Ua riro te tia-faahou-raa o Iesu mai te pohe mai ei haapapuraa e ua farii te Atua i te tusia a Iesu Mesia e To ’na toto tao‘a rahi e ua hope te ohipa faaoraraa no te huitaata hi‘a i nia i te fenua nei.. But what does the resurrection of Jesus mean for humanity? What does it mean to be baptized in His death and His resurrection? He aha te tikanga o te aranga o te Karaiti?
Jesus was the Firstborn of the new creation and the Firstborn from the dead
A i taku kitenga i a ia, I fell at His feet as dead. And He laid His right hand upon me, ka mea mai ki ahau, Kaua e wehi; Ko ahau te tuatahi me te whakamutunga: Ko ahau ia e ora nei, a kua mate; a, nana, e ora ana ahau ake ake, Amine; kei a ratou nga ki o te reinga me te mate (Whakakitenga 1:17-18)
Ko Ihu te matamua o te orokohanga hou, Who walked after the Spirit in obedience to the Father and preached and established His Kingdom on earth.
When His time arrived, Jesus gave His life for fallen humanity, te hunga hara).
Because of the disobedience, offenses, and iniquities of fallen man, Jesus was scourged and crucified and carried the sins of the world, ta te Matua i whakatakoto ki runga ki a ia, whereby Jesus entered hades legally (Panuitia hoki: He aha te tikanga o te ripeka? (Aue. Ihaia 53, Matiu 27, Mark 15, Ruka 23, Hone 19).
Heoi ano, death was not strong enough to keep Jesus in his kingdom (Te rangatiratanga o te mate).
Jesus conquered death and after three days Jesus rose as Victor and Firstborn from the dead with the keys of hell and death (Aue. Nga Mahi 3:15; 13:28-31; 26:23, Roma 1:1-4, 6:9; 8:29, Epeha 1:20, Kolosa 1:12-18, 2 Timoti 2:8, Hiperu 11:19; 12:22-24; 13:20, 1 Pita 1:21 (Panuitia hoki: He aha te mahi a Ihu i roto i te reinga?))
Jesus had become the Substitute for fallen man, so that in Him the new creation could be created.
The precious blood of Jesus, which was shed on the whipping post and the cross, made atonement for the sins of humanity and restored the (tōmāngere) state and the (tōmāngere) position of humanity and reconciled man back to God, so that man could have a relationship with God and live as sons of God (e pa ana tenei ki nga tane me nga wahine) I te whenua.
I te iriiringa, the old man dies in Christ and the new man is raised in Christ from the dead
Kotahi hoki mamaetanga o te Karaiti mo nga hara, te Tika mo te hunga he, kia kawea ai tatou e ia ki te Atua, he mea whakamate ano hoki no te kikokiko, engari i tere (hanga ora) Na te Wairua: I haere hoki ia ki reira ki te kauwhau ki nga wairua i te whare herehere; he hunga tutu i etahi wa, i te wa i tatari ai te manawanui o te Atua i nga ra o Noa, i te wa e mahi ana te aaka, he iti nei, e waru nga wairua i ora i te wai. Ko te ahua o te iriiringa e whakaora nei ia tatou inaianei (ehara i te whakakore atu i te poke o te kikokiko, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) ma te aranga mai o Ihu Karaiti: Who is gone into heaven and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto Him (1 Pita 3:18-22)
Katoa, who hears the gospel of Jesus Christ and believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and has come in the flesh and believes in His redemptive work; His death on the cross (for our sins) me tona aranga mai i te hunga mate (for our justification), and repent and be baptized, whereby the person identifies himself with the death and resurrection of Christ, and be filled with the Holy Spirit, ka ora.
The baptism is the grave for the old man and means death to the flesh. The old man dies in Christ and the new man is raised in Christ from the dead (Panuitia hoki: What is the true meaning of baptism?).
But it doesn’t stop there. This is only the beginning of your new life and the race of faith that contains many hardships, nga whakamatautauranga, tribulations, resistance of people, hindrances, me nga arai, and your faith, aroha, manawanui, and longsuffering will be tested.
The new man is quickened by the Spirit and walks in newness of life in the resurrection life
No reira kua tanumia tatou ki a ia e te iriiringa ki te mate: kia rite ki te Karaiti i whakaarahia ake i te tupapaku na te kororia o te Matua, Ahakoa ka haere ano hoki tatou i roto i te ao hou o te koiora (Roma 6:4)
Tena ko te Atua, Ko wai e whai taonga ana, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Ahakoa kua mate tatou i roto i nga hara, Kua oti ia matou te whakaora me te Karaiti, (Na te aroha noa ka ora koutou;) Kua whakaarahia ake matou e tatou, A whakanohoia ana matou ki nga wahi o te rangi i roto ia Karaiti Ihu (Epeha 2:46)
If you believe and are baptized in water and receive the Holy Spirit, Kua riro koe hei hanga hou; He Tama a te Atua (e pa ana tenei ki nga tane me nga wahine) and you shall walk in newness in life in the resurrection life.
