Friday, November 11, 2022

Nuimeitolu

 Muimui Tupou (13th. TK)

 

Namoa Tupou (TK) (Namoa Older brothers Tupouto'a TK & Tuku'aho 14th. TK)

 

Tupouto’a gave up the tile and briefly held by Namoa but the stronger of all of them was Tuku’aho (TK) was the 14th Tu’i Kanokupolu of Tonga, reigning approximately from 1793 to 1799. He was considered the “strong man” of the Tupou family despite coming from a lower lineage from his mother Lepolo, and he used his power to depose the 12th Tu’i Kanokupolu, Tupoumoheofo, who was of the higher line.[1] Tuku’aho placed instilled his own father, Mumui, as the 13th Tu’i Kanokupolu and then took the title for himself upon Mumui's death. Tuku’aho reigned Tonga as a tyrant, for which he was assassinated by a team of high chiefs. His death sparked a civil war that lasted for nearly a half century.

 

 

Fanau 'a Namoa (TK)

1. Finau       

2. Lausi'i

3. Vikamafile'o

4. Vavahe'a

5. Siaosi Tupou Niumeitolu 

6. Tangata'olakepa

7. Netane

8. Alilia Funakitoutai

 

Fanau 'a Siaosi Niumeitolu

1. Ana Sioeli

2. Salote

3. Viliami Tu'ihalangingie

4. Peni Tupou

 

Fanau 'a Peni Tupou

1.    Lesieli

2.    Saane

3.    Lolohea

4.    Siaosi Niumeitolu

5.    'Aisake Tupou

6.    Tangata'olakepa 

 

Fanau ‘a ‘Aisake

1.    Ofo

2.    Ana

3.    Vilo

4.    Vika

5.    Sione

6.    ‘Aisake

7.    Taliai

8. Louniutaha Tupou


Sunday, November 6, 2022

What an Amazing Love

 

Union Gospel

7/29/2022

Romans 5:8

What an Amazing Love

Introduction:

Young man went to find the elder wise man of the village, seeking advice

for he is going through some problems. He found the wise man and this

young man was invited into the house. The Elder Wise man asked, do you

want a cup of tea, young man said yes, The Elder Wise man poured the

young man a cup of tea. Although the cup was filled, he continues to pour,

the young man pointed out that the cup is filled, and it is spilling out. The

Elder Wise man said, If you come here Full, I cannot give you any advice.

As we come here this afternoon, we must empty out ourselves and prepare

to take in His Grace & His Love. He cannot pour His love into us, if we a

filled - Christ redemption came just in the right time


 What an Amazing Love 

a.    God came to us at just the right time

a.     He is never late, we just impatience

b.    God’s time not our time

                                                             i.      God time’s eternal, we cannot conceptualize his time

                                                           ii.      God is not confined to time, He is omnipotence

                                                        iii.      Our struggle is within a tiny window of his Grand everlasting wholeness 

                                                        iv.      God’s acknowledge, I know you hurting, I know your struggle, I know you have been beaten the burden of this world, I know your pain

1.    God will lift you up just in time

2.    His timing is always sufficient

a.     What an Amazing Love! 

b.    We are at our deepest point of need    Luke 5:30 - 32

a.     30 But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to Jesus’ disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” 31 Jesus answered, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

b.    He Loves those that are in needs – What an Amazing Love!

c.    Christ died for us when were powerless                    John 10:28

a.     John 10:28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.

b.    We do not have the power to change anything

                                                             i.      Our minds must be empowered from above

                                                           ii.      We must set our minds on the things of God

                                                        iii.      God has empowered us to be powerful

                                                        iv.      The Apostle said: He has given us eternal life and no one can snatch us from His hand – that is powerful

1.    What an Amazing Love!

c.     We don’t have the power to save ourselves, He saved Us

                                                             i.      What an Amazing Love

d.    He Love those that are weaken by the weight of these world

                                                             i.      What an Amazing Love

d.    Christ died for us when we were ungodly      Romans 1:21

a.     Romans 1:21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.

