Many Christians believe that sin doesn’t matter and that you can live in sin and be saved at the same time. They speak constantly about grace and use the grace of God as a cloak to approve of sin. They believe and say that by faith in Jesus Christ and His sacrifice and blood, you’ve been made righteous. Therefore it doesn’t matter how you live. You can live the way you want to live. Because the sacrifice and blood of Jesus ensure that you stay saved. But of course, this is a partial truth aka a lie of the devil that many Christians believe. What does the Bible say about living in sin (persevering in sin) le poloko? Can you live in sin and be saved according to the Bible or not?
What is the false doctrine of the Nicolaitans?
The Nicolaitans were such a group that followed their leader Nicolas and his false doctrine. His false doctrines deceived the Nicolaitans and caused them to deviate from the sound doctrine of Jesus Christ and go astray. The Nicolaitans believed they could keep sinning because they lived under grace and you still live in a sinful flesh.
The Nicolaitans misused the grace of God. So that they didn’t have to die to the flesh and put off the old man and put on the new man. They could do the works of the flesh and live sin, Ntle le ho ikutloa u ahlotsoe, thinking they were saved and escaping the punishment for sin, e leng lefu.
But these Nicolaitians didn’t know Jesus experientially. They had no knowledge of the Bible and didn’t have the Holy Spirit.
Sebakeng seo, they followed the words of their leader, who preached this false doctrine; this lie. (Bala hape: Thuto le mesebetsi ya Banikola).
Although the Nicolaitans were misled and believed this false doctrine and lived by it, because they considered it as the truth, Jesus hated the doctrine and works of the Nicolaitans.
The church at Ephesus hated the works of the Nicolaitans as well, joalo ka Jesu.
Leha ho le joalo, the church at Pergamos (Pergamum), where the throne of satan was, embraced the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. Because some of them held the doctrine of the Nicolaitans.
Jesus didn’t allow the doctrine and works of the Nicolaitans, because it defiled the church. But Jesus called the church at Pergamos to repentance. If they didn’t repent, Jesus would come unto them quickly and fight against them with the sword of His mouth. (Tšenolo 2:6, 15-16 (Bala hape: What is the throne of satan?)
The devil has deceived many churches with the same lie
We don’t know if the church of Pergamos listened and obeyed the words of Jesus. But we do know that the devil succeeded again, by deceiving many Christians with the same lie and doctrine.
The devil deceived many Christians by making them believe that it doesn’t matter how you live. You can live in sin and be saved. Because you are not saved and justified by your works. But you are saved and justified by the redemptive work of Jesus Christ.
Hape, this is a partial truth that is preached. Ho joalo, you are indeed saved by the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. His blood has cleansed you from all your sins and iniquities and made you holy and righteous. His blood saved you. No one can earn his salvation by his works. Up to here, it’s correct.
But… The blood of Jesus is not a permit to sin. The blood of Jesus doesn’t give you the right to persevere in sin.
The sacrifice and the blood of Jesus are not the same as the sacrifice and the blood of animals. The sacrifice and blood of animals provided a temporary atonement for the sins of the people. But the sacrifice and blood of Jesus don’t provide a temporary atonement but deal with the sinful nature, which reigns in the flesh and from which sin proceeds.
Selekane sa Khale
Selekaneng sa Kgale, which was sealed by the blood of animals, God’s people constantly fell back into the same sin. Because they were still carnal and their spirit was still under the dominion of death.
They were trapped in the (moetsadibe) flesh and the flesh ruled their lives. Therefore they constantly had to make atonement for their sins.
But despite the many sacrifices and blood that was shed, nothing changed in man’s nature. Nothing changed about man’s fallen state and nature. Which is the case in the New Covenant that is sealed by the blood of Jesus Christ. (Bala hape: ‘Phapano ke efe pakeng tsa sehlabelo sa liphoofolo le sehlabelo sa Jesu Kreste?‘).
Selekane se secha
Selekaneng se secha, it shouldn’t be that people who are saved and belong to God, fall into the same sin over and over again and persevere and live in sin. Because they have been delivered from the power of sin and death, through the death of their flesh in Christ.
