ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

 Tokonaki Sepitema 3, 2022 

GOD'S MERCY IN CHRIST

KO E MEESI ‘A E ‘OTUA, ‘IA KALAISI

JOHN 3:36

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life; but the one who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

SIONE 3:36

Ko ia ‘oku ne tui pīkitai ki he ‘Alo ‘oku ne ma‘u ‘a e mo‘ui ta‘engata: ka ko ia ‘oku ‘ikai te ne talangofua ki he ‘Alo ‘e ‘ikai te ne mamata ia ki he mo‘ui; ka ‘oku nofo ma‘u kiate ia ‘e he houhau ‘a e ‘Otua.

 

Solus Christus - Christ Alone - Ko Kalasi pe   

This is Christian faith that trusts in God's grace alone, gained for us and bestowed upon us through the blood of Christ, and that counts no work useful or good to win God's favor. For this were too hard for nature, which is conceived and born in sin, and also lives, works, and dies in it if Christ would not come to its help, gaining God's mercy for us by His works alone and not by our own. Through Him too we fulfill the first commandment and have a God on whose mercy we can depend with all confidence, so that without our merit He forgives all our sins and saves us in Christ, as has often already been said.

Therefore it is impossible that this faith should permit beside itself a trust in works, as though anyone could obtain forgiveness of sins and grace and become holy and be saved by them, for this belongs to Christ alone, who does all this through His work. Thus we have only to believe and confidently to entrust ourselves to Him.

MARTIN LUTHER