DARKNESS OF A CITY?

As examples of the darkness in a city are violence, drug dealing, witchcraft, drunkenness, incest, prostitution, and evil in general. So how does the Lord feel about all this? I have an eighty-five year old widow friend, who is always crying and lamenting at the way she is at the present and how she used to be in the past. She says she feels like a slave now!

The Word says this is how a city that has gone under captivity feels, a city that has sinned and is now lamenting. This widow is feeling the pain of such a city: “How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow is she, who was great among the nations! The princess among the provinces has become a slave! She weep bitterly in the night…”(Lamentations 1: 1-2). It goes on to say that because of the city’s sins, her enemies have become the master and her enemies prosper: we see our cities full of perversion and degradation and we see the wicked controlling and prospering!

It says that the sorrow that is felt, the Lord has inflicted( Lamentation 1: 12 ), because the Lord is righteous. The Lord wails and weeps at all He sees: “ Therefore I will wail for Moab, and I will cry for all Moab; I will mourn for the men of Kir Heres, O vine of Sibmanh! I will weep for you with the weeping of Jazer.” (Jeremiah 48:31-32.

I believe that if we repent from the heart, and we weep and wail along with the Lord, feeling the sorrow of the Lord at the lack of righteousness in our cities, and ask for forgiveness, He will heal our cities. “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14.

God also does say that He puts servants in authority to put evil to flight, after His people pray from a sincere heart! “For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad…for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain.” Romans 13:3. And God still is love for He doesn’t want His people to be in bondage because of evil or wrongdoing!

“I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.” Psalm 146:2.

SILVIDAD DRE JEZUZ-KRIST!

E-keit ma oa an istor kristen o tiorren e oa anavezet an anv ‘Jezuz’ evel ‘Yahweh eo ar silvidigezh’. Diwar mennozhioù an Testamant Kozh eus an Aotrou, an dasprener, an dieuber, an Doue, e voe treuzkaset ar sterioù-se da Jezuz ha penaos e krede ar gristenien ennañ. 1 Evel-just, diwezhatoc’h, e weler bremañ Jezuz evel Dieubler ha dasprener diouzh ar pec’hed hag an deñvalijenn speredel, a skuilhas gwad war ar groaz evit paeañ hor pec’hedoù, ma kredomp ! Hag eñ eo an hent nemetañ da Zoue ! Neuze eo hor Salver !

Ret eo deomp bremañ kaout un darvoud ganet a-nevez evit kaout un darempred gantañ ! E Yann 3:3,16 e lavarer : « ‘Jezuz a respontas dezhañ : « E gwirionez, me a lavar dit, ma ne vez ket ganet unan bennak a-nevez, ne c’hell ket gwelet rouantelezh Doue »… Rak Doue en deus karet kement ar ar bed en deus roet e Vab nemetañ, evit ma ne vo ket kollet an hini a gred ennañ met ma vo ar vuhez peurbadus gantañ.’ a lavar : « Jezuz a lavaras dezhi : « ME eo an adsavidigezh hag ar vuhez. An hini a gred ennon, daoust ma varvo, a vevo. Ha piv bennak a vev hag a gred ennon ne varvo biken. Ha krediñ a rit kement-mañ ?’ “

Setu ezhomm hon eus da grediñ ha da zistreiñ eus hor pec’hedoù evit kaout bremañ un darempred gant Doue na zeu nemet dre un darvoud ganet a-nevez gant Jezuz hon Salver hag hon Aotrou ! “E penn-kentañ ar vuhez kristen e ranker anavezout e bec’hed e-unan ha bezañ mennet da zilezel an doare bevañ a-bouez e-unan.”2

NOTENNOU

1Sinclair B. Ferguson, David F. Wright ha J.I. Packer, embannerien, New Dictionary of Theology, (Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity Press, 1988), 610.
2Millard J. Erickson, Doueoniezh kristen, (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006),959.

LAVARIT AR PEDENN-MAÑ EVIT BEZAÑ GANET A-NEVEZ :
“Jezuz, me a gred ez out marvet war ar groaz,
o skuilla Ho koad evit pardon va fec’hejou ;
Ha dasorc’het d’an trede deiz !
Gouzout a ran ez on ur pec’her. Plijet ganeoc’h pardonit d’in va fec’hejou ;
Deuit em c’halon mar plij !
Deuit da vezañ va Salver hag Aotrou va buhez !
Trugarez dit Jezuz”