Izinzuzo zokuchitha isikhathi noNkulunkulu

Lokhu kubheka izinzuzo zokuchitha isikhathi noNkulunkulu kucashunwe encwadini ethi Ukuchitha Isikhathi NikaNkulunkulu ngumfundisi uDanny Hodges weCalvary Chapel Fellowship eSt. Petersburg, eFlorida.

Yiba othethelelayo kakhudlwana
Akunakwenzeka ukuchitha isikhathi noNkulunkulu futhi ungaphinde uthethelele ngokwengeziwe. Njengoba sithole intethelelo kaNkulunkulu ezimpilweni zethu, kusivumele nathi ukuba sibathethelele abanye. KuLuka 11: 4, uJesu wafundisa abafundi bakhe ukuthi bathandaze bathi: "Sithethelele izono zethu, ngoba nathi sibathethelela bonke abasonayo." Kumele sithethelele ukuthi iNkosi isithethelele kanjani. Sithethelelwe kakhulu, ngakho-ke nathi sithethelela kakhulu.

Yiba nokubekezelela ngokwengeziwe
Ngithole kulwazi lwami ukuthi ukuthethelela yinto eyodwa, kepha ukwenqabela kungenye into. Imvamisa iNkosi izosiphatha endabeni yokuthethelela. Kuyasiphoxa futhi kusithethelele, kusivumele ukuthi sifike ezingeni lapho, khona-ke, singamthethelela umuntu ositshele ukuthi asithethelele. Kepha uma lowo muntu engunkosikazi wethu noma umuntu ambona njalo, akulula lokho. Ngeke simane sixolelwe bese sihamba. Kumele sihlalisane futhi into esithethelela lo muntu kungenzeka yenzeka kaningi, ngakho-ke sizithola sidingide njalo. Singazizwa njengoPhetro kuMathewu 18: 21-22:

Ngemuva kwaloko Phetro weza kuJesu wambuta watsi: “Nkhosi, kufanele kanganani ngitsetselele umfowethu lapho angona? Kuze kube kasikhombisa? "

UJesu waphendula wathi: "Angithi kuwe, hhayi kasikhombisa, kodwa amahlandla angamashumi ayisikhombisa nesikhombisa." (NIV)

Jesu bekangasiniki sibalo setibalo. Bekusho ukuthi kufanele sithethelele unomphela, siphindaphinde futhi kaningi ngendlela edingekile, ngendlela esithethelele ngayo. Futhi intethelelo kaNkulunkulu yokuqhubeka nokubekezelela ukwehluleka kwethu namaphutha kudala ukubekezelela kithi ukungapheleli kwabanye. Esibonelweni seNkosi sifunda, njengoba u-Efesu 4: 2 echaza, ukuba 'sithobeke ngokuphelele futhi sibe nomusa; yibani nesineke, nithandane. ”

Thola inkululeko
Ngikhumbula ngesikhathi ngamukela uJesu okokuqala empilweni yami. Kwakumnandi kakhulu ukwazi ukuthi ngangixolelwe isisindo kanye necala lezono zami zonke. Ngazizwa ngikhululekile kakhulu! Akukho lutho oluqhathaniswa nenkululeko etholakala ngokuthethelelwa. Lapho sikhetha ukungathetheleli, siba yizigqila zokuthukuthela kwethu futhi kubuhlungu kakhulu lokho kuxolelwa.

Kepha lapho sesithethelela, uJesu uyasikhulula kubo bonke ubuhlungu, ulaka, intukuthelo nolaka okwake kwasibamba thina njengeziboshwa. Lewis B. Smedes wabhala encwadini yakhe, Thethelela and Khohlwa, "Uma ukhulula owonile, sika isimila esibuhlungu empilweni yakho yangaphakathi. Dedela isiboshwa, kodwa uthole ukuthi isiboshwa sangempela bekunguwe uqobo. "

