ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tusite Ma‘asi 13, 2018

Ke mou ma‘u Laumālie Ma‘oni‘oni āá

( Receive ye, the Holy Spirit)

Fehu‘i #36

Ko e hā ‘etau tui fekau‘aki mo e Laumālie Ma‘oni‘oni ́ ?

Ko e ‘Otua Ia, kaungā tu‘unga lau‘itāniti fakataha mo e Tamai pea mo e ‘Aló, pea ‘oku foaki kakato Ia ‘e he ‘Otuá  kiate kinautolu kotoa pe ‘oku tuí.

What do we believe about the Holy Spirit?

That he is God, coeternal with the Father and the Son, and that God grants him irrevocably to all who believe.

SIONE 14:16-17

‌ Pea te u tala ki he Tamai, pea te ne foaki kiate kimoutolu ha Taukapo ‘e toko taha, koe‘uhi ke ne ‘iate kimoutolu ‘o ta‘engata; ‘io, ko e Laumālie ‘o e Mo‘oni; ‘a ia ‘oku ‘ikai ke fa‘a ma‘u ‘e māmani, koe‘uhi ‘oku ‘ikai te ne sio kiate ia, pe fai ke ‘ilo ia: ka ‘oku mou fai ke ‘ilo ia ‘e kimoutolu; he ‘oku ne nofo ma‘u mo kimoutolu, pea ‘oku ne ‘i homou loto.

JOHN 14:16-17

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

Commentary - AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

Wherefore, when our Lord breathed on His disciples, and said, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost," He certainly wished it to be understood that the Holy Ghost was not only the Spirit of the Father, but of the only begotten Son Himself. For the same Spirit is, indeed, the Spirit of the Father and of the Son, making with them the trinity of Father Son, and Spirit, not a creature, but the Creator.