Tokonaki ‘Epeleli 30, 2022 

CHRIST: THE OBJECT OF FAITH

KO KALAISI ‘A E TAUMU’A ‘O E TUI

ACTS 16:30-31

Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

ACTS 16:30-31

Pea ne ‘omi kinaua kitu‘a, ‘o ne pehē, Hou‘eiki, ko e hā ‘eku me‘a ke fai ke u mo‘ui? Pea na pehē, Tui falala ni ki he ‘Eiki ko Sīsū, pea te ke mo‘ui, ‘a koe mo ho fale.

 

Sola Fide - Faith Alone - Ko e Tui´ pe    

In contrast to the doting dreams of the scholastics, we teach this: First a person must learn to know himself from the Law. With the prophet he will then confess: “All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." And “there is none that doeth good, no, not one." And against thee, thee only, have I sinned." Having been humbled by the Law, and having been brought to a right estimate of himself, a man will repent. He finds out that he is so depraved that no strength, no works, no merits of his own will ever deliver him from his guilt. He will then understand the meaning of Paul's words: “I am sold under sin" and “they are all under sin."

At this state a person begins to lament: "Who is going to help me?" In due time comes the word of the Gospel and says: "Son, thy sins are forgiven thee. Believe in Jesus Christ who was crucified for your sins. Remember, your sins have been imposed upon Christ." In this way are we delivered from sin. In this way are we justified and made heirs of everlasting life.

MARTIN LUTHER

Falaite ‘Epeleli 29, 2022

FAITH IS THE INSTRUMENT

KO E TUI ‘A E ME’ANGAUE

ROMANS 1:16-17

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

LOMA 1:16-17

He tala‘ehai ‘oku ou maa‘i ‘a e Kōsipeli: he ko e ivi ia ‘o e ‘Otua ‘oku ngāue ki he fakamo‘ui ‘iate ia fuli pē ‘oku tui; ‘o mu‘a ki he Siu, ka ki he Kalisi foki. He ‘oku fakae‘a ‘i ai ha mā‘oni‘oni mei he ‘Otua, ‘oku kamata mei he tui, pea iku ki he tui; ‘o hangē ko e Folofola, Ko e mā‘oni‘oni te ne mo‘ui mei he tui

Sola Fide - Faith Alone - Ko e Tui´ pe   

Here is the explanation of our justification by faith alone: faith is the instrument which receives Jesus Christ and, consequently, which receives His righteousness, that is to say, all perfection. When therefore, after Saint Paul we say that we are justified by faith alone, or freely, or by faith without works (for all these ways of speaking give the same sense),' we do not say that faith is a virtue which makes us righteous, in ourselves, before God. For this would be to put faith in the place of Jesus Christ who is, alone, our perfect and entire righteousness.

But we speak thus with the apostle, and we say that by faith alone we are justified, insomuch as it embraces Him who justifies us, Jesus Christ, to whom it unites and joins us. We are then made partakers of Him and the benefits which He possesses. These, being imputed and gifted to us, are more than sufficient to make us acquitted and accounted righteous before God.

THEODORE BEZA

Tu’apulelulu ‘Epeleli 28, 2022

THE HAPPIEST OF BELIEVERS

KO E KAU TUI FIEFIA TAHAA

1 CORINTHIANS 13:12-13

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 CORINTHIANS 13:12-13

He ko ‘etau sio ‘i he taimi ni, ko e ma‘ali ha misiteli ‘i ha sio‘ata; ka ko e taimi ko ē, ko ‘etau sio ko e femātaaki. Ko e taimi ni ‘oku ou ‘ilo fakakonga pē, ka ‘i he taimi ko ē te u ‘ilo faka‘āufuli, ‘o hangē foki ne ‘ilo faka‘āufuli au. ‘Āua! ka ‘oku tolonga pē ‘a Tui, ‘a ‘Amanaki, ‘a ‘Ofa; ‘a e tolu ni pē: pea ko honau tu‘ukimu‘a ko ‘OFA.

 

Sola Fide - Faith Alone - Ko e Tui´ pe   

The lovers of Jesus are charmed with His character, and delighted with His mission; they are carried away by the lovingkindness that He has manifested, and therefore they cannot help trusting Him, because they so much admire, revere, and love Him.