This was not the case in the Old Covenant. So if those, who live in the New Covenant keep sinning, it means they’re not delivered from the power of sin and death. (Oh. Baheberu 9, 1 Johanne 1:5-7))
Selekaneng se secha, man has become a new creation through regeneration in Christ, which means the death of the flesh and the resurrection of the spirit from the dead. (Bala hape: ‘Lebopo selekane se secha‘).
The new man is born of God and transferred from the power of darkness into the Kingdom of God, moo Jesu Kreste e leng Morena le ho busa. (Oh. Bakolose 1:13).
Therefore darkness has no more power over the new man.
The flesh no longer reigns, but Christ reigns in the new man. Since the flesh is dead and the spirit is alive.
Only when the flesh has died and the spirit of man is raised from the dead and the new man enters the Kingdom of God and walks after the Spirit according to the law of this Kingdom in the light, man shall be saved.
Bohle, who is born of God stays in Him and doesn’t sin
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 (Baroma 6:1-4)
Mang kapa mang ea ba sijoang ke eena: mang le mang ea sitetsoeng, Le ka se tsebe. Bana ba Little, ho se ke ha u thetsa: ea etsang hore ho loka o lokile, Leha a lokile. Ea etsang sebe ke oa Diabolose; diabolosi dinneth ho tloha qalong. Bakeng sa morero ona Mora oa Molimo o bonahatsoa, e le hore a ka timetsa mesebetsi ea Diabolose. Mang le mang ea tsoetsoeng ke Molimo ha a etse sebe; Hobane peo ea hae e lula ho eena: 'me a ke ke a etsa sebe, because he is born of God.Bana ba Modimo ba bonahatswa ka sena, le bana ba diabolosi: Mang le mang ea sa etseleng ho loka hase oa Molimo, ha ho joalo ea lerato eseng mor'abo (1 Johanne 3:6-10)
A person may repent and be baptized in water and receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit, but if there is no change in the person’s life and the person keeps doing the works of the flesh and darkness and walks in unrighteousness in darkness, then the life of the person shows, that the person has not repented and is not born again in Christ. Since the flesh in which sin reigns and from which sin proceeds, o ntse a phela. The flesh has not been crucified in Christ.
The new creation yields to Jesus and the Holy Spirit, the old creation yields to the devil and the flesh
The person hasn’t become a new creation and hasn’t yielded to Jesus Christ (Lentswe) and the Holy Spirit and doesn’t do what They say. But the person is still the old creation, who belongs to the devil.
Therefore the person lives in disobedience to God and His Word after the will of the flesh in obedience to the will of the devil and sin. The person perseveres in sin or falls back into the same sin over and over again. (Bala hape: ‘Thato ea Molimo vs thato ea diabolosi‘ le ‘Lihlomo tsa lefifi‘).
The true gospel of Jesus Christ calls to repentance
Jesu a tla Galilea, ho bolela Evangeli ea ’muso oa Molimo, Le ho re, Nako e phethehile, mme mmuso wa Modimo o atametse: bakang lona, mme le dumele Evangeli (Tšoaea 1:14-15)
A re ho bona, Ka hona e ngotsoe, Mme ka hona e ile ea thotholloe ke Kreste., le ho tsoha ho tloha bafung ka letsatsi la boraro: Le hore pako le tšoarelo ea libe li lokela ho boleloa ka Lebitso la Hae har'a lichaba tsohle, Ho qala Jerusalema. Le lipaki tsa lintho tsena (Luka 24:46-48)
Ha le eso ho hanele ho isa mading, ho loantshana le sebe. Mme le lebetse kgothatso e buang le lona jwaloka bana, Mora oa ka, u se ke ua nyelisa taeo ea Jehova, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Haeba le mamella ho lauoa, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? Empa haeba le se na kotlo, tseo bohle ba nang le kabelo ho tsona, joale le bana ba bonyatsi, eseng bara.
Ho feta moo, re ne re na le bo-ntat’a rona ba nama ba ileng ba re khalemela, mme ra ba hlompha: na haholo re ke ke ra ipeha tlas’a Ntat’a meea?, mme o phele? Hobane bona ba re laile ka matsatsi a se makae ka ho rata ha bona; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Joale ha ho taeo e teng hona joale e bonahalang e thabisa, empa e bohloko: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby (Baheberu 12:5-11)
The true gospel calls to repentance and sanctification and disciplines, lokisa, and chastises. Leha ho le joalo, the modern gospel, eo eseng evangedi, doesn’t contain these elements.
