ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Falaite Novema 17, 2017

Ko e me‘afua pe ‘oku ‘otua mo‘oni ‘a e ‘Otuá ‘iate koe

( The test for is God is truly god in your life )

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Fehu‘i #17

Ko e hā ‘a e tauhi ‘aitoli?

( What is idolatry? )

Ko e tauhi ‘aitolí, ko e tu‘u ‘ete falalá ‘i he ngaahi me‘a fakatupú ‘o ‘ikai ‘iate Ia na‘a ne fakatupú, ke ma‘u mei ai ‘a ‘ete ‘amanakí mo e fiefiá, mo hoto mahu‘ingá mo e malu‘í.

( Idolatry is trusting in created things rather than the Creator for our hope and happiness, significance and security )

Loma 1:21, 25

21) Koe‘uhi neongo na‘a nau ‘ilo ki he ‘Otua, ka na‘e ‘ikai te nau fakahīkihiki‘i ia, pe fakafeta‘ia, ‘o ngali ko e ‘Otua: kaekehe na‘e taka launoa ‘enau ngaahi fakakaukau; pea po‘uli tu‘u honau loto ta‘e‘ilo…25) he fa‘ahinga ko ia na‘a nau tuku ‘a e mo‘oni ‘a e ‘Otua, ka nau fai‘aki ‘a e koto loi; ‘o nau lotu mo tauhi ki he me‘a kuo ngaohi, ‘o laka ‘iate ia na‘a ne ngaohi, ‘a ‘Ene ‘Afio ‘oku ‘o‘ona ‘a e fakamālō ‘o lauikuonga. ‘Ēmeni."

ROMANS 1:21, 25

For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their hearts were darkened ... They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator…

Commentary - MARTIN LUTHER (cont…)

Question and explore your own heart thoroughly, and you will find out if it embraces God alone or not. Do you have it in your heart to expect nothing but good things from God, especially when you are in trouble and in need? And does your heart in addition give up and forsake everything that is not God? Then you have the one true God. On the other hand, is your heart attached to and does it rely on something else, from which you hope to receive more good and more help than from God? And when things go wrong, do you, instead of fleeing to Him, flee from Him? Then you have another god, a false god, an idol.