
crucified. <sup>2 </sup>Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the
Spirit by works of the law [circumcision = baptism] or by hearing with faith?”
(Gal.3:1-2). Hy het verduidelik dat </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“as julle jul laat besny, Christus
vir julle tot geen nut sal wees nie. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">En ek betuig dit weer aan elke mens
wat hom laat besny, dat hy onder verpligting is om die hele wet te onderhou
[alles in Levitikus]. Julle wat geregverdig wil wees deur die wet, is losgemaak
van Christus; julle het van die genade verval. Want óns verwag deur die Gees
uit die geloof die geregtigheid waarop ons hoop. Want in Christus Jesus het nòg
die besnydenis nòg die onbesnedenheid enige krag, maar die geloof wat deur die
liefde werk.” (Gal.5:2-6) en </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“as daar geregtigheid deur die wet is, dan het Christus
tevergeefs gesterwe.” (Gal.2:21). </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Paulus stel
dus die besnydenis gelykstaande aan ‘n vertroue op die wet vir geregtigheid. Hy
gaan voort om te sê dat “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Julle verstaan dan dat die wat uit die geloof is, hulle is
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het, dan volgens Paulus se standaarde, is die babadoop gelykstaande aan
vertroue op die wet vir geregtigheid in plaas van geregtigheid deur geloof. Paulus
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Paulus sê dat
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die verlossende Christus, en maw nie deur babadoop nie. Hy sê dat Christus ons
verlos het “sodat die seën van Abraham na die nie-Jode kan kom in Christus
Jesus, en <u>dat ons die belofte van die Gees deur die geloof</u> kan ontvang.”</span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(Gal.3:13-14). </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As die
besnydenis dan geen krag het nie (Gal.5:6), en die babadoop word gelykstaande
aan die besnydenis gestel, dan het die babadoop ook geen krag nie want dit is nie
gedoen in geloof nie (geloof van die een wat gedoop word). Die besnydenis in die
Ou Testament was ‘n ritueel. Geloof in Christus is nie ‘n ritueel nie. Geloof in
Christus is die reaksie van die gelowige op ‘n openbaring dat Jesus die Seun van
God is wat gekom het om ons met die Vader te versoen, dat Hy gesterf het en uit
die dood opgestaan het en die Heilige Gees gee vir hulle wat na Hom toe kom sodat
hulle ‘n nuwe lewe in Hom kan leef in plaas daarvan om in Satan se gevangenisskap
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nie gelykstaande gestel word aan die besnydenis nie omdat die betekenis van elk van
hierdie twee aksies van mekaar verskil in die ou en nuwe verbond. Sien die volgende inskrywing vir ‘n
teologie van die bekeringsdoop. Wat die besnydenis van die ou verbond betref, sê Paulus
“...</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Hom
wat die Hoof is van alle owerheid en mag; in wie julle ook besny is met ’n
besnydenis wat nie met hande verrig word nie, deur die liggaam van die sondige
vlees af te lê in <u>die besnydenis van Christus</u>”</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(Kol.2:10-11). Net soos wat die besnydenis ‘n teken was van die
ou verbond, gepaardgaande met die vloei van bloed, so <u>is die kruis van Christus
die besnydenis van die Nuwe Verbond</u> en gaan dit gepaard met die vloei van bloed.
Die besnydenis van die Nuwe Verbond is dus die kruis van Christus en nie die babadoop
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ek bring hierdie boodskap op die 17e November aan 'n groep vroue in een van die VLU takke in Nelspruit. Dit is hulle afsluitingsgeleentheid vir die jaar en die tema van die jaar was </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Indië.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ervaar jy Jesus as 'n werklikheid? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Die
apostel Johannes vertel dat nadat Jesus uit die dood uit opgestaan het, het ‘n
paar van sy volgelinge Hom gesien. Maria Magdalena was die eerste een wat Hom
vroeg die Sondag oggend gesien het en het toe die ander dissipels daarvan gaan
vertel. Lees <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Johannes 20:19-31</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ons
sien dat Thomas nie wou glo dat Jesus uit die dood opgestaan het nie al het die
ander dissipels, sy goeie vriende wat hy drie jaar lank saam mee gelewe het,
vir hom gesê dat hulle Hom gesien het. Hy wou met sy eie oë sien dat Jesus Lewe
en met sy eie hande aan die wonde raak. En toe Hy uiteindelik vir Jesus sien,
het Jesus voorsiening gemaak vir sy ongeloof deur hom toe te laat om aan sy
wonde te raak. Maar Jesus sê toe dat hulle wat nie sien nie en tog glo, geseënd
is. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
Mattheus 16:13-17 lees ons dat Jesus vir sy dissipels gevra het wie hulle dink
Hy is. Hulle het geantwoord wat hulle ander mense hoor sê het. Sommige van
daardie mense het gesê Hy is Johannes die Doper wat uit die dood opgestaan het.
Ander het gesê Hy is Elia, Jeremia of een van die profete. Maar Jesus het toe
vir hulle gevra, “Wie sê julle is Ek?”. Petrus het geantwoord “U is die
Christus, die Seun van die lewende God.” Jesus se reaksie was “Gelukkig is jy,
Simon Seun van Jona, want dit is nie 'n mens wat dit aan jou geopenbaar het
nie, maar my Vader wat in die hemel is.” Het julle jul al ooit probeer verbeel
hoe Thomas se lewe verloop het na Jesus se hemelvaart? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dit
sal julle interesseer om te weet dat volgens oorlewering het ongelowige Thomas,
van al die dissipels, die evangelie die verste verkondig, so ver as Indië.