b.    We had no desire to change – that’s ungodly

c.     There are people relegated faith to the “have not” these are the ungodliness as they think that they do not need God – that’s ungodly

d.    We continue to withhold those that belong to God from God – that’s ungodly

e.    Love those that those that chosen their ways over God’s ways – that’s ungodly

 

e.    Christ died for us when were sinners, Romans 3:23

a.     Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

                                                              i.      what do I have in common with the wealthiest person on earth? We both are sinner

b.    We have totally missed the mark

c.     We were desperately lost and in need of change without knowing it

d.    Forgive those who has sinned against you

f.     Christ died for us when were God’s enemies, John 15:15

a.     John 15:15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

                                                              i.      Amazing Love, what a Friend we have in Jesus!

b.    Because we are powerless, our ungodliness, and continue our sinning way, we are God’s enemies

c.     Love your enemies and pray for them

g.    This was the greatest demonstration of God’s love,  John 3:16

a.     For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

                                                              i.      What an Amazing Love

b.    We are redeemed through his Grace

                                                             i.      What an Amazing Love!

c.     The Son of Man came to give His life a ransom for many

                                                             i.      What an Amazing Love!

d.    How can I demonstrate God’s Amazing love in my life?

e.    Not only we have been redeemed and atoned, but he has also filled us with eternal destination.

                                                             i.      What an Amazing Love!

Conclusion:

A son asked his father: What do you think I am worth?

The father gave him a precious stone: Just hold up 2 fingers when asked how much: He went to the Market $2.00; Museum $200, the Jeweler $200,000.00  

Today, you decide if you want to be a $2.00 stone, $200.00 stone, or $200000.00 stone, or a Jesus life which it was given so that we may have everlasting life—priceless

Romans 5: 6 - 11

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 

Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! 

10 For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 

11 Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Saturday, November 5, 2022

Sio Ke Ma’u Pea Tui Ke Pikitai

 5/30/2021

Lesoni: Sione 3:14 -15 “Pea hangee na’e hiki ki ‘olunga ‘e Mosese ‘ae ngata ‘i he toafa pehe foki kuopau ke hiki ki ‘olunga ‘ae Fanautama ‘a tangata...koe’uhii ko ia kotoa pe ‘oku tui ke ne ma’u ‘iate ia ‘ae mo’ui ta’engata”

Himi: 362, 114, & 442


Kaveinga: Sio Ke Ma’u Pea Tui Ke Pikitai

Talateu:

Some years ago, a vessel sailing on the northern coast of the South American continent, was observed to make signals of distress. When hailed by another vessel, they reported themselves as "Dying for water!" "Dip it up then,"  Ohu hake was the response, "you are in the mouth of the Amazon river." ‘Oku mou lolotonga folau he ngutungutu ‘o e ‘Amazon River. There was fresh water all around them, they had nothing to do but to dip it up, and yet they were dying of thirst, because they thought themselves to be surrounded by the salt sea.

1.    How often are men ignorant of their mercies?

2.    How sad that they should perish for lack of knowledge!

3.    Jesus is near the seeker even when he is tossed upon oceans of doubt.

4.    The sinner has but to stoop down and drink and live.

5.    Ko e faka’amu ia ‘oe malanga ‘o e ‘ahoni, God is all around us

6.    ‘Oku fonufonu ‘a e ‘Otua he tapa kotoa pe

7.    Ko’etau fieinua he ‘oku tau teke’I ‘a e to’ukupu ‘o Sisu

8.    We have but to just look, Sio ke ma’u pea Tui ke Pikitai

Lesoni ‘o e ‘ahoni ‘oku lahi hono ngaahi fekau mo hon ngaahi fakakaukau pea pehe foki ki he ngaahi Imisi ‘o e mo’ui ta’e ngata pea moe mo’ui ‘I mamani. Koia ‘oku fu’u pelengesi pea ‘oku te ‘alu ‘ete’ete na’a hanga ‘eha fakakaukau ‘e taha ‘o pulonga’I ha ha konga

‘Oku ‘omi ‘e Sione ‘a e fepotalano’aki ‘a Nikotimasi pea mo Sis uke fakafofonga’I ‘aki ‘a etau fifili ki he mo’ui ta’engata.