Iba nenjabulo engachazeki
UJesu washo kaninginingi: "Lowo olahlekelwa ngukuphila kwakhe ngenxa yami uyokuthola" (NgokukaMathewu 10: 39 no 16:25; Marku 8: 35; uLuka 9: 24; 17: 33; NgokukaJohane 12:25. Into eyodwa ngoJesu kwesinye isikhathi esingayiboni ukuthi wayengumuntu ojabule kunabo bonke owake wahamba kulomhlaba. Umlobi ongumHeberu usinikeza umbono waleli qiniso ngenkathi ekhuluma ngesiprofetho ngoJesu esikuHubo 45: 7:

“Ubuthandile ubulungisa, wazonda ububi; ngalokho-ke uNkulunkulu, uNkulunkulu wakho ukubeke ngaphezu kwabangane bakho, ekugcoba ngamafutha entokozo. "
(Heberu 1: 9, NIV)

UJesu waziphika ukuthi ulalele intando kaYise. Njengoba sichitha isikhathi noNkulunkulu, sizoba njengoJesu futhi, ngenxa yalokho, sizoyithola nentokozo Yakhe.

Hlonipha uNkulunkulu ngemali yethu
UJesu wakhuluma kakhulu ngokuvuthwa ngokomoya maqondana nemali.

“Noma ngubani ongathembela okuncane kakhulu angathemba kakhulu, futhi noma ngubani ongathembeki okuncane kakhulu naye uyobe ungathembeki nokuningi. Ngakho-ke uma ungazange uthembeke ekuphathweni kwengcebo yezwe, ngubani okuzokwethemba ngomcebo wangempela? Futhi uma ungathembanga ngempahla yomunye umuntu, ngubani ozokunikeza ubunikazi bempahla yakho?

Ayikho inceku engakhonza amakhosi amabili. Kuphakathi kokuthi uzoyizonda enye athande enye, noma uzozinikela kwenye adelele enye. Awungeke ukhonze uNkulunkulu nemali. "

AbaFarisi, ababethanda imali, bekuzwile konke lokho futhi bamkhathaza uJesu, wathi kubo: “Nina niyanithethelela emehlweni abantu, kepha uNkulunkulu uyazazi izinhliziyo zenu. Okunconyelwa kakhulu phakathi kwabantu kuyanengeka emehlweni kaNkulunkulu. "
(Luka 16: 10-15, NIV)

Angisoze ngasikhohlwa isikhathi lapho ngizwa umngani wami ebuka ukuthi ukupha ngokwezimali akuyona indlela kaNkulunkulu yokwenyusa imali, kuyindlela yakhe yokukhulisa izingane! Njengoba kuyiqiniso. UZimu ufuna abantwabakhe bakhululeke ekuthandeni imali, okushiwo yiBhayibheli ku-1 KuThimothi 6: 10 "impande yazo zonke izinhlobo zobubi."

Njengabantwana bakaNkulunkulu, futhi ufuna ukuthi sitshale imali “emsebenzini wombuso” ngokunikela njalo komnotho wethu. Ukupha ukuhlonipha iNkosi kuzokwakha nokukholwa kwethu. Kunezikhathi lapho ezinye izidingo zingadinga ukunakekelwa ngokwezezimali, nokho iNkosi ifuna simdumise kuqala, futhi simethembe ngezidingo zethu zansuku zonke.

Mina uqobo ngikholelwa ukuthi okweshumi (ingxenye yeshumi yemali yethu) kuyindlela eyisisekelo ekunikezeni. Akufanele kube ngumkhawulo ekunikezeni kwethu, futhi ngokuqinisekile akuwona umthetho. Sibona kuGenesise 14: 18-20 ukuthi ngisho nangaphambi kokuba umthetho unikezwe uMose, u-Abrahama wanikeza okweshumi kuMelkisedeki. UMelkisedeki wayengumfanekiso kaKristu. Okweshumi kwakumele konke. Ekweshumi, u-Abrahama wavele wavuma ukuthi konke ayenakho kwakungekaNkulunkulu.

