Ibrani 12
1 Jadi, Saudara-saudari, mengingat betapa banyaknya pahlawan iman yang sudah mendahului kita dan sekarang sedang menantikan kita, marilah kita mengikuti teladan mereka! Buanglah semua beban dan dosa yang menghalangi kita dalam pertandingan yang sudah ditetapkan Allah untuk kita jalani. Marilah kita terus berjuang sampai akhir.
We [know about] many people like that [who showed they trusted in God]. They are like a crowd of spectators [who are cheering for us inside a stadium] [MET]. Knowing that, we must put away all the things that hinder us, [as a runner puts aside everything that would hinder him because they are heavy] [MET]. Especially we must put away sinful actions that [hinder us, as a runner] sets aside clothes he does not need, clothes that would entangle him [MET]. Let us [wholeheartedly strive to achieve what God has planned for us, as someone] in a race wholeheartedly runs the course that is before him [MET].
2 Dalam pertandingan ini, hendaklah mata kita terus memandang ke depan, yaitu kepada Yesus. Dialah Perintis dan Pahlawan Iman yang terutama bagi kita, dan yang sudah menyelesaikan pertandingan-Nya dengan sempurna. Yesus tabah menahan penderitaan yang sangat memalukan di kayu salib karena Dia terus memandang ke depan, kepada sukacita yang sudah disediakan bagi-Nya di kemudian hari. Sekarang Dia duduk menantikan kita di tempat yang paling terhormat di samping takhta Allah.
And let us [keep our minds on] Jesus, [as a runner] keeps his eyes on [the goal] [MET]. Jesus is the one we should imitate in the way he perfectly trusted [God. When he died on] the cross he endured it as he suffered greatly [MTY], instead of [thinking about the things he would] rejoice about [later]. He disregarded being disgraced by [dying that way]. He is now sitting at the place of highest honor [MTY] at the throne [where God rules].
3 Karena itu, renungkanlah selalu teladan Yesus: Betapa Dia berdiri teguh ketika orang-orang berdosa menghina dan menganiaya-Nya dengan amat kejam. Bila kita meneladani Yesus, kita tidak akan mudah lemah dan putus asa.
[Jesus] patiently endured it when sinful people acted so hostilely against him. Try to act the way he did, so that you do not give up [trusting] God or become discouraged.
4 Lagipula, dalam perjuangan kita melawan dosa, kita belum sampai terbunuh.
While you have struggled against [being tempted to] sin, you have not yet bled [and died because of resisting evil, as Jesus did].
5 Janganlah melupakan nasihat TUHAN, yang menyebut kita semua sebagai anak Allah. Kata-Nya, “Anak-Ku, janganlah pandang enteng didikan-Ku. Dan janganlah berkecil hati ketika Aku menegurmu.
Do not forget [RHQ] these words [that Solomon spoke to his son, that are the same as God] would exhort you as his children: My child, pay attention [LIT] when the Lord is disciplining you, and do not be discouraged when the Lord punishes you [DOU],
6 Sebab Aku mendidik setiap anak yang Aku kasihi, dan mencambuk setiap orang yang Aku terima sebagai anak.”
because it is everyone whom he loves whom the Lord disciplines, and he punishes everyone whom he accepts as his child.
7 Jadi, waktu kita menderita karena cambukan dari Bapa surgawi, ingatlah bahwa Allah sedang memperlakukan kita sebagai anak-Nya. Wajar saja seorang ayah mendidik anaknya sendiri, bukan?
It is in order that God may discipline you that he requires you to endure the disagreeable things [that happen to you]. [When God disciplines you] he is treating you as a father treats his children. All fathers [RHQ] discipline their children [LIT].
8 Justru kalau kamu tidak pernah dididik oleh TUHAN, berarti kamu bukan anak-Nya yang sah. Karena semua anak Allah pasti dididik-Nya.
So, if you have not experienced God disciplining you just like he disciplines all his other children, you are [not true children of God] [MET]. [You are like] illegitimate children; [no father disciplines them].
9 Sebagaimana ayah kita di dunia ini pun tentu mendidik kita, dan kita menghormati ayah kita sendiri, maka sudah sepatutnya kita tunduk kepada Allah lebih lagi, sebab Dialah Bapa rohani kita. Dengan bertekun menjalani didikan-Nya, kita akan masuk ke dalam hidup yang kekal.
Furthermore, our natural fathers disciplined us [when we were young], and we respected them for doing that. So we should certainly more readily accept God our spiritual Father disciplining us, with the result that we live eternally [RHQ]!
10 Lagipula ayah jasmani kita di dunia ini mendidik kita untuk sementara saja, sesuai dengan apa yang mereka anggap baik. Tetapi didikan Bapa surgawi selalu tepat dan berguna, supaya kita disucikan sebagaimana Dia adalah suci.