1.      V. 1 – 2 Ko Nikotimasi (maheni ki he tukufakaholo moe lao Siu)

2.      V. 3 Fanau’I fo’ou, ko e fanau’i mei ‘olunga

3.      V. 4 teu toe foki koaa ki he manava ‘o ‘eku fa’ee?

4.      V. 5 – 7 Koe fanau’I fo’ou ‘I he vai mo e Laumalia

5.      V. 11-12 Ngaahi me’a Langi

6.      V.14-15 Hiki hake ‘a e fanautama ‘a Tangata

7.      V. 16-17 Koe tumu’aki ‘e ‘ofa ‘a e ‘Otua

8.      V. 17 Ko hotau mo’ui’anga

 

Hiki tohi ‘e Sione koe nague’aki ia ‘e Sisu ‘a e talanoa ko ia ‘oku ha he Tohi Nomipa 21:8-9. 

1.      Koe lea ko ‘eni ‘a Sisu  na’e makatu’unga ia he ha’u  po’uli kiate Ia ‘a e tokotaha Faiako Siu ka koe Falesi ko Nikotimasi hono hingoa ‘o faka’eke ‘a Sisu ‘o fekau’aki moe founga ’o e hu ki he Pule’anga ‘o e ‘Otua.

2.      Na’e fu’u faingata’a ‘aupito kia Nikotomasi ke ‘uhinga ki ai ‘a e ngaahi talanoa moe faiako ‘a Sisu ko ia na’e ngaue’aki leva ‘e Sisu ‘a e talaona ko ‘eni ‘oku ha ‘ia Nomipa fekau’aki moe launga ‘a e kakai ‘Isileli kia Mosese moe ‘Otua fekau’aki moe faingata’a moe loloa ‘o e fononga ke tataki ki ai ‘a e tokanga ‘a Nikotomasi

3.      Ko e talanoa ‘i hono hiki tohi ‘e Mosese na’a nau fononga atu he ‘otu mo’unga ko Hoa ke fou ki he tahi Kulokula pea nau toe takai ki he mui’i fonua ‘o ‘Itomi. Na’e houhau heni ‘a Sihova ‘one fekau’i atu ha fanga Ngata vela ‘one faka’auha honau fa’ahinga pea na’e mate heni hanu tokolahi.

4.      Pea huhuu ‘a Mosese ki he ‘Otua pea lolou ai hono finangalo ‘one fekau’i ‘a Moses ke ngaohi ‘a e ngata  ‘o hange ko ia ‘oku tokanga ki ai ’etau veesi Malanga.

5.      Nomipa 21:8-9: “Pea na’e hange na’e hiki ki ‘Olunga ‘e Mosese ‘a e Ngata ‘i he Toafa, pe he foki kuopau ke hiki ki ‘Olunga ‘a e Fanautama ‘a tangata koe’uhi ko ia kotoa pe ‘oku tui ke ne ma’u ‘iate Ia ‘a e mo’ui ta’engata”

 

Kaveinga: Sio Ke Ma’u Pea Tui Ke Pikitai

Potu Folofola Sione 3:14 -15 “Pea hangee na’e hiki ki ‘olunga ‘e Mosese ‘ae ngata ‘i he toafa pehe foki kuopau ke hiki ki ‘olunga ‘ae Fanautama ‘a tangata...koe’uhii ko ia kotoa pe ‘oku tui ke ne ma’u ‘iate ia ‘ae mo’ui ta’engata”


Nomipa 21:8 Pea folofola ‘a Sihove kia Mosese. Ngaahi ha’o ngata vela ‘o ‘ai ki he fuka, pea ‘ilonga ha taha kuo u’u, tene sio kiai pea tene  mo’ui.

