Saturday February 18, 2017
“Point us back to Christ”
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness:
He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit,
seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken
up in glory.
1 Timothy 3:16
Conviction of Sin (ongo‘i tautea ‘i he angahala)
A. The
author of conviction (tokotaha ‘oku lea
o‘o)
Conviction of sin
Conviction
of righteousness is produced because Christ goes to the father (John
16:10). It would be possible to understand these words in isolation as
referring to the sense a awakened in the hearts of the convicted that they lack
righteousness, and that this is what Christ supplies. But that does not clarify
the whole statement, nor does it take account of the emphasis of the spirits
work in directing attention to the Lord Jesus Christ.
The words “because I go to the father” provide us
with a clue to interpretation. Christ goes in the father, in John’s
terminology, by death, resurrection and ascension (John 14:12, 28; 16:28). It
is to these events at the Spirit will bear witness because they provide the
divine vindication of Christ. They show that God has justified his son in the
face of man’s rejection of him. He seems to be to this that Paul alludes in 1
Timothy 3:16, when he says that Christ was vindicated by the Spirit (perhaps
primarily in the resurrection, Romans 1:4). When the Spirit displays Christ
righteousness, he thereby displays man’s guilt, and the springs and abiding
sense and conviction as a consequence.
But you are
a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people,
that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of
darkness into His marvelous light; - 1 Peter 2:9
Ka ko kimoutolu ko e ha‘a fili, ko e tu‘unga
taula‘eiki fakatu‘i, ko e kakai tapu, ko e fa‘ahinga ‘oku ma‘ane me‘a tonu,
koe‘uhi ā ke mou ongoongoa atu ‘a e ngaahi lelei ‘o ‘Ene ‘Afio, ‘a ia na‘a ne ui mai kimoutolu mei he po‘uli ki
he maama fakaofo ‘a‘ana: - 1
Pita 2:9
Bible Reading Plan: (52 weeks; 5 days a week)
Week
6 – Exodus 22-24; Psalm 109; Eph 6
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