ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tu‘apulelulu Tisema 7, 2017

Ko e fakahaofi kāfakafa

( The great rescue )

Fehu‘i #20

Ko hai ‘a e Huhu‘i?

( Who is the Redeemer?)

Ko e Huhu‘í  ko e ‘Eiki ko Sisu Kalaisí  pe taha, ko e ‘Alo ta‘engata ‘o e ‘Otuá, ‘a Ia na‘e hoko mai ai ‘a e ‘Otuá ‘o kakano, koe‘uhí  ke ne fua ‘a e tautea ‘o e angahalá ‘e Ia.

( The only Redeemer is the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, in whom God became man and bore the penalty for sin himself)

1 Timote 2:5

He ‘oku taha pē ‘a e ‘Otua, taha foki ‘a e Fakalaloa ‘i he vaha‘a ‘o e ‘Otua mo e tangata, ko Kalaisi Sīsū ko e tangata.

  1 TIMOTHY 2:5

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and

men, the man Christ Jesus.

Commentary - MARK DEVER (cont…)

The image of redemption in the Old Testament is one of God rescuing his people from Egypt, pulling them out of bondage, out of literal slavery. In the New Testament Jesus the Redeemer rescues us from our natural state of being in bondage to sin, of serving ourselves in destructive ways. 

But God in his great love sent his only begotten Son, who lived a perfect life, died on the cross, and then rose from the dead in order to bring us to him, to redeem us. That's what we mean when we say Jesus Christ is our Redeemer.