ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Falaite ‘Okatopa 14, 2022

LIVING WATER

KO E VAI MO’UI

JOHN 4:10

Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

SIONE 4:10

Pea tali ‘e Sīsū ‘o ne me‘a ki ai, Ka ne ke ‘ilo ‘a e me‘a‘ofa ‘a e ‘Otua, pea ka ne ke ‘ilo pe ko hai ia ‘oku ne pehē atu, ‘Omi haku inu; pehē ko koe ne ke fai ‘a e kole kiate ia, pea kuo ne ‘atu ha vai mo‘ui.

 

Solus Christus - Christ Alone - Ko Kalasi pe   

The saints have both their spiritual excellency and blessedness by the gift of the Holy Ghost, or Spirit of God, and His dwelling in them. The Holy Spirit becoming an inhabitant is a vital principle in the soul: He, acting in, upon, and with the soul becomes a fountain of true holiness and joy, as a spring is of water, by the exertion and diffusion of itself, John 4:14: "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."

Compare with John 7:38-39: "He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water; but this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive." The sum of what Christ has purchased for us is that spring of water spoken of in the former of those places, and those rivers of living water spoken of in the latter.

JONATHAN EDWARDS

Ko e kau tui (kau mā’oni’oni) ‘oku nau ma’u honau tāpuaki fakalaumālie mei he me’a’ofa ‘a e Laumālie Mā’oni’oni ‘o e ‘Otua ‘i he’ene nofo’ia kinautolu.  Ko e nofo’ia ‘e he Laumālie Mā’oni’oni ‘a e mo’ui ‘a e kalisitiane ko e tu’unga mahu’inga ia ki ai; ‘oku ne hoko, ‘i he mo’ui ‘a e kalisitiane, ko e fauniteni ‘o e haohaoa mo’oni mo e fiefia, ‘o hangē ha vai ‘oku mapunopuna, ‘i he Laumālie Mā’oni’oni, Sione 4:14: “ ka ‘ilonga ‘a ia te ne inu mei he vai te u ‘atu ‘e au, ‘e ‘ikai ‘aupito te ne toe fieinua ‘o ta’engata; ka ko e vai te u ‘atu kiate ia ‘e au te ne tupu ‘i loto ‘i he tokotaha ko ia, ko e matavai mapunopuna hake ‘o iku ki he mo’ui ta’engata.”

Vakai kia Sione 7:38-39: “ ‘ilonga ‘a ia ‘oku tui pikitai kiate au, pea hange ko e lau ‘a e Tohitapu, ‘e tafe atu mei hono manava ha ngaahi vaitafe ‘o e vai mo’ui; ka na’e kau ‘ene lea ko ia ki he Laumālie, ‘a ia ka ma’u ‘e kinautolu ‘e tui pikitai kiate Ia.”  Ko e katokatoa ‘o e koloa na’e fakatau ‘e Kalaisi ma’a kitautolu, ko e vai mapunopuna ia ‘oku hā ‘i he potutohi ko ‘eni pea mo e matavai kuo palomesi ‘e he folofola ‘a Sisu.