Izulu noma isihogo, lokho ukukhetha abantu okufanele bakwenze phakathi nokuphila kwabo eMhlabeni. God gave every person a free will to believe Him and His Son Jesus Christ and choose life, and receive eternal life and go to heaven or to reject Him and His Son, and choose death and in the end hell and the second death in the eternal lake of fire. Let’s look at the way of salvation that leads to heaven and the way of death that leads to hell.
UJesu ukuphela kwendlela eya kuNkulunkulu
The only way to be saved and to be transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of Heaven and be reconciled with God is through the Messiah: UJesu Kristu. There is no other way to God and to eternal life.
Jesus Christ is the only way. Jesus is the Messiah, INdodana kaNkulunkulu, Umpristi Ophakeme, Inkosi Yamakhosi, and the Lord of lords.
Wonke umuntu kufanele abhekane noJesu. Uzobhekana noJesu Kristu phakathi nokuphila kwakho noma ngemva kokuphila kwakho emhlabeni.
Lapho usebenza noJesu, phakathi nokuphila kwakho, it means that you believe in Him as the Son of God and the Saviour of mankind, and repent and be born again in Him and make Jesus Christ the Lord of your life.
But if you don’t believe in Jesus and don’t acknowledge Him as the Saviour of mankind and you don’t make Him the Lord of your life and don’t do what He says, you will automatically deal with Jesus after you die, njengoMahluleli. (Funda futhi: Ingabe uJesu uzoba nguMsindisi wakho noma uMahluleli wakho?)
UJesu uzonibhabhadisa ngoMoya oNgcwele nangomlilo
KuMathewu 3:11-12 kanye noLuka 3:15-17, John the Baptist spoke about the majesty of Jesus Christ and how Jesus would baptize the people with the Holy Ghost and with fire. Many Christians think that He spoke about two baptisms in life. A baptism with the Holy Ghost and a baptism with fire.
Nokho, if we read further, we can conclude that John spoke indeed about two different baptisms, but these baptisms are not both during life on earth.
The baptism with the Holy Ghost is during life on earth for the people that believe and repent and are baptized in Christ’s death and resurrection. They are justified in Christ and receive the Holy Spirit from the Father.
I ukubhabhathizwa ngomlilo is after life and after the judgment.
It is the baptism in the eternal lake of fire that is meant for all the adversaries of God: for all the ungodly wicked people that didn’t believe but rejected God and His Son Jesus Christ and did not do what He said, but walked in sin and iniquity.
I Abalandeli bakaJesu Christ will not be thrown into the unquenchable eternal fire if they do what He said and keep His commandments and do the will of the Father, Ngubani osezulwini.
Jesus promised His disciples the baptism with the Holy Ghost. This baptism with the Holy Ghost showed that they were redeemed by the blood of Jesus, justified in Christ, futhi kwakungekaNkulunkulu. The Holy Ghost in them would testify that they were born of God and belonged to Him and were His children. (Oh. UJohane 3:5-6; 14:15-17; 2 AbaseKorinte 5:21; AmaRoma 8:11-17; Kwabase-Efesu 2:13; amaHebheru 9; 1 UPetru 1:2-19; 1 UJohane 3:9).
Umbhaphathizo ngoMoya oNgcwele
Ngosuku lwePentekosti, the disciples received the baptism of the Holy Ghost; isithembiso sikaBaba. As the believers were all together in prayer, kwezwakala umsindo uvela ezulwini njengowomoya ovunguza ngamandla. This sound of a rushing mighty wind filled all the house. Kwabonakala kubo izilimi ezinjengobavukile zinjengomlilo, Futhi yahlala phezu kwayo ngamunye wabo. They were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
This is the one baptism with the Holy Ghost. It is the baptism that Jesus promised to His disciples.
Nowhere in the Bible is it written that they were filled with the Holy Ghost and later on with fire. Cha, the cloven tongues like as of fire that sat upon each of them, whereby they began to speak with other tongues, proved that they were baptized with the Holy Ghost.
Lona umbhabhadiso owodwa: umbhaphathizo kaMoya oNgcwele. It’s the baptism that Jesus Himself promised to His disciples. Kwakuyi- kuphela baptism they were waiting for. It was the only baptism they needed to be a witness of Jesus Christ and to proclaim the gospel and bring the Kingdom of God to the people and to teach all the nations.
