ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tusite Novema 21, 2017

Ko e tauteá  ko e ngaue totonu ke fakahoko

( Punishment is a necessity of rightness )

Fehu‘i #18

‘E faka‘atā pe nai ‘e he ‘Otuá  kitautolu ke tau talangata‘a mo tauhi ‘aitoli ta‘e te ne tautea‘i kitautolu?

(Will God allow our disobedience and idolatry to go unpunished? )

‘Ikai, ko e fo‘i angahala kotoa pe ‘oku ne fakafepaki‘i ‘a e pule aoniu, ma‘oni‘oni mo e lelei ‘a e ‘Otuá  pea mo ‘ene lao haohaoá  pea ‘oku houhau hono finangaló  ‘i he‘etau angahalá  pea te ne tautea‘i ‘i he‘ene fakamaau haohaoá ‘i he maama ko ení  mo e maama ka hokó.

( No, every sin is against the sovereignty, holiness, and goodness of

God, and against his righteous law, and God is righteously angry with our sins and will punish them in his just judgment both in this life, and in the life to come. )

‘Efesō 5:4-5

seuke, ‘oku mahino ia kiate kimoutolu, he ‘oku mou ‘ilo, ‘ilonga ha fe‘auaki, pe ha anga‘uli, pe ha mānumanu, (ko e toko taha tauhi ‘aitoli ia) ‘oku ‘ikai hano tofi‘a ‘i he Pule‘anga ‘o Kalaisi mo e ‘Otua. ‘Oua na‘a tuku ke kākaa‘i kimoutolu ‘e ha taha ‘aki ha koto lau pē: he ‘oku hoko mo‘oni ‘i he ngaahi me‘a pehē ‘a e houhau ‘a e ‘Otua ki he hako ‘o talangata‘a.

EPHESIANS 5:5-6

For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Commentary - CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Not to punish the guilty were to exact the penalty of suffering from the innocent. Think what an injury and injustice would be inflicted upon all the honest men in London if the thieves were never punished for their roguery. It would be making the innocent suffer if you allowed the guilty to escape. God, therefore, not out of arbitrary choice, but from very necessity of rightness, must punish us for having done wrong.