“Kaofela re baetsalibe”, e ka utloahala e le ea bomolimo ebile e ikokobelitse, empa bonneteng, it’s an insult to God and the redemptive work and precious blood of Jesus Christ and belongs to the many false doctrines that are preached. This false doctrine keeps people in bondage of sin and death and prevents them from living in freedom after the Spirit. Because this false doctrine doesn’t call the people to repentance and the removal of sin, but allows the people to persevere in sin and to tolerate and support the sins of others. Ka lebaka la thuto ena, people don’t have to change but can stay the way they are. And so the devil has seduced many Christians and keeps them in bondage through his lie and caused Christians to live in disobedience to God and His will. But what does the Bible say about the sinner and the saint? When are you a sinner and when are you a saint?
Everyone is born as a sinner
Joalokaha ho ngotsoe, Haho ya lokileng, che, eseng a le mong: Ha ho le ea mong ea utloisisang, Ha ho na ea batlang kamora Molimo. Kaofela li felile hole tseleng, Ba lula hammoho; Ha ho na ntho e etsang hantle, che, eseng a le mong (Baroma 3:10)
Ka nako eo, Joalo ka motho a le mong sebe se kene lefatšeng, le lefu ke sebe; Mme ka hona Lefu le fetisitse banna bohle, hobane tsohle li entse sebe. Hobane pele ho molao sebe se ne se le lefatsheng (Baroma 5:12-13)
The devil always uses half-truths instead of the whole truth. This should not be surprising, because the devil is a liar and the father of liars. He doesn’t speak the truth, but he always leaves a part of the whole truth away, so that people become ba sa mameleng Modimo le thato ea hae.
This is also the case with the teaching that man always remains a sinner. It’s correct that everyone, who is born on this earth in the flesh is a sinner. No one is born righteous. Everyone is born in unrighteousness (Lipesaleme 51:5). That’s because of the fall of man, whereby the spirit of man died and came under the authority of the death, and man fell from his position and became a son of the devil. Ho tloha motsotsong oo, evil was present in the seed of man. Bohle, ya neng a tla tswalwa lelokong la Adama (Monna) would be born as a sinner (Bala hape: ‘Ntoa serapeng‘)).
Man was trapped in the flesh, wherein sin and death reign and lived from the sinful nature of the flesh. By giving the law, God made His will known to the carnal man and the sacrificial laws were given to (ka nakoana) purify God’s people from their sins and iniquities.
Ho fihlela pallo ya Modimo, Jesu Kreste, Mora oa Molimo le Lentsoe le Phelang, came to the earth and fulfilled the redemptive work for (oele) Monna, and redeemed man from his state as a sinner. This last part is always left out by the devil.
Jesu Kreste, Mora Modimo, was born of the Seed of God
Jesus was not born of the seed of man but was born of the Seed of God. Therefore Jesus Christ was holy and righteous and not a sinner and unrighteous, just like Adam and Eve were holy and righteous before the fall of man.
Jesus became equal to man and was Motho ka botlalo, therefore Jesus had the ability to sin and to leave the will of God through disobedience to God.
Because if this wouldn’t be possible, the devil would not have tried to tempt Jesus to sin, just like the devil tempted Adam and Eve to sin.
And so the devil approached Jesus and tried to tempt Jesus to sin by using the words of God for the lusts and desires of His flesh (Bala hape: ke tla o nea matlotlo a lefatshe')
But Jesus knew the nature and will of God and He also was familiar with the nature and the will of the devil and therefore Jesus refuted the partial truth of the devil with the whole truth of God.
And so Jesus overcame the temptations of the devil in the flesh with the words of God.
This didn’t happen once in the wilderness, but this happened during His whole life on earth.
The devil continuously tried to tempt Jesus to sin directly and through the people around Him and caused Him to bow to him. But because Jesus walked in obedience to the Father in His will after the Spirit, Jesus discerned the hearts of the people and the temptations of the devil, and so the mission of the devil failed.
“Get thee behind me, Satane: thou art an offence unto Me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men”
The devil even used the disciple Peter to tempt Jesus to sin and leave the will of God through disobedience and avoid the tsela ea sefapano.
The words of Peter sounded so loving, sincere, and compassionate, and may seem they came from God, but Jesus knew the will of the Father and recognized the words that derived from the feelings and emotions of the flesh. Therefore Jesus said to Peter: “Get thee behind Me, Satane: thou art an offence unto Me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men”
At that moment Peter was an adversary of God and didn’t speak according to a revelation of the Father, but Peter spoke from a carnal mind, since Peter tried to hinder the great work of redemption of mankind in history (Mattheu 16:21-23).
