Nama utai reti sumbong dalam Roh tu?

Nyadi tu di ambi aku ari siti forum discussion aku enggau bala menyadi dalam Kristus, saritu aku deka bekunsi ka ajar pasal penyumbong dalam Roh kitai ti bekereja ka pengawa Kristus.

Terdahulu Menjadi Terakhir??

Dan sesungguhnya ada orang yang terakhir yang akan menjadi orang yang terdahulu dan ada orang yang terdahulu yang akan menjadi orang yang terakhir." Matius 13:30



Bagaimana pikiran anda pertama kali membaca ayat tersebut? Takut? Atau anda akan berpikir untuk nanti-nanti saja bertobatnya, menjadi yang terakhir saja agar menjadi yang terdahulu? Kita akan belajar sama-sama mengapa hal yang mengerikan ini dapat terjadi kepada siapa saja yang merasa sudah mengenal-Nya.

1. Kesombongan Rohani

Matius 19 menceritakan kisah anak muda yang kaya raya yang tidak dapat meninggalkan hartanya karena Yesus, diapun menjadi sedih dan meninggalkan Yesus. Kekayaannya adalah berhalanya. Inilah yang mendasari Petrus menanyakan sesuatu kepada Yesus 
” Kami ini telah meninggalkan segala sesuatu dan mengikut Engkau; jadi apakah yang akan kami peroleh?". Bolehkah mendapatkan keuntungan dalam Kristus? Bukankah kita telah diajarkan untuk mengasihi Dia tanpa syarat? Ya benar, tetapi saya percaya Yesus menjanjikan begitu banyak keuntungan buat kita secara rohani maupun jasmani. Tetapi ini menjadi masalah jika sikap hati kita merasa bahwa seolah kitalah yang sudah berkorban paling banyak, melakukan semuanya, dan kita berpikir kita akan tetap menjadi yang terdahulu..hati-hati dengan kesombongan rohani! Matius 19:30 Tetapi banyak orang yang terdahulu akan menjadi yang terakhir, dan yang terakhir akan menjadi yang terdahulu."

Apa Kesombongan Rohani itu?

Siapa saja bisa jatuh dalam kesombongan rohani, yaitu sikap yang suka menghakimi, merasa diri paling benar dan rohani. Petrus adalah orang yang meledak-ledak dan penuh dengan keakuan/kesombongan. Saat Yesus berjalan diatas air, dia orang pertama yang ingin juga berjalan diatas air bersama Yesus, saat Yesus mengatakan tentang kematiannya, dia paling bersikeras membela Yesus, saat Yesus memberitahu bahwa iman mereka akan goncang, dia yang paling yakin bahwa dia tidak akan goncang, luar biasa bukan? Ya, memang dia memiliki kesombongan, tetapi lihat apakah Petrus suka membantah saat Tuhan menegurnya bahkan dengan sangat keras? Dia tidak protes dan tidak membantah, inilah hati yang dapat dipertahankan Bapa untuk dipakai. Mungkin sifatnya penuh dengan kesombongan tetapi Petrus mau diubah dan dibentuk sehingga dalam suratnya di 1 Pet 5:6 dia mengajarkan bahwa ” rendahkanlah dirimu di bawah tangan Tuhan yang kuat....”


Kesombongan rohani dialami oleh :

a.    Pemula Kekristenan

Bagi pemula, kehidupan Kekristenan tampak begitu membahagiakan dan penuh dengan semangat. Tiap waktu ke gereja, aktif komsel, doa dan membaca firman. Saat melihat temannya yang tidak melakukannya atau pemimpin yang sedang dibentuk Bapa dan mengalami kesedihan, dia menjadi marah dan merasa dirinya yang paling benar dan rohani, lalu mulai menghakimi orang lain.


b.    Profesional-Profesional kerohanian

Berhati-hatilah saat anda merasa sudah profesional dalam pelayanan, anda akan terjebak dalam kesombongan rohani. Merasa hebat dan berpengalaman di bidang misi, musik, menyanyi, tarian, dan Firman Tuhan, lalu anda merasa orang lain akan lebih buruk dari anda. 

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Permalink Reply by Alex † on December 14, 2010 at 3:02pm

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nya alai Tuhan Jesus enda ngasoh kitai kelalu alim...iya mina ngasoh kitai talok ka jako iya tauka pesan iya...ehe...