The modern gospel embraces sin and keeps people in bondage
The modern gospel is a humanistic gospel (message) that pleases the ears, maikutlo, and emotions of the people in the church but keeps the people in bondage of sin and death.
This gospel welcomes everyone and everyone may stay the way they are. Everything is allowed and tolerated, ha ho letho le phoso. God loves everyone, kamoo ba leng kateng. And so sin is embraced instead of condemned and removed.
They believe that you have to respect others and forgive and love others instead of condemning them. Empa na ho joalo?
Where is it written in the Bible (after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit) that you have to accept sin and tolerate sin in the church? That if you live in sin you are saved?
Where is it written that you must leave those, who persevere in sin alone?
Where is it written that it doesn’t matter if preachers, sebakeng se seng, and other leaders of the church become disobedient to God and His Word, due to the will, lusts and desires of their flesh and fall in sin and/or persevere in sin? (Bala hape: ‘Moya wa Eli')
This is nowhere written in the Bible! Because sin is rebellion and disobedience to God and His will.
Batho ba ka etsa joang, who don’t walk in the will of God and are disobedient to His Word, teach others to walk in the will of God and to be obedient to the Word, so that they will grow up into the image of Christ?
The new creation fulfills the righteousness of the law
Batho, who sin and live in sin and refuse to repent of their lifestyle, show by their works that they don’t belong to Christ and are not saved. They still belong to the devil and aren’t the servants of righteousness but the servants of sin. They are carnal and still listen to the devil and do his will and serve the devil through their flesh. (Bala hape: ‘The commandments of God vs the commandments of the devil').
God has given His commandments to make His will and His nature and righteousness known and to reveal sin. Jesus has never annulled the commandments of the law. But Jesus fulfilled them by walking after the Spirit in the will of the Father in righteousness. Tseo, who belong to Jesus walk after the Spirit instead of the flesh and fulfill the righteousness of the law. (Oh. Mattheu 5:17-18, Baroma 3:31; 8:4 (Bala hape: ‘Na motho o khona ho phetha molao?').
“Whosoever does not bear his cross and come after Me can’t be My disciple”
Jesu o ile a ba araba, Ka ho hlakileng, ka ho hlakileng, Ke re ho lona, E mong le e mong ya etsang sebe ke mohlanka wa sebe (Johanne 8:34)
And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, If any man come to me, mme a se ke a hloya ntatae, le mme, le mosali, le bana, le baena, le dikgaitsedi, ee, le bophelo ba hae le bona, E ka se be morutuwa oa ka. Le mang kapa mang ea sa jare sefapano sa hae, 'me u ntelehetse, e ke ke ya ba morutuwa wa Ka (Luka 14:25-27)
Ebile Jesu o re ho barutuoa ba hae, Haeba motho leha e le ofe a ka tla ka mor'a ka, a ke a itele hae, mme o nke sefapano sa hae, 'me u ntekane. Bakeng sa mang ea tla boloka bophelo ba hae e tla lahleheloa ke eona: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it (Mattheu 16:24-25, Le Mark 8:34-35, Luka 9:23-24)
Jesus never spoke about accepting people with a sinful lifestyle. He didn’t preach that sinners could live in sin and stay the way they were and be saved.
Jesus was not a Promoter of sin! He didn’t speak about respecting and tolerating sin.
Ho fapana le moo, Jesu o boletse, He hated sin and called the sinners to repentance. Hobane bohle, who commits sin is a servant of sin and is not saved.
Jesu o boletse, that if anyone still loves his own life, and doesn’t deny himself, and doesn’t put Jesus above all, the person can’t be Jesus’ disciple.
Jesu o boletse, that if anyone wants to come to Him and follow Him, he must deny himself and take up his cross.
Because if you don’t lose your own life in this world, you shall not find life.
Many churches tolerate sin from both church members as church leaders
Bukeng ea Tšenolo, Jesus didn’t say to the various churches, He respected their behavior and the doctrines and works of the darkness.
Jesus didn’t embrace sin, since sin is the will of the devil. But Jesus commanded the churches to remove the sin. If they didn’t, they would reap the consequences of their disobedience.
