ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

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