Wenzani Izaga 8:13 kusho, Ukwesaba uJehova ukuzonda okubi: ukuziqhenya, and arrogance, nendlela embi, nomlomo ophakeme, Ngabe ngiyakuzonda?
Kusho ukuthini izaga 8:13?
Okushiwo Izaga 8:13 IS, that when you walk in the fear of the Lord, you shall hate evil. To hate evil means to turn away from evil instead of doing evil.
Lapho usuzalwa ngokusha, you become a new creation and are engaseyisoni (indalo endala).
You have received the Holy Spirit and have His nature. Because of this new nature, you shall turn away from evil; isono, nobubi, Ngoba uNkulunkulu ngeke abe naso nesono.
Ngakho-ke, when you become a new creation, you will change and remove the residues from your impilo endala njengesoni.
You can only remove these residues with the help and power of the Holy Spirit and the renewing of your mind with the Word.
As soon as you vuselela ingqondo yakho with the Word of God and walk in obedience to the Word after the Spirit, you’ll experience an aversion against certain habits, carnal desires, and lusts that oppose the will of God.
The more you renew your mind, futhi ulalele futhi wenze amazwi Akhe, and transform into the image of Jesus Christ, the more you hate these evil habits, ways of thinking, njll.
How fast this transformation will go depends upon you.
The transformation in the life of the new creation
Some people change overnight and others change slowly. But when you become a new creation you will change and you shall turn from evil. Because you love the Lord Jesus and you fear the Lord God. (Funda futhi: Ingabe uyamthanda uNkulunkulu ngenhliziyo yakho yonke?).
The old man with his sinful nature has been crucified with Christ. That’s why you are delivered from the power of darkness and umthetho wesono nokufa. Because your flesh died in Christ, sin will no longer have dominion over you and be part of your life.
If you believe and accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour, but you remain the same person with the same habits, ukuziphatha, and way of thinking, futhi uqhubeke uhamba esonweni, you might ask yourselves if you are really born again and have become a new creation.
Ukwesaba uJehova ukuzonda okubi
You saw what happened at the cross when Jesus took all humanity’s sin upon Him. When the Father laid the sins of the world upon Jesus, Jesus was separated from God. Sin separates people from God. God is a holy God and can’t have communion with sin.
If God’s nature; uMoya oNgcwele, lives inside of you, then it’s impossible to keep walking in sin. That’s because His nature can’t have communion with sin.
We know absolutely that everyone who has been born of God and as a result is a regenerated individual (indalo entsha) does not keep on habitually sinning(1 UJohane 5:18)
The blood of Jesus doesn’t give a license to keep sinning. You can’t use the grace of God to keep sinning.
Do you think that Jesus approves if you keep walking after the flesh in obedience to the will of your previous father the devil?
Did Jesus die for you, so that you would remain living in the bondage of sin again?
If you keep walking in sin and do evil, you show through your life and your works that you don’t love Jesus or the Father. It shows that you don’t want to serve and obey Jesus Christ at all. Because the fear of the Lord begins with hating evil and turning away from evil as is written in Proverbs 8:13.
Jesus hates evil and His followers hate evil too
Ukwesaba uJehova ukuzonda okubi: ukuziqhenya, nokuzikhukhumeza, nendlela embi, nomlomo ophakeme, Ngabe ngiyakuzonda (Izaga 8:13).
Jesus hates evil. He hates pride, arrogance, nendlela embi (walking after the flesh in sin). He hates a froward mouth, which is a mouth full of lies, and hypocrisy. A mouth that is not managed well by the owner.
The Bible is very clear about evil. Asi, ngakho-ke, obey the instruction of God’s Word, and turn away from evil, futhi uhambe ekulungeni.
‘Yibani usawoti womhlaba’
