ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Monite Novema 7, 2022

CHRIST'S ULTIMATE AIM

KO E KAVEINGA AOFANGATUKU ‘A KALAISI

JOHN 7:18

"Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth."

SIONE 7:18

Ko ia ‘oku lea meiate ia pē, ‘oku ne tuli pē ki hono ongoongo ‘o‘ona; ka ko ia ‘oku ne tuli ki he ongoongo ‘o ia na‘a ne fekau mai ia, ko e toko taha ko ia ‘oku mo‘oni, pea ‘oku ‘ikai ha ta‘etotonu ‘i ai.

 

Soli Deo Gloria – To the Glory of God Alone

Ki he Langilangi ‘o e ‘Otua Tokotaha pe   

The Scripture leads us to suppose that Christ sought God's glory as His highest and last end. John 7:18 [says,] "He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory; but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him." When Christ says He did not seek His own glory, we cannot reasonably understand that He had no regard to His own glory, even the glory of the human nature; for the glory of that nature was part of the reward promised Him and of the joy set before Him.

But we must understand that this was not His ultimate aim; it was not the end that chiefly governed His conduct, and therefore, when in opposition to this, in the latter part of the sentence, He says, "But he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true." It is natural from the antithesis to understand that this was His ultimate aim, His supreme governing end.

JONATHAN EDWARDS