ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tokonaki Novema 19, 2022 

HEAVENLY HAPPINESS

FIEFIA FAKA-LANGI

EXODUS 3:5

Then He said, “Do not come near here; remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

‘EKISOTO 3:5

Pea ne folofola, ‘Oua te ke ofi mai ki heni: to‘o ho topuva‘e mei ho va‘e, he ko e potu ‘oku ke tu‘u ai ko e kelekele tapu

 

Soli Deo Gloria – To the Glory of God Alone

Ki he Langilangi ‘o e ‘Otua Tokotaha pe   

It is evident by the Scripture that discoveries of God's glory, when given in a great degree, have a tendency, by affecting the mind, to overbear the body. The Scripture teaches us that if these views should be given to such a degree as they are given in heaven, the weak frame of the body could not subsist under it, and that no man can, in that manner, see God and live.

The knowledge which the saints have of God's beauty and glory in this world, and those holy affections that arise from it, are of the same nature and kind with what the saints are the subjects of in heaven, differing only in degree and circumstances. What God gives them here is a foretaste of heavenly happiness, and an earnest of their future inheritance. And who shall limit God in His giving this earnest, or say He shall give so much of the inheritance, such a part of the future reward, as an earnest of the whole, and no more?

JONATHAN EDWARDS