Kodi ndi ubwino wotani ngati tiphunzira Baibulo, koma osagwiritsa ntchito malamulo a m’Baibulo kwa ife eni? Mwina takhala tikumwa mkaka wauzimu kwa nthawi yaitali. Kodi si nthawi yoti tiyambe kudya zakudya zina, monga “nyama yolimba”? Zimenezi zikutanthauza kukhala ndi chidziŵitso chozama ndi changwiro cha Baibulo. Tikamadya chakudya chapadziko lapansi chiyenera kugayidwa tisanadye zambiri. Zimatipatsa mphamvu ndi mphamvu pa zosowa zathu. Koma ngati tidya ndiyeno n’kungokhala n’kugona, osagwira ntchito kapena kuchita zinthu zolimbitsa thupi, posakhalitsa tidzanenepa ndi aulesi. Zimenezi n’zoonanso ndi chakudya chauzimu. Ngati tingowerenga ndi kuphunzira Baibulo, ngakhale kukumba mozama kuti timvetse bwino zomwe Mulungu akutiuza; ndipo komabe osachigwiritsa ntchito m'miyoyo yathu, timakhala olemera mwauzimu ndi aulesi. Ndipotu n’zotheka kutsamwitsa nyama yolimba ya m’Malemba pamene sititafuna uthenga wabwino. Taonani zimene Ambuye wathu ananena pa Yohane 12:48 : “Iye wondikana Ine, ndi kusalandira mawu Anga, ali ndi womuweruza iye; Tikhoza kuphonya chiitano chakumwamba ndi mphotho zabwino kwambiri zopezekapo mwa kusamvera mokhulupirika.

Pobwerera tsopano ku Yakobo 2:24, 26 mtumwiyo akupitiriza kuti: “Mupenya tsono kuti munthu ayesedwa wolungama ndi ntchito zake, osati ndi chikhulupiriro chokha. Pakuti monga thupi lopanda mzimu liri lakufa, choteronso chikhulupiriro chopanda ntchito chiri chakufa.” Mwachitsanzo, tenga Satana ndi ziwanda zake amene amadziwa Baibulo: Satana anagwira mawu kwa Yesu (Mateyu 4:6). Iwo amakhulupirira kuti kuli Mulungu ndipo amanjenjemera. Koma kodi zimawapindulitsa motani kukhala ndi chidziŵitso cha Baibulo popanda kuchigwiritsira ntchito kwa iwo eni? Kudziwa chabe sikuwatembenuza. Iwo akadali chimodzimodzi - ziwanda.

Kuchokera pa zonsezi, n’zoonekeratu kuti sitiyenera kukhala owerenga, kumva, kapena ophunzira Baibulo chabe. Tiyenera kugwiritsa ntchito kwa ife tokha zonse zomwe timadziwa m'Buku Lopatulika la Mulungu. Ngati tichita zimenezo, zidzasintha miyoyo yathu, kuwongolera zolakwa zathu, kukonzanso malingaliro athu, ndipo khalidwe lathu lachizoloŵezi lidzagwirizana ndi zimene taphunzira ndi zimene zavumbulidwa kwa ife. Mtumwi Petro anali ndi maganizo ofananawo pamene analemba kuti: “Chifukwa chake, abale, chitani changu kutsimikizira kuitana ndi masankhidwe anu;

Koma tiyeni tifunse kuti: Kodi ndi zinthu ziti? Kodi tiyenera kuchita chiyani khama? Kuti tipeze yankho, tiyeni tibwererenso ku vesi 5-7 m’mutu womwewo. Pamenepo Petro akuti: “Komanso chifukwa cha ichinso, potengera changu chonse, onjezerani pa chikhulupiriro chanu ukoma, pa ukoma chizindikiritso, pa chidziwitso chodziletsa, pa kudziletsa chipiriro, pachipiriro chipembedzo, pa chipembedzo chikondi cha pa abale, ndi chikondi cha pa abale chikondi. .”

