ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

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