AmaKristu amaninzi akholelwa ukuba isono asinamsebenzi kwaye ungaphila esonweni kwaye usindiswe ngaxeshanye. 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) kunye nosindiso? 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, ngaphandle kokuziva ugwetyiwe, thinking they were saved and escaping the punishment for sin, oko kukufa.
But these Nicolaitians didn’t know Jesus experientially. They had no knowledge of the Bible and didn’t have the Holy Spirit.
Kunoko, they followed the words of their leader, who preached this false doctrine; this lie. (Funda kwakhona: Imfundiso nemisebenzi yamaNikolawo).
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, njengoYesu.
Nangona kunjalo, the church at Pergamos (I-pergamo), 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. (ISityhilelo 2:6, 15-16 (Funda kwakhona: 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.
Kwakhona, this is a partial truth that is preached. Ewe, 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.
Umnqophiso wakudala
KuMnqophiso oMdala, 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 (unesono) 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. (Funda kwakhona: ‘What is the difference between the sacrifice of animals and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ?‘).
UMnqophiso Omtsha
KuMnqophiso Omtsha, 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, ngokufa kwenyama yabo ikuKristu.
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. (Owu. Hebhere 9, 1 UYohane 1:5-7))
KuMnqophiso Omtsha, 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. (Funda kwakhona: ‘Ulwaluko kuMnqophiso oMtsha‘).
The new man is born of God and transferred from the power of darkness into the Kingdom of God, apho uYesu Kristu enguKumkani yaye elawula. (Owu. KwabaseKolose 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.
Wonke umntu, who is born of God stays in Him and doesn’t sin
Siza kuthini emva koko? Siza kuqhubeka esonweni, Olo lubabalo lwaluphele? Makube lee oko. Saya kuthi, abafileyo kwisono, phila nangakumbi? Anazi na, Oko abaninzi kuthi babhaptizwe kuYesu Krestu babhaptizelwa ekufeni kwakhe? Ngoko ke sangcwatywa naye ngokubhaptizelwa ekufeni: ukuze njengokuba uKristu wavuswayo kwabafileyo ngalo uzuko loYise, Ngokunjalo nathi sifanele sihambe sinobomi obutsha (AmaRoma 6:1-4)
Bonke abo bahlala kuye, benokoni: Bonke aboni abangambonanga, Ayamazi. Bantwana abancinci, Makungabikho mntu ukhathalelayo: Owenza ubulungisa ulilungisa, njengokuba elungile. Lowo wenza isono esenziwa nguMtyholi; Kuba uMtyholi wonile kwasekuqalekeni. Ngenxa yoku Unyana kaThixo wabonakaliswa, ukuze ayonakalise imisebenzi kaMtyholi. Bonke abo bazelwe nguThixo abayi kwenza isono,; ngokuba imbewu yakhe ihleli kuye: kwaye akanakona, because he is born of God.Kule ndlela abantwana bakaThixo bayabonakala, kunye nabantwana bakaMtyholi: Athi ke engabenzi ubulungisa, akangoThixo, Lowo ungamthandiyo umzalwana wakhe (1 UYohane 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, usaphila. 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 (ilizwi) and the Holy Spirit and doesn’t do what They say. Kodwa umntu useyindalo endala, 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. (Funda kwakhona: ‘Ukuthanda kukaThixo ngokuchasene nentando kaMtyholi‘ kwaye ‘Isikrweqe sobumnyama‘).
The true gospel of Jesus Christ calls to repentance
UYesu weza kwelaseGalili, eshumayela iindaba ezilungileyo zobukumkani bukaThixo, Kwaye esithi, Ixesha lizalisekile, yaye ubukumkani bukaThixo busondele: guqukani, nikholwe kuzo iindaba ezilungileyo (Phawula 1:14-15)
Wathi kubo, Ke kubhaliwe, Kwaye ngaloo ndlela kwaphela uKrestu ukubandezeleka, kwaye ukuphakama kwasekufikeni kusuku olwesithathu: Kwaye loo nguquko noxolelo lwezono kufuneka zishunyayezwe egameni lakhe phakathi kwezizwe zonke, Ukuqala eYerusalem. Kwaye nina niyamangqina ezi zinto (ULuka 24:46-48)
Anikachasani kude kube segazini, sizama ukulwa nesono. Kananjalo senilulibele uvuselelo olu, luthetha kuni njengakubantwana, Unyana wam, musa ukukucekisa ukuqeqesha kweNkosi, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: Kuba lowo imthandayo iNkosi iyamqeqesha, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Ukuba ninyamezela uqeqesho, UThixo uniphethe njengoonyana;; kuba nguwuphi na unyana ongaqeqeshwayo nguyise?? Ukuba ke aniqeqeshwa, abathe ke bona bangamadlelane kuko bonke, ngoko ke niziintshaba, hayi oonyana.
