ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Sapate Sune 26, 2022

GRACE COMES TO HELP

‘OKU HA’U ‘A KELESI KE TOKONI

ROMANS 5:21 NKJV

so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

LOMA 5:21 

Koe‘uhi ke hangē na‘e Hau ‘a Angahala ‘i he mate, pehē foki ke Hau ‘a Kelesi mei he fakatonuhia, ‘o iku ki he mo‘ui ta‘engata, ‘ia Sīsū Kalaisi ko hotau ‘Eiki.

 

Sola Gratia - Grace Alone - Ko e Kelesi´ pe   

Grace has superabounded. After sin has held men sunk in ruin, grace then comes to help; for He teaches us that the the abundance of grace becomes for this reason more illustrious: while sin is overflowing, (grace) pours itself forth so exuberantly that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it. And we may hence learn that our condemnation is not set before us in the Law that we may abide in it, but that having fully known our misery, we may be led to Christ, who is sent to be a Physician to the sick, a Deliverer to the captives, a Comforter to the afflicted, a Defender to the oppressed (Isaiah 61:1).

As sin is said to be the sting of death, and as death has no power over men, except on account of sin, so sin executes its power by death: it is hence said to exercise thereby its dominion. In the last clause the order of the words is deranged, but yet not without reason. The simple contrast might have been thus formed, “That righteousness may reign through Christ."

JOHN CALVIN