There are many churches today, where everything is tolerated. They not only tolerate everything from the members of the church, who say they are saved but live in sin and keep sinning. But they also tolerate everything from the preachers and leaders of the church, who are carnal and keep doing the works of the flesh.
Leshano, ho qhekanyetsa, bomenemene, borapeli ba litšoantšo (i.e. Lifilosofi Ea Bochabela, yoga, Ho Hloka kelello, Ho Thuisa, karate, reiki, ho hlaba ka linalete), boloi, fortune-telling, bohlola, bofebe, extramarital affairs, tlhalo, ho dula mmoho ba sa nyalana, sexual relationships outside of marriage, Litšoantšo tsa bootsoa, bosodoma, and all other (thobalano) ho se hloeke, ho ntša mpa, euthanasia, abusive drinking, etc. This has all become very normal and is not considered a sin anymore.
The conscience of many Christians is seared with a hot iron and they don’t even know it. They are blinded by the lies of darkness and allow everything.
Ha le tsebe hoba ba sa lokang ba ke ke ba rua mmuso wa Modimo? Le se ke la thetsoa: Leha e le Lihlopong, kapa bara-'moho le eena, kapa bafetoheli, kapa hampe, Kapa ba itella bathong, Kapa masholu, kapa ho chachehela, Kapa matangoana, kapa bakoenehi, kapa li-aptiorners, Ba tla rua 'muso oa Molimo(1 Korinthe 6:9-10)
“Tsamaya ka Moya, mme le se ke la phetha ditakatso tsa nama”
Ke bua tjena he, Tsamaya ka Moya, mme le se ke la phetha ditakatso tsa nama. Gonne nama e eletsa tse di tlhabanang le Mowa, le Moya kgahlano le nama: mme tsena di hanana ho tse ding: le tle le sitwe ho etsa tseo le di ratang. Empa haeba u leleketsoe moea, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, Eo ke e; Bofebe, bohlola, ho se hloeke, LaScivillaness, Borapeli ba Litšoantšo, boloi, Lehloeo, phapang, LITLHOKOMELA, khalefo, ntoa, Sekhooa, heres, Menogano, LITLHAKISO, botahoa, TLHOKOMELISO, le joalo ka: eo ke u bolellang eona pele, Joalokaha ke u joetse nako e fetileng, Hore ba ke ke ba rua 'muso oa Molimo (Bagalata 5:16-21)
Empa Bibele (Lentswe) e hlakile. Bebele e re, tseo, who do these things are not born of God, ha se ba Modimo, mme a se ke a rua 'muso oa Molimo. (Oh. Johanne 3:3-5, 1 Johanne 3:8-9; 5:18)
Many Christians serve the devil instead of God
Many Christians don’t stand in the service of God and serve God. But they stand in the service of the devil and serve him. Because instead of preaching the truth and the gospel of Jesus Christ and reconciling people to God, ba rera mashano. Through their lies, they lead the people astray and make them walk on the broad way that leads to destruction. Because the way of the world doesn’t lead to eternal life but leads to death (O.a. 2 Petrus 2, Juda (Bala hape: Ho senya mesebetsi ya Modimo sebakeng sa mesebetsi ya diabolosi).
They’re masters in adjusting God’s truth to the will and desires of man and the truth of the world.
They’re masters in building bridges with the world and other religions and philosophies and changing the words of God to approve sin and compromise with sinners.
But preaching the sound gospel of Jesus Christ and calling sinners to repentance and delivering them from the power of sin and death and standing on the Word and keep standing on the Word and representing, preaching and bringing the Kingdom of God and walk in the authority of Jesus Christ on earth, they don’t know anything about and are not familiar with.
Many preachers and elders (baetapele) of the churches don’t solve the problems. Sebakeng seo, they allow the people to live in sin and leave them in their sins. Hobaneng? Because they don’t want to hurt or offend anybody’s feelings. They don’t want to get involved and cause problems. And so they let everything run its course, hoping that the problems will solve themselves. But problems don’t get solved by themselves but go from bad to worse. (Bala hape: Bebele e reng ka sebe ke kerekeng?).
