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Onderskeidingswaarheid – Om deur die leuens te sien

Onderskeidingswaarheid – Om deur die leuens te sien

Wat is die les wat geleer word in die verhaal van Christus se Triomfantlike Intog (Matteus 21)?

“Wees baie bly, dogter van Sion! Juig hardop, dogter van Jerusalem! Kyk, jou koning kom na jou toe. Hy is regverdig en ’n oorwinnaar, maar tog is hy nederig. Hy ry op ’n donkie, die vul van ’n donkie.” (Sagaria 9:9 NLV’11).

Die les is dat Jesus al die Ou-Testamentiese profesieë en vereistes van die Messias vervul. Dit is die ontwerpwet van waarheid wat vervul, bewerkstellig en gedemonstreer word. Waarheid kan en moet gepraat word, maar waarheid is werklikheid – en waarheid is die kragtigste wanneer dit in aksie geopenbaar word, in werklikheid, deur bewyse. Jesus se lewe wat uitgeleef is, is ‘n getuienis en openbaring van waarheid wat in kragtigheid ver oortref en van meer waarde is as dié van mondelinge beskrywing alleen. Dit is vervulling, nie bloot aanspraak nie.

Dit is ‘n les wat baie mense vandag nie verstaan nie, en Satan werk hard om mense op hierdie punt te verwar. Satan werk deur misleiding, deur mense te kry om werklikheid met fantasie te vervang, waarheid met leuens, feite met valshede, en om woorde, bewerings en afkondigings bo bewyse te aanvaar. Met ander woorde, Satan maak staat daarop om mense te laat luister na wat gesê word en nie wat gedoen word nie.

Ons het almal gehoor dat dade harder spreek as woorde, en dit is een van die primêre doelwitte van die Skrif – ‘n rekord van God se optrede! En daardie optrede word volledig, duidelik en kragtig geopenbaar in die lewe van Jesus – God geopenbaar as ‘n ware mens (Kolossense 2:9; Hebreërs 2:14; 1 Timoteus 3:16).

Kyk na die optrede van Jesus en die uitkomste van Sy optrede; vergelyk dan Sy optrede met die optrede van die godsdienstige leiers in Sy tyd en die uitkomste van daardie dade. En kyk dan na die woorde van albei.

In Jesus het Sy woorde en Sy optrede perfek ooreengestem. Maar die woorde van die godsdiensleiers strook nie met die werklikheid, met die waarheid nie. Die godsdienstige leiers het beweer dat hulle God verteenwoordig; hulle het voorgegee dat hulle die waarheid bevorder, maar omdat hulle vertrekpunt fabels was (nie net feitelike leuens nie, maar beginsels wat nie in harmonie is met die lewe soos God dit ontwerp het om te werk nie), het hul optrede uiteindelik die foutiewelikheid van hul metodes en die valsheid van hul woorde getoon. Die resultate van hul optrede het aan die lig gebring dat hul metodes vernietigend is – die spreekwoordelike “probeer is die beste geweer”. Die uitkomste van hul beleide, beginsels, prosedures en reëls het skade veroorsaak, terwyl die uitkomste van Jesus se beleide, beginsels, prosedures en metodes genesing tot gevolg gehad het.

Maar die woorde van die korrupte leiers het gegaan oor die redding van die nasie. Kajafas, die hoëpriester, het gesê, ““Julle besef nie dat dit vir julle voordeliger is dat een mens vir die volk sterf en nie die hele volk tot niet gaan nie” (Joh 11:50 NLV’11”). Hy het aangevoer: “Ons het verantwoordelikheid vir ons samelewing; ons moet lewens red!” Hy het beweer: “Selfs al moet ons vryhede van een persoon wegneem, is dit beter om daardie een te misbruik en te mishandel sodat ons die meerderheid kan red.”

Maar in werklikheid het hulle hulleself vernietig en hulle nasie verlate gelaat omdat hulle die metodes van Satan aangehang en beoefen het en die metodes van God verwerp het – waarheid, liefde en vryheid.

Dieselfde probleem het deur die hele menslike geskiedenis bestaan – die probleem om die werklikheid van fantasie, waarheid van aansprake, feite van fiksie, woorde van bewyse te onderskei.

 

Voor ons oë

Kyk net na hierdie huidige Amerikaanse presidentsverkiesingsiklus. Ek gaan nie vir jou sê wat om te dink of vir wie om te stem nie, maar ek stel voor dat jy jou oë oopmaak en kyk, dink, krities ondersoek en oefen om woorde te onderskei van aksies, woorde van prestasies, woorde van uitkomste – hoe dinge uitdraai wanneer sekere mense in beheer is en besluite neem wat ander beïnvloed. Oorweeg bewyse van vorige prestasies en uitkomste teenoor beskuldigings, eise, beloftes en verklarings.

Na my mening, in die uiteindelike uitkoms van hierdie wêreld, maak dit nie regtig saak watter politieke kandidaat verkies word nie, want al die koninkryke van die aarde is korrup, almal gebruik Satan se metodes, en uiteindelik span hulle almal kragte saam om oorlog teen die heiliges te voer.

Maar hierdie gebeure maak saak vir individuele harte en gedagtes, want ek en jy word aangeval. Ons harte en gedagtes word aangeval. Ons word mislei, verkeerd ingelig en gemanipuleer deur propaganda, en ons emosies word uitgebuit – alles ontwerp om gedagtes te verwar en mense te kry om die waarheid te ignoreer, bewyse te ignoreer, die werklikheid te ignoreer en in lyn te bring met fantasie, in lyn te wees met wensdenkery, in lyn te wees met die metodes van God se vyand. Dit is waarom ons op hierdie oomblik ons oë op Jesus moet vestig, moet leer uit wat Hy geopenbaar het, Sy metodes moet aanhang en beoefen, en leer om woorde te onderskei van dade en aansprake van resultate. Dit is nou dat elke persoon hul Godgegewe individualiteit moet uitoefen, vir hulself moet dink en leer om bewyse en feite vir hulself te ondersoek.

Vir diegene wat onderskeidingsvaardighede wil beoefen, laat God hierdie gebeure toe om te ontvou omdat die aksies, die praktyke, die metodes, die keuses, die resultate van wat mense doen, bewys is vir die denkendes om te herken en te besef – om te beweer dat iets is soos dit is, verander nie die werklikheid daarvan nie.

  • Om te beweer dat ‘n hond ‘n kat is, maak dit nie waar nie – selfs al trek jy die hond soos ‘n kat aan.
  • Om te beweer dat ‘n madeliefie ‘n roos is, maak dit nie waar nie – selfs al verf jy die madeliefie rooi.
  • Om te beweer dat goed boos is en kwaad goed is, maak dit nie waar nie – selfs al beloon jy die kwaad en straf die goeie.

Soos die Bybel waarsku,

Wee hulle wat sleg goed noem en goed sleg, wat die duisternis lig maak en die lig duisternis, wat bitter soet maak en soet bitter. (Jesaja 5:20 AFR33).

Ek daag jou uit om ‘n denker te word, nie ‘n weerspieëler van ander mense se gedagtes nie, en woorde van feite te onderskei en te oefen om waarheid te volg – werklikheid – in alles wat jy doen soos God dit vir jou duidelik maak.

 

 

 

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