Blykbaar was Thomas oortuig daarvan dat die sending na Indië sou misluk, maar
het gegaan omdat hy Jesus in ‘n visioen aan Hom verskyn het en daarop
aangedring het dat hy gaan. Hy het eers na Noord Indië gegaan waar hy geld
gegee was om vir die koning ‘n paleis te bou, aangesien hy ‘n bouer was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maar Thomas het toe die geld vir die armes
gegee en vir gesê dat hy besig is om ‘n paleis in die hemel te bou. Hy was toe
in die tronk gegooi maar later het die koning toe ‘n Christen geword en is hy
vrygelaat. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hy
was ook na die suide van Indië waar ‘n aantal Brahmans, mense van Indië se
priesterlike orde, onder sy bediening tot bekering gekom het en hy ‘n
welvarende kerk gevestig het. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hy
het blykbaar sover as China gereis. Suid-Indiese handelaars het dikwels oos
gevaar en hy sou dus so daar gekom het. Met sy terugkeer van China af het hy
besluit om die evangelie in Oos-Indië te verkondig, waar hy sy marteldood
teëgekom het. Thomas het in Julie van die jaar 72 n.C in ‘n stad aan die ooskus
van Indië, naamlik Mylapore, verby ‘n koppie geloop waar ‘n tempel van die
afgodin Kali gestaan het. Die priesters in die tempel het toe aangedring daarop
dat hy haar aanbid en toe hulle hom sover gekry het om in die tempel in te
stap, het die teenwoordigheid van die godin (wat in werklikheid ‘n bose gees
is) uit die tempel uit verdwyn. Die priesters was woedend en vier soldate was
toe beveel om hom met ‘n spies dood te steek. Thomas is toe daar op ‘n klein
koppie in die stad Mylapore begrawe. Die bekende historiese skrywers (ten
minste in teologiese kringe) naamlik Eusebius en Jerome het in die 3e, 4e en 5e
eeue beide oor Thomas se apostoliese werk in Indië geskryf. Toe die Portugese
Christene Indië bereik het in die 16e eeu, was hulle verstom om ‘n aktiewe kerk
daar te vind. Thomas se werk het eeue later nogsteeds vrug gedra. Die Portugese
het sy graf besoek en gevind dat Thomas teen daardie tyd nogsteeds deur beide
gelowiges en nie-gelowiges vereer was. Vandag staan die kerk in die suidwestelike
staat van Kerala in Indië nogsteeds sterk waar Christene al vir baie lank na
hulself verwys as die “Christene van St. Thomas”. Daar is nogsteeds ‘n lewende
tradisie van stories, liedere en danse onder die Malabar Christene wat die werk
van die apostel in suid Indië beskryf. Hulle vier ‘n feesdag op die eerste
Sondag na Goeie Vrydag, toe Jesus daardie bekende vraag aan Thomas gevra het.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ek
glo dat Jesus se vraag aan sy dissipels vir elkeen van ons vandag geld. Hy vra
vir elkeen van ons “Wie sê jy is Ek”? En Hy verwag ‘n antwoord van elkeen van
ons. Wat is jou antwoord in jou gedagtes soos jy nou daar sit? Het jy soos
Petrus ‘n openbaring gehad dat Jesus die Seun van God is en opgestaan het uit
die dood en vandag lewe? En ken jy Hom persoonlik? Of weet jy net van Hom? Of
as jy regtig eerlik is met jouself, glo jy dat Jesus lewe omdat dit oor soveel jare
aan jou verkondig is maw jy glo dit met jou verstand maar nie noodwendig met jou
hart nie? Of glo jy in Jesus omdat Hy ‘n werklikheid is in jou lewe? En as Hy
vir jou ‘n werklikheid is, het jy stories om te vertel van hoe Hy al in jou
lewe gewerk en wonderwerke gedoen het? Weet jy soos Thomas geweet het, dat
Jesus leef? Maw deur persoonlike ervaring? Is jy so seker van jou oortuiging dat
jy bereid sou wees om daarvoor te sterf, soos Thomas. Of wag jy nog om oortuig
te word? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Die
goeie nuus wat ek vandag met julle wil deel is dat God die Vader nie vir jou
kwaad is as jy sukkel om te glo nie, of as Jesus nog nie vir jou ‘n persoonlike
werklikheid is nie. Ons leer uit die verhaal van Thomas dat God ruimte maak vir
mense wat van nature pessimiste is en dat ons nie van alle mense kan verwag om
dadelik te glo nie. Die goeie nuus is dat Hy vir jou wag om na Hom toe te kom,
jou hand in syne te plaas en die pad saam met Hom te begin loop. Hy wil jou
liefhê, koester, versorg, vir jou voorsien, jou lei en jou gesond maak as jy
emosionele of fisiese wonde het en dalk het Hy nog vir jou ‘n spesifieke taak
of twee op hierdie aarde voor jou vervaldatum. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ek
het lank gelede eendag vir ‘n vriendin wat naby aan Jesus geleef het, gevra of
sy dink ek mag bid en vra dat Jesus vir my ‘n werklikheid word. Haar antwoord
was iets soos “ja, natuurlik”. ‘n Ander vriendin het dikwels vertel hoe sy die
Here se stem gehoor het. Eenkeer het Hy vir haar gesê waar sy my kan kry want
sy wou met my kuier. Dit was die dae voor selfone. En daar het sy my toe gekry
waar Hy vir haar gesê het. Ek het maar net gedink daar is seker iets fout met
my dat ek nie sy stem so kan hoor nie. Tot eendag wat ek ernstig oor ‘n saak
gebid het en toe vir die eerste keer sy stem gehoor het. Dis nou ongeveer 18
jaar later. Alhoewel ek Hom nog nie fisies gesien het nie, het ek sy
wonderwerke in my en ander mense se lewens gesien en beleef en is ek 110%
oortuig dat Jesus leef en dat Hy elkeen van ons persoonlik wil ken en wil hê
dat elkeen sy stem hoor net soos wat Hy ons stemme hoor. Hy is nie net ‘n
storie in ‘n ou boek nie, maar ‘n werklike Persoon, God self. Ons kan Hom nie
sien nie, maar wanneer ons hom deur die Heilige Gees leer ken, raak Hy vir ons
‘n groter werklikheid as ons aardse omstandighede. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ek
het historiese inligting vanaf hierdie artikel gekry: </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">http://www.christianhistoryproject.org/to-the-destruction-of-jerusalem/st-peter-the-apostle/st-thomas-the-apostle/ </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Vader,
dankie dat ek na U kan kom in die Naam van Jesus Christus, U Seun wat uit die
dood opgestaan het en vandag lewe. Dankie dat daar vir ons vergifnis en vryspraak is wanneer
ons ons sonde voor U bely. Dankie dat ons U kan ken deur U Woord en deur
vriendskap met U Heilige Gees, die derde Persoon in U Drie-eenheid. Dankie dat
ek kan weet dat U intens verlang daarna om elke mens wat U geskape het,
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soos wat U vir Petrus gedoen het. En vir elke pragtige, kosbare en geliefde persoon wat in sy/haar hart begeer om U persoonlik te ken sodat
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mense oor haar/sy pad sal stuur om haar/hom te help, want U het nooit bedoel dat ons
die pad alleen stap nie. Ek bid vir haar/hom dat sy ook die vrymoedigheid sal hê om
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Amen</span></div>
<br />
Anitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084188952984083644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643383932781952464.post-69624497754410496902015-11-09T20:26:00.002+02:002016-02-13T15:21:48.071+02:002. Verband tussen redding (salvation) en die doping in die Heilige Gees<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Lees asseblief eers die inskrywing getiteld "Doping in die Heilige Gees". Hierdie skrywe volg daarop. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Paulus sê dat “as ons Goeie Nuus
