Ukungcwaliswa kuyintando kaThixo, as is written in 1 KwabaseTesalonika 4:3-5 eBhayibhileni. Every born again Christian is sanctified in Christ and has become a new creation. As a result of this sanctification in Christ, Christians enter the process of sanctification. Ngexesha lokungcwaliswa, Christians renew their mind, khululani ixhego ninxibe entsha. Let’s look at what the Bible says about the process of sanctification.
Ukungcwaliswa kuyintando kaThixo
Sanctification is the will of God and is part of the daily walk of born again Christians. You have been sanctified and made holy and righteous through the Lord Jesus Christ, ngegazi laKhe. Kodwa ngoku, it’s up to you to practice what you have become in the spirit realm and walk in holiness and live righteous. Ngoko ke, it’s time for the process of sanctification and to cleanse yourself from every sin and dead work of the flesh.
Ukungcwaliswa kuyintando kaThixo. Ngoko ke, if you love God and want to serve God, then sanctification is part of your new life as a child of God.
Xa ufunda yaye ufundisisa iBhayibhile (ILizwi likaThixo), uya kuyifumana inyaniso, because God is the Father of truth.
When you renew your mind with the truth of God and apply His words of Spirit and life into your life, you shall sanctify yourself with His words and walk by faith in the truth of life.
Kuba le yintando kaThixo, Nokuba ubungcwalise lwakho, ukuba nikhumke kulo uhenyuzo: ukuze elowo kuni akwazi ukusizuza asiphathe kakuhle isitya sakhe, enobungcwalisa, enembeko; Hayi kwinkanuko yenkanuko, kwanjengeentlanga ezingamaziyo uThixo
1 KwabaseTesalonika 4:3-5
Christians should detox from the world
Mhlawumbi ukhe weva ngegama elithi 'detoxing'. I-detoxing ixhaphake kakhulu kwaye isendleleni kule mihla. Yenzelwe ukucoca umzimba wakho kwizinto eziyityhefu (detoxing), ezakhelwe ngaphakathi kwenu. NjengomKristu obe nguMkristu, you should detox your life from the world.
Xa unikezela ubomi bakho kuYesu Kristu, kwaye wazalwe ngokutsha emoyeni, your mind and your way of thinking, are still conformed the world.
Iingcinga zakho zehlabathi, hamba, ubulumko, nolwazi, that you built up over the years, will conflict with the words and will of God.
Ngoku, ixhomekeke kuwe, to show how much you really love Jesus Christ.
Xa umthanda uYesu, emva koko uyazi ukuba wenze ntoni, oko kukuthi, saying goodbye to your old life as a sinner and nxiba indoda and become Christlike.
Lixesha, to remove all the toxic habits of the old man and all the build up toxic in your carnal mind that leads to bondage and death.
Ngoko ke, it’s time to renew your mind with the Bible, ILizwi likaThixo, and start walking in His Word.
NjengomKristu obe nguMkristu, you should live a consecrated life and abstain from fornication. Ufanele ukwazi ukusiphatha njani isitya sakho ngobungcwalisa nembeko, kungabi ngenkanuko, like the Gentiles that don’t know God. Uyenza njani lento?
Hlaziya ingqondo yakho ngeLizwi likaThixo (Ibhayibhile)
The first and most important step is to hlaziya ingqondo yakho ngeLizwi likaThixo (Ibhayibhile). Without the Word of God, you will not find out God’s will. You may think you know God’s will, but as long as your mind is carnal and not renewed with the Word of God, you don’t know God’s will.
Many times people project their will as the will of God. What they think or feel is the way God thinks or feel. But that’s not true.
Ingqondo yenyama ibutshaba ngakuThixo, because it opposes the words of God and isn’t subject to the law of God that represents His will. As long as a mind is carnal, a person shall not submit to God and not do His will (AmaRoma 8:6-8).
Ngoko ke, you should read and study the Bible and meditate on His words.
Make the words of God your own, so that your way of thinking lines up with God’s way of thinking.
Stay faithful to God and stay in HIs Word. Kuphela emva koko, will you be able to work together with the Holy Spirit.
Don’t listen to the will, lust and desires of your flesh, and don’t obey your flesh!
