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Hoe Jesus Die Samaritane Behandel Het En Lesse Vir Vandag

Hoe Jesus Die Samaritane Behandel Het En Lesse Vir Vandag

Die Samaritane is heel waarskynlik die gemengde oorblyfsels van die tien noordelike stamme van Israel en ander groepe wat in 722 vC deur die Assiriërs verower is.

Volgens Wikipedia bestaan ‘n klein groepie Samaritane van minder as ‘n paar duisend vandag nog. Hulle word deur sommige in Israel as Jode beskou; deur ander word hulle as ‘n aparte groep beskou. Hulle het ook verskillende oortuigings as die Jode, waaronder die volgende is:

  • Hulle glo net in die eerste vyf boeke van die Bybel, wat deur Moses geskryf is, en in ‘n ander weergawe van die boek Josua.
  • Hulle glo dat die hoëpriester Eli ‘n swendelaar en valse priester was wat ‘n valse verbondsark gemaak het en ‘n valse aanbiddingsentrum by Silo geskep het om mense te keer om by die ware sentrum in die berg Gerisim te aanbid.
  • Hulle glo dat die messias nog nie gebore is nie.
  • Terwyl hulle glo dat die beloofde messias deur Abraham, Isak en Jakob sou kom, glo hulle nie dat hy deur Juda sou kom nie. In plaas daarvan glo hulle dat hy ‘n afstammeling van Josef sal wees; dit is waarskynlik omdat die Samaritane vermoedelik afstammelinge van Josef se twee seuns, Efraim en Manasse, is.
  • Hulle glo dat wanneer hulle messias, wat hulle die Taheb noem, kom, hy ‘n profeet soos Moses sal wees en vir 40 jaar sal profeteer/lei; dat hy alle ware Israeliete na die Beloofde Land sal terugbring, en dan sal die opstanding plaasvind; dat hy die oorspronklike tent van samekoms sal vind wat deur Moses op die berg Gerisim gebou is en dan sal hy sterf en op daardie berg begrawe word.
  • Hulle onderhou die weeklikse Sabbat vanaf Vrydag sonsondergang tot Saterdag sonsondergang en onderhou al die feesdae wat in Levitikus beskryf word.
  • Hulle het hul eie hoëpriester.
  • Hulle glo dat die berg Gerizim die heiligste plek is.
  • Die belangrikste is dat hierdie groep, soos die Jode, ontken dat Jesus Christus die Messias is.

Die meeste Joodse godsdienstige leiers deur die geskiedenis, insluitend in Christus se tyd, het geglo dat die Samaritaanse godsdiens ‘n valse godsdiens was, ‘n vervalsing van wat God deur Moses en sy profete gegee het.

Hoewel ek met hierdie gevolgtrekking saamstem, is die vraag wat ek vandag wil vra: Hoe het Jesus die Samaritane behandel?

Het Jesus hulle veroordeel omdat hulle vasgevang was in ‘n stelsel van opvattings wat in baie opsigte verkeerd was? Het Jesus geweier om die waarheid aan hulle bekend te maak omdat hulle die Bybel en die instruksies daarin anders verstaan het?

Wat sê Jesus se gelykenis van die barmhartige Samaritaan vir ons oor wat Jesus oor hulle uiteenlopende leerstellings gedink het? In die verhaal was daar die beseerde persoon en die Leviet, Joodse priester en ‘n Samaritaan. Wie was Jesus van plan om voor te hou as die een wat reg was met God? Die Samaritaan – tog sou Hy ook saamgestem het dat die Samaritaan baie verkeerde leerstellige oortuigings gehad het en versuim het om die korrekte godsdienstige instruksies te doen, op die regte manier te offer, tiendes aan die regte organisasie te betaal, ens. Maar hoe kan die Samaritaan reg wees met God terwyl hy aan verkeerde leerstellige opvattings vashou en die verkeerde godsdiensbedrywighede doen?

Omgekeerd, vir die luisterende gehoor, sou die Leviet en priester albei beskou word as diegene wat die regte leerstellige oortuigings hou en betrokke is by die korrekte godsdienstige praktyke – om tiendes aan die regte organisasie te betaal, offerande op die regte plek en op die regte manier te bring, ens. Hoe kan dit wees dat hierdie manne nie reg was met God deur die regte leerstellings te glo en die regte gedrag te doen nie?

Om regverdig te wees

Wel, wat maak ‘n mens reg met God? Die Bybel is duidelik – dit is om wedergebore te word waar vrees en selfsug vervang word met God se wet van liefde, om God lief te hê met jou hele wese en ander soos jouself.