The way of loving trust in the Savior may thus be illustrated. A lady is the wife of the most eminent physician of the day. She is seized with a dangerous illness, and is smitten down by its power; yet she is wonderfully calm and quiet, for her husband has made this disease his special study, and has healed thousands who were similarly afflicted. She is not in the least troubled, for she feels perfectly safe in the hands of one so dear to her, and in whom skill and love are blended in their highest forms. Her faith is reasonable and natural; her husband, from every point of view, deserves it of her. This is the kind of faith which the happiest of believers exercise toward Christ.

CHARLES SPURGEON

Pulelulu ‘Epeleli 27, 2022 

SEALED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT OF PROMISE

SILA’I ‘AKI ‘A E LAUMALIE MA’ONI’ONI ‘O E PALOMESI

2 TIMOTHY 1:11-12

for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher, which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me

2 TIMOTHY 1:12

‘A ia ko e me‘a na‘e fokotu‘u au ki ai, ko e malanga mo e ‘aposetolo mo e faiako. Ko hono ‘uhinga foki ia ‘oku ou mo‘ua ai ‘i he ngaahi mamahi ni; ka ‘oku ‘ikai te u mā ai: he ‘oku ou ‘ilo pē ‘a ia kuo u tui ki ai, pea ‘oku ou ‘ilo pau ‘oku ne mafai ke tauhi ‘eku me‘a kuo u tuku kiate ia, ‘o a‘u ki he ‘aho ko ē.

 

Sola Fide - Faith Alone - Ko e Tui´ pe   

There are different sorts of faith that are not true and saving, as is evident by what the apostle James says: "Show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works," where it is supposed that there may be a faith without works, which is not the right faith. When he says, “I will show thee faith by my works," nothing else can be meant, than that I will show thee that my faith is right. It is a trusting in Christ.

“Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little: blessed are all they that put their trust in him." "That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ: in whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.

JONATHAN EDWARDS

Tusite ‘Epeleli 26, 2022

FAITH HONORS GOD

‘OKU FAKALANGILANGI’I ‘E HE TUI ‘A E ‘OTUA

ISAIAH 43:10-11

“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me. I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior.

ISAIAH 43:10-11

Ko kimoutolu ‘a e kau fakamo‘oni ‘a‘aku–ko Sihova ia mei he Ta‘ehāmai–mo e sevāniti ‘a‘aku kuo u fili: koe‘uhi ke mou ‘ilo au, mo tui mai, ‘o mahino kiate kimoutolu ko au ia; na‘e ‘ikai ha ‘Otua ‘e fa‘u ‘i mu‘a ‘iate au, pea hili au ‘e ‘ikai. Ko au, ko au pē ‘a Sihova; pea ka tuku au, ‘oku ‘ikai ha taha ‘oku fai fakamo‘ui.

 

Sola Fide - Faith Alone - Ko e Tui´ pe    

Faith truly honors God. And because faith honors God, God counts faith for righteousness. Christian righteousness is the confidence of the heart in God through Christ Jesus. Such confidence is accounted righteousness for Christ's sake. Two things make for Christian righteousness: faith in Christ, which is a gift of God; and God's acceptance of this imperfect faith of ours for perfect righteousness.

Because of my faith in Christ, God overlooks my distrust, the unwillingness of my spirit, my many other sins. Because the shadow of Christ's wing covers me I have no fear that God will cover all my sins and take my imperfections for perfect righteousness. God "winks” at my sins and covers them up. God says: "Because you believe in My Son, I will forgive your sins until death shall deliver you from the body of sin.” Learn to understand the constitution of your Christian righteousness. Faith is weak, but it means enough to God that He will not lay sin to our charge.

