Injili ya Yohana — Sehemu ya 10

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Utangulizi — Katika Chumba cha JuuIntroduction — In the Upper Room

Usiku ule kabla ya msalaba, Yesu aliwakusanya wanafunzi wake katika chumba cha juu na kuwapa fundisho lake la mwisho, la ndani kabisa — sura zile (Yohana 14–17) ambazo mara nyingi huitwa Hotuba ya Chumba cha Juu. Kwa namna fulani, ilikuwa mahafali yao kutoka katika seminari yake, na Bwana mwenyewe akiwa msemaji mkuu: akifupisha yale ambayo hawapaswi kuyasahau kamwe, akiwaonya juu ya majaribu yatakayokuja, na akiwaelekeza kwenye kweli ambazo wangeishi nazo na kufa kwa ajili yake. Katika sura hizi misemo miwili zaidi kati ya misemo yake mikuu ya "MIMI NDIMI" inaonekana, na kwa hiyo ile saba inakamilika: mkate, nuru, mlango, mchungaji mwema, ufufuo na uzima — na sasa njia, na mzabibu wa kweli. Wa kwanza unatuambia jinsi ya kuja kwa Baba; wa pili unatuambia jinsi ya kubaki hai baada ya kuja. Kwa pamoja inajibu maswali mawili yaliyo ya ndani kabisa ya nafsi: Nitafikaje nyumbani kwa Mungu? Na nitaishije mpaka nifike huko?On the night before the cross, Jesus gathered His disciples in the upper room and gave them His final, most intimate teaching — the chapters (John 14–17) often called the Upper Room Discourse. It was, in a sense, their graduation from His seminary, with the Master Himself as the keynote speaker: summarizing what they must never forget, warning them of the trials to come, and pointing them to the truths they would live and die by. In these chapters two more of His great "I AM" sayings appear, and with them the seven are complete: the bread, the light, the door, the good shepherd, the resurrection and the life — and now the way, and the true vine. The first tells us how to come to the Father; the second tells us how to stay alive once we have come. Together they answer the two deepest questions of the soul: How do I get home to God? And how do I live until I get there?

I. "Msifadhaike Mioyoni Mwenu"I. "Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled"

Anaanza kwa faraja, kwa maana mioyo yao ilikuwa ikivunjika: "Msifadhaike mioyoni mwenu; mwaminini Mungu, niaminini na mimi. Nyumbani mwa Baba yangu mna makao mengi... maana ninakwenda kuwaandalia mahali. Nami nikienda na kuwaandalia mahali, nitakuja tena niwakaribishe kwangu; ili nilipo mimi, nanyi mwepo" (Yohana 14:1–3). Mbingu si ndoto za mchana wala "matumaini hewa." Ni mahali halisi — nyumba ya Baba, nyumbani halisi kwa mwamini. Neno lililotafsiriwa "makao" (katika tafsiri nyingine za Kiingereza "mansions," yaani majumba ya fahari) maana yake ni vyumba tu, mahali pa kukaa; hatujaahidiwa majumba ya marumaru bali mahali palipoandaliwa na Kristo mwenyewe, na kila mahali palipoandaliwa patakuwa pazuri.He begins with comfort, for their hearts were breaking: "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions... I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also" (John 14:1–3). Heaven is not wishful thinking or "pie in the sky." It is a real place — the Father's house, the believer's true home. The word translated "mansions" simply means rooms, abiding places; we are not promised marble palaces but a place prepared by Christ Himself, and every prepared place will be beautiful.

"Njoo nyumbani." Mjane mmoja aliwahi kuishi na mwanawe mdogo katika chumba kitupu cha darini, mbali na nchi yake ya asili ambayo aliiacha, kinyume na matakwa ya familia yake, ili aolewe na mwanamume ambaye baadaye alifariki na kuwaacha bila kitu. Saa zenye furaha zaidi katika maisha ya kijana yule zilikuwa pale mama yake alipomkumbatia na kumsimulia habari za nyumba ya baba yake katika nchi ya zamani — viwanja vya majani mabichi, miti mikubwa, vyakula vitamu. Hakuwahi kuiona, lakini ikawa mahali pazuri kuliko pote duniani kwake, naye akatamani kwenda. Kisha siku moja barua ikafika. Ndani yake kulikuwa na fedha za safari na kipande cha karatasi chenye maneno mawili kwa mkono wa babu yake: "Njoo nyumbani." Hicho ndicho kiini cha yale anayosema Yesu. Ametangulia kwenda nyumbani kwa Baba, na siku moja neno hilo litatufikia sisi pia."Come home." A widow once lived with her small son in a bare attic, far from the homeland she had left, against her family's wishes, to marry a man who had since died and left them nothing. The happiest hours of the boy's life were when his mother gathered him up and told him of her father's house in the old country — the green lawns, the great trees, the wonderful meals. He had never seen it, yet it became the most beautiful place in the world to him, and he longed to go. Then one day a letter came. Inside was money for the journey and a slip of paper with two words in his grandfather's hand: "Come home." That is the heart of what Jesus says. He has gone ahead to the Father's house, and one day the word will come for us too.

