ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Monite Sepitema 26, 2022 

INCOMPARABLE LOVE

‘OFA TA‘E FAKATATAUA

PSALM 40:7

Then I said, “Behold, I have come; It is written of me in the scroll of the book.”

SAAME 40:7

Pea u toki pehē, “Ko au eni Kuo u ha‘u ‘I he takainga tohi kuo tohi mo‘o ku”

 

Solus Christus - Christ Alone - Ko Kalasi pe   

The Gospel history relates that He came forth to meet the soldiers; and in the presence of Pilate, instead of defending Himself, stood to receive judgment. This, indeed, He did not without a struggle, for He had assumed our infirmities also, and in this way it behooved Him to prove that He was yielding obedience to His Father. It was no ordinary example of incomparable love toward us to struggle with dire terrors, and amid fearful tortures to cast away all care of Himself that He might provide for us. We must bear in mind that Christ could not duly propitiate God without renouncing His own feelings and subjecting Himself entirely to His Father's will.

To this effect the apostle appositely quotes a passage from the Psalms: "Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God" (Hebrews 10:5; Psalm 40:7-8). Thus, as trembling consciences find no rest without sacrifice and ablution by which sins are expiated, we are properly directed thither, the source of our life being placed in the death of Christ.

JOHN CALVIN