Every son of God is baptized in Christ and justified in Christ and clothed with Christ, whereby there is neither Jew nor Greek, te kotinga me te kotingakore, Barbarian, Hitihia, here kore utu ranei, tane, wahine ranei, engari ko te Karaiti te katoa, i roto i te katoa (Aue. Roma 4:25-25, Karatia 3:25-28, Kolosa 3:11)
Your spirit was under the dominion of death, but now has been quickened by the power of the Holy Spirit.
The devil and death no longer have dominion over you, because your flesh, Ko te hara ka kingi te mate me te mate, kua mate i roto i a te Karaiti.
Kua kore koe e hara, He tama na te rewera. You are no longer a slave of sin and death and therefore you shall no longer serve sin and live under condemnation, since your flesh has been buried in Christ in baptism.
Because your flesh has died in Christ and no longer lives, the law of sin and death no longer has dominion over you and you shall no longer walk after the flesh in sin.
Ko te ture o te Wairua o te ora te kingi i roto i te tangata hou
Na te aranga o tou wairua i te hunga mate, ko te ture a te Wairua o te ora te kingi i roto i a koutou, a na tera, you shall walk after the Spirit in righteousness (Aue. Roma 8:1-4).
You are justified and have become a saint in Christ. Therefore you shall no longer live as a sinner, as a slave of sin and a victim of the devil and death.
Your nature has changed. You have become a partaker of the Divine nature, whereby you shall no longer be controlled by the will, hiahia, and desires of the (hara) flesh and do the works of the (hara) kikokiko, but you shall be controlled by the will of the Holy Spirit, which is the will of Jesus Christ, which is the will of the Father.
It’s no longer you that lives, engari e ora ana a te Karaiti i roto ia koutou, whereby you shall no longer seek yourself and do your own will and serve the Lord for selfish reasons and your gain, but you shall seek the will of God, which is revealed by the Word and the Holy Spirit and preach and establish His Kingdom on earth.
If you walk in the resurrection life in Christ, you shall walk with God and do what the Word says and you shall keep the commandments of Jesus and walk in righteousness in the will of God.
I roto i te kaha o te Wairua Tapu, you shall put off the old man and put on the new man and resist sin and have dominion over sin instead of sin having dominion over you.
But as long as you go your own way and keep doing the works of the flesh and refuse to submit to God and obey the Word, you are not born again in Christ and have not become the new creation, who walks in the resurrection life in Christ, but you are still the old man, with its sinful nature, who his prideful and rebellious against God and goes his own way and makes his own rules and exalts himself above God and His Word.
The devil comes as an angel of light with his pious lies that always contradict the Word and eventually lead to death. Many Christians still believe his lies above the truth of God.
Despite the revelations and warnings of God, people still believe the words of the devil
Despite the revelations and warnings of God in His Word, people still believe the devil above God. Kaore he mea nui, how many times the Word warns people and reveals the true nature and works of the devil and his sons, people won’t listen to the truth of God but rather listen to the words of the devil and believe his lies. He aha? Because they still belong to the devil and the world and love the (mahi o) darkness above the (mahi o) Maama.
E mohio ana ahau he whanau koutou na Aperahama; engari e whai ana koutou kia whakamatea ahau, because My word hath no place in you.I speak that which I have seen with My Father: e mahia ana e koutou ta koutou i kite ai ki to koutou papa (Hone 8:37-38)
Ka mea a Ihu ki a ratou, If God were your Father, ye would love Me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of Myself, but He sent Me. he aha koutou te matau ai ki taku korero?? no te mea e kore koutou e rongo ki taku kupu. Na to koutou matua koutou, na te rewera, a ka mea koutou i ta to koutou matua i hiahia ai. He tangata kohuru ia no te timatanga, a kahore i noho ki te pono, no te mea kahore he pono i roto ia ia. Ina korero teka ia, he korero nana ake: he tangata teka hoki ia, me te matua o taua mea.
Na mo taku korero i te pono ki a koutou, kahore koutou e whakapono ki ahau. Ko wai o koutou hei whakaatu he hara ahau?? A ki te korero pono ahau, he aha koutou te whakapono ai ki ahau?? Ko te Atua tenei e rongo ana i nga kupu a te Atua: Na reira kahore koutou e whakarongo ki ta ratou, no te mea ehara koutou i te Atua (Hone 8:42-27).
Jesus said to the Jews, that they didn’t love Jesus because God wasn’t their Father. They didn’t understand His speech, because they couldn’t hear His words, i puta mai i te Matua, Na wai ia i tono mai.
They were not of God and God wasn’t their Father, but they were of the devil and had the devil as their father and therefore they listened, i whakapono, and obeyed his words (his lies) and wanted to do the lusts of their father. And this truth still applies today.
He tokomaha nga tāngata, e kii ana he Karaitiana ratou, don’t believe the Word of God. They don’t listen and obey the words of God, but they listen, whakapono, and obey the words of the devil that contradict the words of God.