 

Numbers 21:8 — King James Version (KJV 1900)And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

 

 

Kakano ‘oe Malanga

 

Koe tala is ‘oe fanau’I fo’ou ‘oku mahino pe ia kia Nikotimasi ‘I he founga faka Siu. New converts. ‘Ikai mahino kia Nikotimasi ‘a e fanau’I fo’ou mei ‘olunga

 

Koe fanau’I ha taha ‘I ‘Amerika – American citizen, process of Naturalize

 

Fanu’I ‘e Ua: Mamani mo ‘Olunga

-          Water (Vai) purification

-          Laumalie: ‘Otua

 

Ko Sisu leva ‘oku ne ‘ave kitaua ki he fanau’I mei ‘olunga

1.      Kete ha’u mei ‘olunga - Sisu pe mei ‘olunga  V. 13 ngata pe ‘iate ia na’e ha’u mei langi

2.      ‘E ‘ikai ke lava ha taha ‘o fanau’I kapau ‘oku kei mo’ui.

a.      V. 16 ne foaki hono ‘alo tofu pe taha

b.      V. 17 ne ‘ikai tene ha’u kef aka maau ka na’a ne ha’u ke tau mo’ui

                                                                          i.      Na’ane ha’u ke tau fanau’I fo’ou mei ‘olunga

 

 

'Oku käinga 'a e talano kia Mosese mo ia kia Sisü:

1.     'Oku teu mate 'a e kakai he'enau angahala

2.     'Oku foaki 'e he 'Otua ha founga ke fakamo'ui

3.     Ko e me'a 'e "tefito" ki ai 'a e fakamo'ui ko e "hiki hake ki
'olunga" (Ngata mo Sisü)

4.     'E mo'ui 'a e kakai ''i he'enau mamata pe, mo e tui.

5.     Ka ko e 'Otua pe 'a e "tefito" 'o e fakamo'ui 'oku fakafou mai 'i he
Ngata mo Sisü.

 

Pea 'oku 'i ai pe foki mo e kehekehee:

6.     Ko e ngata—ko e Polonise pe, ko e me'a matelie mo 'auha, ka ko e
Fanautama ko e me'a mo'ui ia.

7.     Ko e mo'ui 'e ma'u 'i he mamata ki he ngata, ko e fakaloloa pe 'o e
mo'ui ko eni; ka ko e mo'ui 'i he tui, ko e mo'ui ta'engata ia.
Ko e ""hiki hake" 'oku loloolahi hono ngaahi 'uhinga 'i he Kosipeli.
'Oku 'uhinga ki he Kolosi 'o Sisü, pe ko e Toetu'u, pea toe lava pe 'o
'uhinga ki he ha'ele hake. Ka neongo 'a e kehekehe ko eni, ko e

 

Koe mo’ui fanau’I fo’ou

1.      Koe mo’ui ‘oku fai me’a fo’ou

2.      Kapau koe taumu’a koe mo’ui ta’engata, pea ‘oku fai leva ‘a e me’a ke ma’u ai ‘a e mo’ui ta’engata.

3.      Koe fakatataa ko’eni ‘oku mahino ‘aupito pea ‘oku ‘ikai hano toe fakapulipuli

a.      ‘oku ‘ikai koe ma’u lotu

b.      ‘oku ‘ikai foaki lahi taha

c.      ‘oku ‘ikai ko e tauhi lao

4.      Koe ngaahi me’a ko’eni ‘e ho’ata mai ia koe fua ‘o e fanau’I fo’ou.

 

5.    Ko e me’a ia ‘oku ‘uhinga ki ai ‘a Sisu ‘i he fanau’i fo’ou mei he vai mo e Laumālie.

6.    Ko e pau ke mātu’aki fakafo’ou ‘e he ‘Otua ‘a tu’a pea mo loto ‘o e mo’ui ‘a e tangata kae lava ai ke tau talangofua fie talangofua ki he’ene folofola.

7.    Ka kuo mahino eni ‘a e ofo ‘a Nikotimasi ‘i he pau ke toe fiema’u ‘a e fanau’ifo’ou mei ha tangata lotu ‘o hangē ko ia.