MARTIN LUTHER

Monite ‘Epeleli 25, 2022

FAITH THAT RECONCILES

KO E TUI ‘OKU NE FAI ‘A E FAKALELEI

GALATIANS 2:15-16

We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

KALETIA 2:16

Neongo ko e tupu Siu kitaua, ‘o ‘ikai ko e ongo angahala mei he Senitaile, ka ‘i he‘eta ‘ilo ‘oku ‘ikai fakatonuhia ha tangata mei he ngaahi ngāue faka-Lao, kae ngata pē ‘i he tui kia Sīsū Kalaisi, ko ia, ko kitaua foki na‘a ta tui kia Kalaisi Sīsū, koe‘uhi ke ta ma‘u fakatonuhia mei he tui kia Kalaisi, ‘o ‘ikai mei he ngaahi ngāue faka-Lao: koe‘uhi ko e me‘a ki he ngaahi ngāue faka-Lao, ‘e tu‘u mola ai ‘a e kakano kotoa pē, ‘o ‘ikai hanau fakatonuhia mei ai.

 

Sola Fide - Faith Alone - Ko e Tui´ pe    

He who has God for his inheritance does not exult in fading joy, but, as one already elevated toward heaven, enjoys the solid happiness of eternal life. It is, indeed, to be maintained as an axiom, that all the promises of God made to the faithful flow from the free mercy of God, and are evidences of that paternal love, and of that gratuitous adoption, on which their salvation is founded.

Therefore, we do not say that Abram was justified because he laid hold on a single word, respecting the offspring to be brought forth, but because he embraced God as his Father. And truly faith does not justify us for any other reason than that it reconciles us unto God, and that it does so not by its own merit, but because we receive the grace offered to us in the promises and have no doubt of eternal life, being fully persuaded that we are loved by God as sons.

JOHN CALVIN

Sapate ‘Epeleli 24, 2022

THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST

KO HONO FAKAHA MAI ‘O SISU KALAISI

JOHN 14:5-6

Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

SIONE 14:6

Pea lea ki ai ‘a Tōmasi, ‘Eiki, ‘oku ‘ikai te mau ‘ilo pē ko ho‘o me‘a ki fē; pea mau ‘ilo fēfē ai ‘a e hala? Pea folofola ‘a Sīsū ki ai, Ko au pē ko e Hala, pea mo e Mo‘oni mo e Mo‘ui: ‘oku ‘ikai ha‘u ha taha ki he Tamai ka ‘i he‘ene fou ‘iate au.

 

Sola Fide - Faith Alone - Ko e Tui´ pe    

Faith is the soul's entirely adhering to and acquiescing in the revelation of Jesus Christ as our Saviour, from a sense of the excellent dignity and sufficiency of the Revealer of the doctrine and of the Saviour. God is the Revealer, and Christ is also the Revealer. Christ's excellency and sufficiency include the excellency of His person, and the excellency of the salvation He has revealed, and His adequateness to the performance, etc., and the excellency of His manner of salvation.

From the excellency and sufficiency of the Revealer and Performer we believe what is said is true, fully believe it; and from the glorious excellency of the Saviour and His salvation, all our inclination closes with the revelation. To depend upon the word of another person imports two things: first, to be sensible how greatly it concerns us, and how much our interest and happiness really depend upon the truth of it; and, secondly, to depend upon the word of another is so to believe it as to dare to act upon it as if it were really true.

JONATHAN EDWARDS

Tokonaki ‘Epeleli 23, 2022

FAITH THAT MOVES ONWARD

KO E TUI ‘OKU LAKA KIMU’A

PSALM 84:5 & 7

Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion.

SAAME 84:5 & 7

Monū‘ia ā ka ko e kau tangata. ‘Oku ‘i he ‘Afiona ‘enau falala, ‘Oku nau loto‘aki ‘a e ngaahi hala. ‘Oku nau ‘alu ‘i he mālohi ki ha mālohi, ‘Oku nau hū ‘i Saione ‘i he ‘ao ‘o ‘Elohimi.

 

Sola Fide - Faith Alone - Ko e Tui´ pe    

Consider the heart's desire of the apostles: "Increase our faith." They did not say, “Lord, keep our faith alive: Lord, sustain it as it is at present," but “Increase our faith.” For they knew very well that it is only by increase that the Christian keeps alive at all.

Napoleon once said, “I must fight battles, and I must win them: conquest has made me what I am, and conquest must maintain me." And it is so with the Christian. It is not yesterday's battle that will save me today; I must be going onward. A wheel will remain erect as long as it moves, but when it begins to stand still it falls. Christian men are saved by progress: constantly going onward keeps the Christian alive.

