The grace of God is shown throughout the Bible and is so great!. God loves people so much and doesn’t want any one to perish but that all people be saved. He only wants the best for people and have a relationship with them. God wanted this so much, that He sent His only begotten Son Jesus Christ to this earth, to become a sacrifice for humanity. Yesu alichukua dhambi zote, uovu, magonjwa, and sicknesses of fallen humanity upon Him. Jesus died for everyone, ikiwa ni pamoja na wewe. So that you’ll be delivered from sin and the power of darkness and be reconciled with God. Let’s look at what the Bible says about the grace of God.
Je! Neema ya Mungu ni nini?
Kwa maana jinsi hii Mungu aliupenda ulimwengu, kwamba alimtoa Mwanawe pekee, kwamba kila mtu anaamini kwake haipaswi kupotea, bali awe na uzima wa milele (Yohana 3:16)
Jesus took the sins of the world and carried our punishment: death and eternal torture in hell. Jesus carried it all, so that we would be freed from sin, Uovu, na kifo. Kwa damu yake, we’re reconciled with God and can have a relationship with Him and live in freedom on earth.
What a love and grace of God!
And salvation is not all, that He has done. Hapana! He gave us His Holy Spirit. So that we could live on earth as wana wa Mungu (wanaume na wanawake).
Hii inamaanisha, that we can live a life that Jesus lived, because what Jesus had, we have.
The life as a son or daughter of God is for now and not after we die and go to heaven.
The grace of God is that we’re not justified by our works, but by the work of Jesus Christ and His blood. We’re saved by faith in Christ.
Being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life (Warumi 5:9-10)
Kwa maana kwa neema umeokolewa kupitia imani; na kwamba si kwa ajili yenu wenyewe: Ni zawadi ya Mungu: Sio ya kazi, Mtu yeyote asije akajisifu (Waefeso 2:8-9)
We could never earn our salvation by works! Only by the grace of God, katika Kristo, we’re restored (kuponywa), kupatanishwa na Mungu. We have become partakers of the inheritance that God gave us through His Son Jesus Christ.
What is the inheritance of the sons of God?
The inheritance of the sons of God is the gift of the Holy Spirit; Kuweka ndani ya Roho Mtakatifu. We are born of God and have His nature and may walk in the spiritual gifts and distribute life to others.
It’s the grace of God that you may have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. What a blessing it is, to be and walk in His presence and communicate with Him. There is nothing you can do to earn this. No work will get you to that place. The only thing you have to do is mwamini Yesu Kristo, tubu, and be born again in Him.
You have received it freely. How great is God’s love!
But now comes the essential point, Are you allowed to walk in sin after you become born again? Can you walk like you used to walk before your conversion?
Does the grace of God allow you to walk in sin?
Hapana, the grace of God does not allow you to walk in sin. If you want to remain disobedient to God and keep sinning, umetubu nini? If you don’t turn your back to sin, but keep walking in sin, you are not delivered from your sinful nature.
When you have an encounter with Jesus Christ, His presence and holiness will confront you with your sins, asili ya dhambi, and your filthy state.
When you are confronted with your sins and sinful nature, you have two options. The first option is, you mourn, tubu, and accept Jesus as your Lord and Saviour. The second option is, you walk away, reject Jesus and His sacrifice, and keep living in sin.
If you choose the first option, you repent from your sins and accept Jesus, as your Saviour and Lord and be cleansed by His blood, which was shed on the cross on Calvary. Kuanzia wakati huo, yako old life is gone and washed away by the blood of Jesus.
You’ll be baptized in water and baptized with the Holy Spirit and become a new creation; mwana wa Mungu (hii inatumika kwa wanaume na wanawake).
Basi mtu akiwa ndani ya Kristo, yeye ni kiumbe kipya: mambo ya kale yamepita; tazama, mambo yote yamekuwa mapya
2 Wakorintho 5:17
What is the power of the blood of Jesus Christ?
The power of the blood of Jesus Christ that it cleanses you from all your sins and iniquities and sanctifies you. All things are passed away and that all things become new. Je! hiyo si ya ajabu! That is the power of the cross and the blood of Jesus Christ.
But when you return to your old sinful life, you will deny the power of His blood and therefore deny Jesus Christ.
When you are taught in the Bible and study the Word of God and keep walking in sin, still doing the things that you did before your repentance, and use ‘the grace of God’ as a license to sin (because you love your old life as a sinner and don’t want to give it up), you deceive yourself.
The devil is a liar and twists the meaning of grace.
He uses a partial truth of God and make you believe that by the blood of Jesus Christ and the grace of God you are allowed to sin, because you will always be a sinner. Lakini huo ni uwongo!
If you keep walking in sin and use the grace of God to make it all right, it only means one thing:: you don’t want to Kufa kwa ajili ya nafsi and are not really born again. You’re not convicted yet of the evil of sin and your depraved sin nature.
You may think you are, but your actions prove that you are not born again. You still listen to your old father the devil, by walking in sins.
You’re holy and righteous, therefore act holy and righteous
Unapozaliwa mara ya pili, Unakuwa Mwana wa Mungu; kiumbe kipya. Kama mwana wa Mungu, you have His nature dwelling on the inside of you. You have become holy and righteous.
You are seated in Jesus Christ. Your life is hidden in Him, you have become one with Him. Sasa ni juu yako, if you want to stay in Him.
If you stay in Him; Neno la Mungu, you obey His words and walk in His commandments. You will do His will instead of your will. When you obey Him and walk in His will, you walk holy and righteousness.