Nazi zinthu zisanu ndi zitatu zomwe tiyenera kuziphatikiza m'miyoyo yathu yachikhristu ngati tikuyembekezera kupanga maitanidwe ndi masankhidwe athu kukhala otsimikizika: 1) Chikhulupiriro. 2) Ubwino. 3) Chidziwitso. 4) Kudziletsa. 5) Kupirira. 6) Umulungu. 7) Kukoma mtima kwa abale. 8) Chikondi.

Moyo wachikhristu suli momwe anthu ena amauganizira. Mulungu amafuna kuti zonse zomwe zili pamwambazi zikhale mu moyo wathu wa chikhristu wa tsiku ndi tsiku kapena tidzaphonya chizindikiro. Kodi mfundo imene Petro akugogomezera ndi yotani? Iye akugogomezera kufunika osati kokha kukula m’chidziŵitso cha Mawu a Mulungu, komanso kufunika kwa kugwiritsira ntchito patokha zinthu zonsezi m’miyoyo yathu. Lemba la 1 Yohane 5:3 limatiuza kuti: “Pakuti ichi ndi chikondi cha Mulungu, kuti tisunge malamulo ake. Ndipo malamulo ake si olemetsa.” Petro akuwonjezera mu vesi 8 kuti: “Pakuti ngati izi zili mwa inu, ndipo zikasefukira, mudzakhala ouma kapena osabala zipatso pa chizindikiritso cha Ambuye wathu Yesu Kristu.

Mitengo yazipatso imakwezedwa kuti ibale zipatso. Mtengo wa zipatso umene subala zipatso nthawi zambiri umadulidwa ndi kuwotchedwa. Onani mwachitsanzo mmene mkuyu wopanda nkhuyu unatembereredwa ndi Ambuye wathu pa Mateyu 21:18, 19; ndi chenjezo la Yohane M’batizi kwa Afarisi ndi Asaduki: “Koma pamene adawona Afarisi ndi Asaduki ambiri akudza ku ubatizo wake, adati kwa iwo, Obadwa a njoka; Ndani anakuchenjezani kuti muthawe mkwiyo ulinkudza? Ngakhale tsopano nkhwangwa yaikidwa pa muzu wa mtengo. Chifukwa chake balani zipatso zoyenera kulapa, ndipo musamaganize kunena mwa inu nokha, Atate wathu tiri naye Abrahamu; Pakuti ndinena kwa inu, kuti Mulungu ali wokhoza kuutsira Abrahamu ana mwa miyala iyi… mtengo uliwonse wosabala zipatso zabwino, audulidwa, nuponyedwa pamoto.” ( Mateyu 3:7-10 ) Inde Sitingathe kukhala osabereka, tiyenera kukhala obala zipatso. Yesu akutiuza pa Yohane 15:8 kuti: “Mwa ichi alemekezedwa Atate wanga, kuti mubale chipatso chambiri; kotero mudzakhala ophunzira anga.

Koma ngati zinthu izi zolembedwa ndi Mtumwi Petro siziri mwa ife, ndiye kuti kupeza chidziwitso kwatipindulira chiyani? Mu vesi 9, timapeza yankho lakuti: “Pakuti iye amene alibe izi ali wakhungu, naiŵala kuti anayeretsedwa ku machimo ake akale. Umenewu ndi umodzi mwa misampha yoopsa kwambiri imene Mkristu angagweremo.

Tiyeni tsopano tibwerere ku “nyama yolimba” imene mtumwi Paulo akutiuza. Izi zikutanthauza kumvetsa mfundo zozama za m’Malemba. Iye amatilimbikitsa kuti tizilimbikira “kufikira ungwiro.” Zowona, sakutanthauza ungwiro wakuthupi kapena wamaganizidwe chifukwa tikamakalamba zosintha ndizowona. Paulo akulankhula za ungwiro wauzimu (kukwaniritsidwa). Iye ali ndi nkhawa kuti tisasokonezedwe ndi zoyambira, zoyambira, zoyambira kapena zoyambira za chikhulupiriro chachikhristu monga mamiliyoni achitira. Ngati ticita zimenezi, tidzalephela kupita patsogolo kuti tikule monga Mkristu wokhwima maganizo ndi kukondweletsa Mulungu.