Despite all the temptations of the devil through the spiritual leaders of God’s people and even His own disciples, Jesus stayed yielded to the Father and remained obedient to the will of the Father and the Holy Spirit and freely laid down His own life
A romela Lentswe la Hae mme a ba fodisa
Hobane o entse hore a etse sebe ho rona, ba neng ba sa tsebe sebe; e le hore re ka etsa ho loka ha Molimo ho eena (2 Korinthe 5:21)
And so Jesus was wounded, bruised, and made sick (put Him to grief), because the Father laid the sins and iniquities of man and the punishment of sin, e leng lefu, upon Jesus Christ.
And so Jesus Christ was made sin and became the Substitute for fallen man; the sinner and through His blood, lefu, le tsoho, He would redeem many, who lived as sinners in the kingdom of darkness and were prisoners of death, and take them to heaven and by faith and regeneration in Him would give a place in the Heavenlies on His throne and become co-heirs with Him (Lipesaleme 107:20, Esaia 45:12–13; 53, Zakaria 10:9-13, Baefese 4:7-11, Bakolose 3:1)
Through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ and His blood everything is finished. Jesus restored what was broken and made man whole (fodile) and reconciled man with God.
Through the blood of Christ, the position of fallen man is restored and man doesn’t belong to the generation of fallen man (monnamoholo); Moetsalibe, but belongs to the generation of the new man; the saint.
There is no condemnation in Christ
Ka baka leo, ha ho sa le tsuo ho ba leng ho Kreste Jesu, ba sa tsamayeng ka nama, empa kamora Moya. Hobane molao wa Moya wa bophelo o ho Kreste Jesu, o nkgolotse molaong wa sebe le lefu. Bakeng sa seo molao o neng o ke ke oa se etsa, ka hore e ne e fokola ka nama, Molimo o romela Mora oa hae ka sebōpeho sa nama ea boetsalibe, le bakeng sa sebe, a ahlotse sebe nameng: Hore ho loka ha molao ho tle ho phethehe ho rona, ba sa tsamayeng ka nama, empa kamora Moya.
Gonne ba ba ka fa nameng ba tlhokometse dilo tsa nama; empa ba ho ya ka Moya ke tsa Moya. Hobane ho beha kelello nameng ho bolela lefu; empa ho beha kelello moeeng ho bolela bophelo le khotso.
Hobane kelello ea nama ke bora ho Molimo: hobane ha e laolwe ke molao wa Modimo, leha e le hore ho ka ba joalo. Ka baka leo, ba nameng ba ke ke ba kgahlisa Modimo.
Empa lona, ha le nameng, empa ka Moya, ha ho ka etsahala hore Moya wa Modimo o ahe ka ho lona. Jwale, ha motho a se na Moya wa Kreste, ha se e mong wa Hae.
Mme ha Kreste A le ka ho lona, mmele o shwele ka baka la sebe; empa Moya ke bophelo ka baka la ho loka.
Empa ha Moya wa Ya tsositseng Jesu bafung o ahile ka ho lona, Ya tsositseng Kreste bafung o tla phedisa le mmele ya lona e shwang ka Moya wa Hae o ahileng ka ho lona. (Baroma 8:1-11.
Through faith and regeneration, man has laid down his flesh, eo tlhaho ya sebe e ahileng ho yona, ho Kreste.
By the death of the flesh, man has been redeemed from the Molao oa Sebe le lefu, which reigns in the flesh and man doesn’t live under the law, but under the grace of God (Bala hape: ‘Mohau ke eng?', ‘Lahlehile lewatleng la mohau', ‘The difference between the law and grace')
Man has become a new creation; mora wa Modimo, mohalaledi, through the identification with Christ and regeneration; the death of the flesh and the resurrection of the spirit from the dead in Christ and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit
Can the Holy Spirit abide in a sinner?
Ho na le badumedi ba bangata, who say they are e bolokiloe and born again and have the Holy Spirit, while they keep saying that they are sinners. Empa ho sa khonehe! If you are a sinner, you don’t live in the will of God, but outside the will of God.
You are either a sinner and belongs through your flesh to the devil and the kingdom of darkness (the kingdom of the earth) or you have become a saint through regeneration and belongs through your spirit to Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God ('Muso oa Leholimo (Oh. Baroma 8, Baefese 1:3-14, Bakolose 1:12-14, 1 Johanne 3:1-10)).
