ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tusite Sepitema 13, 2022 

REDEMPTION AND RENEWAL

HUHU‘I  MO FAKAFO‘OU

PSALM 62:11-12

¶God has spoken once; Twice I have heard this: That power belongs to God; And faithfulness is Yours, Lord, For You reward a person according to his work.

SAAME 62:11-12

Ko e me‘a ‘e taha ne folofola‘aki ‘e he ‘Otua, Kuo u fanongo ki he me‘a ni ‘e ua; Ko e mālohi ko e me‘a ‘a e ‘Otua: Pea ‘oku ‘a e ‘Afiona ‘a e meesi, ‘Ātonai ē; He ‘oku totongi ‘e he ‘Afiona ki he tangata fua pē, ‘O fakatatau ki he‘ene ngāue.

Solus Christus - Christ Alone - Ko Kalasi pe   

Gentleness without righteousness would be no longer gentleness, but carelessness or fear. On the other hand, if you do not temper righteousness with goodness or equity, it becomes the utmost injustice and violence. Since, therefore, we recognize that God is by nature good, we confess at the same time that He is mild, gentle, and bountiful, as well as holy, righteous, and inviolable. This was the cause of His clothing His only begotten Son with flesh, that He might not only show to, but bestow upon, the whole world these two things: redemption and renewal. For since His goodness, that is, justice and mercy, is inviolable, that is, firm and immutable, His justice required atonement, His mercy pardon, and pardon a new life.

Therefore the Son of the Most High King put on the cloak of the flesh and came forth to be made a victim (for in His divine nature He could not die), to placate unchangeable justice and reconcile it with those who even in their own innocence did not dare to come into the presence of God, because of their consciousness of guilt.

ULRICH ZWINGLI