ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tokonaki Fepueli 10, 2018

Ko eni ‘a e Tuí . . .

( Faith is . . . )

Fehu‘i #31

Ko e hā ‘etau tui fekau‘aki mo e tui ‘oku mo‘oní ?

‘Oku tau tui ki he ngaahi akonaki kotoa ‘oku hā ‘i he koosipelí. ‘Oku fakahaa‘i ‘e he tui ‘a e kau ‘apositoló ‘a e ngaahi mo‘oni ‘o ‘etau tuí ‘o anga pehe ni: ‘Oku mau tui ki he ‘Otua ko e Tamai Mafimafi, Fakatupu ‘o langi mo mamani, pea mo Sisu Kalaisi ko e ‘Alo-tofu-pe-taha ko hotau ‘Eiki, na‘e tu‘itu‘ia ia ‘i he Laumālie Ma‘oni‘oni, fanau‘i ‘e he taupo‘ou ko Mele, na‘e feia ia ‘e Ponitusi Pailato, kalusefai, pekia pea telio. Na‘e hifo ki hetesi. Pea ‘i he ‘aho hono tolú na‘e toetu‘u mei he pekia. Na‘e ha‘ele hake ki langi ‘o ‘afio ‘i he to‘omata‘u ‘o e ‘Otua ko e Tamai Mafimafí. Te ne toe foki mai ke fakamaau‘i ‘a e mo‘uí mo e maté. ‘Oku mau tui ki he Laumālie Ma‘oni‘oní pea mo e siasi tapú, feohi ‘a e kau lotú, fakamolemole‘i ‘o e angahalá, toetu‘u ‘o e sinó pea mo e mo‘ui ta‘engatá.

What do we believe by true faith?

Everything taught to us in the gospel. The Apostles' Creed expresses what we believe in these words: We believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, from there he will come to judge the living and the dead. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.

SIUTASI 3

Na‘e hā kiate au, kuo pau ke u tohi leva kiate kimoutolu ke enginaki ke mou fefa‘uhi he taukapo‘i ‘a e tokāteline na‘e ‘omi tu‘o taha ki he kakai lotu

JUDE 3

I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

Commentary - JOHN WESLEY

But what is faith? Not an opinion, no more than it is a form of words not any number of opinions put together, be they ever so true. A string of opinions is no more Christian faith, than a string of beads is Christian holiness. It is not an assent to any opinion, or any number of opinions. A man may assent to three, or three-and-twenty creeds: he may assent to all the Old and New Testament (at least, as far as he understands them) and yet have no Christian faith at all.

…Christian faith... is a divine evidence or conviction wrought in the heart, that God is reconciled to me through his Son; inseparably joined with a confidence in him, as a gracious reconciled Father, as for all things, so especially for all those good things which are invisible and eternal. To believe (in the Christian sense) is, then, to walk in the light of eternity; and to have a clear sight of, and confidence in, the Most High, reconciled to me through the Son of his love.