I Kolone 1:18, Paul wrote to the saints at Colosse that Jesus is the Head of the Body, le Ekalesia: o ai le amataga, le ulumatua mai le oti; O mea uma lava e ono ia te ia le tului. O le a le uiga o lea mea?
O le uiga o le Kolose 1:18
O Iesu o le faatusa o le Atua lē vaaia, the Firstborn of every creature and Jesus is the Head of the Body, le Ekalesia. The only way to access the Church is through faith and regeneration in Jesus Christ. Afai ua toe fanauina oe ia Keriso, Oe auai i lona tino, le Ekalesia.
The Head reigns, decides, and directs the Body and the Body submits and follows and do the will of the Head.
Therefore everyone, who is born again and belongs to the Church, should submit to Jesus Christ and obey Him and mulimuli ia te Ia ma fai Lona finagalo.
The mind is in the head
The mind is in the head. O lea la, o i latou, who are born again and belong to the Body of Christ, le Ekalesia, should renew their mind with the Word of God. Aisea? So that their mind and thoughts will line up with the Word and they may prove what is that good, ma taliaina, and perfect will of God.
Ou te le fiafia i ai, Uso, e le Faaola o le Atua, ua outou tuuina i ou tino se taulaga ola, paia, talia i le Atua, o lau galuega talafeagai. Ma aua le taliaina i lenei lalolagi: Ae ia outou liua mai le faʻafouina o lou mafaufau, e mafai ona e faamaonia le mea lelei, ma taliaina, ma atoatoa, finagalo o le Atua (Roma 12:1-2)
Before you believed, salamo, ma avea aitoe fanauina, o oe o le foafoaga tuai.
You belonged to the generation of fallen man. Your mind was filled with the wisdom, malamalama, and the things of the world.
The devil was your father and you belonged to the world. O lea la, you thought, talked, acted, and lived like the world.
Ae peitai, e ala i le faatuatua ia Iesu Keriso ma le toefaafouina ia te Ia, e ala i le oti o le tino ma le toetū mai o le agaga mai le oti, ‘ua ‘ave‘eseina ‘outou nai le mālō o le pouliuli i le Mālō o le Atua.
You no longer belong to the devil and the world and are le toe avea ma tagata agasala. But you belong to God and His Kingdom and have become a saint.
Another kingdom means another king and another law
Another kingdom means, faatasi ai ma isi, another king, another law; other commandments and other rules. I se faapuupuuga, it means a change of life.
Therefore it’s essential when you become born again, Ia toe faafouina lou mafaufau ma le afioga a le Atua. Because by the renewing of your mind, you will get to know the will of God and come to the knowledge of the truth and your thoughts will line up with God’s thoughts and you shall walk in His ways. (Faitau foi: O manatu o le Atua o tatou manatu? ma O le alofa o le Atua?).
If your mind is renewed with the Word of God and you know His will and His truth, you will no longer believe the lies of the devil and think, gaoioi, and walk like the world, and live the same life before you were born again, a o oe o le tuai o foafoaga, O se Tagata agasala.
But through the renewing of your mind, you shall spiritually mature and think, gaoioi, and walk like the new creation, like Jesus Christ, and in submission and obedience to the Word, tou te faia Lona finagalo.
O Iesu o le Ulu o le Tino, le Ekalesia
O Iesu o le Ulu o le Tino, le Ekalesia. When you belong to the Body of Christ, you ought to think the way He thinks and act the way He acts and keep His commandments and do His will.
I le faia o lona finagalo, you shall not only be a hearer of the Word but a doer of the Word. (Faitau foi: ‘O le tagata fai mea e fai’).
Jesus is the Living Word and is o le Ulumatua o le foafoaga fou, Who walked upon this earth. Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit. He did the will of His Father, whereby He glorified and exalted His Father. The Word and the Spirit are the Witnesses of God upon the earth.
Jesus faced death and conquered the death and rose from the dead unto eternal life, ina ia tagata uma, who would lay down his or her life and by faith in Jesus Christ become born again, le vaai i le oti, but enter eternal life.
