ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tu‘apulelulu Tisema 28, 2017

Na‘a ne pekia ke ne hoko ko hotau Huhu‘i

( He died because he would be the Redeemer )

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 - MARK DEVER

Why was it necessary for Christ, the Redeemer, to die? This is a heavy question. I don't know if questions get much heavier than this. Christ lived a perfect life, the life you and I should have lived. He lived a life of love, of service. He lived an amazing life of trust in his heavenly Father. So the question is a pressing one. Why should one like that die? Why was it morally necessary?

Well, he didn't have to die for his own sake. If we were thinkin just about Jesus, there would be no necessity for the cross. No, he died because he would be the Redeemer. It was his will, and also his

heavenly Father's will, to redeem us. It was his will to lay down his life, to sacrifice himself by dying on the cross in order to rescue us from the penalty that we deserved.