Ngemuva kokuthi uNkulunkulu abonakale kuJakobe ngephupho laseBethel, kusukela kuGenesise 28: 20, uJakobe wenza isifungo: uma uNkulunkulu eba naye, amgcine, amnikeze ukudla nezingubo zokugqoka futhi abe nguNkulunkulu wakhe, konke uNkulunkulu amnikeze khona, uJakobe ubengamnika okweshumi. Kuyacaca kuyo yonke imibhalo ukuthi ukukhula ngokomoya kusho ukunikela ngemali.

Zizwa ukugcwala kukaNkulunkulu emzimbeni kaKristu
Umzimba kaKristu akusona isakhiwo.

Yisizwe. Noma sivame ukuzwa isakhiwo sesonto okubizwa ngaso ngokuthi “isonto”, kufanele sikhumbule ukuthi isonto leqiniso lingumzimba kaKristu. Isonto nguwe kanye nami.

UChuck Colson usho le nkulumo ebalulekile encwadini yakhe, ethi Umzimba: "Ukuzibandakanya kwethu emzimbeni kaKristu akuchazeki ebudlelwaneni bethu naye." Ngikuthola kuthakazelisa kakhulu.

Kwabase-Efesu 1: 22-23 isigaba esinamandla mayelana nomzimba kaKristu. Ekhuluma ngoJesu, uthi: "Futhi uNkulunkulu wabeka zonke izinto ngaphansi kwezinyawo zakhe wammisa njengenhloko yazo zonke izinto zebandla, okuwumzimba wakhe, ukugcwala kwalowo ogcwalisa konke ngazo zonke izindlela". Igama elithi "isonto" yi-ecclesia, elisho ukuthi "ababiziweyo", libhekise kubantu bakhe hhayi esakhiweni.

UKristu yinhloko, futhi ngokuyisimangaliso ngokwanele, thina njengabantu singumzimba Wakhe lapha emhlabeni. Umzimba wakhe "ukugcwala kwakhe okugcwalisa konke ngayo yonke indlela". Lokhu kungitshela, phakathi kokunye, ukuthi asisoze sagcwala, ngomqondo wokukhula kwethu njengamaKristu, ngaphandle kokuthi sihlobene ngokufanele nomzimba kaKristu, ngoba kulapho ukugcwala Kwakhe kuhlala khona.

Ngeke siphinde sizwe konke uNkulunkulu afuna sikwazi maqondana nokuvuthwa ngokomoya kanye nokuhlonipheka empilweni yobuKristu uma singazami esontweni.

Abanye abantu abafisi ukuba nobuhlobo emzimbeni ngoba besaba abanye ukuthola ukuthi bayini ngempela. Ngokumangazayo, lapho sihileleka emzimbeni kaKristu, sithola ukuthi abanye abantu banobuthakathaka nezinkinga njengathi. Ngoba ngingumfundisi, abanye abantu banombono ongalungile wokuthi ngandlela thile ngafinyelela ukuphakama kokuvuthwa ngokomoya. Bacabanga ukuthi ayinaphutha noma ubuthakathaka. Kepha noma ngubani ohlala angizungeze isikhathi eside uzothola ukuthi nginamaphutha njengawo wonke umuntu.

Ngithanda ukuhlanganyela izinto ezinhlanu ezingenzeka kuphela ngokuba nobuhlobo emzimbeni kaKristu:

ukuba ngumfundi
Ngokubona kwami, ukufundela abafundi kwenzeka ngezigaba ezintathu emzimbeni kaKristu. Lokhu kukhonjiswe ngokusobala empilweni kaJesu. Isigaba sokuqala yiqembu elikhulu. Okokuqala uJesu wafundisa abantu ngokubafundisa ngamaqembu amakhulu: "izixuku". Kimi, lokhu kuhambelana nenkonzo yokukhonza.

Sizokhula eNKosini njengoba sihlangana ndawonye ngokomzimba ukukhuleka nokuhlala phansi kwemfundiso yeZwi likaNkulunkulu.Umhlangano weqembu elikhulu uyingxenye yokufundisa kwethu. Inendawo empilweni yobuKristu.

