وقتی دوباره در مسیح متولد شد, شما درست شده اید. کتاب مقدس می گوید, God had made Jesus, که گناهی نمی دانست, برای ما گناه باشد, که گناهی نمی دانست, so that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him (2 قرنتیان 5:20-21). شما دیگر پسر شیطان نیستید, یک گناهکار, اما شما پسر خدا شده اید, یک قدیس. You have received a new nature; God’s nature and therefore you shall no longer walk in sin and iniquity, because the righteous walks in righteousness. What does it mean to walk in righteousness?
عادل در عدالت راه می رود
و حالا, بچه های کوچک, abide in Him; این که, زمانی که او ظاهر شود, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. اگر بدانید که او عادل است, you know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of Him (1 John 2:28-29)
الف مسیحی دوباره متولد شده is born of God and has become a son of God (این هم برای مرد و هم برای زن صدق می کند).
وقتی دوباره متولد شد, you are no longer a slave of the devil and a slave of unrighteousness, but you have become a slave of Jesus Christ and shall walk in righteousness and abstain from sin and iniquity.
(لطفا توجه داشته باشید: you have not been made righteous by your works, but by Jesus Christ, by His work; فداکاری و خون او. But when you become born again in the spirit, you should be doing the works of righteousness).
If you are made righteous, you shall walk after the Spirit and not after the flesh. وقتی بعد از روح قدم می زنید, you walk in the law of the Spirit.
The righteous people have only one mission and that is to please Jesus Christ, and to please God the Father, and abstain from everything that is evil and displeases Him.
اگر مرا دوست داری, احکام من را حفظ کنید
عیسی گفت: "اگر مرا دوست داری, احکام من را حفظ کنید" (John 14:15). When you obey Jesus and walk in His commandments, you show Jesus that you love Him. You will listen to Jesus and obey Him and walk in His Word (His commandments and will). When you walk in His Word, you shall abide in Him continuously. Not just for 2 یا 3 hours a week, اما 24 ساعت در روز, 7 days a week.
You shall stay on His path (راه او) and stay obedient to Him.
You shall not turn aside to the left or to the right Even if you are accused or persecuted, or rejected, or things don’t go the way as expected or planned. No matter what, تو در او خواهی ماند, و احکام او را حفظ کنید, if you really love Jesus.
Only when you stay in Him, you shall walk in His ways and please Him.
By keeping His commandments (کلام خدا), you show Jesus, that you really love Him.
وقتی تو, as the righteous walk in righteousness, which means that you walk according to what the Word says and live after the will of God, you not only show Him that you love Him, but you also show everyone else, that you are born of God and that you are His son and that you love God above all.
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