According to the words of Jesus, this proves that they are still the old creation, who have the devil as father and belong to him and have his nature and therefore they believe and obey his words and do his works and serve him (Panuitia hoki: Ko nga mahi a nga rewera kei te patu i te Hahi).
What does the Bible say about someone, who doesn’t walk after the will of the Spirit in righteousness, but walks after the will of the flesh in sin?
They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? Ka whakahoki a Ihu ki a ratou, He pono, pono, Ko taku kupu ki a koe, Ko te tangata e mahi ana i te hara, he pononga na te hara. E kore te pononga e noho tonu i te whare: ko te Tama ia e noho tonu ana. Na i te mea ka whakarangatiratia koutou e te Tama, ka tino rangatira koutou (Hone 8:33-36)
No reira, teina, he kaituku matou, Ehara i te kikokiko, kia ora i muri i te kikokiko. Ki te mea hoki e noho ana koutou i muri i te kikokiko, ka mate koutou: Tena ki te mea na te Wairua koe e whiriwhiri i nga mahi o te tinana, Ka ora koutou. Ko te hunga katoa e arahina ana e te Wairua o te Atua, He tama ratou na te Atua (Roma 8:12-14)
What does the Bible say about someone, who doesn’t walk after the will of the Spirit and in righteousness, but walks after the will of the flesh in sin? Do the person’s works testify that the person belongs to God or the person belongs to the devil?
E kī ana a Ihu, ko nga tangata katoa, who commits sin is a servant of sin and is not made free from sin. Because if the Son shall make someone free, that person shall be free indeed and shall no longer be bound through the flesh to sin and death.
Katoa, e hara tonu ana, walks after the flesh and is still a slave of sin.
A person can say whatever he or she wants and come up with all kinds of excuses for his or her sinful behavior and use Bible verses for their flesh, to approve their sins, but their sinful works and behavior prove, that the person is not born again and has not laid down his life in Christ, but the person is still the old man aka the old creation, who walks after the will and the lusts and desires of the sinful flesh.
Ko era, who are raised in Christ and have walked in the resurrection life, shall inherit eternal life
Ma te whakawhetai ki te Matua, Na wai i tutaki ki a tatou kia uru ki te kainga tupu o te hunga tapu: Nana nei tatou i whakaora mai i te kaha o te pouri, a kua whakamaoritia tatou ki te rangatiratanga o tana Tama aroha: Kei roto nei ia ia te whakaoranga i roto i ona toto, Ahakoa te murunga o nga hara: Ko wai te ahua o te Atua kore e kitea, te matamua o nga mea hanga katoa (Kolosa 1:12-15)
Otiia kahore koutou i te kikokiko, engari ma te Wairua, ki te mea e noho ana te Wairua o te Atua i roto i a koutou. Na, ki te kahore te Wairua o te Karaiti i tetahi, he is none of his. A ki te mea kei roto a te Karaiti i a koutou, kua mate te tinana i te hara; he ora ia te Wairua i te tika. Tena ki te mea e noho ana i roto i a koutou te Wairua o te kaiwhakaara o Ihu i te hunga mate, Ko te kaiwhakaara i a te Karaiti i te hunga mate, mana ano e whakaora o koutou tinana mate ki tona Wairua e noho na i roto i a koutou (Roma 8:9-11)
Ko tenei kua ara a te Karaiti i te hunga mate, ka waiho hei matamua mo te hunga kua moe. Na te tangata nei hoki te mate, na te tangata ano te aranga o te hunga mate. No te mea ka mate katoa a Adamu, Waihoki ko te Karaiti ka ora katoa (1 Koriniti 15:20-22)
Ko era, who believe and have freely laid down their life on earth and have died in Christ and are risen in Christ have passed from death to life.
Na roto i te whanautanga i roto i a te Karaiti, they have been delivered from the power of darkness; the power of the devil and death, and have been justified and reconciled with God. They have become alive to God and don’t belong to the death anymore but to the Life.
They have become sons of God in whom the Holy Spirit dwells and they shall walk after the will of the Spirit in obedience to God and His Word.
Ko ahau te aranga, me te ora: he that believeth in Me, ahakoa kua mate, otiia ka ora ia: And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die (Hone 11:25-26)
And if they stay faithful to Jesus and keep His commandments and walk as sons of God in the resurrection life and finish the race and keep the faith, and fall asleep in Christ, they shall be raised in Christ.
And because they are written in the Lamb’s Book of life, they shall inherit eternal life and enter in through the gates of the new holy city Jerusalem on the new earth (Aue. Mattheuw 24:13, Hone 14:19-24, Whakakitenga 21).
He rereke ki era, who have remained the old creation and have believed the words of the devil above the words of God and walked after the flesh in his will, doing the will, hiahia, and desires of the (hara) kikokiko, and have borne the fruit of death, ko te hara (Panuitia hoki: What is the will of God and what is the will of the devil?).
When they die and are raised from the dead, they shall go to the same destination as their father, to whom they listened to their whole lives and whom they have believed and whose desires they have done and because they are not written in the Book of life, they shall be cast into the lake of fire and enter the second death.
'Kia tote mo te whenua’
