Holi Spirit Em i Wanem Samting?
WANPELA taim Jisas i askim ol disaipel bilong em olsem: “Sapos pikinini bilong wanpela bilong yupela em i askim papa long givim wanpela pis long em, ating papa bai i givim em wanpela snek nogut, a? Nogat. Na sapos pikinini i askim papa long givim em wanpela kiau, ating papa bai i givim em wanpela binatang nogut, a? Em tu nogat.” (Luk 11:11, 12) Ol pikinini i stap long Galili ol i save amamas long kaikai kiau na pis. Ol i save long wanem kain kaikai ol i laikim.
Jisas i tok yumi mas wok long askim God long givim holi spirit long yumi, wankain olsem wanpela pikinini i hangre na i askim long kisim kaikai. (Luk 11:9, 13) Taim yumi save gut long wok bilong holi spirit, dispela bai helpim yumi long kliagut long as na yumi mas i gat holi spirit. Orait pastaim yumi ken skelim tok Baibel i mekim long holi spirit.
“Strong Bilong God Antap Tru”
Baibel i kamapim klia olsem holi spirit em i strong God i save yusim bilong mekim ol samting bilong kamapim laik bilong em. Ensel Gebriel i toksave long Maria olsem em bai karim wanpela pikinini man, maski em i no bin slip wantaim wanpela man, ensel i tokim em olsem: “Holi Spirit bai i kam long yu, na strong bilong God Antap Tru bai i karamapim yu. Olsem na dispela pikinini bihain bai yu karim, em bai i stap gutpela na stretpela man bilong God, na ol bai i kolim em Pikinini Bilong God.” (Luk 1:35) Tok bilong Gebriel i soim olsem holi spirit na strong bilong “God Antap Tru” i wankain samting.
I gat ol narapela skripsa tu i kamapim wankain tingting. Profet Maika i tok: “Spirit bilong Bikpela i givim bikpela strong long mi.” (Maika 3:8) Jisas i tokim ol disaipel bilong em: “Bihain Holi Spirit bai i kam i stap long yupela, na yupela bai i kisim strong.” (Aposel 1:8) Na aposel Pol i stori long “strong bilong Holi Spirit.”—Rom 15:13, 19.
Ol samting yumi skelim pinis i givim wanem tingting long yumi? Holi spirit na strong bilong God i wankain samting. Holi spirit em strong bilong Jehova em i save mekim wok long en bilong kamapim ol samting em i tingting pinis long mekim. Em wanpela bikpela strong tru! I hatwok long yumi tingim bikpela strong God i bin yusim bilong wokim heven na graun em i bikpela olsem wanem. Long rot bilong profet Aisaia, Jehova i tokim yumi long tingim ol dispela samting: “Yupela lukluk i go antap long skai na lukim ol sta samting i stap antap. Husat tru i bin wokim ol? Em Bikpela tasol. Ol dispela samting i olsem lain ami bilong Bikpela. Em i save long namba bilong ol, na em i save long nem bilong wan wan bilong ol, na em i save kolim ol long nem bilong ol. Em i gat olgeta strong, olsem na i no gat wanpela bilong ol dispela samting inap lus.”—Aisaia 40:26.
Dispela tok bilong Baibel i kamapim klia olsem olgeta samting long heven na graun i stap stret na i wok gut wantaim long rot bilong dispela strong bilong God i Gat Olgeta Strong. Tru tumas, strong bilong God i bikpela tru, na yumi ol man i stap laip, long wanem, God i bin mekim wok long dispela strong.—Lukim blok “Holi Spirit i Mekim Wok.”
Jehova inap yusim holi spirit bilong em long mekim bikpela wok kain olsem em i bin mekim taim em i wokim heven na graun. Tasol em inap mekim wok long en tu bilong helpim ol man. Baibel i gat planti stori i kamapim klia olsem wanem strong bilong God i bin strongim ol wokman bilong em.
“Spirit Bilong Bikpela i Kam i Stap Long Mi”
Wok Jisas i mekim hia long graun i helpim yumi long kisim save long olsem wanem holi spirit bilong God inap strongim ol wokman bilong God. Jisas i tokim ol manmeri bilong Nasaret olsem: “Spirit bilong Bikpela i kam i stap long mi.” (Luk 4:18) Jisas i mekim wanem ol wok long rot bilong “strong bilong Holi Spirit?” (Luk 4:14) Em i oraitim olgeta kain sik, mekim dai biksi, long rot bilong sampela bret na pis em i givim kaikai long planti tausen manmeri, na tu, em i kirapim bek ol man i dai pinis. Aposel Pita i tok: “Yupela yet i save long ol strongpela wok na ol kain kain mirakel God i bin wokim namel long yupela long han bilong [Jisas].”—Aposel 2:22.
Tru, long nau holi spirit i no kamapim ol kain mirakel olsem. Tasol maski i olsem, em inap mekim planti gutpela samting bilong helpim yumi. Jehova i save amamas long givim holi spirit long ol man i lotuim em, olsem Jisas i bin tokim ol disaipel bilong em. (Luk 11:13) Olsem na aposel Pol inap tok: “Long strong bilong [God] mi inap mekim olgeta samting.” (Filipai 4:13) Olsem wanem? Holi spirit inap helpim yu tu? Stori i kamap bihain bai bekim dispela askim.
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Holi spirit i no wanpela man
Baibel i tok holi spirit i olsem wara. God i tok promis long ol gutpela samting bai painim ol lain bilong em long bihain na em i tok: “Bai mi kapsaitim wara long graun i sot long wara, na mekim wara i ran long graun i drai. Na bai mi kapsaitim spirit bilong mi long ol pikinini bilong yupela. Na bai mi mekim gut long ol tumbuna pikinini bilong yupela.”—Aisaia 44:3.
Taim God i kapsaitim holi spirit bilong em long ol wokman bilong em, “holi spirit i pulap” long ol. Baibel i tok holi spirit i pulap long Jisas, Jon Bilong Baptais, Pita, Pol, Barnabas, na ol disaipel husat i bin bung wantaim long Pentikos 33 C.E.—Luk 1:15; 4:1; Aposel 4:8; 9:17; 11:22, 24; 13:9.
Olsem wanem? Yu ting wanpela man inap ‘kapsait’ antap long planti narapela narapela man? Yu ting wanpela man inap “pulap” insait long planti manmeri wantaim? Nogat. Dispela i no inap. Baibel i tok gutpela save na tingting i pulap long ol manmeri, tasol Baibel i no stori long wanpela man i pulap long narapela man.—Kolosi 1:9.
Tok Grik ol i tanim olsem “spirit” em pneuʹma, na inap makim wanpela strong ol man i no inap lukim long ai. Wanpela buk (Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words bilong Vine) i tok, dispela tok pneuʹma “i makim win . . . na win man i pulim long nus, na moa yet em i makim holi spirit, em olsem win yumi no inap lukim o holim, na em i gat bikpela strong.”
Dispela i kamapim ples klia tru olsem holi spirit i no wanpela man.a
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a Bilong kisim sampela save moa lukim, “Stretpela Save Long Papa, Pikinini, na Holi Spirit,” long pes 202-204 long buk Tru Tru Baibel i Tok Wanem?, em ol Witnes Bilong Jehova i wokim.
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