II. "Mimi Ndimi Njia, na Kweli, na Uzima"II. "I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life"

Tomaso, yule mwenye mashaka ya kweli siku zote, akadakia: "Bwana, sisi hatujui uendako, basi njia tunaijuaje?" Yesu hakumpa ramani wala maelekezo ya njia. Alimpa Mtu: "Mimi ndimi njia, na kweli, na uzima; mtu haji kwa Baba, ila kwa njia ya mimi" (Yohana 14:6). Kila neno linajibu hitaji. Yeye ndiye Njia — na kinyume cha njia ni kupotea. Si kila barabara hufika mahali inapokusudiwa, hata kama inasafiriwa kwa unyofu kiasi gani; Yesu alisema mwishowe kuna njia mbili tu, njia pana ambayo wengi huifuata na ambayo mwisho wake ni uharibifu, na njia nyembamba ya unyenyekevu na utii ambayo ni wachache wanaoiona. Naye anasema waziwazi kwamba Yeye mwenyewe ndiye Njia pekee ya kumfikia Baba; kila barabara nyingine inayoahidi kumfikia Mungu huku ikimzunguka Yeye inapungukiwa. Yeye ndiye Kweli — si mwalimu tu wa mambo ya kweli bali ndiye Kweli katika nafsi, hivi kwamba kumjua Yeye ni kujua kilicho halisi. Yeye ndiye Uzima — na mtu asiye naye si kwamba hana elimu tu au hana bahati, bali amekufa kiroho, yu hai kwa ulimwengu lakini amekufa kwa Mungu. Kristo peke yake ndiye anayeweza kumfanya mtu kama huyo kuwa hai kweli, akimpa uzima tele sasa na uzima wa milele hata milele.Thomas, ever the honest doubter, broke in: "Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?" Jesus did not hand him a map or a set of directions. He gave him a Person: "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me" (John 14:6). Each word answers a need. He is the Way — and the opposite of the way is being lost. Not every road reaches the destination, however sincerely it is traveled; Jesus said there are finally only two roads, the broad way that many take and that ends in destruction, and the narrow way of humility and obedience that few find. And He says plainly that He Himself is the one Way to the Father; every other road that promises to reach God while going around Him falls short. He is the Truth — not merely a teacher of true things but the Truth in person, so that to know Him is to know what is real. He is the Life — and the person without Him is not merely uneducated or unlucky but spiritually dead, alive to the world yet dead to God. Only Christ can make such a one truly alive, giving both an abundant life now and eternal life forever.

"Sikusema dini." Alipokuwa kijana asiyetulia, Josh McDowell alijaribu kanisa, heshima ya cheo, na sherehe, akaona maisha yake ni matupu — "jehanamu hai," alisema. Akivutwa bila kupenda na kikundi cha Wakristo ambao furaha yao hakuweza kuieleza, aliegemea nyuma kitini mwake na kudai, "Niambieni — ni nini kilichobadilisha maisha yenu?" Msichana mmoja alimtazama moja kwa moja machoni na kusema maneno mawili: "Yesu Kristo." Akajibu kwa ukali kwamba amechoshwa na dini. Naye akamjibu, "Bwana, sikusema dini. Nilisema Yesu Kristo." Tofauti hiyo ilimvunja, na baada ya kujifunza kwa muda mrefu ushahidi, alifikia kukiri kwamba Yesu ni sawasawa na vile alivyodai kuwa — njia pekee ya kumfikia Baba."I didn't say religion." As a restless young man, Josh McDowell tried church, prestige, and parties, and found his life empty — "a living hell," he said. Drawn in spite of himself to a group of Christians whose joy he could not explain, he leaned back in his chair and demanded, "Tell me — what changed your lives?" A young woman looked him straight in the eye and said two words: "Jesus Christ." He snapped back that he was fed up with religion. She answered, "Mister, I didn't say religion. I said Jesus Christ." That distinction undid him, and after long study of the evidence he came to confess that Jesus is exactly who He claimed to be — the only way to the Father.