Isigaba sesibili yiqembu elincane. UJesu wabiza abafundi abayi-12 futhi i-Bhayibheli lisho ngokuqondile ukuthi wababiza "ukuba babe naye" (Marku 3:14).

Lesi ngesinye sezizathu ezibalulekile ezababiza. Wachitha isikhathi esiningi eyedwa nalawo madoda ayi-12 akha ubuhlobo obukhethekile nawo. Iqembu elincane yilapho siba nobudlelwano khona. Kulapho sazana khona ngokwethu ngokwakha ubuhlobo.

Amaqembu amancane afaka izinkonzo zamasonto ahlukahlukene ezifana nokuphila nobudlelwano basekhaya, izifundo zebhayibheli kwabesilisa nabesifazane, inkonzo yezingane, iqembu lentsha, ukuqwashisa ngokufinyelela kanye nenqwaba yabanye. Iminyaka eminingi ngangenela inkonzo yethu yasejele kanye ngenyanga. Ngokuhamba kwesikhathi, lawo malungu eqembu akwazi ukubona ukungapheleli kwami ​​futhi sengikubonile. Sasihlekisana nomunye ngokungafani kwethu. Kepha kwenzeka into eyodwa. Sihlangane mathupha kuleso sikhathi senkonzo sindawonye.

Ngisho namanje, ngiyaqhubeka nokubeka phambili ukubandakanyeka kuhlobo oluthile lobuzalwane beqembu elincane njalo ngenyanga.

Isigaba sesithathu sobufundi yiqembu elincane. Phakathi kwabaphostoli abayi-12, uJesu wayevame ukuhamba noPhetro, uJakobe, noJohane baye ezindaweni lapho abanye abayisishiyagalolunye babengeke baye khona. Futhi ngisho phakathi kwalaba abathathu, kwakukhona oyedwa, uJohane, owaziwa ngokuthi "umfundi uJesu amthanda" (Johane 13: 23).

UJohane wayenobuhlobo obuhlukile nobungafani noJesu obwehlukile kunobomunye 11. Iqembu elincane yilapho sithola khona ubufundi abathathu buphikisana noyedwa, babili buphikisana noyedwa noma munye naye.

Ngikholwa ukuthi isigaba ngasinye - iqembu elikhulu, iqembu elincane neqembu elincane kunazo zonke - liyingxenye ebalulekile yobufundi bethu futhi akukho ngxenye efanele ukuthi ifakwe eceleni. Kodwa-ke, kungamaqembu amancane esixhuma. Kulabo buhlobo, ngeke sikhule kuphela, kepha ngempilo yethu, nabanye bazokhula. Futhi, ukutshala kwethu imali ezimpilweni ezihambisanayo kuzoba nomthelela ekukhuleni komzimba. Amaqembu amancane, izinhlanganyelo zasekhaya kanye nezinkonzo zokuxhumana ziyingxenye ebalulekile yohambo lwethu lobuKristu. Njengoba siba nobuhlobo esontweni likaJesu Kristu, sizokhula njengamaKristu.

Umusa kaNkulunkulu
Umusa kaNkulunkulu ubonakaliswa ngomzimba kaKristu njengoba sisebenzisa izipho zethu zokomoya ngaphakathi komzimba kaKristu. Eyoku-1 Petru 4: 8-11a ithi:

Ngaphezu kwakho konke, thandanani kakhulu, ngoba uthando lumboza izono eziningi. Nikezanani umoya wokungenisa izihambi komunye nomunye ngaphandle kokububula. Wonke umuntu kufanele asebenzise noma yisiphi isipho esamukelwayo ukuze akhonze abanye, ehambisa ngomusa kaNkulunkulu ngezindlela ezahlukahlukene. Uma umuntu ekhuluma, kufanele akwenze njengomuntu okhuluma amazwi afanayo kaNkulunkulu. Uma umuntu ekhonza, kufanele akwenze ngamandla anikezwa uNkulunkulu, ukuze ezintweni zonke uNkulunkulu adunyiswe ngoJesu Kristu ... "(NIV)

