ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tu’apulelulu Sepitema 15, 2022 

CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY

NA ‘E PEKIA ‘A KALAISI MA‘A E FAKA-‘OTUAMATE 

ROMANS 5:6

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

LOMA 5:6

‘Ē, kapau ā ne pekia ‘a Kalaisi ma‘a e faka‘otuamate, ‘i he hoko ‘a e kuonga totonu, neongo na‘e kei vaivai kitautolu–

Na‘e pekia ‘a Kalaisi ma‘atautolu ‘oku tau lolotonga ‘efihia he angahalá, mo e fakafili ki he ‘Otuá (Taulua)

He na’e lolotoga ‘e tau vaivai ‘aubito, bea bekia ‘a Kalaisi i he kuoga tuutuu-malie koeuhi koe taelotu (Paaki ‘a Uesi)

 

Solus Christus - Christ Alone - Ko Kalasi pe    

Happily, it is written, as the commendation of God's love to us when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Here we see conscious helplessness Succored-  succored by the interposition of the Lord Jesus. Our helplessness is extreme. It is not written, "When we were comparatively weak Christ died for us"; or "When we had only a little strength"; but the description is absolute and unrestricted: "When we were yet without strength." We had no strength whatever which could aid in our salvation; our Lord's words were emphatically true: "Without me ye can do nothing."

I may go further than the text and remind you of the great love wherewith the Lord loved us, "even when we were dead in trespasses and sins." To be dead is even more than to be without strength. The one thing that the poor strengthless sinner has to fix his mind upon, and firmly retain, as his one ground of hope, is the divine assurance that "in due time Christ died for the ungodly." Believe this, and all inability will disappear.

CHARLES SPURGEON