III. "Mimi Ndimi Mzabibu wa Kweli"III. "I Am the True Vine"

Wakiwa bado katika chumba kile, Yesu alichukua picha ambayo kila mmoja wao aliijua, na kutoa msemo wa mwisho kati ya ile saba: "Mimi ndimi mzabibu wa kweli, na Baba yangu ndiye mkulima" (Yohana 15:1). Karibu na London kuna mzabibu unaoitwa Mzabibu Mkuu (Great Vine), uliopandwa zaidi ya miaka mia mbili na hamsini iliyopita, wenye shina lenye unene wa futi mbili na matawi yanayoenea takriban futi mia moja na ishirini, ambao bado huzaa mamia ya ratili za zabibu kila mwaka. Lakini Yesu ndiye mzabibu wa kweli, chanzo halisi cha uzima, na Baba ndiye mtunza bustani. Mkulima mwema wa mizabibu ni zaidi sana ya mkulima wa kawaida: anaujua kila mzabibu kwa ukaribu, unavyoendelea mwaka hadi mwaka, unachohitaji na lini, hata mahali hasa na pembe ya kukata. Naye hukata kweli. "Na kila lizaalo hulisafisha, ili lizidi kuzaa" (Yohana 15:2). Kupogoa si adhabu; ni upendo wenye kisu. Wakati mwingine Baba hukata kilichokufa waziwazi, lakini mara nyingi hukata hata kilicho chema na kilicho bora zaidi, ili tupate kilicho bora kabisa. Kunauma, lakini kunasaidia. Paulo aliomba mara tatu mwiba wake uondolewe, na badala yake akaambiwa, "Neema yangu yakutosha"; jambo lile lile alilotaka liondolewe lilikuwa chombo cha Mtunza Bustani cha kumfanya azae zaidi.Still in that room, Jesus reached for a picture every one of them knew, and gave the last of the seven sayings: "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser" (John 15:1). Near London there grows a grapevine called the Great Vine, planted over two hundred and fifty years ago, with a root two feet thick and branches stretching some one hundred and twenty feet, still bearing hundreds of pounds of grapes each year. But Jesus is the true vine, the real source of life, and the Father is the gardener. A good vinedresser is far more than a farmer: he knows each vine intimately, how it fares from year to year, what it needs and when, even the exact place and angle to cut. And cut he does. "Every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit" (John 15:2). Pruning is not punishment; it is love with a knife. Sometimes the Father cuts away what is plainly dead, but often He cuts away even the good and the better, so that we may have the best. It hurts, but it helps. Paul begged three times for his thorn to be taken away, and instead was told, "My grace is sufficient for you"; the very thing he wanted removed was the Gardener's tool to make him more fruitful.

IV. "Kaeni Ndani Yangu"IV. "Abide in Me"

Katikati ya picha hii kuna amri moja inayorudiwa: "Kaeni ndani yangu, nami ndani yenu. Kama vile tawi lisivyoweza kuzaa peke yake, lisipokaa ndani ya mzabibu; kadhalika nanyi, msipokaa ndani yangu" (Yohana 15:4). Neno "kukaa" ndicho kitenzi kilicho nyuma ya neno "makao" — mahali pa kuishi. Kukaa ndani ya Kristo si kujua tu habari zake, wala hata kuomba peke yake, bali ni kuishi pamoja naye katika uhusiano wa karibu, wa kifamilia, tukitambua yuko kando yetu kila dakika ya kila siku. Na zingatia jambo hili kwa makini: matunda hayaji yenyewe. Wengi hudhani kwamba Mkristo wa kweli atazaa matunda tu kwa nafsi yake; lakini Yesu anasema matunda huja tu kwa kukaa ndani yake — na kukaa nako hakuji kwenyewe, la sivyo asingelazimika kukuamuru. Usiku ule ule kila mmoja wao angeshindwa kukaa, Petro kuliko wote.At the center of the picture is one repeated command: "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me" (John 15:4). The word "abide" is the verb behind the word "abode" — a dwelling place. To abide in Christ is not merely to know facts about Him, nor even only to pray, but to live with Him in a close, family relationship, aware of Him beside us every moment of every day. And mark this carefully: fruit is not automatic. Many imagine that a real Christian will simply produce fruit on his own; but Jesus says fruit comes only by abiding — and abiding is not automatic either, or He would not have had to command it. That very night every one of them would fail to abide, Peter most of all.