UPeter unikeza izigaba ezimbili ezinkulu zezipho: ukhuluma ngezipho nokusebenzela izipho. Ungaba nesipho sokukhuluma futhi ungasazi namanje. Leso sipho somlomo akudingeki ukuthi sicutshungulwe esiteji ngeSonto ekuseni. Ungafundisa ekilasini leSikole SangeSonto, uhole iqembu lempilo, noma uhambise abafundi abathathu kwabathathu noma munye. Mhlawumbe unesipho sokukusebenzela. Kunezindlela eziningi zokusebenzela umzimba ezingezukubusisa abanye kuphela, kodwa nawe. Ngakho-ke lapho sihlanganyela noma “sixhuma” enkonzweni, umusa kaNkulunkulu uzokwembulwa ngezipho asinikeze zona ngomusa.

Izinsizi zikaKristu
UPawulu wathi kwabaseFiliphi 3:10: "Ngifuna ukwazi uKristu namandla okuvuka kwakhe kanye nenkampani yokuhlanganyela ukuhlupheka kwakhe, ngibe njengaye ekufeni kwakhe ..." Ezinye zezinhlupheko zikaKristu zitholakala kuphela emzimbeni kaKristu . Ngicabanga ngoJesu nabaphostoli, labo abakhetha ukuba naye.Omunye wabo, uJuda, wamkhaphela. Lapho umngcatshi evela kulelo hora elibalulekile eNsimini yaseGetsemane, abalandeli abathathu abasondele kakhulu kuJesu babelele.

Kufanele ngabe bathandazile. Bayidumaze iNkosi yabo futhi badumala. Lapho amasosha eza futhi ebopha uJesu, ngamunye wawo amshiya.

Ngesinye isikhathi uPawulu wanxusa uThimothi:

“Yenza konke okusemandleni ukuthi uze kimi masinya, ngoba uDemas, ngoba ethanda lomhlaba, ungilahlile waya eThessaloniki. UCrescens waya eGalatia noTito baya eDalmatia. NguLuka kuphela onami. Thatha uMarco uhambe naye, ngoba uyangisiza enkonzweni yami. "
(2 KuThimothi 4: 9-11, NIV)

UPaolo wayazi ukuthi kusho ukuthini ukulahlwa ngabangane nabantu osebenza nabo. Naye wezwa ukuhlupheka emzimbeni kaKristu.

Kuyangiphatha kabi ukuthi amaKhristu amaningi akuthola kulula ukushiya isonto ngoba elimele noma ecasukile. Ngiyaqiniseka ukuthi labo abahamba ngoba umfundisi ebadumazile, noma ibandla libadumazile, noma othile ebacasulile noma ebonile, uzobenza bahlupheke. Ngaphandle kokuthi baxazulule inkinga, lokhu kuzobathinta impilo yabo yonke yobuKristu futhi kube lula ngabo ukushiya isonto elilandelayo. Ngeke nje kuphela ukuthi bayeke ukuvuthwa, kodwa ngeke bakwazi ukusondela kuKristu ngokuhlupheka.

Kumele sikuqonde ukuthi ingxenye yokuhlupheka kukaKristu empeleni iphila emzimbeni kaKristu, futhi uNkulunkulu usebenzisa lokhu kuhlupheka ukusivuthisa.

"... uphile impilo elingana nekholi oyitholile. Thobeka ngokuphelele futhi ube nomusa; bekezelani, nilethelane uthando. Yenza yonke imizamo yokulondolozela ubunye boMoya ngezibopho zokuthula. "
(Efesu 4: 1b-3, NIV)

Ukuvuthwa nokuqina
Ukuvuthwa nokuqina kukhiqizwa ngokusebenza emzimbeni kaKristu.

Kweyoku-1 Thimothi 3:13, uthi: "Labo abaye bakhonza kahle bathola isikhundla esihle kakhulu nokuzethemba okukhulu ekukholweni kwabo kuKristu Jesu." Igama elithi "isikhundla esihle kakhulu" lisho ibanga noma ibanga. Labo abakhonza kahle bathola izisekelo eziqinile ohambweni lwabo lobuKristu. Ngamanye amagama, lapho sikhonza umzimba, siyakhula.

