ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

 Tu’apulelulu Sune 9, 2022

DEPENDENT ON GRACE

FAKAFALALA ‘I HE KELESI

ROMANS 3:24

being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus,

LOMA 3:24

ka nau ma‘u foaki pē ‘a e fakatonuhia ‘i he‘ene ‘ofa pē ‘a‘ana, ko e me‘a ‘i he totongi huhu‘i ‘a ia kuo ‘ia Kalaisi Sīsū.

 

Sola Gratia - Grace Alone - Ko e Kelesi´ pe   

Man hath now a greater dependence on the grace of God than he had before the fall. He depends on the free goodness of God for much more than he did then: then he depended on God's goodness for conferring the reward of perfect obedience, for God was not obliged to promise and bestow that reward. Now we are dependent on the grace of God for much more.

We stand in need of grace, not only to bestow glory upon us, but to deliver us from hell and eternal wrath. Under the first covenant we depended on God's goodness to give us the reward of righteousness; and so we do now. And not only so, but we stand in need of God's free and sovereign grace to give us that righteousness; and yet not only so, but we stand in need of His grace to pardon our sin and release us from the guilt and infinite demerit of it.

JONATHAN EDWARDS

‘Oku lahi ange ‘a e fakafalala ‘a e tangata ki he kelesi ‘a e ‘Otua, he kuonga ni, ‘i he taimi kimu’a ‘i he hingaa. ‘Oku ne falala ki he lelei anga’ofa ‘a e ‘Otua ‘o laka ‘i he taimi kimu’aa: ‘i ono’aho, na’a ne fakaongoongo ki he lelei ‘a e ‘Otua ke ne ‘omi ‘a e pale ko e talangofua haohaoa, he na’e ‘ikai ko ha me’a’ofa na’e pau ke ne foaki. ‘I he ‘aho ni, ‘oku toe mahulu hake ‘etau fakafalala ki he kelesi ‘a e ‘Otua. 

 

‘Oku tau fu’u fiema’u ‘aupito ‘a e kelesi ‘a e ‘Otua, ‘o ‘ikai ko e langilangi pe te tau ma’u mei ai, ka ke fakahaofi kitautolu mei heli mo e tautea ta’engata. ‘I he ‘Uluaki Kovinanite, na’a tau nofo’aki tali ki he anga’ofa ‘a e ‘Otua ke ne foaki mai ‘a e pale ‘o e ma’oni’oni, pea ‘ok kei pehee pe mo e kuonga ni. ‘Ikai ko ia pe, ka ‘oku tau fu’u fiema’u ‘aupito ‘a e kelesi ta’etotongi mo aoniu ‘a e ‘Otua ke ne foaki mai ‘a e ma’oni’oni; ‘io, ‘oku tau fiema’u ‘a ‘Ene kelesi ke fakamolemole’i ‘etau angahala pea ke faka’ataa kitautolu mei he ongo’i halaia mo e mo’ua ta’engata ki ai.