ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Monite Siulai 4, 2022

A PLEDGE OF GOD'S FAVOR

KO E PALOMESI ‘O E HOIFUA ‘A E ‘OTUA 

ROMANS 5:1-2

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

LOMA 5:1-2

KO ia, tau tuku ke fakatonuhia‘i kitautolu ‘i he tui, ka tau ma‘u melino ai mo e ‘Otua ‘i hotau ‘Eiki ko Sīsū Kalaisi; ‘a ia foki kuo fou mei ai hotau tataki ‘i he tui ki he kelesi ko eni ‘oku tau matu‘u ai: pea ke tau vīkiviki ‘i he ‘amanaki kau ‘i he lāngilangi ‘o e ‘Otua.

 

Sola Gratia - Grace Alone - Ko e Kelesi´ pe   

Our reconciliation with God depends only on Christ; for He only is the beloved Son, and we are all by nature the children of wrath. But this favor is communicated to us by the Gospel; for the Gospel is the ministry of reconciliation, by the means of which we are in a manner brought into the kingdom of God. 

Rightly then does Paul set before our eyes in Christ a sure pledge of God's favor, that he might more easily draw us away from confidence in works. And as he teaches us by the every word "access," that salvation begins with Christ, he excludes those preparations by which foolish men imagine that they can anticipate God's mercy; as though he said, "Christ comes not to you, nor helps you, on account of your merits." He afterwards immediately subjoins that it is through the continuance of the same favor that our salvation becomes certain and sure; by which he intimates that perseverance is not founded on our power a diligence, but on Christ.

JOHN CALVIN

Ko hotau fakalelei mo e ‘Otua, ‘oku makatu’unga ‘ata’ataa pe ‘ia Kalaisi; he ko Ia pe ‘a e ‘Alo pele, pea ko kitautolu, ‘i hotau natula tangata, ko e fanau ‘o e houhau. Ko e tapuaki ko eni ‘oku tau ma’u mei he kosipeli; he ko e kosipeli, ko e ngaue ia ‘o e fakalelei, ‘io, ‘a hono fakahu kitautolu ‘e he ‘Otua ki hono Pule’anga.

‘I he tu’unga ko eni, ‘oku tuku mai ‘e Paula ‘a e fakakaukau ‘o e tukupa ‘o e hoifua ‘a e ‘Otua, ke tau mamata ki ai, koe’uhi ke ‘oua te tau falala ki he’etau ngaue. ‘Oku ne ako’i foki kitautolu, ko ‘etau ‘ataa ki ai, ko e fakamo’ui, ‘oku kamata pe ia ‘ia Kalaisi, pea ‘ikai toe tanaki ki ai ha ngaue ‘a e tangata. ‘Oku ne talamai, ko e hoifua ko eni ‘a e ‘Otua, ‘oku pau pea ‘oku tu’u ma’u, pea ko e kitaki ki he ngata’anga, ‘oku ‘ikai tefito ‘i he’etau feinga malohi, ka ‘ia Kalaisi tokotaha pe.