Futhi kungazelelwe kwavela umsindo ovela ezulwini njengomoya onamandla, Futhi yagcwalisa yonke indlu ababehlala kuyo. Kwabonakala kubo izilimi ezinjengobavukile zinjengomlilo, Futhi yahlala phezu kwayo ngamunye wabo. Futhi bonke bagcwala ngoMoya oNgcwele, futhi waqala ukukhuluma ngezinye izilimi, Njengoba umoya ubanikeza inkulumo
IzEnzo 2:2-4
Lisho ukuthini igama elithi umbhabhadiso?
Ubhapathizo luhunyushwe egameni lesiGreki elithi ‘baptisma’ kanye nezindlela: ubhapathizo. Leli gama lisuselwa egameni elithi 'baptizo'. Baptizo means: ukwenza ukuhleka (kusho ukumboza ngokuphelele ngoketshezi), ukucwilisa, ukugeza, ukucwilisa.
To be baptized means: ukucwiliswa okuphelele. Ebhekise kuMathewu 3, kusho ujuthi: ukucwiliswa okuphelele, being fully dipped into the Holy Ghost, and fully immersed, acwiliswe ngokuphelele emlilweni.
Ubhapathizo lomlilo
Lesi sithembiso sokucwiliswa ngokugcwele ngoMoya oNgcwele senzeka ngosuku lwePhentekoste. But the full immersion with fire; ubhapathizo lomlilo, akukenzeki. The Bible speaks about the baptism with fire in Revelation 20:
USathane owabadukisayo waphonswa echibini lomlilo nesibabule, lapho kukhona isilo nomprofethi wamanga, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever And I saw a great white throne, lalowo ohlezi phezu kwalo, obuso bakhe kwabaleka umhlaba nezulu; kabafunyanwanga indawo yabo.
Ngabona abafileyo, ezincane nezinkulu, yima phambi kukaNkulunkulu; izincwadi zavulwa: nenye incwadi yavulwa, okuyincwadi yokuphila: nabafileyo bahlulelwa ngalokho okulotshiwe ezincwadini, ngokwemisebenzi yabo.
Ulwandle lwakhipha abafileyo ababekulo; nokufa nesihogo kwakhipha abafileyo ababekukho: bahlulelwa yilowo nalowo njengokwemisebenzi yakhe. Ukufa nesihogo kwaphonswa echibini lomlilo.
Lokhu kungukufa kwesibili. Ongafunyanwanga elotshiwe encwadini yokuphila waphonswa echibini lomlilo (IsAmbulo 20:10-15)
Yilokhu uJohane uMbhapathizi ayebhekisela kukho. UJohane uMbhapathizi wayemazi uJesu Kristu, iNdodana kaNkulunkulu. Wayewazi amandla negunya likaJesu Kristu futhi wazisa abaFarisi ngakho.
The devil is a liar, deceiver and murderer
The father of fallen man and the ruler (inkosana) womhlaba, usathane, ungumkhohlisi, umqambimanga, nombulali. The devil tries to deceive and captivate as many people as possible. He wants to destroy and take them with him into the eternal lake of fire.
The eternal lake of fire is the eternal destination of the devil, the fallen angels that followed him in heaven, and all the people that followed him on earth.
Do you choose heaven or hell
Jesus came to deliver people from the power of the devil, isono, and death that operate in the sinful flesh. Jesus loves you so much that He gave Himself for you. He carried all your sins and iniquities in His flesh on the cross.
Jesus wants you to go to heaven, He doesn’t want you to go to hell and that your final destination will be the eternal lake of fire. He wants you to believe in Him and repent of your old life as a sinner. He wants you to turn to Him and love Him and receive eternal life and go to heaven.
UJesu wenza konke ayengakwenza ukuze akusindise. Manje, kukuwe ukuthi unqumani.
Ingabe uzokholwa kuJesu Kristu, iNdodana kaNkulunkulu? Do you believe in His work of redemption and accept Jesus as Savior and Lord? Noma cha?
Uma ungamamukeli uJesu Kristu njengoMsindisi wakho, khona uJesu uyakuba nguMahluleli wakho.
If you don’t choose life but reject the Word of life, khona-ke ngokuzenzakalelayo ukhethe ukufa. Lapho uJesu eba nguMahluleli wakho uzobhapathizwa ngombhapathizo womlilo.
Ngakho-ke, yenza ukukhetha okufanele, while you still have the ability to make a choice. Ngoba tomorrow, it may be too late.
‘Yiba usawoti womhlaba’