Kananjalo sibe sinabo oobawo benyama abasiqeqeshayo;, kwaye sabahlonela: asiyi kuthi ngakumbi sithobele uYise woomoya bonke, kwaye uphile? Kuba bona okunene basiqeqesha imihla embalwa, ngokokuzithandela kwabo; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Lonke ke uqeqesho okunene ngokwakalokunje alubonakali luluvuyo, kodwa kubuhlungu: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby (Hebhere 12:5-11)
The true gospel calls to repentance and sanctification and disciplines, iyalungisa, and chastises. Nangona kunjalo, the modern gospel, engeyiyo ivangeli, doesn’t contain these elements.
The modern gospel embraces sin and keeps people in bondage
The modern gospel is a humanistic gospel (umyalezo) that pleases the ears, iimvakalelo, 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, nothing is wrong. God loves everyone, kanye ngendlela abayiyo. 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. Kodwa yinyani?
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, abadala, 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? (Funda kwakhona: ‘Umoya kaEli')
This is nowhere written in the Bible! Because sin is rebellion and disobedience to God and His will.
Bangathini abantu, 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
Abantu, 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. (Funda kwakhona: ‘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. Ezo, who belong to Jesus walk after the Spirit instead of the flesh and fulfill the righteousness of the law. (Owu. UMateyu 5:17-18, AmaRoma 3:31; 8:4 (Funda kwakhona: ‘Umntu uyakwazi ukufezekisa umthetho?').
“Whosoever does not bear his cross and come after Me can’t be My disciple”
Wabaphendula uYesu, Inene, inene, Ndithi kuni, Bonke abenza isono bangamakhoboka esono (UYohane 8:34)
And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, wathi kubo, If any man come to me, angamthiyi uyise, nomama, kunye nomfazi, kunye nabantwana, kunye nabantakwabo, noodadewethu, ewe, kwanobomi bakhe, akanakuba ngumfundi wam. nosukuba engawuthwali umnqamlezo wakhe, uze emva kwam, akanakuba ngumfundi wam (ULuka 14:25-27)
Wathi ngoko uYesu kubafundi bakhe, Ukuba kukho bani uya kuza emva kwam, makazincame, awuthwale umnqamlezo wakhe, undilandele. Kuba othe wathanda ukuwusindisa umphefumlo wakhe, wolahlekelwa nguwo: nothe wawulahla umphefumlo wakhe ngenxa yam, wowufumana (UMateyu 16:24-25, kananjalo Marko 8:34-35, ULuka 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 Umkhuthazi wesono! He didn’t speak about respecting and tolerating sin.
Okuphikisanayo, Wathi uYesu, He hated sin and called the sinners to repentance. Ngokuba wonke umntu, who commits sin is a servant of sin and is not saved.
Wathi uYesu, 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.
Wathi uYesu, 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
KwiNcwadi yesiTyhilelo, 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.
Ukuxoka, ukukopela, ubuqhophololo, unqulo-zithixo (o.k. Iifilosofi zeMpuma, iyoga, ukuqonda, ukucamngca, ubuchwepheshe bokulwa, reiki, i-acupuncture), ubugqwirha, ukuxela ithamsanqa, uhenyuzo, ukukrexeza, extramarital affairs, uqhawulo-mtshato, ukuhlala kunye engatshatanga, sexual relationships outside of marriage, amanyala, ubufanasini, and all other (ngokwesondo) ukungahlambuluki, isisu, I-Euthanasia, abusive drinking, njl. 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.
Anazi na, ukuba abangemalungisa abayi kubudla ilifa uBukumkani bukaThixo? Musani ukulahlekiswa: Abahenyuzi, okanye ii-idollaters, okanye abakrexezi, okanye ifakwe, nabahlukumezelayo nabantu, Namasela, okanye i-covetous, okanye amanxila, okanye abaphuluki, okanye abakhupheli, Uya kubudla ilifa uBukumkani bukaThixo(1 KwabaseKorinte 6:9-10)
“Hambani ngoMoya, ize ningayifezi inkanuko yenyama”
Le nditsho njalo, Hambani ngoMoya, ize ningayifezi inkanuko yenyama. Kuba inyama ikhanuka ngokuchasene noMoya, nomoya nxamnye nenyama: kwaye ezi zinto zichasene nenye kwenye: ukuze ningakwazi ukwenza izinto enindingayenza. Kodwa ukuba nikhokelwa nguMoya, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, zeziphi ezi; Ukukrexeza, uhenyuzo, ukungahlambuluki, I-Lascivied, Unqulo-zithixo, ubugqwirha, intiyo, umahluko, ukufuya, ingqumbo, Imbambano, ukumiselwa, i-heredies, Umona, ukubulala, ukunxila, impindezelo, kwaye kanjalo: yeyo, Njengoko bendikuxelele ngexesha elidlulileyo, Ukuze benze izinto ezinjalo abayi kulifumana ilifa uBukumkani bukaThixo (kwabaseGalati 5:16-21)
Kodwa iBhayibhile (ilizwi) icacile. IBhayibhile ithi, ukuba ezo, who do these things are not born of God, hayi abakaThixo, kwaye abayi kubudla ilifa ubukumkani bukaThixo. (Owu. UYohane 3:3-5, 1 UYohane 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, bashumayela ubuxoki. Ngobuxoki babo, 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, Yude (Funda kwakhona: Ukutshabalalisa imisebenzi kaThixo endaweni yemisebenzi kaMtyholi).
