ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Pulelulu ‘Akosi 24, 2022 

THE GREATEST WONDER

KO E NGAUE FAKAOFO TAUPOTU TAHA

TITUS 3:5

he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

TAITUSI 3:5

na‘e ‘ikai tupu ‘ene fakamo‘ui kitautolu mei ha ngaahi ngāue na‘a tau fai ‘i ha‘atau mā‘oni‘oni, ka ko e me‘a pē ‘i he‘ene ‘alo‘ofa na‘a ne fakamo‘ui kitautolu, ‘i he pālutu‘anga ‘o e fanau‘i fo‘ou, pea mo e fakafo‘ou ‘e he Laumālie Mā‘oni‘oni:

 

Solus Christus - Christ Alone - Ko e Kalasi pe    

Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. It is a very surprising thing, a thing to be marveled at most of all by those who enjoy it. I know that it is to me even to this day the greatest wonder that I ever heard of, that God should ever justify me. I feel myself to be a lump of unworthiness, a mass of corruption, and a heap of sin, apart from His almighty love.

I know by a full assurance that I am justified by faith which is in Christ Jesus, and treated as if I had been perfectly just, and made an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ; and yet by nature I must take my place among the most sinful. I, who am altogether undeserving, am treated as if I had been deserving. I am loved with as much love as if I had always been godly, whereas aforetime I was ungodly. Who can help being astonished at this?

CHARLES SPURGEON

Na’e hifo ‘a Sisu Kalaisi ki mamani ke fakamo’ui ‘a e kau angahala.  Ko ha me’a faka’ohovale eni, ko ha me’a ‘oku ofoofo ai ‘a e tokolahi tautefito kiate kinautolu ‘oku nau ‘inasi he tapauaki ko ia.  ‘Oku ou ‘ilo hifo kiate au ko e tapuaki fakaofo taha eni kuo te a’usia pe fanongoa, ke hanga ‘e he ‘Otua ‘o fakatonuhia’i au.  ‘Oku ou ongo’i hifo ‘a hoku tu’unga ta’etaau, ko ha konga toto pe ne li’aki, ko ha fokotu’unga angahala pe, ka ne ta’e’oua ‘a e lahi faufau ‘o ‘ene ‘ofa.

‘Oku ou ‘ilo fakapapau ‘i hoku loto kuo fakatonuhia au ‘o fou ‘i he’eku tui ‘a ia ‘oku tu’u ‘ia Sisu Kalaisi, pea ne lau pe au ‘o hange kuo u haohaoa, pea kuo ngaohi au ko e ‘ea ‘a e ‘Otua pea kaungā ‘ea mo Kalaisi; ka neongo ia, ko hoku natula ‘e kei lau pe au mo e kau angahala fulikivanu.  Ko au, ko e ta’etaau, kuo ngaohi au ke u taau.  ‘Oku ‘ofa’i au ‘aki ha ‘ofa lahi ‘o hangē pe ha tokotaha na’e haohaoa pe talu mei mu’a, neongo ko e faka’otua mate au ‘i hoku taimi kimu’a.  Ko hai ha taha ‘e ta’emo’utaafu’a ‘i ha fu’u tapuaki lahi faufaua?