ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Sapate Sanuali 28, 2018

Totongi kakato ‘e Kalaisi hoku mo‘ua!

( Christ paid my debt)

Fehu‘i #29

‘Oku founga fēfē ‘etau ma‘u ‘a e fakamo‘uí ?

‘I he tui ‘ata‘atā pe kia Sisu Kalaisi mo ‘ene pekia ko hotau fetongi ‘i he kolosí, he neongo ‘etau halaia ‘i he‘etau talangata‘a ki he ‘Otuá pea tau kei malele pe ki he ngaahi kovi kotoa pe, ka kuo hanga ‘e he ‘Otuá, ‘o 'ikai kau ki ai ha‘atau ngaue lelei, ‘i he‘ene kelesi haohaoá, ‘oku ne foaki kiate kitautolu ‘a e ma‘oni‘oni haohaoa ‘a Kalaisí ‘i he taimi ‘oku tau fakatomala ai mo tui falala kiate Ia.

How can we be saved?

Only by faith in Jesus Christ and in his substitutionary atoning death on the cross; so even though we are guilty of having disobeyed God and are still inclined to all evil, nevertheless, God, without any merit of our own but only by pure grace, imputes to us the perfect righteousness of Christ when we repent and believe in him.

‘EFESO 2:8-9

He ko e kelesi pē kuo mou mo‘ui mei ai, ko e me‘a ‘i ho‘omou tui; ‘io, na‘e ‘ikai meiate kimoutolu ia, ka ko e foaki mei he ‘Otua: na‘e ‘ikai tupu mei ha ngaahi ngāue, koe‘uhi ke ‘oua na‘a ai ha taha ‘e fa‘a pōlepole.

EPHESIANS 2:8-9

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Commentary - CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Being justified by faith, we have peace with God. Conscience accuses no longer. Judgment now decides for the sinner instead of against him. Memory looks back upon past sins, but yet with no dread of any penalty to come, for Christ has paid the debt of his people to the last jot and tittle, and receive the divine receipt; and unless God can be so unjust as to demand double payment for one debt, no soul for whom Jesus died as a substitute can ever be cast into hell.

It seems to be one of the very principles of our enlightened nature to believe that God is just; we feel that it must be so, and this gives us our terror at first; but is it not marvelous that this very same belief that God is just, becomes afterwards the pillar of our confidence and peace! If God is just, I, a sinner, alone and without a substitute, must be punished; but Jesus stands in my place and is punished for me; and now, if God is just, I, a sinner, standing in Christ, can never be punished.