ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

 Tokonaki Sanuali 8, 2022

THE VOICE OF GOD

KO E LE’O ‘O E ‘OTUA

My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

JOHN 10:27

Ko ‘ete fanga sipi ‘a‘ata ‘oku nau tokanga ki hoto le‘o, pea ‘oku ou ‘ilo kinautolu; pea ‘oku nau muimui kiate au..

SIONE 10:27

Sola Scriptura - Scripture Alone - Ko e Folofola´ pe   

We ministers can do nothing else than become the mouths and instruments of our Lord Christ, through which he sensibly preaches His Word. He permits the Word to be proclaimed openly, that all may hear it. But for the heart itself to digest it and feel it within, that is the operation of faith, and is the mystical work of Christ; which He works, according to His divine knowledge and good pleasure.

For who is a good shepherd? "A good shepherd,” says Christ, "layeth down his life for his sheep; and I also lay down My life for My sheep." In this virtue He comprehends all things at once and sets before us a sweet parable of the sheep. You see that this animal is altogether foolish and is the simplest of all beasts, so that if one would speak of some simple person, He says, "He is a sheep!" Nevertheless the sheep has this characteristic more than any other animal, that it quickly hears the voice of its shepherd; nor will it follow any other than its own shepherd.

MARTIN LUTHER

Ko e kau faifekau, ko e ngutu pe kinautolu mo e me’angaue ‘a hotau ‘Eiki ko Sisu Kalaisi, ke malanga’i ‘a ‘Ene Folofola. ‘Oku Ne fakangofua ‘a e Folofola ke malanga’i ta’etoeue’ia ke ongona ‘e he kakai kotoa. Ka ko hono ma’u mo’oni ki he loto´, ko e ngaue pe ia ‘a e tui, pea ko ha ngaue fakalangi pe ia ‘a Kalaisi; ko ha ngaue ‘oku fai ‘o fakatatau ki he’ene ‘ilo faka-’Otua mo e toka ki ai ‘a Hono finangalo.

He ko hai ‘a e tauhi lelei? “Ko e anga ‘o e tauhi lelei ke ‘atu ‘ene mo‘ui koe‘uhi ko e fanga sipi” (Sione 10:11) “Pea ‘oku ou ‘atu ‘eku mo‘ui koe‘uhi ko e fanga sipi” (Sn 10:15). ‘I he tu’unga ko eni, ‘oku ne tokaima’anga ‘a e me’a kotoa pe pea ne ‘omi ‘a e fakataataa ‘o e sipi. ‘Oku taau ke tau mahino’i, ko e sipi ko e monumanu vale taha (hufanga he fakatapuu) ‘i he kotoa ‘o e fanga monumanu. Ko ia, kapau te tau lau ki ha tokotaha ‘oku ‘ikai ke poto, te tau pehee, “ko e sipi ia.” Ka neongo ‘a e tu’unga ko eni ‘o e sipi, ‘oku ‘i ai pe hono anga ‘oku makehe ai mei he toenga ‘o e fanga monumanu kehee; ‘oku ne ‘ilo pe ‘a e le’o ‘o hono tauhi, pea ‘e ‘ikai te ne muimui ki ha tauhi kehe, ka ko hono tauhi totonu pe.