Ngati sitichita zimene timaphunzira ndi kukhulupirira m’mitu yathu, potsirizira pake, kusoŵa koteroko kudzatichititsa kuiŵala zimene taphunzira ndipo sitidzadaliranso Mawu a Yehova kuti atichirikize ndiyeno tingakhale pangozi ya kugwa. kutali. Kuti izi zisachitike, tiyenera kukhala akuchita Mawu osati ongomva chabe (Aheb. 6:4-6). Tiyenera kukhala omvera.

Munamva za fanizo la matalente lolembedwa pa Mateyu 25:14-30 . Chonde khalani ndi nthawi yowerenga mavesiwa. Tsopano tiyeni tifunse chifukwa chiyani kapolo wopanda phindu adaponyedwa kumdima wakunja? Zinali choncho chifukwa sadachite kalikonse ndi talente yomwe adalandira kuchokera kwa mbuye wake ndi cholinga chongogulitsa. + Chotero mbuye anam’landa talenteyo n’kuyipereka kwa munthu amene akanaigwiritsa ntchito bwino.

Kodi tili ngati mtumiki ameneyu, kubisa kapena kunyalanyaza matalente kapena matalente amene Yehova watipatsa? Kodi n’zotheka kuti ifenso tiweruzidwe mofanana ndi kapolo wosapindula? Ambuye sanatipatse ife matalente amenewa kuti tizibisa kapena kuwasunga kwa ife tokha, koma kuti tiziwagwiritsa ntchito pa cholinga chopindulitsa chimene chingabweretse phindu kwa Mbuye ndipo ndithudi sichidzatipindulira ife. Iye wapereka matalente amenewa kwa ife kwa kanthawi kaamba ka cholinga chenicheni. Tiyenera kuonetsetsa kuti tikuwagwiritsa ntchito bwino ndi kumumva akunena mawu abwino akuti, “Wachita bwino, kapolo wabwino ndi wokhulupirika.”

Kapolo wachitatu anali ndi mwaŵi wabwino kwambiri wotumikira mbuye wake ndi kulandira chivomerezo chake ndi talente imodzi, ngakhale kuti akanangopeza talente imodzi yokha mwa kuigwiritsira ntchito mokhulupirika. Posachigwiritsa ntchito adataya chilichonse. Momwemonso, Ambuye adzachotsa kwa inu kapena ine mwayi womwe watipatsa wa njira yokhayo yowona ya moyo - pokhapokha titagwiritsa ntchito chidziwitso ndi mwayi molingana ndi chifuniro chake. Tanena mbali yolakwika, koma palinso mbali yabwino. Izi zikupezeka mu Aheb. 6:9-11 . Izi ndi izi: “Koma, okondedwa, tikhulupirira za inu zinthu zabwino koposa, inde, zimene zili pamodzi ndi chipulumutso, tingakhale tilankhula chotere . . . mpaka kumapeto.”

What good is it, if we study the Bible, but do not apply the Biblical rules to ourselves? Perhaps we have been drinking spiritual milk for a long time. Is it not time that we began eating other food, such as “strong meat?” This means having a deeper and more perfect knowledge of the Bible. When we eat earthly food it has to be digested before we can eat more. It gives us strength and energy for our needs. But if we eat and then just sit and sleep, doing no work or exercise, before long we will become fat and sluggish. This is also true with spiritual food. If we just read and study the Bible, even digging in deeper to better understand what God is telling us; and yet never apply it in our lives, we become spiritually fat and sluggish. In fact, it is possible to choke on the strong meat of the Scriptures when we do not chew well the message. Note what our Lord had to say in John 12:48: “He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him -- the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.” We could miss out on the heavenly calling and the wonderful rewards attached to it by not being faithfully obedient.

Returning now to James 2:24, 26 the Apostle continues: “You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.” As an example, take Satan and his demons who know the Bible: Satan even quoted it to Jesus (Matt. 4:6). They believe that there is a God and tremble. Yet what good does it do them to have the knowledge of the Bible without applying it to themselves? Mere knowledge alone does not convert them. They still remain the same -- demons.

