E nehenehe ta outou e hi'o faahou ia Iesu e a tuu Ia'na i ni'a i te hoê haama? Eaha ta te Bible e parau ra? I roto i te mau tuhaa fenua 6:6 we read that you can crucify Jesus again and put Him to an open shame and since the Bible; the Word of God is the truth, this is the truth. People can say all kinds of things and substantiate their opinion on the basis of their own experiences, Te mau mana'o, e te mau mana'o. But in the Church, it’s not about people’s feelings, Te mau nota, Te mau nota, a'au, e te mau ohipa, but it’s all about what the Bible says. Since the Church is the Body of Christ and founded on the Word of God instead of the experiences, Te mau nota, Te mau mana'o, Te mau nota, and words of people. God wants you to get to know His will, na roto i Ta'na Parau, and accept and follow His will. No reira outou, ei tamaiti na te Atua (Te tane e te vahine) shall walk after His will and through your te haapa'o and life exalt Jesus Christ and glorify the Father instead of putting Jesus Christ and the Father to an open shame.
The basis of repentance
On what ground do people repent and come to faith in Christ? This question is crucial and determines the walk of a person for the rest of his or her life. Te vahi pe'ape'a râ, e rave rahi feia faaroo, Hau, who have a leadership position in the church, come to faith in Christ for the wrong reasons and because of that they put God and His Kingdom to an open shame.
They defile the church by their own way of free-thinking, haapiiraa tumu, and speech, and their way of living and believe that by doing humanistic deeds (charity works) they make up for it.
But they are rebels of God’s Word and don’t walk in love, because they don’t submit to God and His Word, but adjust His words according to their will and opinion.
They pull on the emotions and feelings of the people and manipulate people and win people over, making them believe that they are speaking the truth and walking on the right path of life.
As long as believers remain carnal and live after the flesh instead of the Spirit, they shall be influenced by the knowledge, paari, and words of the world.
They shall be influenced and misled by Te mau peu and allow the knowledge, paari, and works of darkness into the church.
No teie huru tupuraa, many churches are no longer founded on the true Foundation; te parau, but on a human foundation; the words of people(A tai'o atoa: ‘Jesus Christ thrown out of the church‘ e ‘Ua niuhia te ekalesia i nia i te mau mana'o o te taata‘).
Faith has become more an addition to life and a way to become prosperous and successful in life on earth, instead of being the life of people and people have completely consecrated their lives to God and a change of life (Fa'ahou) has taken place.
I teie nei, in many churches the roles have been reversed. Instead of people having a fear of God (awe for God) and being devoted to God and serving God, God has to serve the people. God has to adjust to the time and the will of people, instead of people adjusting themselves and their will to the will of God and His eternal Truth (A tai'o atoa: ‘E taui te Atua i To'na hinaaro no te mau hinaaro e te mau hinaaro o te mau taata?hō'ē)
True repentance
There are many reasons why someone repents and come to faith and visits a church, like tradition, the pressure of surroundings, social aspect, for the blessings and prosperity, the promises, asylum, faaoraraa, te mau tapa'o e te mau mea faahiahia, fear for hell, e te tahi atu â. But there is only one reason, whereby one comes to true faith in Jesus Christ and will stand in the faith in Him and that is through a personal encounter with Jesus Christ and the conviction of the sinful state of fallen man.
The conviction of sin by the Word and the Holy Spirit and your filthy state as a sinner is the only thing that will cause te tatarahapa mau e te hoê tauiraa o te oraraa.
Because without a conviction of sin and a conviction of your sinful state as a sinner, you won’t feel the need to change your life and remove sin.
You shall not see the necessity of salvation, Fa'a'afa'a, e te faaapîraa. Because you are not convinced that you are evil and you don’t consider the things, which are defined in the Bible as sin, as evil but as normal. You consider sins as something that is just part of humanity and the time we live in.
Because of the fact that the basis of repentance is not right, it often happens, that after a while believers fall away from the faith and return to the world and because of that reject Jesus Christ deliberately.
The good fight of faith
Ua aro vau i te hoê aroraa maitai, Ua faaoti au i ta'u haapiiraa, Ua tape'a vau i te faaroo: Mai teie atu taime, ua tapeahia no ' u te hoê korona o te parau-ti'a, ta te Fatu, te Haava parau-ti'a, e horo'a mai ia'u i taua mahana ra: e eiaha ia'u ana'e, i te feia atoa râ o te here i To'na hoho'a mai (2 E hō'ē 4:7-8)
Many are not able to finish the good fight of faith for a lot of reasons. One of the main reasons is that they love themselves more than they here. They don’t hate their own life after the flesh, but love their own life and therefore they are not prepared to lay down their own life after the flesh and/or the attraction of the world is too strong for them.
Therefore it’s important to count the cost, before making a decision to obey and follow Jesus Christ and make Him the Lord of your life (A tai'o atoa: ‘A taio i te haamâu'araahō'ē).
Crucify Jesus again and put Him to an open shame
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame (Heberia 6:4-6)
Te parau, that it’s impossible for people, who were once enlightened and have tasted the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, but have left the Way deliberately and have fallen away from the faith deliberately, to renew them again unto repentance, since they crucify to themselves Jesus, the Son of God again and put Him to an open shame. And this is not written before, but after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ (A tai'o atoa: ‘Te pae miti o te moana‘ e ‘Ua tāpe'a, E tape'a-maite-raa?‘).
Therefore let us fear God (have great awe of God) and be serious with the Kingdom of God and guard ourselves against apostasy from the living God and a return to the state of perdition. And instead of putting God the Father, Iesu Mesia, and the Holy Spirit to an open shame, let us honor and glorify God with our lives.
'Ia riro ei miti no te fenua’