The Holy Spirit can’t abide in an unclean person; moetsalibe. Ka hona, if someone says that he or she is a sinner, then the person is not born again and is not redeemed from the power of sin and death and therefore the person is not saved. The person still lives in the kingdom of darkness and is blinded in his or her carnal mind and is still a prisoner of sin and death and walks after the flesh in disobedience to God and His will.
What is a sinner?
A sinner is a son of the devil and has the nature of the devil and lives in darkness without God (e se nang bomolimo) and is prideful, marabele, and disobedient and refuses to submit to God and the law of the Kingdom of God that represents the will of God.
Therefore a sinner, who has a carnal mind can’t please God, because the sinner is not willing to submit to the law of God (Baroma 8:6-8)
A sinner lives outside the will of God and is not saved. Therefore if you say, that you are a sinner and keep doing those things, tse kgahlanong le thato ya Modimo, you are not redeemed from the death, and sin and death still reign in your flesh. Since the fruit of death is sin.
If you can’t say that you are righteous and have become a saint, which means that through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ and by His blood you have been made righteous and have been separated from the world unto God, then you don’t have the Holy Spirit and don’t belong to Him.
Why do they preach that you always remain a sinner?
The problem is that many preachers who preach from the pulpit are carnal (natural man) and refuse to lay down their flesh. Therefore they adjust the words of God in such a subtle manner, so that it may seem that the pious doctrine, that they always remain sinners, is coming from God and make them look humble, empa bonneteng, it’s boikokobetso ba bohata and a prideful doctrine that leads to rebellion against God and disobedience to the will of God. And so they use this doctrine as an excuse, so that they can stay the way they are and keep living in lasciviousness after the flesh and persevere in sin.
And because believers don’t read and study the Word of God by themselves, but believe the words of preachers, the believers have become indifferent towards sin and have accepted sin, due to the fact that they think they are sinners and that they will always remain sinners.
Ka lebaka la monahano ona, they will not repent and remove the sins from their lives and walk after the will of God, but they keep walking after the flesh and persevere in sin.
Because how can you walk holy and righteous as a son of God if you believe that you are a sinner?
They also preach this doctrine to new visitors of the church. They are being told that it doesn’t matter how you live and that you don’t have to change, because God loves you just the way you are.
And so they live by faith in the humanistic love of the world in enmity with God as workers of iniquity. And although they believe they are saved through their humanistic way of life and works, they are not saved. Hobane Lentswe le bolela, that the ungodly; baetsadibe, are not saved but for them is the blackness of darkness forever reserved (Juda).
Although preachers say that you always remain a sinner and that it doesn’t matter how you live, God says something else in His Word, namely that it does matter how you live.
Modimo o rata batho, but God doesn’t love the sin of people and therefore God gave His Son to redeem man from the power of sin and death and to justify man and reconcile man with Him, Ka tumelo le ho nchafatsoa ho Kreste.
Na o sa le moetsadibe?
Haeba re re ha re na sebe, rea ithetsa, mme nnete ha e yo ho rona. Ha re ipolela dibe, O oa tšepahala ’me o lokile ho re tšoarela libe, le ho re hlatswa bokgopo bohle. Haeba re re ha rea etsa sebe, re Mo etsa ya leshano, mme lentswe la Hae ha le yo ho rona(1 Johanne 1:8-10)
As long as a person doesn’t repent and become born again by faith in Jesus Christ and the conviction of sin, the person remains a sinner and lives separated from God.
Motho e mong le e mong, who is born on earth is born in sin and iniquity and is a sinner. Ha ho na motho ea qheletsoeng ka thoko. Not even when you are born of the seed of Israel or have been raised in a Christian home.
No one has been made righteous because of that. A person can only be made righteous by the blood of Jesus Christ and regeneration in Him. There is no other Way to God and eternal life than through Jesus Christ.
Ha ho tsotellehe hore na batho ba reng, the Word is very clear about this matter. Mme qetellong, the Word decides where you will spend eternity.
Molimo o bobebe ebile o ho eena ha a lefifi
Ka nako ena ke molaetsa oo re o utloileng ka eena, 'me u phatlalatse ho uena, hore Molimo o bobebe, 'me ho eena ha a lefifi ho hang. Haeba re re re na le botsoalle le eena, 'me u tsamaee lefifing, Re bua leshano, 'me u se ke ua etsa' nete: Empa haeba re tsamaea leseling, joalo ka ha a le leseling, Re na le botsoalle le e mong, mme madi a Jesu Kreste Mora wa hae a re hlatswa sebeng sohle (1 Johanne 1:5-7)
Re tla reng he? Na re tla tswela pele dibeng, hore mohau o tle o ate? Molimo ha ho joalo. Re tla etsa jwang, ba shweleng sebeng, phela ka ho sa feleng teng? Ha le tsebe, hore bohle ba kolobeleditsweng ho Jesu Kreste, re kolobeleditswe lefung la hae? Ka baka leo re patilwe le Yena ka kolobetso ho kena lefung: hore jwalokaha Kreste a tsositswe bafung ka kganya ya Ntate, ka mokgwa o jwalo le rona re tsamaye bophelong bo botjha.