From all of the above, it is clear then that we should be more than just readers, hearers, or students of the Bible. We must apply to ourselves all that we come to know in God’s Holy Book. If we do it, it will change our lives, correct our errors, renew our minds, and our general behavior will come into harmony with what we have studied and what was revealed to us. The Apostle Peter was of this same mind when he wrote: “Therefore, brethren, be diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble” (2 Peter 1:10).

But let us ask: Do what things? How should we give diligence? For an answer, let us go back to verses 5-7 in the same chapter. There Peter says: “But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge selfcontrol, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.”

Here are eight ingredients we must include in our Christian lives if we expect to make our calling and election sure:
1) Faith. 2) Virtue. 3) Knowledge. 4) Self-control.
5) Perseverance. 6) Godliness. 7) Brotherly kindness. 8) Love.

The Christian life is not what some people make it out to be. God requires all of the above virtues to be in our daily Christian lives or we are going to miss the mark. What is the point Peter is stressing? He is emphasizing the need not just to grow in knowledge of God’s Word, but also the need to make personal application of all these ingredients in our lives. 1 John 5:3 tells us: “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.”
Peter adds in verse 8: “For if these things are in you and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Fruit trees are raised to produce fruit. A fruit tree that doesn’t produce fruit is usually cut down and burned. Notice for example how the fig tree, with no figs, was cursed by our Lord in Matt.21:18, 19; and the warning of John the Baptist to the Pharisees and Sadducees: “But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, ‘Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Even now the ax is laid to the root of the tree. Therefore bear fruit worthy of repentance, and do not think to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones…every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire’” (Matthew 3:7-10). We cannot afford to be barren, we must be fruitful. Jesus tells us in John 15:8: “By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be my disciples.”

But if these things enumerated by the Apostle Peter are not in us, then what good has the attaining of knowledge been to us? In verse 9, we find the answer: “For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.” That is one of the most dangerous traps a Christian can fall into.

Let us now return to the “strong meat” that the Apostle Paul tells us about. This means to have an understanding of the deeper truths of the Scriptures. He urges us to press on “unto perfection.” Of course, he doesn’t mean physical or mental perfection for as we get older the reverse is true. Paul is speaking of spiritual perfection (completion). He is concerned that we don’t get bogged down with the preliminaries, the rudiments, the basic or beginnings of the Christian faith as millions have. If we do that, we will fail to make the progress we need to grow up as a mature Christian and be pleasing to God.

If we don’t practice what we learn and believe in our heads, eventually, such lack will cause us to forget what we have learned and we will no longer rely on the Lord’s Word to sustain us and then we would be in danger of falling away. For this not to happen, we must be doers of the Word and not just hearers (Heb. 6:4-6). We must be obedient.

You have heard of the parable of the talents which is recorded in Matthew 25:14-30. Please take time to read these verses. Now let us ask why the unprofitable servant was cast into outer darkness? It was because he didn’t do anything with the talent he had received from his lord for the sole purpose of trafficking it. So the lord took the talent away from him and gave it to one that would make good use of it.

Are we like this servant, hiding or neglecting the talent or talents the Lord has given us? Is it a possibility that we might be judged in the same manner as the unprofitable servant? The Lord has not given us these talents for us to hide or keep to ourselves, but to use them for a profitable purpose that would bring gain for the Master and definitely not to profit us. He has entrusted these talents to us for a time for a specific purpose. We must make sure that we use them well and hear him say those fine words, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

The third servant had a splendid opportunity to serve his lord and receive his approval with the one talent even if he only had gained one more talent by using it faithfully. By not using it he lost everything. Likewise, the Lord will take away from you or me the opportunities He has given us of the only true way of life - unless we use the knowledge and opportunities according to His expressed will. We have stated the negative aspect, but there is also a positive side. This is found in Heb. 6:9-11. Here it is: “But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, yes, things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this manner… And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end.”

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