Jesus Christ gave the example
Faauta, O Le a Le Sili o le Alofa ua Lafoaia Tatou Tamā ia Tatou, e pei ona valaauina i tatou uma o atalii o le Atua: O le mea lea ua iloa ai e le lalolagi ia i tatou, Aua na ia le iloa o ia. Pele, o i tatou nei o atalii o le Atua, ma e lei faaalia mai po o le a le mea o le a tatou i ai: ae ua tatou iloa lena mea, pe a afio mai o Ia, o le a tatou faapei o Ia; aua o le a tatou vaai ia te Ia e pei ona i ai o Ia. And every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as He is pure (1 Ioane 3:1-3)
Jesus Christ has given us the example. He showed us how to live as sons of God (alii ma tamaitai) in the authority of God in obedience to His will.
Jesus showed us His relationship with the Father. He showed us the words He spoke as One having authority and the works He did in the Name of His Father and the power of the Holy Spirit, which glorified the Father.
Jesus is the Head of His Body, le Ekalesia. We are the Church and He is our Head. Therefore the Church, who represents and preaches the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, shall speak, act and walk in the authority of Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit and expose and faaumatia galuega o le pogisa.
Is Jesus the Head of your life?
If Jesus is the Head of the Church and if you are born again and belong to the Church, then Jesus Christ is the Head of your life. Since you died in Christ, you no longer live, Ae o loo soifua Keriso ia te oe. Your body is the temple of God, where the Holy Spirit dwells(a.o. Kalatia 2:20, 1 Korinito 3:16; 6:19, 2 Korinito 6:16).
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the Chief Corner stone; In Whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In Whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit (Efeso 2:19-22)
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are (1 Korinito 3:16-17).
O le a? tou te le iloa ea o lo outou tino o le malumalu lea o le Agaga Paia o loo i totonu ia te outou, ua ia te outou mai le Atua, e le o outou foi outou? Auā ‘ua fa‘atauina ‘outou i le tau: o lea ia outou vivii atu ai i le Atua i o outou tino, ma i lou agaga, o mea ia a le Atua (1 Korinito 6:19-20)
If you let Jesus be the Head of your life and you submit to Him and walk according to His will and obey Ana poloaiga, then you will become like Him and speak, act and walk like Him. Because God has given power to everyone, who receives Him, e avea ma atalii o le Atua (Ioane 1:12-13).
If Jesus is the Head of your life then you will obey Him
If you belong to Jesus Christ and submit to Him, you shall do what He says and what pleases Him. Through your life and walk you shall honor and glorify Him.
Ma o lea tatou te iloa tatou te iloa o ia, Afai tatou te tausi ana poloaiga. O le ua fai mai, Ou te iloa o ia, ma ua lē tausia Ana poloaiga, o se pepelo, e le o ia te ia foi le upu moni. A o lē tausi i Lana afioga, ‘ua ‘ato‘atoa ‘iā te ia le alofa o le Atua: o le mea lea tatou te iloa ai o loo i totonu ia te ia. O lē fai mai o lo‘o tumau o ia ‘iā te ia, e tatau ‘ona savali o ia, e pei lava ona Ia savali (1 Ioane 2:3-6).
But if you can’t let go of the world, because you love the world too much. And if you keep doing the things you want to do, instead of doing the things Jesus wants you to do, and you walk after the flesh, doing the works of the flesh and persevere in sin, then Jesus shall no longer be your Head and you shall no longer belong to Him, because you don’t do what He says.
Jesus gave His body, so that the Church could become His Body
E faʻapena foʻi lenei mea i le ekalesia. Jesus gave His body, so that we could become His Body. But if the Church leaves Jesus Christ; the Word and doesn’t do what He says and (faaleagaga) behead Him of the Church, then the Church shall be a humanistic social institution, that focus on man and feeding and pleasing the flesh, instead of being a power of God, that focus on Jesus Christ and His Kingdom and feeding the spirit of man. (Faitau foi: The Church a social institution or a power of God?)
The church shall be spiritually powerless and shall not be able to stand against the powers, pule, malo, thrones, ma isi. of the kingdom of darkness, causing the devil to manifest himself in the church; in the lives of people through the works of the flesh (ifo i tupua, faataulaitu, lē mamā faalefeusuaiga, faitaaga, mulilua, tatala faaipoipoga, matape'ape'a, ma isi.)
Therefore stay in the Word. Don’t leave the words of God. Let Jesus Christ be the Head of the Church and the Head of your life.
‘Ia fai ma masima o le lalolagi’
