Maalmihii lasoo dhaafay, Waxaan xasuusanay xanuunkii Ciise Masiix iyo dhimashadiisii iskutallaabta dusheeda iyo sarakicistiisii kuwii dhintay. Ciise Masiix, wiilka ilaahay, who took the place of fallen man on the cross, was sacrificed as an innocent and spotless Lamb and bore the sins and iniquities of fallen man upon Himself and brought reconciliation with His precious blood and entered death and rose from the dead as Victor, si qof walba, who would believe in Jesus Christ and through identification with Him through regeneration, wouldn’t see death, but through the resurrection of the spirit from the dead, would enter eternal life. Jesus did this all out of love; out of love for His Father and out of love for humanity, but what do you do out of love for Jesus? People always want to receive and are focused upon (dunida) blessings and what God can do for them, but what do people do for God? What do you do to show your love for Jesus? How can you show your love for Jesus according to the Bible?
The love of Jesus for His Father
Jesus came in the flesh on earth and was the reflection of God the Father. Ciise wuxuu ahaa Si buuxda u aadanaha and had the ability to sin, but because of His fear and love for His Father, Ciise ma dembaabin, but Jesus stayed faithful and obedient to the Father.
Jesus spent much time with His Father in prayer, not because Jesus had to, but because Jesus wanted to. He loved His Father and therefore He wanted to spend time with His Father.
The love, which Jesus showed to His Father was not related to emotions, dareen, or carnal expressions, but His obedience.
Jesus stayed fully obedient to the Father and showed His obedience to the will of His Father by His words and deeds.
Ciise ayaa u jawaabay, Daboollnimo, daboollnimo, Waxaan kugu leeyahay, Ku alla kii dembi galay waa addoonka dembiga. Oo addoonkiina gurigiisii kuma sii jiro: laakiin wiilku weligiis wuu sii yaraanayaa. Haddii wiilka sidaas kuu xoreeyo, Dhab ahaantii waad ahaan doontaan. I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill Me, because My word hath no place in you. Waxaan ku hadlayaa wixii aan ku arkay aabbahay: Oo idinku waxaad yeeshaan wixii aad aabbahaa kula aragteen (John 8:34-38)
Jesus obeyed the words of the Father and spoke the words of His Father. Jesus spoke and did what He had seen His Father do and commanded to do, and because of His obedience to the Father, Jesus was persecuted and eventually put to death, just like the prophets (Sidoo kale akhri: ‘Obedience to God’ iyo 'Rumaysad ku leh Ilaah’)
Jesus walked in obedience to the Father
Wiilkeyga, xaji erayadayda, Oo amarradaydana meel dhig. Amarradayda xaji, oo noolow; and My law as the apple of Thine eye (Maahmaahyo 7:1-2)
And Samuel said, Rabbigu aad buu ugu farxaa qurbaanno la gubo iyo allabaryoba, sidii codka Rabbiga loo addeeci lahaa? Bal eeg, In la addeeco ayaa ka roon allabari, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, Madax adayggu waa sida xumaanta iyo sanam caabudidda. Maxaa yeelay, Eraygii Rabbiga waad diidday, Oo weliba wuu ku diiday inaad boqor sii ahaatid (1 Samuel 15:22-23).
Jesus listened to the voice of His Father and was faithful to His Father and walked in obedience to the commandments of the Father and did what was good. However the world didn’t consider, Wixii Ciise sameeyey, as good but as evil, because Jesus testified that her works were evil and therefore Jesus was a threat to the ruler of the world, shaydaanka, Iyo kuwaas, who belonged to the devil and the world.
And that is still the case for those, who by faith and regeneration in Christ have become a new creation.
As Jesus was a reflection of the Father, the new creations are a reflection of Jesus Christ and walk, just like Jesus walked, in the will of the Father. And because they walk after the Spirit in the truth and the will of God in the light, they shall convict the world of sin and testify that her works are evil. Sidaa darteed, the new creations shall also be a threat to the devil and his kingdom and those, who belong to him and because of that, the new creations shall be persecuted.
The new creation speaks and obeys the words of God
Oo wuxuu arkay oo maqlay, si uu u marag furo; and no man receives His testimony. Kii maraggiisa aqbalay wuxuu u dejiyey sumaddiisa in Ilaah run yahay. Waayo, kii Ilaah soo dirayna ereyadii Ilaah buu ku hadlay: waayo, Ilaah qiyaas kuma siiyo isaga. Aabbuhu wuu jecel yahay wiilka, Oo wax walbana gacantiisii bay ku geliyeen. Kii wiilka rumaystaa wuxuu leeyahay nolosha weligeed ah: Oo kii aan rumaysanana nolosha ma arko; Laakiin cadhadii Ilaah baa isaga ku sii jira isaga. (John 3:32-36)
Inta uu ku jiro noloshiisa dhulka, Jesus has made known His commandments and the will of the Father and His Kingdom. Jesus taught His disciples and commanded His disciples to go into the world and preach the gospel and make disciples of Jesus Christ and teach them all things, which Jesus had taught them and commanded them to do. So that every believer and disciple of Jesus Christ, oo iska lahaa isaga, would obey His words and do what Jesus has commanded to do (ku. Matthew 28:19-20, Calaamadee 16:15-20, Luukos 24:47-49, Falimaha Rasuullada 1:1-9).