nog versluier is, is dit net bedek vir dié wat verlore gaan. Dit is die god van
hierdie bedeling wat die gedagtes van die ongelowiges verblind..”</span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (2 Kor.4:3-4),
maar </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“elke
keer as iemand hom na die Here toe draai, verwyder Hy die sluier.”</span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(2 Kor.3:16).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Paulus sê “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">God has
chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through
belief in the truth.”</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(2 Thess.2:13)<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Geloof
in die waarheid en heiligmaking deur die Gees gaan hand aan hand en die een kan
nie sonder die ander bestaan nie. Hy’t vir Titus (3:5) gesê dat “</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Hy het ons verlos, deur die reiniging van die weergeboorte en
deur die Heilige Gees wat ons vernuwe.”</span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Paulus se woord in </span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Rom.10:9-10 word soms aangehaal
as die minimum vereiste vir redding, naamlik geloof in die opstanding van
Christus en belydenis met die mond. Paulus noem nie hier bekering of die
invulling van die Heilige Gees nie, maar sê elders dat ons verlos is omdat ons
sondes vergewe is (Ef.1:7; Kol.1:14). Sondevergifnis kan egter slegs plaasvind
wanneer ons ons sonde bely en tot bekering kom. Vir Paulus is ‘n lewe “in
Christus” nie moontlik sonder die inwoning van die Heilige gees nie (Rom 8:9)
want die Heilige Gees is die Gees van die Here Jesus Christus <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(2 Cor.3:17; Fil.1:19; 1Pet.1:11)</span>. Hy
sê </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ek leef nie
meer nie, maar Christus lewe in my.”</span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (Gal.2:20). Paulus verwys
vanselfsprekend nie na Jesus in die vlees nie, maar na die Gees van Christus
wat in ‘n persoon leef, siende dat die Here Jesus die Gees is. Vir Paulus is
dit die invulling (Ef.5:18) van die Gees wat ‘n persoon “in Christus” laat leef.
“</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And don’t get
drunk with wine, which leads to reckless actions, but be filled by the Spirit”
(HCSB).</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Johannes sê dat hulle wat die Gees
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Is dit
moontlik om die boodskap van Christus te glo sonder die werk van die Heilige
Gees om harte oop te maak om die boodskap te ontvang? Die antwoord is “nee”
(Hand.16:14;21). “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Die Here het [Lidia] vir Paulus se woorde ontvanklik gemaak”. As dit nodig
is vir een persoon, dan is dit sekerlik nodig vir elke persoon. Dit blyk dan te
wees dat daar ‘n aanvanklike werk van die Gees is om dit moontlik te maak vir
‘n persoon om die evangelie te verstaan. ‘n Persoon wat dan reageer deur tot
bekering te kom, moet dan die invulling van die Heilige Gees ontvang. Dit is
baie duidelik in die Skrif dat dit onmoontlik is om die nuwe lewe in Christus
te leef sonder hierdie invulling. Wanneer Paulus sê dat hulle wat nie die
inwoning van die Heilige Gees het nie, nie aan Christus behoort nie </span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(Rom.8:9), sê
hy dat die doping in die Heilige Gees noodsaaklik is vir die lewe “in
Christus”. ‘n Persoon wat werklik “in Christus” is sal die vrug van “lewe in
die Gees” voortbring (sien volgende inskrywing).</span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Paulus maak ‘n
onderskeid tussen twee tipes mense (Rom.8:5-11) – hulle wat volgens die vlees
wandel en vleeslik dink, en hulle wat volgens die Gees wandel en geestelik
dink. Wat dus van uiterse belang is, is dat die doping in die Gees plaasvind
sodra ‘n persoon sy geloof in Christus geplaas het sodat hy in die gees sal kan
wandel. So gou as Paulus, Petrus en Johannes nuwe bekeerlinge teëgekom het wat nog
nie die Heilige Gees ontvang het nie, het hulle vir hulle gebid om Hom te ontvang.
Volgens die voorbeeld van die eerste Christene, sodra iemand tot bekering kom, moet
hy in beide water (sien latere inskrywing) en die Gees gedoop word.</span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ek glo dat God
die Vader die Gees sal gee aan hulle wat werklik oorgegee het aan die Heerskappy
van Jesus Christus, selfs al het niemand hulle nog vertel van die Heilige Gees nie,
soos in die geval van die Moslem man (vorige inskrywing). Ek glo Hy sal ten minste iemand
oor daardie persoon se pad stuur om vir hom te vertel dat hy die doping in die Heilige
Gees nodig het. Indien ‘n persoon die Heilige Gees doop weier, het so ‘n persoon
of nie verstaan wat die Heilige Gees doop behels nie, of nog nie sy lewe aan die
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Net soos
‘n bruid en bruidegom nie verenig kan wees sonder die voleinding van hul huwelik
nie, kan ‘n persoon nie verenig wees met Christus alvorens hy met die Gees gevul
is nie. Die huwelik tussen man en vrou is ‘n simbool van die verhouding tussen God
en mens wat deur die Heilige Gees versoen word met mekaar. ‘n Bruid en bruidegom
mag dalk wettiglik getroud wees, maar volle intimiteit kom slegs met die voleinding.
Daar kan geen intimiteit met God plaasvind sonder die invulling van die Gees nie.
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dit is slegs
deur die Gees van Christus wat ons toegang het tot die skatte van wysheid en kennis
wat in Christus toegesluit is (Kol.2:3) en God openbaar geheimenisse slegs deur
sy Gees</span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (1 Kor. 2:10-14).<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It needs to be established first of all that the
Holy Spirit is not merely the power of God that works in believers, but a
Person in the Trinity (1 John 5:7) with whom believers need to have a
relationship. A clear indication of this fact is Luke’s testimony (Acts 13:2)
of the Holy Spirit speaking in the first person when He gave instruction that
Barnabas and Saul be separated for the work of the ministry. The Holy Spirit
also acted on his authority by sending them on their mission (v.4).</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">An Old
Testament study (which falls outside of the scope of this study) will reveal
that God enabled prophets, priests and kings (for example Acts 1:16; 28:25 <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">1Pet.1:10-12; 2 Pet.1:21</span>) to minister
in the power of the Holy Spirit, but the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all
flesh was delayed until the coming of Christ to inaugurate the Kingdom (Joel
2:28). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus received the Holy Spirit at his water baptism (Matt.3:16).