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 (iinkokeli) of the churches don’t solve the problems. Kunoko, they allow the people to live in sin and leave them in their sins. Ngoba? 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. (Funda kwakhona: Ithini iBhayibhile ngesono ebandleni?).
Jesus gave His life to deal with the sin problem
Umntu oza kubazongela izono zethu emzimbeni wakhe emthini, ukuba thina, Ukufa izono, kufuneka uphile ubulungisa: Imivumbo yakhe naphilisiwe. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls (1 UPetros 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, uNyana kaThixo, 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. Lo nto, 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.
Kuba abo babuhlungu kwenyama, zenza izinto zenyama; Kodwa bona bathe emva komoya izinto zoMoya. Ukuba nengqondo ye-carnnly kukufa; Kodwa ukuze babe nengqondo yokomoya bubomi noxolo. Kuba ingqondo yenyama ibutshaba ngakuThixo: kuba ayixhomekeki emthethweni kaThixo, Akukho nto inokwenzeka (AmaRoma 8:5-7)
Umntu, 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 (umthetho woMoya), 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 (Owu. iEksodus 20:6, iDuteronomi 5:10, UYohane 14:15, 23).
Ukuba nengqondo ye-carnly kukufa. Ngokuba wonke umntu, 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 (AmaRoma 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, njengehlabathi. 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?
Ngoko isono masingalawuli emzimbeni wenu onokufa, ukuze niwululamele ngokweenkanuko zawo. Kanjalo amalungu enu maningawanikeli kuso isono, ukuba abe ziintonga zentswela-bulungisa;: kodwa zinikeleni nina ngokwenu kuThixo, njengabaphilayo bephuma kwabafileyo, amalungu enu ke, ukuba abe ziintonga zobulungisa kuThixo.
Kuba isono asiyi kuniphatha ngabukhosi: kuba aniphantsi komthetho, kodwa phantsi kobabalo. Yintoni ke? sone na, ngokuba singekho phantsi komthetho, kodwa phantsi kobabalo? Makube lee oko. Anazi na, kuba lowo nizigqala kuzo, ukuba nithobele, Abakhonzi bakhe nina niye nimthobela kuye; Nokuba yesono kukufa, okanye ukuthobela ubulungisa? Kodwa uThixo makabulelwe, ukuba beningabakhonzi besono, kodwa nalululamela ngokwentliziyo umfuziselo wemfundiso enanikelwayo kuwo. Ukukhululwa ke esonweni, naba ngabakhonzi bobulungisa (AmaRoma 6:12-18
Kuba xa ningabakhonzi besono, Benikhululekile ebulungiseni. Nasiphi isiqhamo enisukuni na ngelo xesha kwezo zinto nineentloni ngazo ngoku? Ukuphela kwezinto kukufa. Kodwa ngoku ukhululwa esonweni, kwaye ube zizicaka kuThixo, Ninesiqhamo sakho kubungcwele, kunye nokuphelisa ubomi obungunaphakade. Kuba umvuzo wesono kukufa; Kodwa isipho sikaThixo bubomi obungunaphakade ngoYesu Krestu iNkosi yethu (AmaRoma 6:20-23)
ezo, who live in sin live under the law
Wonke umntu, who walks after the flesh and keeps doing the works of the flesh and therefore perseveres in sin lives under the dominion (igunya) of sin and death and therefore lives under the law of sin and death, olawula enyameni.
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; ukukhupha ixhego kwaye ukwambatha umntu omtsha.
Ezo, who live in sin are not in Christ and are not saved
Ke ngoko akukho kugwetywa kwabakuKristu Yesu,, abangahambiyo emva kwenyama, kodwa emva komoya. Kuba umthetho woMoya wobomi, ndikuKristu Yesu, undikhulule emthethweni wesono nokufa (AmaRoma 8:1-2)
Kodwa ukuba nikhokelwa nguMoya, aniphantsi komthetho (kwabaseGalati 5:18)
Bonke abahlala kuye aboni: Bonke aboni abangambonanga, Ayamazi (1 UYohane 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.