Our natural fathers disciplined us for a short time in a way that they considered right, [but it wasn’t always right], but God always disciplines us [in a right way], to help us. He does it so that we may be holy as he is.
11 Memang, setiap kali kita menerima hajaran, pengalaman itu tidak menyenangkan dan malah menyakitkan. Namun didikan TUHAN itu akan membuahkan hasil yang manis, yaitu kita hidup lebih benar dan merasa tenang di hadapan Allah.
During the time that God is disciplining us, that does not seem to be something about which we should rejoice. Instead, it is something that pains us. But later it causes those who have learned from it to be peaceful and to [live] righteously.
12 Karena itu, kuatkanlah tanganmu yang lemah, dan jangan biarkan lututmu gemetar, sebab kita dipanggil untuk berlari dalam pertandingan ini.
So, [instead of acting as though you were spiritually exhausted], renew yourselves [MET] spiritually.
13 Hendaklah kakimu tetap berlari lurus ke depan. Jangan berbelok ke kiri atau ke kanan, supaya kalau orang yang lemah atau pincang mengikuti teladan kita, kaki mereka tidak terkilir karena tersandung, tetapi semakin disembuhkan dan dikuatkan.
Go straight forward [in your Christian life] [MET], in order that believers who are uncertain about their faith [will imitate you] and not ([leave God’s way/] useless [to God]) [MET]. Instead, they will be spiritually restored [MET] as an injured and useless limb is restored.
14 Berusahalah hidup damai dengan semua orang. Dan jagalah kesucian hidupmu. Karena orang yang tidak berusaha hidup suci tidak mungkin akan bertemu TUHAN.
Try to live peacefully with all people. Seek to be holy, since no one will see the Lord if he is not holy.
15 Waspadalah supaya jangan seorang pun di antara kalian meninggalkan kebaikan hati Allah. Karena orang semacam itu akan menjadi seperti tanaman beracun yang bisa menularkan kenajisannya kepada anggota jemaat yang lain.
Beware that none of you stops [trusting in] God, [who has done kind things for us that we did not deserve] (OR, Beware that you have never [experienced] God kindly [saving you]). Be on guard lest any of you [act in an evil way towards others], because your doing that will [grow like] [MET] a root [grows into a big plant], and the result [of your] doing that will be that many believers will sin and become unacceptable to God.
16 Berjaga-jagalah supaya tidak ada di antara kalian yang hidupnya cabul dan tidak menghormati Allah seperti Esau. Sebenarnya, sebagai anak pertama, dialah yang berhak menjadi pewaris ketika ayahnya meninggal. Tetapi Esau menjual haknya itu hanya demi sepiring makanan.
Do not let anyone be immoral, or be irreligious as Esau was. He exchanged the rights he had as a firstborn son for only one meal.
17 Ingatlah yang terjadi kemudian: Ketika dia berubah pikiran dan ingin menerima berkat dari ayahnya sebagai anak pertama, ayahnya menolak memberikan berkat itu kepadanya. Walaupun berderai air mata, dia tidak bisa mengubah akibat perbuatannya.
You know that after he did that, he wanted to receive [what his father would promise to give him if] he blessed him. But [his father] was unable [to change what he had already done]. And Esau found no way to change things, even though he sought tearfully to do that.
18 Menurut perjanjian yang baru, kita bisa datang kepada Allah melalui Kristus, tidak seperti umat Israel yang menerima perjanjian lama. Mereka datang mendekati tempat jasmani yang dapat disentuh, yaitu gunung Sinai. Mereka datang dengan ketakutan karena tiba-tiba awan menghitam, langit diliputi kegelapan, angin kencang menderu, dan gunung itu terbakar dengan api yang menyala-nyala.
In coming [to God] you have not [experienced things like what the Israeli people experienced] at [Sinai] Mountain. [They] approached [a mountain that God told them they] should not touch. [They approached] a blazing fire, and it was gloomy and dark [DOU], and there was a hurricane/cyclone.
19 Lalu mereka mendengar bunyi terompet surgawi yang nyaring dan suara Allah sendiri. Nenek moyang kita begitu gentar sehingga mereka meminta Musa supaya Allah tidak lagi berbicara secara langsung kepada mereka.
They heard a trumpet sounding and they heard [God] speak. The result was that those who heard it pleaded for God not to speak to them like that again.
20 Ketakutan mereka teramat besar sebab Allah sudah memerintahkan, “Siapa pun yang menyentuh gunung ini, sekalipun hanya seekor binatang, harus dilempari batu sampai mati.”