The ministry of not even Jesus, the perfect, sinless Son of God, started before
baptism in water and the Spirit (John 2:4). Peter confirmed that Jesus was
“anointed” with the Holy Spirit and with power (Acts 10:38). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">After his resurrection and before his ascension
Jesus told the disciples that they would receive the “Promise of My Father” (Luke
24:49; Acts 2:33), which was that they would be baptized with the Holy Spirit (Acts
1:5) and receive power to be his witnesses throughout the earth (v.8). In Acts
2:1 and 4 we see the fulfilment of this promise. This baptism in the Spirit is
in fact an infilling with the Spirit (Acts 4:8, 13, 31; 6:3, 5, 8; 7:55; 9:17;
13:52). Was Pentecost a once-off event (which seems to be the view of Heyns
[1978:295]), meaning that all people who would put their faith in Christ from
that day forward would automatically have the infilling of the Spirit? Or on
whom would the Holy Spirit be poured out, and at what instance? </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In Peter’s first sermon after he received the Spirit
at Pentecost, he gave the following instruction: “Repent and be baptized every
one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins and you
will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” (Acts 2:38). In Acts 17:30 (see also
26:20) Paul declares that “God … now commands all men everywhere to repent”. <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Christ also taught that we need to repent
(Matt.4:17) of our old way and commit to obey his Word. </span>Repentance is the
choice to step away from the dominion of Satan and into the dominion of Christ
(Col.1:13) and to turn away from the old way of life and to turn to a new life
in Christ (Col.3:3). It is a turning away from the sinful nature which was inherited
from Adam (Rom.5:12), and a commitment to follow the way of Christ (<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Eph.2:1-3; Col.2:13; Col.1:21)</span>, which
is made possible by the power of his Spirit, which is the reason God gives the
Spirit to those who repent. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Paul says that God gives the Spirit as a guarantee”
(2 Cor.1:22; 5:5) “of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased
possession” (<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Eph.1:14) and they “were
sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise” (v.13) “for the day of redemption”
(4:30). Therefore, by giving the Holy Spirit God the Father marks a person as
his own (Acts 15:8) and not through water baptism. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Peter continued by saying (Acts 2:39) “the promise
[of the Spirit] is for you and for your children and for all who are far off,
everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself”. Does this imply that when
parents are baptized and receive the Spirit, their children will automatically
receive the Spirit also? Or is the gift of the Spirit available only to those
who believe and repent? Peter and the other apostles say that God gives the
Holy Spirit to “those who obey Him” (Acts 5:32). Peter explains to Jewish believers
(Acts 11:17) that the Holy Spirit is given to Gentile believers as well. He asks
“if then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in
the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God's way?”. The key
words here are “when we believed”. The Jewish believers respond (v.18) by
saying “then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life”.
Thus far it is clear that faith in Christ, obedience and repentance to life are
requirements for receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Strong’s
(#4100) says of this Greek word pisteuo (believe) that it <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">is more than credence in church doctrines or
articles of faith. It expresses reliance upon and a personal trust that
produces obedience. It includes submission and a positive confession of the
lordship of Jesus. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A person therefore not only has to believe in Jesus
Christ, but also turn to follow Him (repent), which means to obey Him. Jesus
also said that obedience to his word would be the evidence that a person loves Him
(John 14:23). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore Paul says that
“no one can say ‘Jesus is Lord’ except in the Holy Spirit” (1 Cor.12:3). What
is needed is a heart (attitude) that is in submission to the Lordship of
Christ. If someone has truly made Jesus his Lord (evident through word and
deed), that person receives the Holy Spirit. John says that “whoever keeps his
commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides
in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.” The Lordship of Christ in an individual’s
life is not possible without the intimate relationship with the Holy
Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A person can therefore not
follow Christ without the infilling of the Spirit. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Conversely, those who hear but do not believe and
repent will not receive the gift of the Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although Luke didn’t mention explicitly that Stephen, who was filled
with the Spirit and with power and consequently doing great wonders and signs
among the people (Acts 6:5, 8), explained the gospel message to those who
disputed with him (v.9), I think it can be safely assumed that he did so. Those
who disputed with him thus heard and understood the message, but did not repent
and turn to Christ. Instead they resisted the Holy Spirit (Acts 7:51). They
were “uncircumcised in heart and ears” (Acts 7:51). The circumcision was a sign
of the Abrahamic covenant relationship with God. Those who were “uncircumcised
in heart” would then refer to someone who had not made a commitment to obey
Christ and therefore not yet part of the new covenant (Luke 22:20). Those who
resist the Holy Spirit are therefore those who don’t belong to Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">After Samaria not only heard but received the word
of God (in other words they believed it) (Acts 8:14), they did not
automatically and immediately have the infilling of the Holy Spirit. Peter and
John were sent to them to pray for them to receive the Holy Spirit “for he had
not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of
the Lord Jesus.” (v.16). They had both received the word of God and were
baptised (presumably in water) in the Name of Jesus, but none of these two
events automatically included Spirit baptism. Peter and John had to pray and
lay hands on them to receive the Holy Spirit (vv.15 and 17). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Similarly, Saul needed prayer and the laying on of
hands for the infilling of the Spirit after his dramatic conversion on the
Damascus road where Jesus even appeared and spoke to him in an audible voice
(Acts 9:3-4, 17). Later in his ministry, when Paul found some disciples at
Ephesus who had been baptised into John’s baptism, he discovered that neither
had they received the Spirit and nor did they know that there was a Holy Spirit
(Acts 19:1-7). After Paul told them about the Holy Spirit and baptized them in
the Name of Jesus, they received the Spirit through Paul’s laying on of hands.
