ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Pulelulu Novema 9, 2022

GOD'S MORAL GOVERNMENT

KO E NGAAHI LAO MO E TU‘UTU‘UNI ‘A E ‘OTUA

1 CHRONICLES 16:29

Give to the Lord the glory due His name; Bring an offering, and come before Him. Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness!

1 KALONIKALI 16:29

Tuku kia Sihova ‘a e kolōlia ‘o hono huafa: To‘o me‘a‘ofa ‘o ha‘u ki hono ‘ao na: Hū kia Sihova ‘i he teunga tāpuhā.

 

Soli Deo Gloria – To the Glory of God Alone

Ki he Langilangi ‘o e ‘Otua Tokotaha pe   

The Scripture leads us to suppose that God's glory is His last end in His moral government of the world in general. This has been already shown concerning several things that belong to God's moral government of the world, as particularly in the work of redemption, the chief of all dispensations His moral government of the world.

And I have also observed it, with respect to the duty which God requires of the subjects of His moral government, in requiring them to seek His glory as their last end. And this is actually the last end of the moral goodness required of them, the end which gives their moral goodness its chief value. And also that it is what that person which God has set at the head of the moral world, as its chief Governor, even Jesus Christ, seeks as His chief end. And it has been shown, that it is the chief end for which that part of the moral world which are good are made, or have their existence as good. I now further observe that this is the end of the establishment of the public worship and ordinances of God among mankind. 

JONATHAN EDWARDS