Wonke umntu, 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 (ubukhosi)s of sin and death, still lives under the law.
Wonke umntu, who by faith is born again in Christ and saved, and abides in Him, shall not (live in) isono. Njengokuba ngenyaniso, it’s written that everyone, who sins has never seen Him, and neither has known Him.
The Word is clear, ukuba ezo, 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. Ngoko ke, their final destination shall be the kingdom of death (isihogo, IHadesi). Since the fruit of death is sin and the wages of sin is death and not eternal life.
Ngaba ungahlala esonweni kwaye usindiswe?
Lowo ungokaThixo uyaweva amazwi kaThixo: anibeva ngoko, ngokuba aningabakaThixo. Then answered the Jews, Yathi kuye, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, kwaye unomtyholi? Waphendula uYesu, Andinasathana mna; kodwa ndibeka uBawo, nisuka nindihlaze;. Mna ke andifuni luzuko lwam: ukho lowo ufunayo, ugwebayo. Inene, inene, Ndithi kuni, Ukuba umntu uthe waligcina ilizwi lam, Akasoze abone ukufa (UYohane 8:47-51)
Ke wonke umntu uyahendwa, xa etsalwa kweyakhe inkanuko, kwaye walukuhlwa. Ngoko xa inkanuko ithe yamitha, luzala isono: nesono, xa igqityiwe, luvelisa ukufa (UJames 1:14-15)
“Lumka, bazalwana, hleze kubekho kubani wenu intliziyo engendawo, engakholwayo, ekumkani kuThixo ophilileyo”
Lumka, bazalwana, hleze kubekho kubani wenu intliziyo engendawo, engakholwayo, ekumkani kuThixo ophilileyo. manivuselelane imihla ngemihla, ngoxa kusathiwa namhla; ukuze kungabikho mntu kuni wenziwa lukhuni kukulukuhla kwesono. Kuba senziwe amahlulelana ngoKristu, ukuba sithe ingqalo yokukholosa kwethu sayibamba ngokuthe nkqi, sada sesa ekupheleni (IsiHebhere 3:11-14)
Wathi ke yena kum, It is done. Mna ndinguAlfa no-Omega, isiqalo nesiphelo. Ndiza kumnika ongendawo emthonjeni wamanzi obomi ngokukhululekileyo. Lowo weyisayo uya kuzidla ilifa izinto zonke; ndibe nguThixo wakhe, Yena uya kuba ngunyana wam. Kodwa aboyikayo, nabangakholwayo, namasikizi, nababulali, nabahenyuzi, nabakhafuli, nabanquli-zithixo, namaxoki onke, Isabelo sabo siya kuba sedikeni elivutha umlilo nesulfure: oko kukufa kwesibini (ISityhilelo 21:6-8)
Ngaba ungahlala esonweni kwaye usindiswe? Hayi, you can’t live in sin and be saved. Kuphela, abazelwe ngokutsha kuKristu nabazelwe nguThixo baba sisidalwa esitsha (unyana kaThixo) kwaye uzithobe kuYesu Krestu noThixo uYise kwaye uphulaphule iLizwi noMoya oyiNgcwele kwaye uthobele kwaye wenze iLizwi kwaye uhambe emva koMoya kwaye uphile ebulungiseni., Abayi kubona kufa, kodwa baya kudla ilifa ubomi obungunaphakade.
Isono silawula kude kube sekufeni; ukufa kuKristu okanye ukufa kwemvelo
Inyani yomba, ukuba isono silawula njengokumkani ebomini babantu kude kuse ekufeni. Nangona kunjalo, abantu bamisela kude kube kukufa oku; ukufa kuKristu okanye ukufa kwemvelo
Umntu unokuvumela isono ukuba silawule njengokumkani ebomini bakhe de inguquko yakhe kunye nokuzalwa ngokutsha kuKristu, xa inyama isifa kuYe. Ukususela kuloo mzuzu, umntu uyakhululwa kumandla kasathana nakumthetho wesono nokufa. Ngokuvuswa komoya kwabafileyo, isono nokufa akusenagunya phezu komntu. Ke yena lowo ukhululwe. Kwaye ngokuhamba ngomthetho woMoya njengomeyisi kuKristu umntu udla ilifa ubomi obungunaphakade.
Okanye umntu uye avumele isono ukuba silawule ebomini bakhe de umntu afe ukufa kwemvelo, apho umoya womntu uhlala phantsi kwegunya lesono nokufa de kube sekufeni kwakhe. Umntu akayi kubudla ilifa ubomi obungunaphakade kodwa uya kuya ebukumkanini bokufa (isihogo). Kwaye ngoMhla woMgwebo, umntu uphoswa edikeni lomlilo elingunaphakade aze abe namava okufa kwesibini.
‘Yibani yityuwa yehlabathi’