These two baptisms (in Christ and in his Holy Spirit) were separate events in
this case. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As seen with the Samaritans, Ephesians and Saul,
receiving the word of God and baptism in the Name of Jesus does not necessarily
secure the automatic and immediate infilling of the Holy Spirit. From these
examples the praying and laying on of hands, notably by another Spirit-filled
believer, seem to be necessary when it becomes clear that a person has put his
faith in Christ but has not yet been baptized in the Spirit (see section 3.3
“Witness of the Spirit” below). </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It was not the same in the case of the conversion of
the Roman centurion Cornelius. The “the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the
word” (Acts 10:44) while Peter was still preaching the gospel to Cornelius and
his relatives and friends, and before Peter laid hands on anyone to receive the
infilling of the Holy Spirit. Clearly they received the baptism of the Spirit
without the laying on of hands. Not even prayer by another believer is
mentioned, but only that they “heard the word”. Luke doesn’t mention whether
all of those present believed the message of Jesus Christ and repented before
they received the Holy Spirit, but at least he says nothing that would cause
one to believe otherwise. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I know a missionary couple in the Middle East who
shared the gospel message with a Muslim man. After he repented from Islam and
turned to Christ, they were only starting to teach him (all that Jesus had
commanded) and hadn’t yet taught him about the Holy Spirit and that he needed
to be baptized in the Spirit. When he saw them again, he tried to describe to
them a strange thing that happened to him while he was alone in his house. The
evidence of praying in tongues was to them the confirmation that the event that
he described was in fact the baptism of the Holy Spirit.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">At this point in time my preliminary answer to the
question of whether salvation and Spirit baptism happens at the same or
different times is “both are possible and both can be seen in Scripture”. For
Cornelius and his companions it happened at the same time and for the Ephesians
it happened at different times. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">At the cross Jesus interceded for mankind to receive
mercy from the Father. Reconciliation with the Father is now available to all,
but since He is a relational God, He requires a personal response from each
individual, which involves faith, repentance and submission to his Lordship. He
then confirms that a person belongs to Him through giving him his Spirit. The manifest
presence and power of the Spirit can be experienced by such a person. <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The laying on of hands is sometimes
necessary when it becomes clear that a believer is not yet filled with the
Spirit.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The omnipresence of the Spirit of God doesn’t
automatically bring us into an intimate relationship with Him. Scripture
clearly testifies that the power of the Holy Spirit which is manifested in
believers is due to His infilling of believers individually. The testimony of
Scripture is that Pentecost was only the first outpouring on those who have
already repented.</span></div>
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Spirit and salvation now needs more attention.</span>Anitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084188952984083644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643383932781952464.post-88817309874239414022015-11-09T16:48:00.002+02:002016-02-13T15:21:09.211+02:001. Die doping in die Heilige Gees<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Hierdie stuk was deel van my akademiese opstel vir die module Praktiese Teologie, vir die graad BTh(hons). In die studie oor die doping in die Heilige Gees het ek die praktyk/gebrek aan praktyk in die NG kerk ondersoek en vergelyk met wat ons sien in die Skrif. Ek skryf met 'n woordeskat wat enige Afrikaans sprekende kan verstaan:</span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In die lig van die NG tradisie is die eerste stap om vas te
stel of die invulling van die Heilige Gees ontvang word tydens menslike geboorte of op
‘n later stadium deur persone wat “uitverkies” is vir redding, of gegee word
aan hulle wat tot ware geloof in Christus kom asook bekering en ‘n oorgawe aan
sy heerskappy. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dit moet eerstens genoem word dat die Heilige Gees nie bloot
die krag van God is wat in gelowiges werk nie, maar ‘n Persoon in die
Drie-eenheid</span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (1 Joh. 5:7) met wie alle gelowiges ‘n persoonlike verhouding
moet hê. Ter ondersteuning van hierdie stelling is Lukas se getuienis (Hand.
13:2) dat die Heilige Gees in die eerste persoon praat wanneer Hy instruksie
gee dat Barnabas en Saulus afgesonder moet word vir die werk van die Here
(bediening). Die Heilige Gees het ook in sy Goddelike gesag opgetree deur hulle
op die sending te stuur (v.4).</span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘n Ou
Testamentiese studie (wat buite die reik van hierdie studie val) sal toon dat
God die profete, priesters en konings (bv. Hand 1:16; 28:25; <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">1Pet.1:10-12; 2 Pet.1:21</span>) in staat
gestel het om in die krag van die Heilige Gees te bedien. Die uitgiet van die
Heilige Gees op alle vlees was egter uitgestel tot en met die koms van Christus
om die Koninkryk in te huldig (Joel 2:28). (Ons sal sien dat “alle vlees” as
volg geinterpreteer moet word: Enige persoon kan die Heilige Gees ontvang en
nie slegs ‘n koning, priester of profeet nie. Die lering van die Skrif in
geheel wys dat daar egter die voorvereiste is dat die persoon eers tot ware
bekering en oorgawe moet kom aan die heerskappy van Christus.)</span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Jesus het die
Heilige Gees by sy waterdoop ontvang (Matt.3:16). Selfs die bediening van Jesus
Christus, die perfekte, sondelose Seun van God het nie begin alvorens die
doping in water en die Heilige Gees nie (John 2:4). Petrus het getuig dat Jesus
gesalf was met die Heilige Gees en met krag (Hand. 10:38). </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Na sy
opstanding en voor sy hemelvaart het Jesus aan sy dissipels gesê dat hulle die
“belofte van My Vader” (Lukas 24:49; Hand. 2:33) sal ontvang. Hierdie belofte
behels die doping in die Heilige Gees (Hand. 1:5) en hulle sou krag ontvang om
sy getuies te wees dwarsdeur die wêreld (v.8). In Hand. 2:1 en 4 sien ons die
vervulling van hierdie belofte. Die doping in die Heilige Gees is in
werklikheid die invulling met die Gees (Hand. 4:8, 13, 31; 6:3, 5, 8; 7:55;
9:17; 13:52). Was die uitstorting van die Heilige Gees ‘n eenmalige gebeurtenis
(en skynbaar die siening van Heyns <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[1978:295]),
wat beteken dat alle mense vandag by geboorte of babadoop automaties die
