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As jy 2000 jaar gelede ‘n getroue Jood was

As jy 2000 jaar gelede ‘n getroue Jood was

As jy in 27 n.C. ‘n getroue Jood was, wat sou jy geglo het? Op wie sou jy vertrou het? Waar sou jy jou lojaliteit geplaas het?

Jou hele lewe lank sou jy deur jou ouers, leraars en priesters geleer gewees het dat jy lid was van God se spesiale uitverkore volk, ‘n volk wat die geïnspireerde geskrifte van die profete gehad het en wat gewag het op die koms van die Messias.

Jou hele lewe lank sou jy geleer het dat al die ander godsdienste van die wêreld vals is.

Jou hele lewe lank sou jy deelgeneem het aan weeklikse Sabbatsonderhouding, gereelde offerande by die tempel en jaarlikse feeste, soos Pasga en die Versoendag (Yom Kippur).

Jou hele lewe lank sou jy die godsdienstige leiers – die priesters, die Sanhedrin – vertrou het om die heilige skrifte te interpreteer, jou te vertel van jou plig teenoor God, om godsdienstige regte en ongeregtighede te definieer en kettery en godslastering te identifiseer.

En u hele lewe sou ‘n las gewees het – ‘n lewe wat geleef is in vrees vir sonde, die gewig van wetlike godsdienstige pligte, die vrees vir mislukking, die onophoudelike twyfel, die gevoel van ontoereikendheid, die voortdurende bekommernis dat miskien, ondanks al jou tiende betalings, al die diereoffers, al die harde werk om aan die reëls te probeer voldoen, dat jy steeds nie deur God aanvaar is nie.

As jy daardie Jood was, wat sou jy doen? Was daar dalk ‘n ander georganiseerde godsdienstige instelling as Israel deur wie God gewerk het? Was daar ‘n beter Bybel (geskrifte) met meer akkurate openbarings van God as die Torah?

Sou dit beteken dat die leierskap van die Joodse organisasie die waarheid geleer het?

As jy 2 000 jaar gelede ‘n Jood was, sou dit wys gewees het om die priesters, Leviete en Sanhedrin te vertrou om vas te stel wat waar is? Wat God se wil is? Wat sonde is? Hoe ‘n mens van sonde verlos word?

Wat het die Joodse godsdiensleiers verkeerd gehad? Hulle het hulle vertolkings van die Skrif in die verkeerde begrip van die wet oorgedra. Hulle het God se wet beskou as funksionerend soos ‘n menslike wet – opgelegde reëls wat opgelegde strawwe vereis. Hulle het dus die seremonies en simbole verkeerd geïnterpreteer as letterlike vereistes vir redding, eerder as teater, metafoor, praktiese voorbeelde om die werklikheid te leer.

En toe kom Jesus en leer met gesag (sien ons blog Gesag en Satan se Eindtyd verleiding) die gesag van hoe die werklikheid werk. Al Sy gelykenisse het God se wette as ontwerpwette geleer – hoe dinge werklik funksioneer. Jesus het mensgemaakte godsdienstige reëls verbreek om die koninkryk van die hemel te bevorder. Jesus het op die Sabbat genees en met prostitute, tollenaars en Samaritane gekuier. Hoekom? Want Jesus handel oor die werklikheid – en die werklikheid is dat God een menslike spesie in Eden geskep het. Adam het homself met sonde besmet en daarom word elke enkele mens met daardie terminale sondetoestand gebore (Ps 51:5); Elke mens het presies dieselfde oplossing, behandeling, geneesmiddel vir daardie sondetoestand nodig; en Jesus het gekom om die sonde van die wêreld weg te neem (Joh. 1:29) om die oplossing vir ons sondetoestand te voorsien, en almal te red en te genees wat deel het aan wat Hy voorsien het (Gal. 2:20; 2 Pet. 1:4). Sonde kan nie opgelos word deur reëls en reël onderhouding nie – slegs deur herskepping, genesing, reiniging van harte en gedagtes deur die herskeppende krag van God!

Jesus het gesê:

“Want so lief het God die wêreld gehad, dat Hy sy eniggebore Seun gegee het, sodat elkeen wat in Hom glo, nie verlore mag gaan nie, maar die ewige lewe kan hê. Want God het sy Seun in die wêreld gestuur nie om die wêreld te veroordeel nie, maar dat die wêreld deur Hom gered kan word” (Joh. 3:16,17 AFR 33/53).