Jesus gave His life to deal with the sin problem
Eo ka Boyena a ileng a jara dibe tsa rona mmeleng wa Hae sefateng, hore re, ho shwela dibe, a phelele ho loka: eo le fodisitsweng ka maqeba a hae. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls (1 Peterose 2:24-25)
Jesus gave His life and suffered immensely to deal with the sin problem. The sin problem didn’t solve by itself. But the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, Mora Modimo, was needed to solve the sin problem. It was needed to redeem man from sin and death, restore man’s fallen position and reconcile man to God.
Jesus gave His life for man. E le hore, man could be free from the power of sin and death and live in freedom. Because sin is bondage.
Sin doesn’t lead to eternal life, as the devil made many Christians believe. But sin leads to death.
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 (Baroma 8:5-7)
Motho, who lives after the flesh and is carnally minded shall persevere in sin.
Therefore if someone perseveres in sin, it shows that the person lives after the flesh and is carnally minded. The person has not yielded to the Spirit and the law of God (molao wa Moya), but lives in enmity against God. The person doesn’t love God and doesn’t belong to Him, but still belongs to the devil and death.
If you love God you will keep His commandments
Because if you love God, you will keep His commandments instead of being prideful and rebellious and disobeying the Word and living in sin (Oh. Exoda 20:6, Deuteronoma 5:10, Johanne 14:15, 23).
Ho beha kelello nameng ke lefu. Hobane bohle, who lives in sin and keeps sinning and doesn’t repent shall deserve death and not, as is preached in many churches, life and be saved (Baroma 1:24-32)
What does it mean to not live under the law but under grace?
How often do people say, “I don’t live under the law but under grace”. While they live in disobedience to God and His Word after the flesh in sin, Joalo ka lefatše. So what does it mean that you don’t live under the law but under grace? What is truly written in the Bible about not living under the law but under grace?
Ka hona ho se sebe ka nako eo 'meleng oa hau ea shoang, hore le tla e mamela ka masene a ona. U se ke ua o laela litho tsa hao e le lisebelisoa tsa ho se loke?: I IURELA HO IGOELO MOLIMO, joalo ka tse ntseng li phela ho tloha bafung, 'Me litho tsa hao li le liletsa tsa ho loka ho Molimo.
Bakeng sa sebe ha se na ho u laola: hobane ha le tlasa molao, Empa tlasa mohau. Ka nako eo? Re tla etsa sebe, hobane ha re tlas'a Molao, Empa tlasa mohau? Molimo ha ho joalo. Ha le tsebe, Hore le ho le molemo ho bahlanka ba ho mamela, le bahlanka ba hae le mamelang; ebang ke sebe ho isa lefung, Kapa ka ho mamela ho loka? Empa Molimo o leboha, hore le ne le be bahlanka ba sebe, empa le qenetse ho tloha pelong ea thuto e neng e le e nepile. Ka nako eo o lokolohile sebeng, le ile la fetoha bahlanka ba ho loka (Baroma 6:12-18
Hobane neng ne e le bahlanka ba sebe, Le lokollotsoe ho Loka. Le tholoana efe e ne e kolobisitsoe ke litholoana life tseo le hlajoa ke lihlong hona joale? Qetellong ea lintho tseo ke lefu. 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 6:20-23)
tseo, who live in sin live under the law
Bohle, who walks after the flesh and keeps doing the works of the flesh and therefore perseveres in sin lives under the dominion (Bolaoli) of sin and death and therefore lives under the law of sin and death, e ntseng e tsoela pele ka nama.
The only way to ensure that you no longer live under the law but under grace, is through the death of the flesh in Christ. It’s through regeneration in Christ and sanctification; ho lahla monna-moholo le Ho beha monna e mocha.
Tseo, who live in sin are not in Christ and are not saved
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 (Baroma 8:1-2)
Empa haeba u leleketsoe moea, Ha le tlas'a Molao (Bagalata 5:18)
Whosoever abides in Him sinneth not: mang le mang ea sitetsoeng, Le ka se tsebe (1 Johanne 3:6)
People may say they are saved and are not under the law but under grace, but if they still allow sin to reign as king in their lives, by obeying the lusts and desires of the flesh and therefore live in sin, then they are not living under grace. By living after the flesh and doing the works of the flesh, they still live under the law.