invulling van die Heilige Gees ontvang? Of op wie word die Heilige Gees
uitgegiet en wanneer? </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In Petrus se
eerste preek nadat hy die Gees ontvang het, het hy die volgende instruksie
gegee:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Kom tot inkeer en maak reg met
God. Laat julle in die Naam van Jesus Christus doop sodat julle sondes vergewe
kan word, en julle sal die Heilige Gees as gawe ontvang.” (Hand.2:38)</span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In Hand.17:30
(sien ook 26:20) verklaar Paulus dat “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">God het wel mense se vroeëre onkunde oorgesien, maar nou
roep Hy alle mense oral op om die afgode te los en hulle tot Hom te bekeer.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christus het ook gesê dat ons tot bekering
moet kom, ons ou weë laat staan en sy Woord moet gehoorsaam (Matt</span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">.4:17; Lukas...). Bekering is die keuse om weg te stap van
die heerskappy van Satan en onder die heerskappy van Christus in te kom
(Kol.1:13) en om van die ou manier van lewe weg te draai en om te draai na ‘n
nuwe lewe in Christus (Kol.3:3). Dit is ‘n wegdraai van die sondige natuur
waarmee ons gebore is en wat oorgeërf is van Adam </span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(Rom.5:12), en
‘n besluit om toegewyd in die weg van Christus te volg (Ef.<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">2:1-3; Kol.2:13; Kol.1:21)</span>. Dit word
moontlik gemaak deur die krag van die Heilige Gees en dus die rede waarom God
die Heilige Gees gee aan almal wat tot bekering kom. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Paulus sê dat
God die Gees gee as “waarborg”: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Hy het ons as sy eiendom gemerk en die Gees in ons harte
gevestig as deposito wat as waarborg dien van alles wat Hy nog vir ons gaan
gee” </span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(2 Cor.1:22; 5:5).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Die Heilige Gees is God se deposito
wat ons volle erfenis waarborg totdat almal wat aan God behoort, volkome verlos
sal wees.”</span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Ef.1:14). “</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Op grond
van wat Christus gedoen het, is julle, <u>toe julle tot geloof gekom het,</u>
tot God se eiendom gemerk deur die Heilige Gees wat God belowe het” (v.13). Dit
is dus duidelik dat dit die gawe van die Heilige Gees is waarmee God die Vader
‘n persoon merk as sy eiendom en nie deur die water doop nie. Hand.15:8 “En
God, wat die harte ken, het bevestig dat die Goeie Nuus ook vir nie-Jode bedoel
is deur aan hulle die Heilige Gees te gee net soos aan ons”. Hierdie geld vir
elkeen van ons, Jood of nie. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Petrus het
voortgegaan deur te sê “Hierdie belofte [van die invulling van die Heilige
Gees] is bedoel vir julle en julle kinders, en selfs vir die nie-Jode – almal
wat die Here ons God sal naderroep.” (Hand.2:39) Dit is dus ‘n belofte met ‘n voorvereiste:
almal wat tot bekering kom en hulle laat doop in water, sal die Heilige Gees
ontvang. Dat die belofte vir hulle kinders ook geld, beteken nie dat hulle
kinders die Heilige Gees outomaties sal ontvang nie. Die belofte geld vir almal
maar die voorvereiste geld ook vir almal. Petrus en die ander apostels sê
“...die </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Heilige
Gees wat God gegee het aan dié wat aan Hom gehoorsaam is.” (Hand.5:32). Petrus
verduidelik aan die Joodse gelowiges dat die Heilige Gees aan die nie-Joodse
gelowiges ook gegee word (Hand.11:17): “Aangesien God dan dieselfde geskenk aan
die nie-Jode gegee het as aan ons <u>toe ons tot geloof in die Here Jesus
Christus gekom het</u>, watter reg het ék om God te keer?”. Die Joodse
gelowiges het gereageer deur te sê “So God has granted <u>repentance resulting
in life</u> even to the Gentiles! ” (HCSB) (In Afrikaans beteken dit God het
aan nie-Jode ook die geleentheid gegun om tot bekering te kom”. Beide geloof en
bekering is dus die voorvereistes vir die ontvangs van die Heilige Gees. En die
Heilige Gees wat deur God gegee is aan ‘n persoon, is God se bevestiging dat
daardie persoon nou aan Hom behoort. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Tot dusver is
dit duidelik vanuit die Skrif dat geloof in Christus, gehoorsaamheid en
bekering tot lewe in Christus (repentance resulting in life) voorvereistes is
vir die ontvangs van die Heilige Gees. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Strong’s (#4100) sê van die Griekse
woord <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pisteuo</i> (glo) dat dit meer is
as “geloofwaardigheid” in kerk doktrines. Dit beteken om ‘n vaste persoonlike
vertroue asook ‘n afhanklikheid te hê wat gehoorsaamheid voortbring. Dit sluit
in onderdanigheid en ‘n positiewe belydenis van die heerskappy van Christus. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Geloof
is dus met ander woorde nie slegs ‘n kognotiewe / intelektuele standpunt wat
deur ‘n persoon ingeneem word nie. Dit is ‘n hartsaak. ‘n Verhoudingsaak. ‘n
Persoon moet nie slegs glo in die historiese Jesus Christus nie, maar moet ook
draai om Hom te volg (bekering), wat beteken om Hom te gehoorsaam en te ken.
Jesus het ook gesê dat gehoorsaamheid aan sy Woord die bewys sal wees dat ‘n
persoon Hom liefhet (</span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Joh.14:23). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paulus
het gesê dit is “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">net die Heilige Gees wat dit vir iemand moontlik maak om te verklaar:
“Jesus is die Here.” </span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(1 Kor.12:3). Wat nodig is, is ‘n hartsgesindheid wat
onderdanig is aan die Heerskappy van Christus. As iemand waarlik Jesus die Here
van sy lewe gemaak het (bewys deur woord en daad), dan het daardie persoon ook
die Heilige Gees ontvang. Johannes sê dat “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Wie sy opdragte gehoorsaam, leef in
’n hegte verhouding met God en Hy op sy beurt met daardie persoon. Hieraan weet
ons dat Hy in ’n hegte verhouding met ons leef: aan die Gees wat Hy aan ons
gegee het.” (1 Joh.3:24). Die heerskappy van Christus in die individu se lewe
is nie moontlik sonder die intieme verhouding met die Heilige Gees nie. ‘n
Persoon kan Jesus dus nie volg sonder die invulling van die Gees nie. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Gevolglik is
dit waar dat hulle wat die evangelie hoor maar nie glo en nie tot bekering kom
nie, nie die gawe van die Heilige Gees kan ontvang nie. Lukas het nie pertinent
genoem dat Stefanus, wie gevul was met die Gees en met krag en daarom groot
wonders en tekens onder die mense gedoen het (Hand.6:5,8), die evangelie aan
hulle wat hom gekonfronteer het, verduidelik het nie (v.9). Ek dink dit kan
egter met veiligheid aangeneem word. Hulle wat hom konfronteer het, het dus die
evangelie gehoor, maar het nie tot bekering gekom en na Christus gedraai nie.