If it were possible for me to stop, I know not where my life would be. The Christian must be going onward; for the arrow will mount while still it is in progress, but it stalls the moment power stops that keeps it aloft. So the apostles said unto the Lord, "Increase our faith."

CHARLES SPURGEON

Falaite ‘Epeleli 22, 2022 

PURIFIED BY FAITH

FAKAMA’A ‘I HE TUI

ACTS 15:8-9

And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.

ACTS 15:8-9

Pea ko e ‘Otua ‘oku tokaima‘ananga ki ai ‘a e loto, na‘a ne fakamo‘oni ma‘anautolu, he‘ene foaki ki ai ‘a e Laumālie Mā‘oni ‘oni, ‘o hangē ko ‘ene fai kiate kitautolu. Pea na‘e ‘ikai te ne momo‘i faikehekehe kiate kitautolu mo kinautolu, he‘ene fakama‘a honau loto ‘aki ‘enau tui.

 

Sola Fide - Faith Alone - Ko e Tui´ pe   

The Spirit testifies, by the mouth of Peter, that hearts are "purified by faith” (Acts 15:9); and seeing that the purity of the holy patriarchs was of the very same kind, the apostle does not in vain infer that the offering of Abel was, by faith, more excellent than that of Cain. Therefore, in the first place we must hold that all works done before faith, whatever splendor of righteousness may appear in them, were nothing but mere sins, being defiled from their roots, and were offensive to the Lord, whom nothing can please without inward purity of heart.

I wish they who imagine that men, by their own motion of free will, are rendered meet to receive the grace of God, would reflect on this. Certainly, no controversy would then remain on the question, whether God justifies men gratuitously, and that by faith. For this must be received as a settled point, that in the judgment of God, no respect is had to works until man is received into favor.

JOHN CALVIN

Na’e lea ‘a e Laumalie ‘o fou mai ‘i he ngutu ‘o Pita, na’e fakama’a honau loto ‘aki ‘enau tui (Ngaue 15:9); pea ‘i he vakai atu, na’e pehe ni pe mo e fakama’a ‘o e kau Peteliake, na’e pehee ai ‘e he ‘aposetolo, na’e lelei hake ‘a e feilaulau ‘a ‘Epeli, he na’e fai ‘i he tui, ‘i he feilaulau ‘a Keini. Ko ia ai, ‘oku tau ma’u mei ai, ‘oku ‘ikai ha ngaue ‘e taau, ka ‘ikai fai ‘i he tui, neongo ‘a hono masani pe fotu ki tu’a, he ‘oku angahala kotoa mei he aka pea fakatupu houhau kia Sihova.

Taau ange ke mahino ki he tangata, ko ‘ene ngaue ‘oku fai ‘iate ia pe, ‘oku ‘ikai tali ‘e he ‘Otua, he ‘oku ‘ikai ha ngaue ‘a e kakano ‘e fakatupu hoifua kiate Ia, ngata pe ‘i he ngaue ‘oku fai ‘i he tui. ‘Oku toki tali pe ‘a e ngaue ‘a e tokotaha, kuo tomu’a hifo ki ai hono finangalo.

Tu’apulelulu ‘Epeleli 21, 2022 

THOSE WHO LIVE BY FAITH

KO KINAUTOLU ‘OKU MO’UI ‘I HE TUI

2 CHRONICLES 20:20

And they rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the Lord your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed.”

2 CHRONICLES 20:20

Pea na‘a nau tu‘u hengihengi, ‘o ‘alu ‘atu ki he Toafa ‘o Tekoa: pea ‘i he‘enau ‘alu atu na‘e tu‘u ‘a Sihosafate, ‘o ne pehē, Fanongo mai, ‘e Siuta, mo kimoutolu ‘a e nofo Selusalema: tui kia Sihova ko homou ‘Otua, pea ‘e fakatu‘uma‘u kimoutolu: tui ki he‘ene kau palōfita, pea te mou tu‘umālie.