Don’t give into your carnal will, Iingcinga zakho, Iimvakalelo zakho, iimvakalelo zakho, iinkanuko zakho, Iminqweno yakho, iminqweno yakho njl., kodwa endaweni yoko, do what the Bible tells you to do.
Stand up against these carnal feelings of lust and desire. Yiba nobuganga bokulawula phezu kwabo, ngokuthabatha iLizwi likaThixo, and speak the Word and stand upon the Word.
The junkfood of the world defiles your mind
As long as your mind is carnal and you keep feeding your mind with the junkfood of the world, your thinking will never line up with the Word. Indlela yakho yokucinga ayiyi kufana nendlela kaThixo yokucinga. Kunoko, ingqondo yakho iya kungcoliswa kwaye uya kucinga njengehlabathi, kwaye uziphathe, kwaye uhambe njengeLizwe.
Aniyi kuhamba ngokholo ngokoMoya njengoko isidalwa esitsha kuYesu Kristu. Kunoko, uya kuhlala ungumKristu wenyama, abahamba ngokubona ngokwenyama.
Okoko nje usenyameni iingcinga zakho neendlela zakho azizongcinga zikaThixo neendlela zakhe
Ngalo lonke ixesha uhlala wenyama, iingcinga zakho aziyi kuba ziingcinga zikaThixo kwaye uya kungazi ngendlela yakhe. Uya kuhlala ucaphula uIsaya 55 9, kwaye utsho, ukuba iingcinga neendlela zikaThixo ziphakamile kuneengcinga zenu neendlela zenu.
Kodwa kungenxa yokuba awuchithi ixesha eLizwini ukuze umazi uThixo nentando yakhe. Awuyivuli iBhayibhile ukuze uqhelane namazwi aKhe, Iingcinga zakhe, kunye neendlela. Ngoko ke awuzazi iingcinga zikaThixo and don’t know His ways.
You live the same carnal live in darkness in the bondage of sin and death as before your conversion. And because you are still carnal, your thoughts are not God’s thoughts and your ways are not His ways.
As long as your mind is carnal, you shall always see yourselves as a sinner. Because of this wrong mindset, you shall keep sinning and use the ‘once a sinner always a sinner‘ phrase as an excuse to keep sinning and to justify sin.
Ukuhamba ebungcweleni, kunye nokungcwaliswa, means to walk in the will of God. Kodwa okoko nje, as you keep doing your will, instead of His will, you shall never walk in holiness and righteousness.
The new creation is one Spirit with Him
When you stop feeding your mind and flesh with the junkfood of the world, and feed your spirit with the Word of God, then your thinking shall be renewed, kwaye iyakuhambelana neLizwi. You shall think God’s thoughts, and become one in Him and one with Him.
Inye into, that stops His Holy Spirit from working in you, yindlela yakho yehlabathi yokucinga. But when you renew your mind and think like the Word, uya kuthi, that God’s thoughts are your thoughts.
When you believe His words and become a I-DoER yegama, you will walk in His ways.
Of course God is God! But we are His children, and God gave us in Christ the heritage of becoming His children.
God gave us not only His Son Jesus Christ but also His Holy Spirit, Who dwells in His children (Owu. UYohane 3:16-21; 14:16-26; 15:26; 16:7-15).
God gave everyone the power to become a child of God and by faith and through regeneration in Christ and the abiding of the Holy Spirit to walk as a child of God on earth. Just like Jesus the Son of God (Owu. UYohane 1:12-13; 3:3-8; IZenzo 2:38).
This new life in Christ is revealed in His Word. Therefore it’s important to know what this new life in Christ means and what it doesn’t mean.
Yintoni inkqubo yongcwaliso?
The process of sanctification starts with the submission to God and yielding to His will, then the renewing of your mind, ukukholelwa kumazwi aKhe, ethobela amazwi aKhe, doing His words, nokugcina imithetho yakhe.
Uya kuyenza put off the works of the flesh kwaye put on Christ and walk by faith and do what Jesus and the Father said and commanded to do.
Okoko nje uhlala kuYe, you shall walk as the new creation, njenge manifested children of God, and live a sanctified life in Christ
‘Yiba yityuwa yomhlaba’