8.   Ko e tangata lotu ‘eni: A’ahi kakai  koe’uhi’ ‘oku faka’ofa si’i kau paea’, vaivai’, mo e masiva', Tangata Fanau’I fo’ou: ‘a’ahi kakai koe’uhi' ko e kupu kita ‘o ‘enau haohaoa’ {We love people not out of pity for orphans, elderly, and the poor, but because we are a part of their totality} ‘oku tua hoko koe fakakakato ‘a e ‘ofa faka’Otua

9.    Ko ia ‘oku toe ta’omaki atu ‘e Sisu ‘ene tala, Kuo pau ke mou fanau’ifo’ou mei ‘olunga. 

10. Koe ngata palasa kuo hiki ‘e Mosese ma’a ‘Isileli koe Kolosi ee ‘o Kalasis kuo hiki ‘e taua ke fakamo’oni fakahaha ki mamani “Koe mala kuo ngata e tupu pe ‘ae monu’ia.” (1 Tim.1:15).

11. Koe fakamo’ui ‘ae ‘Otua is not a process, it is a immediate miracle: he save instantly, immediately and completely. Koe ha ‘oku tau kei to’ohi ai ke tui leva?

12. Tau sio ke pau pea Tui ke pikitai


Fakama’opo’opo

 

Spurgoen


January 6, 1850—15-year-old Charles Spurgeon was trudging up Hythe Hill in Colchester, on his way to church. When the blizzard prevented him from going further, he turned the corner and made his way into a small Primitive Methodist Church on Artillery Street.

 

 God in sending a snowstorm one Sunday morning, when I was going to a place of worship.

 

When I could go no further, I turned down a court and came to a little Primitive Methodist Chapel.

In that chapel there might be a dozen or fifteen people.

 

The minister did not come that morning: snowed up, I suppose.

 

A poor man, a shoemaker, a tailor, or something of that sort, went up into the pulpit to preach.

He was obliged to stick to his text, for the simple reason that he had nothing else to say. The text was, ‘Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth’

‘Aisea 45:22 Hanga mai kiate au, ka mou mo‘ui, ‘a e ngaahi ngata‘anga ‘o māmani

 

He did not even pronounce the words rightly, but that did not matter.

There was, I thought, a glimpse of hope for me in the text.

He began thus:

‘My dear friends, this is a very simple text indeed. It says, “Look.”

 

1.      Now that does not take a deal of effort. It ain’t lifting your foot or your finger; it is just “look.”

2.      Well, a man need not go to college to learn to look. You may be the biggest fool, and yet you can look.

3.      A man need not be worth a thousand a year to look. Anyone can look; a child can look. But this is what the text says.

 

Sio ke Ma’u:

1.      Then it says, “Look unto Me.” Ka ke mo’ui

2.      ‘Ay,’ said he, in broad Essex, ‘many of ye are looking to yourselves. No use looking there. You’ll never find comfort in yourselves.’

3.      Sio kia Sisu he ‘oku tafe ‘a e ta’ata’a mei hono ngaahi kafo

4.      Sio ke ma’u; I am hanging on the Cross. ‘oku ne tautau he Kolosi

5.      Sio ke ma’u: I am dead and buried. Kuone pekia pea telio

6.      Sio ke ma’u; Kuo ne toetu’u

7.      Sio ke ma’u; Kuo ne ha’ele hake; I am sitting at the Father’s right hand.

 

Talaloto ‘a Spurgeon:

He then said, ‘Young man, you look very miserable.’

Well, I did; but I had not been accustomed to have remarks made on my personal appearance from the pulpit before. However, it was a good blow struck.

He continued: ‘And you will always be miserable—miserable in life and miserable in death—if you do not look at Jesus. Pea kapau teke sio kia Sisu he ‘ahoni; teke ma’u ‘a e fanau’I fo’ou mei ‘olunga

 

Then he shouted, as only a Primitive Methodist can, ‘Young man, look to Jesus Christ.’

There and then the cloud was gone, the darkness had rolled away, and that moment I saw the sun; and I could have risen that moment and sung with the most enthusiastic of them of the Precious Blood of Christ.”

 

 

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