ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tu’apulelulu Sune 23, 2022 

COME AS YOU ARE

HA’U PE ‘I HE TU’UNGA PE ‘OKU KE ‘I AI

ROMANS 4:5

To the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.

LOMA 4:5

Ka ka ‘ilonga ha taha ‘oku ‘ikai ngāue, ka ‘oku ne tui falala kiate ia ‘oku ne fakatonuhia ‘a e faka‘otuamate, ‘oku lau ‘a e tui ‘a‘ana ma‘ane mā‘oni‘oni.

 

Sola Gratia - Grace Alone - Ko e Kelesi´ pe   

Wait not for reformation, but come at once for salvation. God justifieth the ungodly, and that takes you up where you now are: it meets you in your worst estate. Come to your heavenly Father in all your sin and sinfulness. Come to Jesus just as you are, leprous, filthy, naked, neither fit to live nor fit to die. Come, you that are the very sweepings of creation; come, though you hardly dare to hope for anything but death. Come, though despair is brooding over you, pressing upon your bosom like a horrible nightmare. Come and ask the Lord to justify another ungodly one.

Why should He not? Come, for this great mercy of God is meant for such as you are. I put it in the language of the text, and I cannot put it more strongly: the Lord God Himself takes to Himself this gracious title, "Him that justifieth the ungodly." He makes just, and causes to be treated as just, those who by nature are ungodly. Is not that a wonderful word for you?

CHARLES SPURGEON