ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Pulelulu Tisema 27, 2017

‘a e ta‘e fa‘a‘auha ma‘ae ‘auha

( the incorruptible for the corruptible )

Fehu‘i #24

Ko e ha e ‘uhinga na‘e pau ai kia Kalaisi, ‘a e Huhu‘í , ke pekiá?

Koe‘uhí, ko mate ‘a e tautea ‘o e angahalá, na‘e finangalo lelei ‘a Kalaisi ke pekia ko hotau fetongi ke ne fakahaofi kitautolu mei he mafai mo e mo‘ua ‘o e angahalá, pea ke fakafoki kitautolu ki he ‘Otuá. Koe‘uhí ko ‘ene fetongi kitautolu ‘i he‘ene pekiá, ko Ia tokotaha pe ‘oku ne totongi huhu‘i kitautolu mei heli pea ma‘u ai mo hotau fakamolemole‘i mei he angahalá , ma‘oni‘oní pea mo e mo‘ui ta‘engatá.

Why was it necessary for Christ, the Redeemer, to die?

Since death is the punishment for sin, Christ died willingly in our place to deliver us from the power and penalty of sin and bring us back to God. By his substitutionary atoning death, he alone redeems us from hell and gains for us forgiveness of sin, righteousness, and everlasting life.

Kolose 1:21-22

‌Pea ko kimoutolu foki na‘e fakahee‘i mu‘a, pea mou nofo ko e ngaahi fili ‘i loto, ‘o hā ‘i ho‘omou ngaahi ngāue na‘e kovi; ka ‘i he taimi ni kuo ne fakalelei kimoutolu ‘aki ‘a e pekia ‘a hono sino kakano, koe‘uhi ke ne ‘atu kimoutolu ‘oku mou mā‘oni‘oni mo ta‘emele mo ta‘elau‘i ‘i he‘ene ‘afio hifo.

COLOSSIANS 1:21-22

And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil

deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him.

Commentary - ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

Thus, taking a body like our own, because all our bodies were liable to corruption of death, He surrendered His body to death instead of all, and offered it to the Father. This He did out of sheer love for us, so that in His death all might die, and the law of death thereby be abolished because, having fulfilled in His body that for which it was appointed, it was thereafter voided of its power for men.

This He did that He might turn again to incorruption men who had turned back to corruption, and make them alive through death by the appropriation of His body and by the grace of His resurrection. Thus He would make death to disappear from them as utterly as straw from fire.