 

Sola Fide - Faith Alone - Ko e Tui´ pe    

The doctrines I speak of are those of Christians living by faith, not by sight: their giving glory to God by trusting Him in the dark; living upon Christ, and not upon experiences; not making their good frames the foundation of their faith. These are excellent and important doctrines indeed, rightly understood, but corrupt and destructive, as many understand them.

The Scripture speaks of our living or walking by faith, and not by sight, in no other way than these, namely when we are governed a respect to eternal things, which are the objects of faith and are not seen, and not by a respect to temporal things, which are seen; when we believe things revealed, that we never saw with bodily eyes, and also exercise faith in the promise of future things, without yet seeing or enjoying the things promised, or knowing the way how they can be fulfilled. This will be easily evident to anyone that looks over the Scriptures, which speak of faith in opposition to sight.

JONATHAN EDWARDS

Ko e tokateline ‘oku ou fakamatala ki ai, ko e mo’ui ‘i he tui, ‘o ‘ikai fai fakamamata. Ko e fakalangilangi’i ‘o e ‘Otua, ‘i he falala kiate Ia ‘i he kaupo’uli ‘o e mo’ui; ko e mo’ui falala kia Kalaisi, ‘o ‘ikai ko ‘ete taukei; ‘o ‘ikai tefito ‘i he lelei ‘o e mo’ui fakamatelie, ke langa ai ‘a e tui. Ko e ngaahi tokateline lelei eni mo totonu, neongo ‘oku ofe’i ‘e he ni’ihi ki he kovi ‘o fakatatau ki he’enau fakatonulea.

‘Oku fakamatala ‘a e Fofofola ki he mo’ui pe ko e fononga ‘i he tui, ‘o ‘ikai ko e mamata, ‘o ‘uhinga, ‘i he taimi ‘oku pule’i ai kitautolu ‘e he ngaahi me’a ‘o ‘itaniti, ‘a ia ko e taumu’a ‘o ‘etau tui, ‘a ee ‘oku ‘ikai ke tau mamata ki ai, ‘o ‘ikai tefito ‘i he ngaahi me’a matelie ‘oku tau mamata ki ai. Ko e fa’ahinga tui ki ha ngaahi me’a kuo fakaha mai, ka kuo te’eki te tau mamata ki ai, pea tau ngaue’aki ‘a e tui ki he ngaahi me’a ‘i he kaha’u pe te nau hoko fe fe? ‘Oku ha mahino ‘aupito ‘a e mo’ui ko eni, ‘i he’etau vakai ki he Folofola, he’ene fakamatala ki he tui, ‘o ‘ikai ko e fai mamata pe.

Pulelulu ‘Epeleli 20, 2022 

BY FAITH EMBRACE THE PROMISE

PUKE KI HE PALOMESI ‘I HE TUI

GALATIANS 3:24-25

So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,

KALETIA 3:24-25

Pea tā ko e Lao ko hota fakale‘o ma‘a Kalaisi, kae fakatonuhia kitaua mei he tui. Ka ‘i he hoko mai ko eni ‘a e tui, pea ‘oku ‘ikai te ta kei fāiekina ki ha fakale‘o.

 

Sola Fide - Faith Alone - Ko e Tui´ pe   

The perpetual succession of the church has flowed from this fountain, that the holy fathers, one after another, having by faith embraced the offered promise, were collected together into the family of God in order that they might have a common life in Christ. This we ought carefully to notice, that we may know what is the society of the true church, and what is the communion of faith among the children of God.

Whereas Moses was ordained the teacher of the Israelites, there is no doubt that he had an especial reference to them, in order that they might acknowledge themselves to be a people elected and chosen by God; and that they might seek the certainty of this adoption from the covenant which the Lord had ratified with their fathers, and might know that there was no other God, and no other right faith. But it was also (God's] will to testify to all ages, that whosoever desired to worship God aright, and to be deemed members of the church, must pursue no other course than that which is here prescribed.

