ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Pulelulu Sanuali 19, 2022 

OBSERVE THE SCRIPTURES

TAUHI ‘A E LAU ‘A E FOLOFOLA

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.

JAMES 1:22

Ka mou hoko ko e kau fai ki he folofola, ‘o ‘ikai ko e kau fanongo pē, ‘o mou kākaa‘i kimoutolu.

SEMISI 1:22

 

Sola Scriptura - Scripture Alone - Ko e Folofola´ pe    

The Scriptures are full of wondrous things. Those histories which are too commonly read as if they were only private concerns of particular persons, such as of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph; of Ruth, Joshua, the Judges, David, and the Israelitish princes, are accounts of vastly greater things, things of greater importance and more extensive concernment, than they who read them are commonly aware of.

The histories of Scripture are but too commonly read, as if they were written only to entertain men's fancies, when the infinitely great things contained in them are passed over without notice.

He that has a Bible and does not observe what it contains is like a man who has a box full of silver and gold, and does not know it, nor observe that it is anything more than a vessel filled with common stones. He will be never the better for his treasure and so might well be without it. He who has plenty of the choicest food stored up in his house and does not know it will never taste what he has, and will be as likely to starve as if his house were empty.

JONATHAN EDWARDS

‘Oku fonu ‘a e Folofola ‘i he ngaahi me’a fakaofo lahi.  Ko e ngaahi hisitolia ‘oku tau maheni ‘i hono lau ‘o hange pe ia ha talanoa fakafo’ituitui fekau’aki mo e kakai ‘o e Tohitapu, hange ko ‘Epalahame, ‘Aisake, Sekope, mo Siosifa; ko Lute, Siosiua, ko e kau Fakamaau, Tevita, mo e kau Hou’eiki ‘o ‘Isileli, mo e ngaahi talanoa mālie mo lahi, ko e ngaahi me’a mahu’inga ‘oku nau fakamatala ki he ngaahi me’a lalahi pea ‘oku fa’a puli ki he tokolahi ‘a honau mahu’inga.

Ko e puipuitu’a mo e hisitolia ‘o e Folofola ‘oku fa’a mole ngofua ‘a hono mahu’inga ‘i he ‘ikai ketau lau tokanga, koe’uhi he ‘oku tau fa’a lau pe ‘o hange pe ha talanoa fananga ki he malie ‘a e ngaahi talanoa, pea puli ai ‘a e ngaahi me’a lalahi ‘o e ngaue ‘a e ‘Otua ‘oku hiki ai.

Ko ia ‘oku ‘i ai ha’ane Tohitapu kae ‘ikai te ne tokanga ki he ngaahi me’a ‘oku ‘i loto, ‘oku hangē ia ha tangata ‘oku ne nofo mo ha puha siliva mo koula kae ‘ikai te ne ‘ilo  pe tokanga ke ne vakai’i ‘a e me’a ‘oku ‘i loto, kae mūnoa pe ia ‘o hangē pe ha’ane nofo mo ha puha makamaka noa’ia.  ‘E ‘ikai te ne ma’u ha fakakoloa mei ai, pea sai ange ha’ane nofo hala’atā pe.  Ko e tokotaha ‘oku ne ma’u ha feleoko ‘oku mahu ‘i he ngaahi me’atokoni lelei kehekehe kae ‘ikai te ne ‘ilo ki ai, ‘e ‘ikai pe te ne a’usia ‘a e lato ‘o e mo’ui ko ia, pea ‘e nofo hōngea pe ia mo masiva ‘o hangē pe ‘oku ‘ikai ha me’a ‘i hono fale.