Kubaki umeunganishwa na umeme. Ni kama kuchaji simu. Betri hupungua mchana kutwa, kwa hiyo tunaiunganisha na umeme; lakini tukikosa subira na kuiondoa ili tuitumie kabla haijajaa, inazimika tena. Ndivyo ilivyo kwetu: uzima na nguvu tunazohitaji hutiririka tu wakati tunabaki tumeunganishwa na Mzabibu. Stuart Briscoe aliwahi kuhubiri juu ya kukaa ndani ya Kristo kwa waamini wachanga mia moja waliobanana ndani ya jengo moja huko Poland wakati wa Vita Baridi. Dakika kumi baada ya kuanza, taa zilizimika na chumba kikawa giza tupu, naye akaendelea kuhubiri gizani. Taa ziliporudi, alishangaa kuona kila mtu amepiga magoti — nao walibaki magotini muda mrefu baada ya yeye kumaliza. "Fundisho lako lilikuwa jipya kwetu," mmoja alimwambia. "Tulitaka kuhakikisha kwamba tunakaa ndani ya Kristo."Staying plugged in. It is like charging a phone. The battery runs low through the day, so we plug it into the power; but if we grow impatient and unplug it to use it before it has charged, it dies again. So with us: the life and power we need flow only while we stay connected to the Vine. Stuart Briscoe once preached on abiding in Christ to a hundred young believers crammed into a building in Cold-War Poland. Ten minutes in, the lights went out and the room went black, and he preached on in the dark. When the lights blinked back, he was startled to see every person on their knees — and they stayed on their knees long after he finished. "Your teaching was new to us," one told him. "We wanted to make sure we were abiding in Christ."

V. Kuzaa Matunda MengiV. Bearing Much Fruit

"Mimi ni mzabibu, ninyi ni matawi. Akaaye ndani yangu nami ndani yake, huyo huzaa sana; kwa maana pasipo mimi ninyi hamwezi kufanya neno lo lote" (Yohana 15:5). Mbali na Kristo hatuwezi kufanya chochote kabisa chenye thamani ya milele, lakini tukikaa ndani yake uzima hutiririka na matunda huja. Na matunda ni zaidi ya uinjilisti peke yake, ingawa hakika yanajumuisha kuongoa roho za watu. Kila mwamini huzaa matunda kwa kutumia karama ambazo Mungu amempa — kufundisha, ukarimu, rehema, maombi — na zaidi ya yote tunda la Roho: "upendo, furaha, amani" na mengineyo (Wagalatia 5:22–23). Ulimwengu unaotazama unapoona watu wenye alama ya tunda hilo, unaona kitu ambacho hauwezi kukieleza wala hauwezi kukizalisha. Na pasipo matunda, tatizo ni la kuunganishwa — kitu fulani kinazuia mtiririko wa uzima kutoka kwa Mzabibu — na dawa yake si kukata tamaa bali kuondoa dhambi na kukaa upya ndani yake. Haya yote, Yesu anasema, ni "Hivyo ndivyo Baba yangu atukuzwavyo, kwamba mzae sana." Kwa hiyo misemo hii miwili inakutana: Njia inatuleta nyumbani kwa Baba, na Mzabibu unatuweka hai na wenye kuzaa matunda njia yote mpaka huko. Je, umekuja kwa Baba kwa ile Njia moja? Basi kaa karibu na Mzabibu, na uache uzima wake uzae matunda yake kupitia kwako."I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing" (John 15:5). Apart from Christ we can do exactly nothing of eternal worth, but abiding in Him the life flows and the fruit comes. And fruit is more than evangelism alone, though it surely includes the winning of souls. Every believer bears fruit by exercising the gifts God has given — teaching, hospitality, mercy, prayer — and above all the fruit of the Spirit: "love, joy, peace" and the rest (Galatians 5:22–23). When the watching world sees a people marked by that fruit, it sees something it cannot explain and cannot produce. And when there is no fruit, the trouble is an attachment problem — something blocking the flow of life from the Vine — and the cure is not to give up but to clear away the sin and abide afresh. All of this, Jesus says, is "to My Father's glory, that you bear much fruit." So the two sayings come together: the Way brings us home to the Father, and the Vine keeps us alive and fruitful all the way there. Have you come to the Father by the one Way? Then stay close to the Vine, and let His life bear its fruit through you.

Mtihani wa Mwisho wa Sehemu ya 10Unit 10 Final Exam

Njia ya Cheti: maswali 20 ya kuchagua jibu. Shahada ya Mshiriki: maswali ya kuchagua jibu na maswali 10 ya kujaza nafasi zilizoachwa wazi. Shahada ya Uzamili ya Huduma ya Kiungu (M.Div.) na Shahada ya Uzamili ya Teolojia (Th.M.): maswali ya kuchagua jibu, ya kujaza nafasi, na maswali 10 ya majibu mafupi. Asilimia 90 ya kila sehemu inahitajika ili kufaulu. Usipofaulu, mtihani unasubiri muda mfupi kabla ya kujaribu tena.Certificate track: the 20 multiple-choice questions. Associate: multiple choice and the 10 fill-in-the-blank questions. M.Div. and Th.M.: multiple choice, fill-ins and the 10 short-answer questions. 90% of each part is required to pass. If you do not pass, the exam waits a short time before you can try again.

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