17. (a) Kodi Yesu anapirira mayesero otani? (b) Kodi nchiyani chimene chimasonyeza ukulu wa zoŵaŵa zimene Yesu anapirira? (Onani mawu amtsinde.)

¹⁷ Baibulo limatilimbikitsa “kupenyerera” pa Yesu ndi ‘kulingalira iye.’ Kodi ndimayesero otani amene anapirira? Ena a iwo anadza chifukwa cha uchimo ndi kusalungama kwa ena. Yesu anapirira osati kokha ndi “ochimwa otsutsana naye” komanso mavuto amene anabuka pakati pa ophunzira ake, kuphatikizapo mkangano wawo wobwerezabwereza wonena za wamkulu pakati pawo. Ndiponso, iye analimbana ndi chiyeso chachikulu koposa cha kukhulupirika. “Anapirira [mtengo wozunzirapo, NW].” (Ahebri 12:1-3; Luka 9:46; 22:24) Nkovutadi kuyerekezera za kuvutika kwamaganizo ndi kwakuthupi koloŵetsedwamo paululu wa kukhomeredwa pamtengo wozunzirapo ndi kunyazitsidwa mwa kuphedwa monga munthu wamwano.a

18. Malinga nkunena kwa mtumwi Paulo, kodi nzinthu ziti ziŵiri zimene zinachilikiza Yesu?

¹⁸ Kodi nchiyani chimene chinakhozetsa Yesu kupirira kufikira mapeto? Mtumwi Paulo akutchula zinthu ziŵiri zimene zinachilikiza Yesu kuti: ‘mapemphero ndi mapembedzero’ ndiponso “chimwemwe choikidwacho pamaso pake.” Yesu, Mwana wangwiro wa Mulungu, sanachite manyazi kupempha chithandizo. Iye anapemphera “pamodzi ndi kulira kwakukulu ndi misozi.” (Ahebri 5:7; 12:2) Iye makamaka anaona kukhala kofunika kupempherera nyonga mobwerezabwereza ndi khama pamene mlandu wake wa m’bwalo lapamwambawo unali kuyandikira. (Luka 22:39-44) Poyankha mapemphero a Yesu, Yehova sanachotse chiyesocho, koma analimbikitsa Yesu kupirira. Yesu anapiriranso chifukwa chakuti anali kulingalira za mphotho yake ya mtsogolo koposa mtengo wozunzirapo​—chisangalalo chimene akakhala nacho pochilikiza kuyeretsedwa kwa dzina la Yehova ndi kuwombola mtundu wa anthu kuimfa.​—Mateyu 6:9; 20:28.

²⁰ Nthaŵi zina tiyenera kupirira ndi misozi. Ululu wa pamtengo wozunzirapo sunali mwa iwo wokha chifukwa chosangalalira kwa Yesu. Mmalomwake, chisangalalo chake chinali pamphotho imene inali patsogolo pake. Kwa ife nkudzinyenga kuyembekezera kuti nthaŵi zonse tidzakhala achimwemwe ndi okondwa pamene tili pamayesero. (Yerekezerani ndi Ahebri 12:11.) Komabe mwakuyembekezera mphothoyo, ‘tingayese mayeserowo chimwemwe’ ngakhale pamene tikumana ndi mikhalidwe yoyesa kwambiri. (Yakobo 1:2-4; Machitidwe 5:41) Chinthu chofunika nchakuti tikhalebe olimba nji​—ngakhale pamene mayeserowo angatiliritse. Ndi iko komwe, Yesu sananene kuti, ‘Iye amene agwetsa misozi yochepa adzapulumuka’ koma anati, “Iye wakulimbika chilimbikire kufikira kuchimaliziro, yemweyo adzapulumuka.”​—Mateyu 24:13.