The commandments of Jesus and the great commission that Jesus gave to His disciples didn’t end with the first church and were not only meant for the first apostles, but still apply to all those, who have become a new creation in Christ and have received the Holy Spirit. Because without the Holy Spirit the new creation can’t exist and function.
How can you show your love for Jesus?
Kii qaynuunnadayda qabaa, oo dhawra, Isagu waa kan i jecel: Kii i jecelna Aabbahay waa jeclaan doonaa, oo waan jeclaan doonaa isaga, oo isna iscasili doona isaga (John 14:21)
Hadaad i jeceshahay, Amarradayda xaji (John 14:15)
Ciise ayaa u jawaabay oo ku yidhi isaga, Haddii nin i jeclaado, Erayadayda wuu hayn doonaa: Oo aabbahay wuu jeclaan doonaa isaga, and we will come unto him, Oo isagaan la joogaa isaga. Kii i jeclaada ma haysto erayadayda: Ereygiina waad maqlaysaan ma taqaanno, but the Father’s which sent me (John 14:23-24)
Sida Aabbuhu i jeclaaday, Markaa waan ku jeclaaday: Ku sii wad jacaylkayga. Haddaad dhawrtaan amarradayda, Idinku jacaylkayga waad joogi doontaan; Xitaa sidaan u xaliyay amarrada aabbahay, oo ku sii hogaan jacaylkiisa (15:9-10)
Many people confess their love for Jesus, but many times they don’t show it through their lives.
Because how can you show your love for Jesus? By singing songs? By doing charity works? Through humanistic behavior and acts of kindness? By being kind and everyone’s friend and therefore many times adjust the truth of God to people’s feelings, rabitaan, and lifestyles in order to fit in and get along with everyone and be liked and accepted and keep everyone happy and satisfied? By building bridges with the world and compromise because of the so-called been ah jacayl, nabad, and unity? By tolerating the works of the darkness and the works of the flesh aka sin in the church? No…
How can the new creation, who is delivered from the kingdom of darkness (aduunka) by faith and regeneration and died to the flesh, compromise with the world (Boqortooyada gudcurka) and adjust the gospel to the will of people and the lusts and desires of the flesh, and do the works of the flesh; dembi, that Jesus has condemned in His flesh and dealt with on the cross and has redeemed the new man from, and/or allow and tolerate sin in the church? (ku. Roomaanka 8:3, Kolosay 1:13-14)
Taasi waa wax aan macquul aheyn! If this happens in someone’s life or in a church, then Jesus Christ is not the Lord of the person and Jesus Christ is not the Head of the church and the Holy Spirit is not present, but the person or the church has left Jesus Christ, Jidka, Runta, and the Life and walks on self-chosen paths.
How can you show your love for Jesus? The only way to show your love for Jesus is through obedience to Jesus and doing what He says.
If you listen to Jesus Christ; the Word and yield to the Word and do what He says and walk in His commandments and therefore do His commandments, then you shall show Jesus that you love Him and you shall abide in His love and His love shall be in you.
If you love Jesus and walk in His commandments, taas oo ka soo baxeysa aabaha, you shall not walk after the flesh and keep doing the works of the flesh and persevere in sin, but because of your love for Jesus and your obedience to Him and His commandments, you shall lay down the works of the flesh and walk holy in righteousness in the will of the Father (Sidoo kale akhri: ‘Amarrada Ilaah iyo amarrada Ciise Masiix‘).
Why do you call Me Lord Lord, laakiin waxaan leeyahay ha yeelin?
Oo maxaad iigu yeedhaysaan, Rabbiyow, Rabbiyow, Oo waxaan leeyahay ha samaynina? (Luukos 6:46)
Jesus has risen from the dead and is alive and still speaks through the Holy Spirits the words of the Father to those, yaa iska leh. Kuwaas, who belong to Jesus Christ and truly love Jesus Christ shall spend time with Jesus and the Father in the Word and in prayer and shall listen to His words and obey His words and commandments instead of adjusting His words and/or rejecting them. Through their obedience to the Word, they show that they love Jesus and that they belong to Him.
Dadku wax walba way sheegi karaan, balse aakhirka, the obedience to Jesus; Erayga, and the works prove if someone belongs to Jesus and loves Jesus or not.
Do you love Jesus and do you submit yourself to Jesus; the Word and the will of the Father and do you do what the Word tells you to do and do you bear the miro ee Ruuxa? Or do you love yourself and do you submit yourself to your will and the lusts and desires of the flesh and do you do what the world says and do you bear the fruit of the flesh?
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