In plaas daarvan het hulle die Heilige Gees weerstaan (Hand.7:51). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“You stiff-necked people with
uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit; as
your ancestors did, so do you.” (HCSB) Die besnydenis (circumcision) was ‘n
teken van die verbondverhouding wat God met Abraham gehad het en word hier as
‘n metafoor gebruik. Hulle wat dus </span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“uncircumcised in heart” is, is mense wat nog
nie onderdanig aan Christus geword het nie en dus nie deel van die nuwe verbond
met God is nie (Lukas 22:20). Hulle wat die Heilige Gees weerstaan is dus hulle
wat nie aan Christus behoort nie. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Nou is die
vraag, op watter tydstip ontvang ‘n gelowige die Heilige Gees? Nadat Samaria
die Woord van God gehoor en ontvang het (hulle het dit maw geglo) (Hand. 8:14),
het hulle nie outomaties en onmiddelik die invulling van die Gees ontvang nie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Petrus en
Johannes is na hulle gestuur om vir hulle te bid om die Heilige Gees te kan
ontvang “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Want
die Heilige Gees het immers nog nie op een van hulle gekom nie, want hulle was
net in die Naam van die Here Jesus gedoop.” (v.16). Hulle het dus beide die
Woord van God ontvang en was gedoop (in water) in die Naam van Jesus Christus,
maar nie een van hierdie gebeurtenisse het outomaties die invulling van die
Heilige Gees ingesluit nie. Petrus en Johannes moes vir hulle bid en hande oplê
alvorens hulle die Heilige Gees ontvang het</span><span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (vv.15 and
17). </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Saulus ook
gebed en die oplê van hande benodig vir die invulling van die Gees, selfs na sy
dramatiese bekering op die Damaskus pad waar Jesus aan hom verskyn het en in ‘n
hoorbare stem gepraat het (Hand. 9:3-4, 17). Later in sy bediening het Paulus
‘n paar dissipels in Efese aangetref wat net in Johannes die Doper se doop
gedoop was. Hy het ontdek dat hulle nie eens geweet het daar is die Heilige
Gees nie en dus ook nie daardie doping ontvang het nie (Hand. 19:1-7). Nadat
Paulus vir hulle van die Heilige Gees vertel het en hulle gedoop het in die
Naam van Jesus, het hy hulle ook hande opgelê en het hulle die Gees ontvang.
Hierdie twee dope (in Christus en die Heilige Gees) was afsonderlike
gebeurtenisse in hierdie geval. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Soos gesien in
die gevalle van die Samaritane, die Efesiërs en Saulus, verseker die ontvangs
van die Woord van God en die doop in die Naam van Jesus nie noodwendig die
outomatiese en onmiddelike invulling van die Heilige Gees nie. Vanuit hierdie
voorbeelde sien ons dat die oplê van hande en gebed, en dit deur ‘n ander Gees-vervulde
gelowig, nodig is wanneer dit duidelik word dat ‘n persoon moontlik al tot
geloof in Christus gekom het, maar nog nie in die Heilige Gees gedoop is nie
(sien afdeling 3.3 “Getuienis van die Gees” onder).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ons sien in
die geval van die Romeinse centurion Cornelius se bekering dat mense die Heilige
Gees ontvang het sonder dat iemand vir hulle hande opgelê het. Petrus was besig
om die evangelie aan Cornelius en sy familie en vriende te verduidelik en “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">terwyl Petrus nog hierdie dinge sê,
het die Heilige Gees op almal gekom wat sy boodskap gehoor het.” (Hand. 10:44).
Ons lees nie eers dat ‘n ander gelowige spesifiek vir die invulling van die Gees
gebid het nie, maar slegs dat die mense die boodskap gehoor het. Lukas noem ook
nie of al daardie persone wat teenwoordig was die boodskap geglo en tot bekering
gekom het alvorens hulle die Heilige Gees ontvang het nie, maar soos reeds bewys
uit die Skrif weet ons dat geloof en bekering voorvereistes is vir die ontvangs
van die Heilige Gees. Mens kan daarom aanvaar dat daar bewyse was dat hulle wel
die Heilige Gees ontvang het, anders sou Lukas nie met soveel sekerheid kon sê dat
hulle die Gees ontvang het nie. Die sigbare manifestasie van die gawes van die Gees
sou die aanduiding wees dat hulle wel tot bekering gekom het. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ek ken ‘n sendingpaar
in die Midde-Ooste wat die evangelie met ‘n Moslem man gedeel het. Nadat die man
van Islam bekeer het tot Jesus Christus, het hulle begin om hom te leer hoe om Jesus
te volg. Hulle het nog nie by die punt gekom waar hulle aan hom verduidelik het
dat hy in die Heilige Gees gedoop moet word nie, toe hy eendag vir hulle vertel
dat ‘n vreemde ding met hom gebeur het terwyl hy alleen was. Soos wat hy hierdie
gebeurtenis beskryf het, het die sendingpaar besef dat dit die Heilige Gees doping
was waarvan hy gepraat het. Die gebedstaal wat hy ontvang het was vir hulle die
bevestiging dat die gebeurtenis wel die doping in die Heilige Gees was. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Op die vraag of
redding en Heilige Gees doping op dieselfde tydstip of op verskillende tye, is dit
op hierdie stadium duidelik dat beide moontlik is en beide voorkom in die Skrif.