Wat van vandag? Wat is die klem in jou kerkorganisasie op wat ‘n mens in ‘n regte verhouding met God plaas? Is dit om die regte leerstellings te glo; tiende aan die regte organisasie te betaal; om op die regte manier, met die regte woorde, deur die regte gemagtigde persoon gedoop te word; nagmaal op die regte manier te gebruik; op die regte dag kerk toe te gaan; ens.?

Of is die klem daarop om ‘n regte hartshouding te hê en lewens te lei wat ‘n liefde vir God, ander en die waarheid toon en dus ‘n gewilligheid het om tereggewys te word en die ontvouende waarheid te volg soos ons oneindige God van waarheid dit aan ons openbaar? Het die Samaritane nie Jesus en die waarheid wat Hy geopenbaar het, aanvaar deur Hom te vra om langer by hulle te bly nie? (Johannes 4:39-41). Hulle reaksie het getoon dat hulle harte oop was vir die waarheid en verlang het om in die waarheid vooruit te gaan.

Maar die Joodse leiers was verhard teen die waarheid omdat hulle hulle eie leerstellige oortuigings, ortodoksie en praktyke verdedig het. Die Bybel beskryf diegene wat verlore is as die wat nie die waarheid liefhet nie – hulle het hul godsdiens, leerstellings, seremonies en organisasie die meeste lief, daarom weerstaan hulle die bevordering van die waarheid wat hulle sal roep om hul leerstellings, seremonies en praktyke te verander (2 Thessalonisense 2:10).

Diegene wat aan leerstellings en seremonies vashou, verwerp dikwels waarheid wat hulle huidige oortuigings of hulle godsdiensgebruike sal verander – en eindig as vyande van God en hulle medemens onder die dekmantel van goddelikheid. Ons sien dit dwarsdeur die Hervorming toe die “ortodoksie polisie” diegene vervolg het wat Bybelse waarheid bevorder het.

Wat sê Jesus se gesindheid teenoor die Samaritane vir ons oor die dinge waaroor hulle en die Jode baklei het? Toe die Samaritaanse vrou by die put sulke godsdienstige geskille probeer opper het, het Jesus gesê:

Glo my, liewe vrou, die plek waar ‘n mens God aanbid is nie belangrik nie; dit is die toestand van die hart van die aanbidder wat saak maak. Binnekort sal julle die Vader nie op hierdie berg of in Jerusalem aanbid nie. Julle Samaritane aanbid ‘n verwarrende tradisie van rituele wat nie die verstand verlig nie en geen vermoë het om die aanbidder te genees nie; ons aanbid die Skepper God, en ons gedagtes word verlig en genees deur Hom omdat alles wat Hy van ons vra sinvol en redelik is. Die plan om die mensdom te genees van die besmetting van selfsug en sonde word deur die Jode voorsien. Die tyd het nou aangebreek dat alle ware aanbidders die Vader sal aanbid met ‘n intelligente en redelike begrip van wie hy is, en die waarheid oor sy natuur, karakter en metodes sal respekteer, bewonder en liefhê. Hierdie begripvolle aanbidders is die soort wat die Vader soek. God is intelligent en redelik, en sy aanbidders moet Hom intelligent en redelik aanbid en die waarheid van God se metodes en beginsels hoog ag en waardeer (Johannes 4:21-24 REM).

Wat het die Samaritane nodig gehad? Was die reddingsboodskap vir die Samaritane anders as wat die Jode nodig gehad het? Wat van die res van die wêreld?

Daarom het Jesus vir sy dissipels gesê:

Maar julle sal krag ontvang wanneer die Heilige Gees oor julle kom; en julle sal my getuies wees in Jerusalem en in die hele Judea en Samaria en tot aan die eindes van die aarde (Handelinge 1:8 NIV 84).

Die ware evangelieboodskap is presies dieselfde boodskap vir elke mens, hetsy Jood of heiden, swart of wit, vry of slaaf, man of vrou, want ons ly almal aan dieselfde sondesiekte en het almal dieselfde geneesmiddel nodig – Jesus Christus!

As ‘n volgeling van Jesus Christus, kyk verby die oppervlakkige – verby ras, verby nasionale oorsprong, verby denominasie, verby ritueel en seremonie, verby geloofsbelydenis – en sien die werklikheid vir wat dit is. Elke mens wat in die wêreld gebore word, word gebore besmet met die terminale sondetoestand wat van Adam en Eva geërf is (Psalm 51:5), en elke enkele mens het dieselfde genesende Geneesmiddel van Christus nodig. Laat mense weet dat hulle geliefd, gewaardeer en gekoester word en dat daar in Jesus ware genesing vir hulle harte, gedagtes en siele is. Dit is die boodskap wat die wêreld nodig het. Dit is die waarheid wat gedagtes vrymaak. Dit is die waarheid wat harte verenig in die bande van ewige liefde.

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