Ka whanau ano koe i a te Karaiti, which means that you are baptized in Christ into His death and resurrection and you have received the Holy Spirit, you have been reconciled with God and have become a son of God (Nga tane me nga wahine). You have become a new creation and as the new creation, who is created in Christ, you have to put on Jesus Christ; Whakanohia te tangata hou. I roto i a te Karaiti. We are all the same in Christ. There is no difference anymore between cultures, between males and females, we are all one in Him. We are sons of God and heirs according to the promise of God and received the promise of the Holy Spirit. And as Jesus Christ, te Tama a te Atua, walked by faith and spoke the words of God, you will also walk by faith and speak the words of God and call those things which are not as though they were (Roma 4:17). As the world says, ‘cogito, ergo sum’ (whakaaro ahau, koia ahau), we say, ‘loquor, ergo filius Dei sum’ (Ka korero ahau, no reira he tama ahau na te Atua).
As long as you don’t speak, nothing will happen
For ye are all the children (Greek translation: anauys) of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Ko te hunga katoa hoki o koutou kua iriiria ki roto ki a te Karaiti, kua kakahuria e koutou a te Karaiti. Kahore he Hurai, kahore he Kariki, kahore he here, he kore utu, kahore he tane, he wahine ranei: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, na he uri koutou na Aperahama, me te hunga mo ratou i runga i te kupu whakaari (Karatia 3:26-29)
Inaianei ka kii ahau, Ko te kainga tupu, i te mea he tamariki tonu ia, differed nothing from a servant, ahakoa ko ia te rangatira o nga mea katoa; Engari e meatia ana e nga kaiwhakaako, e nga kawana, kia taea ra ano te wa i whakaritea e te papa. Ahakoa ko tatou, i a matou e tamariki ana, i roto i te pononga i raro i nga mea timatanga o te ao: But when the fullness of the time was come, Ua tono mai te Atua i ta ’na Tamaiti, hanga he wahine, i mahia i raro i te ture, Hei whakahoki i te hunga i raro i te ture, kia whiwhi ai tatou ki te whakatamarikitanga. A he tama koutou, Kua tonoa e te Atua te wairua o tana tama ki o koutou ngakau, karanga, Pera, Matua. Na reira ano koe kahore he pononga, engari he tama; a ki te tama, Hei reira te rangatira o te Atua na te Karaiti (Karatia 4:1-7)
Ei tamaiti na te Atua, you have become an heir. But as long as you don’t realize, who you have become in Christ and what your new position in Christ is and what you have inherited in Him, and as long as you don’t speak, nothing will happen.
I Karatia 4:1 kua oti te tuhituhi, that as long as you stay a child; if you live like a child and act like a child, then you are no different than a servant (slave).
When we look at the word child (nêpios) and the translation from Greek, te auraa, not speaking, figuratively a simple-minded person, an immature Christian: babe, child/childish.
A babe in Christ
If you do not spiritually mature, then you will stay an immature Christian. You will stay a babe, he tamaiti, who doesn’t speak. If you don’t speak, the Bible says you differ not from a servant; a slave, who lives in bondage to the elements of the world; worldly spirits.
As long as you don’t grow up in the Word of God and as long as you don’t take Gods Word as it is and don’t speak and don’t apply in your life, you shall live in bondage. You shall be subjected to the elements of this world and live in sin.
Ka korero ahau, no reira he tama ahau na te Atua
When you only read the Bible, nothing will happen. But when you start walking with God, being obedient to His Word, and speak His words and walk in your inheritance and bring into existence, what you have inherited through Jesus Christ, then you will live and walk as a mature son of God, who speaks instead of a child, who doesn’t speak.
He rite tonu te wairua o te whakapono, kia rite ki te tuhituhi, I whakapono ahau, na reira kua korerotia e ahau; we also believe and therefore speak (2 Koriniti 4:13)
You will no longer be a slave to the elements of the world and you will no longer be a slave to sin. But you shall believe and speak and rule over the elements of the world and rule over sin and death.
You will become a slave of Jesus Christ and a servant to the people; by speaking His words, preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and manifesting the Kingdom of God and setting the people free from the lies and bondage of the kingdom of darkness.
God has sent the Spirit of His Son into your heart. No reira te Atuako your Father, and you may call Him Abba Father.
You are not a servant anymore, but you are a son. Because you have become a son, you have become an heir of God through Jesus Christ. The inheritance is yours. No reira, take your inheritance in Christ and begin to speak andwalk like a son.
“Hei tote mo te whenua”
