ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Pulelulu Tisema 7, 2022

ETERNAL KING OF GLORY

KO E TU‘I LANGILANGI LAU’ITANITI

MICAH 5:2

"You, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel."

MAIKA 5:2

Pea ko koe, Pētelihema ‘Efalata, si‘i fau ke lau ‘i he ngaahi toko afe ‘o Siuta, ‘e ‘alu atu ha Taha meiate koe ma‘aku, ‘a ia te ne hoko ko e pule ‘o ‘Isileli; pea ko ‘ene ngaahi ‘alu ‘atu ‘oku talu mei mu‘a, mei he ngaahi ‘aho ‘o ‘ītāniti.

 

Soli Deo Gloria – To the Glory of God Alone

Ki he Langilangi ‘o e ‘Otua Tokotaha pe   

If Christ was to be a ruler over His own people, then His government could be neither temporal nor corporeal, but He must rule over the entire people, past, present, and future. Therefore He must be an eternal King. And this He can only be spiritually. But as God bestows on Christ His own government, He could not be a human being only. For it is not possible for God to bestow His glory, government, property, or people on one who is not true God, as He Himself declares: "And my glory will I not give to another" (Isaiah 42:8).

Therefore Micah continues: "Whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting," as if he would say: I proclaim the Ruler that shall come out of Bethlehem, but He does not there begin to be; He has been already from the beginning before the world began, in that no day or beginning can be named in which He did not already have His being. Now from all eternity and before the creation of the world there existed nothing but God alone.

MARTIN LUTHER