“Kom na My toe, almal wat vermoeid en belas is, en Ek sal julle rus gee. Neem my juk op julle en leer van My, want Ek is sagmoedig en nederig van hart, en julle sal rus vind vir julle siele. Want my juk is sag en my las is lig” (Matthéüs 11:28-30 AFR 33/53).

En die godsdienstige leiers, die leiers van God se uitverkore volk, toe hulle Jesus sien genees, seën en vergewe, het van Hom gesê:

“Sê ons nie met reg dat U ‘n Samaritaan is en van die duiwel besete is nie?” (Johannes 8:48 AFR 33/53).

As jy 2,000 jaar gelede ‘n getroue Jood was wat vir die “kerk” gewerk het, hoe sou jy gereageer het as jy deur jou leierskap gekonfronteer word soos hierdie getroue volgelinge was:

“Gevolglik het die wagte na die priesterhoofde en die Fariseërs toe teruggegaan en dié het vir hulle gesê: “Waarom het julle Hom nie saamgebring nie?”

Die wagte het geantwoord: “Nog nooit het ’n mens só gepraat soos hierdie man nie.”

Die Fariseërs antwoord hulle: “Julle is tog nie ook mislei nie? Het iemand uit die geledere van die leiers of uit die Fariseërs miskien tot geloof in Hom gekom? Nee, dit is net hierdie skare mense wat nie vertroud is met die wet nie; vervloek is hulle!”” (Joh. 7:45-49 NLV)

Dus, as jy 2,000 jaar gelede ‘n getroue Jood was, sou jy getrou bly deur lojaal te wees aan jou denominasie, die ortodoksie soos geleer deur die leraars, priesters, Leviete en Sanhedrin? Of, as jy daardie leiers van God se uitverkore en geseënde stelsel gevolg het, sou jy van getrouheid na opstandigheid beweeg het en saam met hulle Jesus gekruisig het?

Wat van vandag?

As u ‘n getroue Christen is wat deel uitmaak van ‘n denominasie wat deur God geroep is om die evangelie van Jesus na die wêreld te neem en ‘regte’ leerstellings te bevorder, sal u getrou kan bly as u u denke aan u herders, priesters, teologieprofessore en kerkbeamptes oorgee – of moet u self dink en die waarheid weet?

Soos Paulus in Romeine 14:5 aanbeveel het, moet jy nie in jou eie gedagtes ten volle oortuig wees van wat waar is nie? Kan dit wees dat om getrou aan Jesus te bly, jy soos Petrus, Paulus en die ander apostels moet wees en die leerstellings van jou kerkleierskap moet verwerp?

Dit is nie hipoteties nie; dit is histories – ‘n feit van die geskiedenis wat herhaal het en weer sal herhaal. Soos een van die stigters van die Adventiste Kerk opmerk in haar kommentaar van die lewe van Christus, Die Koning van Eeue,

Die Sanhedrin het Christus se boodskap verwerp en het Sy dood gesoek; daarom het Christus Jerusalem, die priesters, die tempel, die godsdienstige leiers, die mense wat in die wet onderrig is, verlaat en hom na ‘n ander klas gewend om Sy boodskap te verkondig en om diegene uit te soek wat die evangelie aan alle nasies sou verkondig.

Soos die lig en die lewe van die mens deur die kerklike owerhede in die tyd van Christus verwerp is, so is dit nog in elke daaropvolgende geslag verwerp. Keer op keer is die geskiedenis van Christus se onttrekking uit Judea herhaal. Toe die Hervormers die Woord van God verkondig het, het hulle nie geen gedagte gehad om van die gevestigde kerk af te skei nie; maar die godsdienstige leiers wou die lig nie duld nie, en dié wat die lig gedra het, is gedwing om hulle na ‘n ander klas te wend wat na die waarheid verlang het. Vandag word min van die erkende volgelinge van die Hervormers deur hulle gees besiel. Min luister na die stem van God en is bereid om die waarheid aan te neem in watter vorm dit ook aangebied word. Dikwels word diegene wat in die voetstappe van die Hervormers volg, gedwing om die kerke wat hulle liefhet, te verlaat sodat hulle die duidelike leer van die woord van God kan verkondig. En dikwels word mense wat lig soek deur dieselfde leer verplig om die kerk van hul vadere te verlaat, sodat hulle God kan gehoorsaam (Die Koning van die Eeue, bl 232, beklemtoning myne).

Ek daag jou uit: Moenie in die strik trap om jou denke aan ander oor te gee nie, maar dink altyd vir jouself en bly lojaal aan Jesus bo alles!

 

 

 

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