When [God] commanded them saying, “If [a person or] even an animal touches this mountain, [you] must [kill him/it by] throwing stones at him/it,” they were terrified.
21 Dan memang, pemandangan yang mereka lihat begitu dahsyat sampai Musa sendiri berkata, “Saya sangat takut dan gemetar.”
Truly, because Moses was terrified after seeing what happened [on the mountain], he said, “I am trembling because I am very afraid!”
22 Sebaliknya, kita sudah datang kepada Allah melalui perjanjian yang baru. Kita diantar oleh Kristus ke tempat rohani, Bukit Sion, yaitu Yerusalem surgawi, tempat tinggal Allah yang hidup. Kita disambut dengan sukacita sebagai warga kerajaan surga oleh ribuan malaikat,
Instead, [it is as though] you have come to [the presence of God in heaven] [MET]. [That is like what your ancestors did when they came to worship] God on Zion Hill, in Jerusalem, in the city of God who is all-powerful. You have come (OR, you are coming) to where there are countless angels, who are rejoicing as they have gathered together.
23 sebab kita datang melalui Anak Sulung Allah untuk mewarisi segala sesuatu bersama Dia. Kita adalah jemaat milik Anak Allah, dan nama kita masing-masing tertulis dalam Kitab Kehidupan di surga. Kita diterima oleh Allah, Hakim seluruh bumi, dan sekarang kita masuk dalam persekutuan semua orang benar yang sudah mendahului kita dan sudah dijadikan sempurna.
You have joined all the believers [who have privileges like] firstborn sons, whose names [God] has written down in heaven. You have come to God, who will judge everyone. You have come to where the spirits of God’s people are, people who lived righteously [before they died], and who now have been made perfect [in heaven].
24 Kita juga diterima oleh Yesus sendiri, sang Perantara dalam perjanjian yang baru! Secara rohani, kita dipercik dengan darah Yesus yang membersihkan hati nurani kita dari dosa. Darah Habel, orang yang pertama dibunuh, tidak membawa berkat melainkan kutukan. Tetapi darah Yesus membawa berkat yang besar!
You have come to Jesus, who arranged a new covenant [between us and God]. You have accepted [what he accomplished when] his blood flowed [when he died on the cross. His doing that made it possible for God to forgive us]. That is better than the blood of Abel, [who just] wanted revenge because his brother Cain murdered him.
25 Jadi Saudara-saudari, marilah kita masing-masing menjaga diri agar jangan ada di antara kita yang menolak untuk mendengar Allah yang berbicara dari surga kepada setiap kita. Sebab kalau nenek moyang kita pun tidak luput dari hukuman karena menolak pesan Allah melalui perantaraan manusia di bumi, yaitu Musa, maka terlebih berat lagi hukuman kita bila kita menolak mendengarkan Dia yang sekarang berbicara dari surga!
Beware that you do not refuse to listen to [God] who is speaking to you. The Israeli people did not escape [God punishing them] when [Moses] (OR, [God]) warned them here on earth. So we shall surely not escape [God punishing us] if we reject him when he warns us from heaven! [RHQ]
26 Pada waktu Allah berbicara kepada nenek moyang kita di gunung Sinai, suara-Nya membuat bumi bergoncang. Tetapi sekarang Dia sudah berjanji, “Sekali lagi Aku akan menggoncangkan bumi, dan bukan hanya bumi tetapi juga langit dan surga.”
The earth shook [PRS] then when he spoke [MTY] [at Sinai Mountain]. But now he has promised, “I will shake the earth again, one more time, but I will shake heaven too.”
27 Dengan kata “Sekali lagi,” jelaslah bahwa Allah bermaksud membinasakan semua ciptaan yang bisa digoncangkan, supaya yang tertinggal hanyalah hal-hal yang tidak bisa digoncangkan.
The words “again, one more time” indicate that things [on earth] will be shaken {that [he] will shake things [on earth]}, meaning that he will set aside all that [he] has created, in order that the things [in heaven] that cannot be shaken {that nothing can shake} may remain forever.
28 Jadi, karena kita sudah menjadi warga kerajaan Allah yang tidak bisa digoncangkan, hendaklah kita bersyukur kepada-Nya. Dan marilah kita menyenangkan hati Allah dengan menyembah Dia dengan penuh rasa hormat.
So, let us thank God that we are becoming members of a kingdom that nothing can shake. Let us worship/serve God in a way that pleases him by being greatly in awe [DOU] before him.
29 Karena tentang Allah kita, Kitab Suci menuliskan, Allah “bagaikan api yang membakar habis segala sesuatu yang tidak sempurna.”
Remember that the God we [worship/serve] is like a fire that burns up everything [that is impure] [MET]!