Hobane haeba re lenngoe hammoho ka sebopeho sa lefu la hae, Re tla boela ka ho tšoana ka tsoho ea hae: Ho tseba sena, hore monna oa rona ea tsofetseng o tšoaneloa ke eena, hore 'mele oa sebe o ka felisoa, ho tloha moo re ne re sa lokela ho sebeletsa sebe. Hobane ea shoeleng o lokollotsoe sebeng sebeng (Baroma 6:1-7)
If you are convicted of your sins and repent and become born again in Christ, then from that moment you have been made righteous and no longer belong to the devil and the world, but you belong to God and the Kingdom of Heaven.
Ha u sa le moetsalibe, who is blinded in his mind and lives in the lie in darkness in bondage to sin and death, but through the power of the blood of Christ and the death of the flesh and resurrection of the spirit, you have been made righteous and have become a saint, who is enlightened in his mind and lives in the truth in the Light in the freedom of the Spirit and the Life and reigns over sin and death.
Se etsahetseng sebakeng sa moya, namely the justification of man and the reconciliation between man and God, shall become visible in the natural realm, through the immediate change in the life of the person and by ho lahla monna-moholo le Ho beha monna e mocha.
Mokgoa wa kgalaletso
Bana ba ka ba banyenyane, these things write I unto you, hore le se ke la etsa sebe. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. And hereby we do know that we know Him, Haeba re boloka litaelo tsa hae. Eena eo Saith, Kea mo tseba, and keeps not His commandments, ke leshano, mme nnete ha e yo ho yena. Empa ya bolokang lentswe la Hae, ruri lerato la Modimo le phethahetse ho yena: ka hona re tseba hore re ho Yena. He that saith he abides in Him ought himself also so to walk, leha A tsamaile (1 Johanne 2:1-6).
Empa joale e se e lokolotsoe sebeng, u be bahlanka ho Molimo, le na le tholoana ea hao ho ea khalalelo, le qetello e sa feleng. Bakeng sa moputso oa sebe ke lefu; empa mpho ea Molimo ke bophelo bo sa feleng ka Morena Morena oa rona (Baroma 6:22-23)
During the process of sanctification and spiritual maturity, when you grow up into the image of Christ and walk as He walked, you can (unconsciously) make a mistake. But the Holy Spirit shall immediately confront you and correct you, whereby you have the ability to ask forgiveness and repent
This doesn’t mean that you consciously keep making mistakes and use the grace of God and the blood of Jesus Christ as a permit for the flesh to live a lascivious life and give yourself to idolatry and (thobalano) uncleanness and the lusts of the flesh.
Because if you want to live a lascivious life and love the things you do and want to persevere in sin and don’t want to yield to Jesus Christ; the Word and keep His commandments, then you are not born again in Christ and don’t have the Spirit of God dwelling in you and don’t walk in the love of God, but you have the spirit of the world and walk in the love of man and the world (Oh. Baroma 6:1-7, 1 Johanne 3:6-10).
A sinner or a saint
Hobane joalokaha ka ho se utloe ha motho a le mong ba bangata ba entsoe baetsalibe, kahoo ka kutlo ea a le mong ba bangata ba tla etsoa ba lokileng (Baroma 5:19)
You are born as a sinner and if you are not born again in Christ, you are still a sinner and live separated from God and belongs to the world, and sin and death still reign in your life.
But if you are born again in Christ and the Holy Spirit dwells in you, then you are no longer a sinner, but you have been made righteous in Jesus Christ through His blood and have become the righteousness of God; mohalaledi, who is devoted to God.
Na o sa le moetsadibe? If you say that you are a sinner, a son of the devil, who has the nature of the devil and live outside the will of God and don’t belong to Him, then it’s time to repent, so that you will be made righteous by the blood of Jesus Christ and become a new creation through regeneration and be reconciled with God and receive Gods nature and walk as a son of God after the Spirit in His will and inherit eternal life
Because a sinner is not saved and as long as the mindset in the church will be that man is a sinner and will always remain a sinner, people shall live as sinners and walk after the flesh and persevere in sin and live in rebellion against God.
‘E be letsoai la lefatše’
