Jesu o ile a profeta ka makhetlo a mangata ka ho tla ha Moea o Halalelang. Jesu o ile a tsebahatsa Moea o Halalelang ho barutuoa ba Hae ‘me a tšepisa barutuoa ba Hae Moea o Halalelang. Empa o amohela Moya o Halalelang neng hotswa ho Modimo? What is the requirement for receiving the Holy Spirit?
God gives the Holy Spirit to them that obey Him
Modimo wa bontata rona o tsositse Jesu, eo le mmolaileng, la mo fanyeha sefateng. Yena eo Modimo o mo phahamisitse ka letsoho la Wona le letona, hore e be Morena le Mopholosi, bakeng sa ho nea Iseraele pako, le tshwarelo ya dibe. Mme rona re dipaki tsa Hae tsa dintho tsena; mme ho jwalo le ka Moya o Halalelang, eo Modimo o e neileng ba mo utlwang (Liketso 5:30-32)
Ho Liketso 5:32 E ngotsoe, that God has given the Holy Spirit to them that obey Him. Mme ho ntse ho le jwalo. God gives the Holy Spirit to them that obey Him. Obedience to God and His Word is a requirement to receive the Holy Spirit. (Bala hape: Hobaneng kutlo e fetisa sehlabelo?).
Tseo, who rebel against God and don’t do what God says in His Word and don’t walk in the will of God, shall not receive the Holy Spirit.
Because why do you need the Holy Spirit if you won’t submit to God and refuse to do what the Word says?
Many times Christians consider the Holy Spirit as some kind of energy or a power, manifested in a feeling or emotion.
But God the Holy Spirit is not an emotion or feeling.
Moya o Halalelang ke Motho. Moea o Halalelang ke motšelisi e mong, Jesu o ne a bua ka. The other Comforter, Whom the Father would send in the Name of Jesus Christ.
Moya o Halalelang o paka ka Jesu Kreste. Just like those, who belong to Jesus Christ and are His witnesses
Ha o rata Jesu, you obey Him and do what the Word says
Haeba le nthata, boloka litaelo tsa ka. Mme ke tla rapela ntate, o tla u fa motšelisi o mong, hore a ka lula le uena ka mehla; Le Moea oa 'Nete; Eo lefatše le ke keng la e fumana, Hobane ha e mo bona, ha ho tsebe: empa le mo tsebe; Hobane o lula le uena, mme o tla ba ho uena (Johanne 14:15-17)
Jesu o boletse, hore haeba o mo rata, le tla boloka melao ya Hae. This means that you do what He says. And if you love Jesus and obey Him, by keeping His commandments, Jesus promised He would pray to the Father and the Father shall give you another Comforter,
This other Comforter is the Holy Spirit. If you love Jesus and do what He says, you shall receive the other Comforter. And He shall be with you forever.
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth and shall be in those, who obey the Truth
Empa mohla Motshedisi a tlileng, eo ke tla mo romela ho lona a etswa ho Ntate, esita le Moya wa nnete, e tsoang ho Ntate, O tla paka ka Nna: Le lona le tla paka, because ye have been with me from the beginning (Johanne 15:26-27)
Ke sa na le ditaba tse ngata tseo nka le bolellang tsona, empa le sitwa ho di mamella hona jwale. Hobaneng ha a, Moea oa 'Nete, e tla, O tla u tataisa 'neteng eohle: Hobane a ke ke a bua ka boeena; empa o tla utloa eng, eo a tla bua: o tla u holisa lintho tse tlang. O tla ntlohela: etsoe o tla amohela, mme o tla e joetsa. Lintho tsohle tseo ntate a leng ho tsona ke tsa ka: ka hona a re ke, hore o tla nka ho Nna, mme o tla e joetsa (Johanne 16:12-15)
The world doesn’t see the Holy Spirit. The world doesn’t know the Holy Spirit. Ka hona bao, who belong to the world can’t receive the Holy Spirit, Who is the Spirit of truth.
Empa ba, who believe in Jesus the Christ and are saved through Him and have laid down their own lives and through regeneration in Christ are reconciled with God and have become a new creation, and submit themselves to Jesus Christ and follow Jesus and obey Him, they shall receive the Holy Spirit; Moea oa 'Nete.
They shall see the Holy Spirit and they shall know the Holy Spirit personally. And together with the Holy Spirit, they shall testify of the Truth and preach the truth of God.
The Holy Spirit shall be with them and shall be in them. And as long as they stay faithful to Him and obey Him, the Holy Spirit shall abide in them forever.
U fumana moea o halalelang neng?
And so those, who believe in Jesus Christ and become born again in Christ and become a new creation and follow Jesus and obey Him, shall receive the Holy Spirit from God.
Obedience to God and His Word is a requirement to receive the Holy Spirit. That is how you recognize the sons of God and the sons of the devil. (Bala hape: ‘Litaelo tsa Molimo le litaelo tsa diabolosi‘, ‘HO MAMELA MOLIMO‘ le ‘Ho se mamele Molimo‘).
When people say that they have the Holy Spirit abiding in them, but they refuse to submit to God and don’t do what Jesus; the Word says and don’t confess Jesus the Christ and are no witness of Him, but they walk after the flesh and live like the world, ho etsa mesebetsi ya nama (e ngotsoeng ka Bibeleng), you might ask yourself whether they have the Holy Spirit or the new age spirit? (Bala hape: ‘MOYA O HALALELANG VC A SEBAKA AE LACE, moea o lulang ho uena?‘)
Hobane tseo, who are born again in Christ are reconciled with God. They are sons of God (banna le ba batšehali) mme ke ba Modimo. They shall walk after the Spirit and be continuously led by the Spirit. Because they obey God and do what the Word tells them to do.
‘E be letsoai la lefatše’