Contoh A enggau B nya tadi cuma mandang ka siti sifat ti tau di buai kitai ti udah ngaku diri anak Tuhan..iya nya sombong..ahahaha...tusah ka muai sumbong tu...pia mega bisi gak genteran jako dalam bup kudus madah kati deka mengatasi iya... laban sumbong tu begulai enggau 7 bengkah dosa pemati mega...iya nya 'the sin of pride'

Tu di ambi aku ari sermon note aku, aku minta ampun enda sempat nukar jako Iban...Semina kena reference aja.

7/11/10

The Sin of Pride

(The Parable of The Pharisee & The Tax Collector)

L u k e 1 8 : 9 - 1 4

Don’t we need to be constantly reminded that we have “feet of clay”!

In the Jewish world when Jesus lived on this earth over 2,000 years ago, a devout or religious person would pray three times a day: at 9:00am, at 12:00 noon, and at 3:00pm. And prayer was regarded as particularly spiritual if it was offered in the Temple. And so at these set hours many would go up to the Temple courts to pray.

In this parable, Jesus tells us of two men who went up to pray in the Temple courts. The first of these men was a PHARISEE. Let’s look again at his prayer - (verses 11 & 12) - 11 The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers,

evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'

Tell me, what do you think of this prayer?

Perhaps the saddest thing is that he wasn’t actually praying to God. In fact, he did not really even go to the Temple, the building reserved for spiritual worship, to pray to God. The awful truth is that he was praying with himself. And he was praying to make an impression. It was the shallowest and most meaningless of all prayers.

True prayer is always offered to God, and to God alone.

Once, in Malaysia, someone cynically described a preacher’s prayer as “the most eloquent prayer ever offered to a Bruneian audience”.

...a prayer offered to an audience, and not to God.

Now, in these days when Christ lived, the Jewish law commanded that you only fast on the “Day of Atonement”. But those who wished to gain special merit fasted also every Monday and Thursday. It so happened that these particular days were “farmer’s market” day when the city of Jerusalem was full of people from the country and farming areas. Those who fasted, whitened their faces, put on clothes that were creased and dirty, and they would “show off” there so called spiritual commitment to the biggest possible audience.

They were religious show-offs.

And so, this pharisee was showing off - something which made his prayers meaningless.

But more than this, it was a fact that the Levites, or priests of the day, were to receive a tithe of all men’s produce. This particular pharisee tithed everything, even the things with which even before God there was no obligation to tithe. And he boasted about it, supposedly to God, but he was really praying to himself.

In verse 12 we read his words -

12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'

No, this pharisee did not really go to Church to pray. He went to inform God how good he was.

And then there was the TAX COLLECTOR. Many of you are aware just how despised the tax collectors were, the equivalent then of the 'Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri' (LHDN), and how crooked they were in Jesus’ day.

Here we see this tax collector standing far off in the distance, so guilt-ridden that he would not even lift his eyes to God. Let’s read verse 13 again:

13"But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'

Can you see the difference in these two prayers?

This prayer of the tax collector is the prayer God accepted.

The prayer of a person who was heartbroken, and who despised himself... for his own sin.

There are three things this parable unmistakably tells us about prayer:

I. No man or woman who is PROUD can pray.

Someone once said that the gate of heaven is so low that no one can enter it except on their knees. All that a person can say to Jesus is:

No other Lamb, no other name,

No other hope in heaven or earth or sea,

No other hiding-place from guilt or shame,

No other beside Thee.

It’s the cry of one who recognizes that Jesus is their only hope.

Here’s the thing friend - to really come to the Lord, to God, you must come in brokeness.

A proud manner will bounce off the ceiling.

II. No man or woman who despises his fellow man or woman can pray.

In true prayer, we will never lift ourselves above anyone around us.

You and I must never forget that we are, each of us, just one of a great army of sinning, suffering, sorrowing humanity, all kneeling before the throne of God’s mercy.

III. True prayer comes from aligning our lives beside the life of God.

Let me explain this.

There is no doubt that all that Pharisee said was true. He did fast; he did meticulously give his tithe; he was not as other men are; still less was he like that tax collector.

But the question is not, “Am I as good as my fellow men?” - The question is, “Am I as good as God?”.

Have you ever been on a journey and noticed in the distance a home standing on its own with walls that seem extra white in the strong sunlight, only to find on the return journey after a heavy fall of fresh white, white snow that the walls of the same house that the previous day that had looked so white now seem drab and soiled and almost gray in comparison to the virgin whiteness of the driven snow?

And so it is with you and me.

It all depends what you compare yourself with.

When you and I align ourselves beside Jesus,

and beside the brilliant holiness of God,

then all there is left to say is,

“God have mercy on me, a sinner”