“Be holy, kwa maana mimi ni mtakatifu”
How can you become one with Him and become a partaker of His nature, when you keep obeying and serving the devil, by walking in sins? Hiyo haiwezekani!
You can either do the will of the Father and walk in His commandments or do the will of the devil and keep walking in sins and iniquities, fulfilling the will, tamaa, na tamaa za mwili.
Do you know that every time you sin, you serve and exalt the devil?
Dhambi ni nini?
Sin is rebellion and disobedience to God. Sin is everything, that oppose the words and will of God and therefore trespasses His commandments of the Law of the Spirit of life (The Law of His Kingdom).
Paulo aliandika katika Warumi 6:1-23 the following about sin;
Tutasema nini baada ya? Tutaendelea katika dhambi, neema hiyo inaweza kuwa kubwa? Mungu apishe mbali. Jinsi ya kufanya sisi, Waliokufa kwa ajili ya dhambi, Endelea kuishi humo? Unajua kuwa hamjui, that so many of us as were baptised into Jesus Christ were baptised into his death? Kwa hiyo tunazikwa pamoja naye kwa ubatizo katika kifo: kwamba kama vile Kristo alivyofufuka kutoka kwa wafu kwa utukufu wa Baba, vivyo hivyo na sisi tuenende katika upya wa uzima.
Kwa maana ikiwa sisi tumeunganishwa katika mfano wa kifo chake, we shall be also in the likenessof his resurrection: Kujua hili, kwamba mzee wetu amesulubiwa pamoja naye, ili mwili wa dhambi uharibiwe, ili tusitumikie dhambi tangu sasa. Kwa maana aliyekufa amewekwa huru mbali na dhambi. Sasa ikiwa tumekufa na Kristo, tunaamini kwamba tutaishi pamoja naye: Kujua kwamba Kristo alifufuliwa kutoka kwa wafu Dieth tena; kifo hakimtawali tena. Kwa maana katika hilo alikufa, aliifia dhambi mara moja: bali kwa kuwa anaishi, Yeye huishi kwa Mungu. Vivyo hivyo unajiona pia mmekufa kweli kwa dhambi, lakini hai kwa Mungu kupitia Yesu Kristo Bwana wetu.
Warumi 6:1-23
“Basi, dhambi isitawale ndani ya miili yenu ipatikanayo na mauti”
Basi, dhambi isitawale ndani ya miili yenu ipatikanayo na mauti, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.Wala msitoe viungo vyenu kuwa silaha za dhuluma kwa dhambi: bali jitoeni wenyewe kwa Mungu, kama wale walio hai kutoka kwa wafu, na viungo vyenu kuwa vyombo vya haki kwa Mungu. Kwa maana dhambi haitakuwa na kutawala juu yako: Kwa maana hauko chini ya sheria, Lakini chini ya neema.
“Je, tutatenda dhambi, Kwa sababu hatuko chini ya sheria, Lakini chini ya neema? Mungu apishe mbali”
Nini basi? Je, tutatenda dhambi, Kwa sababu hatuko chini ya sheria, Lakini chini ya neema? Mungu apishe mbali. Unajua kuwa hamjui, Ambao mnajitoa wenyewe kuwa watumwa wa kutii., watumishi wake ambao mnawatii.; Kama ni dhambi kwa kifo, au kwa utii kwa haki? Lakini Mungu akushukuru,, Ninyi mlikuwa watumwa wa dhambi, lakini mmetii kutoka moyoni aina ile ya mafundisho ambayo ilikombolewa.
Halafu unakuwa huru kutoka kwa dhambi, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: kwani kama mlivyowatoa viungo vyenu watumwa kwa uchafu na uovu kwa uovu.; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, Mlikuwa huru kutokana na uadilifu.
“Mshahara wa dhambi ni mauti”
Basi mlikuwa na matunda gani katika mambo yale ambayo sasa mnayaonea aibu.? For the end of those things is death.Lakini sasa kuwa huru kutoka dhambi, Uwe mtumishi wa Mungu, Mna matunda yenu kwa utakatifu, and the end everlasting life.
Kwa maana mshahara wa dhambi ni mauti; lakini zawadi ya Mungu ni uzima wa milele kupitia Yesu Kristo Bwana wetu..
Why the grace of God is not a license to sin?
Neema ya Mungu si kibali cha kuendelea kutenda dhambi. When you’re born of God and get to know the Word, you turn your back to sin, and do what pleases God.
The grace of God is the unending love of the Father, that through His Son Jesus Christ, you may become a partaker of the inheritance for His people. His grace is the ability and the privilege to become sons and daughters of the most High God, by faith in Jesus Christ and by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Neema ya Mungu, is the sanctification period. It is the time God gives you, kwa achana na yule mzee, na vaeni mtu mpya. So that you’ll walk as a son of God in the Light and the dominion that Jesus walked in.
Walk as the new creation
You will walk as Jesus walked and reveal and destroy the works of the devil. You’ll preach the gospel, set the captives free, and heal those who are sick in the Name of Jesus.
You will no longer walk after the flesh in sin (in rebellion and disobedience to God and His Word), but after the Spirit in obedience to the Word in the wisdom and knowledge of God, doing the works of righteousness. Sasa, that is grace!
Therefore separate yourself and live like Jesus lived. Renew your mind with the words of God and be courageous. Don’t let anyone discourage you! Continue, even when people around you think you are a fool.
Keep your eyes on Jesus Christ, Neno hai la Mungu. He is the One you need to follow!
‘Kuweni chumvi ya dunia’
