ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tu’apulelulu Tisema 22, 2022 

GAZE ON GOD'S GLORY

SIO FAKAMAMA’U KI HE NAUNAU ‘O E ‘OTUA

COLOSSIANS 3:24

knowing that it is from the Lord that you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve

KOLOSE 3:24

‘o mou ‘ilo, ko e ‘Eiki ia te mou ma‘u mei ai ‘a e totongi totonu, ko e ma‘u tofi‘a. Ko e ‘Eiki, ko Kalaisi ia ‘oku mou nofo tamaio‘eiki ki ai.

 

Soli Deo Gloria – To the Glory of God Alone

Ki he Langilangi ‘o e ‘Otua Tokotaha pe   

Persons cannot be said to forsake Christ and live on their experiences merely because they use them as evidences of grace, for there are no other evidences that they can take. But then may persons be said to live upon their experiences when they make a righteousness of them, and when, instead of keeping their eye on God's glory and Christ's excellency, they turn it on themselves. They entertain their minds by viewing their own attainments, their high experiences, and the great things they have met with, which are bright and beautiful in their own eyes.

They are rich and increased with goods in their own apprehensions, and think that God has as admiring an esteem of them, on the same account, as they have of themselves. This is living on experiences, and not on Christ, and is more abominable in the sight of God than the gross immoralities of those who make no pretences to religion. But this is a far different thing from improving experiences as evidences of an interest in a glorious Redeemer.

JONATHAN EDWARDS