Ngiye ngaphawula eminyakeni edlule ukuthi labo abakhula futhi bavuthwe kakhulu yilabo abaxhumeke ngempela futhi abakhonza kwenye indawo esontweni.

Amore
U-Efesu 4:16 uthi: "Okuvela kuye umzimba wonke, uhlanganiswe futhi ubanjwe ndawonye yi-ligament ngayinye yokusekela, uyakhula futhi uthuthuka othandweni, ngenkathi ingxenye ngayinye yenza umsebenzi wayo."

Nginomqondo womzimba kaKristu oxhunyiwe engqondweni, ngithanda ukuhlanganyela engxenyeni ethile yendatshana ethokozisayo engayifunda eyayinesihloko esithi "Ndawonye Naphakade" kumagazini weLife (Ephreli 1996). Kwakungamawele ahlanganisiwe: ukumiswa ngokuyisimangaliso kwamakhanda amabili emzimbeni onochungechunge lwezingalo nemilenze.

U-Abigail no-Brittany Hensel bajoyina amawele, imikhiqizo yeqanda elilodwa okuyinto ngasizathu simbe engakhange ihlukane ngokuphelele ibe ngamawele afanayo ... Okuxakayo kwempilo yamawele kungukulinganisa nokwelashwa. Baphakamisa imibuzo efinyelela kude ngobuntu. Buyini ubuntu bodwa? Ubukhali kangakanani umngcele we-ego? Ubaluleke kangakanani ubumfihlo benjabulo? ... exhumene komunye nomunye, kepha ngokuzimela okuvikelekile, la mantombazane ayincwadi ebukhoma ku-camaraderie nokuyekethisa, ngesithunzi nokuvumelana nezimo, ezinhlotsheni zenkululeko ezicashile kunazo zonke ... anezinto eziningi zokusifundisa ngothando.
Lesi sihloko siqhubeke nokuchaza la mantombazane amabili angabodwa ngasikhathi sinye. Baphoqelekile ukuthi bahlale ndawonye futhi manje akekho ongabahlukanisa. Abafuni ukuhlinzwa. Abafuni ukwehlukaniswa. Ngamunye wabo unobuntu obuthile, akuthandayo, akuthandayo futhi akuthandayo. Kepha bahlanganyela umzimba owodwa. Futhi bakhetha ukuhlala njengoyedwa.

Isithombe esihle somzimba kaKristu. Sonke sehlukile. Sonke sinokuthanda okukodwa kanye nokuthandwa nokungathandwa okuhlukile. Kodwa-ke, uNkulunkulu wasibeka ndawonye. Futhi enye yezinto esemqoka afuna ukukhombisa yona emzimbeni onenqwaba yezitho nobuntu obuningi ukuthi into ethile kithi ihlukile. Singahluka ngokuphelele, nokho singaphila njengoyedwa. Uthando lwethu ngababili luwubufakazi obukhulu kakhulu bokuthi singabafundi bakaJesu beqiniso: "Bonke abantu bayokwazi ngalokho ukuthi ningabafundi bami, uma nithandana" (Johane 13: 35).

Ukuvala imicabango
Ngabe uzokwenza kube yinto yokuqala ukuchitha isikhathi noNkulunkulu? Ngiyawakholelwa la magama engiwakhulume phambilini. Ngihlangane nabo eminyakeni edlule emfundweni yami yokuzinikela futhi abakaze bangishiye. Yize sengithola umthombo wesilinganiso manje, iqiniso lomlayezo wakhe lingithonye ngokujulile futhi langikhuthaza.

"Inkampani kaNkulunkulu iyilungelo lawo wonke umuntu kanye nokuhlangenwe nakho okungapheli kwabambalwa."
Umbhali ongaziwa
Ngifisa ukuba ngomunye wabambalwa; Nami ngiyakhuleka.