ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tusite Sanuali 18, 2022 

THE NINEVITES BELIEVED

NA‘E TUI ‘A E KAKAI ‘O NINIVE

When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.

JONAH 3:10

Pea ‘afio‘i ‘e ‘Elohimi ‘a ‘enau tō‘onga, kuo nau tafoki mei honau ngaahi ‘alunga kovi, pea na‘e louaki ‘e ‘Elohimi mei he kovi na‘a ne pehē te ne fai kiate kinautolu; pea na‘e ‘ikai te ne fai.

SIONA 3:10

 

Sola Scriptura - Scripture Alone - Ko e Folofola´ pe    

Long before the time of Moses, God justified men without the Law. He justified many kings of Egypt and Babylonia. He justified Job. Nineveh, that great city, was justified and received the promise of God that He would not destroy the city. Why was Nineveh spared? Not because it fulfilled the Law, but because Nineveh believed the word of God. The prophet Jonah wrote: “So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth.”They repented.

Nowhere in the book of Jonah do you read that the Ninevites received the Law of Moses, or that they were circumcised, or that they offered sacrifices. All this happened long before Christ was born. If the Gentiles were justified without the Law and quietly received the Holy Spirit at a time when the Law was in full force, why should the Law count unto righteousness now, now that Christ has fulfilled the Law? And yet many devote much time and labor to the Law, to the decrees of the fathers, and to the traditions of the pope.

MARTIN LUTHER

Kimu’a ‘i he taimi ‘o Mosese, na’e tomu’a fakatonuhia’i pe ‘e he ‘Otua ‘a e tangata ‘o ta’e kau ai ‘a e lao.  Pea ne fakatonuhia’i ha ngaahi tu’i ‘i ‘Isipite mo Papilone.  Na’a ne fakatonuhia’i ‘a Siope.  Ko Ninive, ko ha kolo lahi, na’e fakatonuhia’i pea na’a nau ma’u ‘a e palomesi ‘a e ‘Otua pea na’e ‘ikai te ne faka’auha ‘a e kolo.  Ko e ha ‘a e ‘uhinga na’e fakahaofi ai ‘a Ninive?  Na’e ‘ikai makatu’unga ‘i he’enau tauhi ‘a e lao, ka koe’uhi na’e tui ‘a Ninive ki he Folofola ‘a e ‘Otua.  Pea na’e pehē ‘e he palofita ko Siona: “pea tui ‘a e kakai Ninive ki he ‘Otua, ‘o nau fanongonongo ha ‘aukai, mo nau ‘ai tauanga’a, mei he lahi ki he si’i” (Siona 3:5).  Na’a nau fakatomala. 

‘Oku ‘ikai ke ‘i ai ha lau ‘i he tohi ‘a Siona ‘o pehe ai na’e ma’u ‘e he kakai ‘o Ninive ‘a e lao ‘a Mosese, pe na’e kamu kinautolu, pe te nau fai ha feilaulau.  Na’e hoko eni ia ‘o lau senituli mei he ‘alo’i ‘o Kalaisi.  Kapau leva na’e fakatonuhia’i ‘a e kakai Senitaile ‘o ta’ekau ai ‘a e Lao pea nau ma’u ‘a e Laumālie Mā’oni’oni ‘i he taimi na’e fakamamafa’i ai ‘a e Lao, pea ko e ha leva ‘a e kaunga ‘a e Lao ki he mā’oni’oni ‘i he ngaahi ‘aho ni neongo kuo fakakakato ‘e Kalaisi ‘a e tu’utu’uni ‘o e Lao?  Ka neongo kotoa eni, ‘oku kei mamahi’i pe ‘e he tokolahi ‘a hono tauhi ‘o e Lao, mo e ngaahi tu’utu’uni ‘a e kau takilotu ‘o a’u ki he tukufakaholo ‘oku kei tauhi ‘e he ngaahi siasi lahi ‘i he ngaahi ‘aho ni.