Vir Cornelius en sy vriende het dit op dieselfde tyd gebeur waar dit vir die Efesiërs
op verskillende tye gebeur het. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In opsomming: Jesus
het aan die kruis vir die mensdom ingetree sodat hulle genade (mercy) van die Vader
kon ontvang. Rekonsiliasie met die Vader is nou beskikbaar vir elke mens. Omdat
God ‘n verhoudingswese is en nie ‘n onpersoonlike wese nie, vereis Hy ‘n persoonlike
reaksie van elke individu. Hierdie aksie behels geloof (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pisteuo</i>), bekering en onderwerping aan sy Heerskappy. God bevestig dan
dat die persoon aan Hom behoort deur aan hom die Gees te gee. Die werklike teenwoordigheid
en krag van die Heilige Gees kan deur so ‘n persoon beleef word. Die oplegging van
hande is soms nodig waar dit duidelik is dat ‘n persoon nog nie met die Gees gevul
is nie. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Daar moet onderskeid getref word tussen die
alomteenwoordigheid van God en die inwoning van God. Die Heilige Gees is
alomteenwoordig in die wêreld en sien alles wat elke dag met elke mens op aarde
gebeur. Maar die alomteenwoordigheid van God bring ons nie outomaties in ‘n intieme
verhouding met God nie, want dan sou Hitler ook die Heilige Gees gehad het. Maar
die Heilige Gees is slegs tuis en inwoned in persone wat tot geloof en oorgawe
aan die Heerskappy van Christus gekom het. Daarom word alle persone nie deur
die Gees van God gelei nie, maar slegs diegene wat Hom in nederigheid ingenooi
het. Die Gees van God is ‘n “gentleman”, ‘n ware heer, nie ‘n verkragter nie. Die
uitstorting van die Heilige Gees in die bokamer waar die 120 bymekaar was, was dus
slegs die eerste uitstorting van die Heilige Gees op Christene wat reeds tot bekering
gekom het en nie ‘n eenmalige gebeurtenis wat alle mense outomaties betrek nie. </span></div>
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<span lang="AF" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Die verhouding tussen die invulling van die Gees en redding sal aandag geniet in die volgende inskrywing. <span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:TOSHIBA" datetime="2015-11-06T17:12"></ins></span></span></div>
Anitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084188952984083644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643383932781952464.post-81509084619569604372015-11-06T17:03:00.000+02:002017-10-06T12:28:45.220+02:00My personal statement of faith<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am a Christian, a Disciple of Christ</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. There is only one living
God. He is God in three Persons who exist together as one unit and from
everlasting to everlasting. The three persons, the so-called Trinity, are God the
Father, God the Son, who is Jesus Christ, and God the Holy Spirit. I believe that all <span class="text_exposed_show">three Persons in the
Trinity were involved in the creation of the universe. The first man
Adam and his wife Eve brought sin and death into the world, which caused the whole human race to be separated from God. Therefore Jesus Christ was sent to enter the world of
human beings as a man, perfectly human and perfectly God
simultaneously. He is the Son of God
who lived a perfect, sinless life on earth and the exact image of the invisible God. Through his miraculous conception, his life and ministry (loving people, teaching about the Kingdom and doing miracles), his violent death and resurrection He witnessed to the truth that He is the Son of God and He is the only Way that man can be reconciled to the Father. He was seen in his resurrected form by many eye witnesses
before he ascended into heaven where He now occupies the place at the
right hand of God the Father. After Christ’s ascension into heaven, the
Holy Spirit came to empower all who would put their faith in Christ, for
the work of the ministry, the calling to which Christ has called us,
the spreading of the Good News, the Gospel of Christ.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was once lost and wounded and considered myself a total failure and then cried out to God in desperation. The Holy Spirit convicted me of my
unrighteousness (my waywardness) and my need for God’s righteousness (the right Way). I was convinced of the truth of the good news of Jesus Christ and was led
to repentance and a surrender to the Lordship of Christ. I was made
righteous (declared to be in right relationship to God) by faith in Jesus Christ. Because I have been forgiven by God, I also forgive those who sin
against me. I have been born of water and of the Spirit. I was also baptized in water and with the Holy Spirit. I am being
made holy by the power and leading of the Holy Spirit. I enjoy the real
experience of the love and fellowship with God through the Holy Spirit. I enjoy the love and fellowship of fellow brothers and sisters in
Christ. I belong in a local church, which is my local spiritual
family, and we are a part of the worldwide church of Christ. We rely
on the Holy Spirit to help us to live together in love, peace and unity
in this community of saints, working towards the same goal of
confronting the kingdom of darkness on the basis of our delegated
authority in Christ, taking the Good News to all peoples, to the ends of
the earth, making them Christ’s Disciples and baptizing them in the
name of the Father, Son and Spirit.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After the time of
Great Tribulation to purify the Bride of Christ and to judge the
nations, Jesus will come again to gather to Himself his own, both those
who remain alive until that time and those who will be raised from the dead
at that time. He will reward His own according to their deeds and will
establish His Kingdom on earth in its fullness, where we will reign with
Him a thousand years. At the end of time He will sit as Judge over all
the living and the dead. He will create the New Heavens and New Earth
and we will be with Him in His glory forever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Amen</span></div>
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Anitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084188952984083644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643383932781952464.post-32304497420008136222015-11-06T16:59:00.000+02:002017-10-06T12:36:14.318+02:00My short description of the Person Jesus Christ<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Biblical Jesus Christ existed from eternity past and is one of the
persons of the so-called Trinity. Through Him all matter in the universe were
spoken into being. He is the incarnate Son of God and is both human and
divine at the same time. He is fully God and fully man. He gave up his
heavenly privileges and chose to live with the limitations of an ear<span class="text_exposed_show">thly
life. He is the promised and anointed King from the line of David that
was prophesied by the Hebrew prophets. The Virgin Mary was his mother.
She was a human being and not divine that she should be worshiped.
Christ never committed even one sin and resisted all temptation. He knew
the Hebrew Scriptures. As a human being, He knew from a young age that
He was the Son of God and He knew what his purpose on earth was. He
obeyed both his heavenly Father and his earthly parents. He embodies the
perfect revelation and image of God. I believe He was a physically
strong earthly man, since he laboured as a carpenter for most of his
earthly life, which is hard physical labour. He humbly referred to
himself as Son of Man. It took Him only three and a half years to raise the
disciples who after his death and resurrection ensured that the gospel
message is still preached today, about 2000 years later. He taught about
the Kingdom of God that would soon be inaugurated and He performed many
miracles. Because of his love for undeserving sinful humankind, He completely submitted to the will of the Father to execute His plan to save the human race from eternal death. As such, He
willingly suffered a violent death at the hands of people who were blinded and deceived by the lies of satan. But He was resurrected and occupies
the place at the right hand of the Father. Through his death and
resurrection He secured reconciliation with the Father (a
relationship which was broken in the Garden of Eden). No human being can receive eternal
life without bowing the knee to the Lordship of Christ. Jesus Christ is the
only way to eternal salvation for all who believe in Him, follow Him and endure to the end (Matt.
24:13). The Spirit of Jesus Christ enables believers through his
presence and sanctifying work in their lives to conform to the image of
Christ. He was given all authority in heaven and on earth by the Father
and He is worthy of our adoration and worship.</span></span></span></div>
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