Bohle, who is not made alive in Christ by the resurrection of the spirit from the dead and doesn’t walk after the Spirit, but still lives under the authority (Dominion)s of sin and death, still lives under the law.
Bohle, who by faith is born again in Christ and saved, and abides in Him, ha ho joalo (live in) sebe. Haele hantle, it’s written that everyone, who sins has never seen Him, and neither has known Him.
The Word is clear, tseo, who allow sin to reign as king in their lives and obey sin by living in sin, are not delivered and are not saved. They still live under the authority of sin and death. Ka hona, their final destination shall be the kingdom of death (lihele, Hades). Since the fruit of death is sin and the wages of sin is death and not eternal life.
A na u ka phela sebeng 'me u pholohe?
Ke ea Molimo ea ileng a utloa mantsoe a Molimo: Le ka hona ha le utloe, Hobane ha le Molimo oa Molimo. Then answered the Jews, mme a re ho Yena, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, mme o na le diabolosi? Jesu o arabile, Ha ke na diabolose; empa Ke hlompha Ntate, mme le a ntlhompholla. Mme ha ke ipatlele thoriso ya Ka: o teng ya batlang, ya ahlolang. Ka ho hlakileng, ka ho hlakileng, Ke re ho lona, Ha motho a boloka polelo ya Ka, a ke ke a bona lefu le ka mohla o le mong (Johanne 8:47-51)
Empa motho e mong le e mong o a lekwa, ha a hulwa ke takatso ya hae, le ho hoheloa. Joale ha takatso e se e emotse, e hlahisa sebe: le sebe, ha e felile, e hlahisa lefu (James 1:14-15)
“Ikema Mamello, baena, le setjhabeng ho na le leha e le efe ho uena pelo e mpe ea ho se lumele, Ha a tloha ho Molimo ea phelang”
Ikema Mamello, baena, le setjhabeng ho na le leha e le efe ho uena pelo e mpe ea ho se lumele, Ha a tloha ho Molimo ea phelang. Empa e khothalletsa e mong le e mong letsatsi le letsatsi, Ha e ntse e bitsoa letsatsi; e mpa e le ntho ea hau e le thata ka bolotsana ea sebe. Hobane re ba ba fokolang ba Kreste, Haeba re tshola qalo ea boitšetso ba rona ba boiketlo ba rona ho ea qetellong (Seheberu 3:11-14)
And He said unto me, It is done. Ke na le alpha le omega, qalo le qetelo. Ea nyoriloeng ke tla mo fa feela seliba sa metsi a bophelo. Ea hlōlang o tla jari lintho tsohle; 'me ke tla ba Molimo oa hae, e tla ba mora oa ka. Empa ba tshabang, mme ea sa lumelang, le manyala, le babolai, le bashebelli, le masisa-pelo, le barapeli ba litšoantšo, le mashano ohle, e tla ba le karolo ea bona letšeng le lerneth le mollo le brumstone: e leng lefu la bobeli (Tšenolo 21:6-8)
A na u ka phela sebeng 'me u pholohe? Che, you can’t live in sin and be saved. Feela bao, who are born again in Christ and are born of God and have become a new creation (mora wa Modimo) and submit to Jesus Christ and God the Father and listen to the Word and the Holy Spirit and obey and do the Word and walk after the Spirit and live in righteousness, they shall not see death but shall inherit eternal life.
Sin reigns until death; death in Christ or natural death
The fact of the matter is, that sin reigns as king in people’s lives until death. Leha ho le joalo, people determine until which death this is; the death in Christ or natural death
A person can allow sin to reign as king in his life until his repentance and the regeneration in Christ, when the flesh dies in Him. Ho tloha motsotsong oo, the person is delivered from the power of the devil and the law of sin and death. Through the resurrection of the spirit from the dead, sin and death no longer have authority over the person. But the person has been made free. And by walking after the law of the Spirit as an overcomer in Christ the person inherits eternal life.
Or a person allows sin to reign as king in his life until the person dies a natural death, whereby the spirit of man remains under the authority of sin and death until his death. The person shall not inherit eternal life but shall go to the kingdom of death (lihele). And on the Day of Judgment, the person is cast into the eternal lake of fire and experiences the second death.
‘E be letsoai la lefatše’