JOHN CALVIN

Ko e hohoko ‘o e siasi, ne tafe mei he fauniteni ko eni; ko e kau takimu’a, na’a nau puke ma’u ki he palomesi, fou ‘i he tui, pea fakatahataha’i ai kinautolu ki he famili ‘o e ‘Otua, ke nau ma’u ‘a e mo’ui taha ‘ia Kalaisi. ‘Oku mahu’inga ke tau tokanga ki heni, ke tau ‘ilo ‘a e kautaha ‘o e siasi mo’oni, mo e feohi’anga ‘o e tui ‘i he fanau ‘a e ‘Otua.

Ko Mosese na’e fakanofo ko e faiako ki ha’a ‘Isileli, pea na’e teu’i pe ia ma’a kinautolu, ke nau ‘ilo ko e kakai fili kinautolu ‘a e ‘Otua; pea ke nau hohoi ki he ohi na’e tu’utu’uni ‘i he kovinanite mo e ‘Otua, ‘a ia na’e fai mo ‘enau ngaahi kui, pea ke nau ‘ilo, ‘oku ‘ikai ha toe ‘Otua mo ha lotu ‘oku toe mo’oni ange. Ka na’e toe finangalo pe ‘a e ‘Otua, ke talaki ki he ngaahi to’utangata, ko ia te ne fie lotu ki he ‘Otua mo’oni, mo kau ki he siasi, ‘e ‘ikai toe ‘i ai ha founga ka ia pe kuo ‘osi hiki ‘i he Tohi. 

Tusite ‘Epeleli 19, 2022 

GUARD YOUR FAITH

LE’OHI HO’O TUI

1 CORINTHIANS 16:13-14

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.

1 KOLINITO 16:13

Mou ‘ā ‘o le‘o; mou tu‘u ‘aki ‘a e tui; mou fai ‘o ngali tangata; mou fakama‘u hifo. ‘Ilonga ha‘amou me‘a ‘e fai, fai pē ‘i he ‘ofa.

 

Sola Fide - Faith Alone - Ko e Tui´ pe    

Take care of your faith, my friends; for it's very often so weak that it demands all your attention. I do not know whether you feel that your faith is too strong, but I never feel mine strong enough. It seems to be exactly strong enough to bear the day's troubles, but it would not stand cutting in the least degree with the plane. I could not afford to take the least atom off; it is just enough, and no more.

As for some of us, our faith is so weak that the least trouble threatens to devour it. The goat passes and nips its tender shoot, the winter chills and freezes it; it is almost ready to die. And my faith very often hangs upon the feeblest thread; it appears ready to expire.

Take care of your faith, Christian, take care of your faith. Whatever you leave out of doors of a night, do not leave that little child of faith; whatsoever plant is exposed to the frost, be sure to put faith within. Take care of faith, for it is so weak generally, it needs well to have a good preservation.

CHARLES SPURGEON

Tokanga ki ho’o tui, si’oku kaungame’a; he ‘oku lahi e taimi ‘oku vaivai fu’u, pea ‘oku fu’u fiema’u ke tokangaekina. ‘Oku ‘ikai te u ‘ilo, pe ‘oku ke pehee pe, ‘oku malohi ho’o tui, ka ko au, ‘oku ou ongo’i pe ‘oku ‘ikai malohi fe’unga. ‘Oku malohi fe’unga pe mo e faingata’a ‘o e ‘aho ni, pea ka ‘ova atu ‘oku ‘ikai te u ‘ilo pe ‘e fe fe?

Ko e tokolahi, ‘oku vaivai fu’u, pea ka hoko mai ha ‘ahi’ahi, ‘e ‘ikai ke lava hano matu’uaki. ‘Oku afe mai pe ‘a e kosi, ‘o kaikai atu hono mukaa, pea uesia ngofua ‘i he to mai ‘a e momokoo; ‘oku toe pe ke mate. Pea ko ‘eku tui, ‘oku tei mate pe.

Kalisitiane, tokanga ki ho’o tui. Fakatokanga’i ho’o me’a ‘oku fa’a tuku ‘i tu’a he po’uli, ‘oua mu’a te ke tuku ai ‘a ho’o tui valevale; ko e ‘akau ‘oku fa’a li’ekina ‘i tu’a he momoko, fakahu ki fale ho’o tui. Tokanga ki ho’o tui, he ‘oku kei vaivai. ‘Oku fiema’u ke fakaili mo tokanga’i lelei ka fakahaofi.