2020–2024
“Nana Ko Au Te Māramatanga e Hāpaingia Ake Ai e Koutou”
Huinga whānui o te hāhi Oketopa 2024


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“Nana Ko Au Te Māramatanga e Hāpaingia Ake Ai e Koutou”

Ka hāpaingia ake tātou i te māramatanga o te Ariki, ina ū ai tātou ki ō tātou kawenata, ā, ina tautoko hoki tātou i tō tātou poropiti ora.

Hei āpiti atu ki ngā whakaaturanga maha o tēnei hui whānui, ka tuari hoki au i taku whakakitenga āpotoro nei, ko Ihu Karaiti te Tama a te Atua, tō tātou Ariki a Ihu Karaiti, te Kaihoko o ngā tamariki katoa o tō tātou Matua. Mā roto i Tōna Whakamārietanga, tō Ihu Karaiti, e āhei ana tātou, ina tika ai tātou, kia hoki atu ki te aroaro o tō tātou Matua i te Rangi, ā, me te noho tahi ki ō tātou whānau mō āke tonu.

Ehara i te mea e tamō ana te Kaiwhakaora i ō tātou haerenga i te ao nei. I ngā rangi e rua kua pahure ake nei, kua rongo tātou i a Ia mā roto i Āna kaiārahi kōwhiria, nā kia whakatata atu ki a Ia. Ia te wā, mā Tōna aroha pūmau me Tōna aroha noa, ka whakaūngia tātou e Ia i a tātou e aro ana ki ngā whakaari o te oranga. Ka whakamārama a Nīwhai: “Kua waiho ko te Atua hei whakawhirinakitanga mōku; nāna ahau i ārahi i runga i ōku mamaetanga. … Kua whakakīa ahau e ia ki tōna aroha.”

Ka kitea taua aroha ina whakaūngia tātou tētahi i tētahi i roto i Tana mahi.

Ka whakaūngia tātou i tō tātou poropiti ora ki te Huinga Whānui, me te Tumuakitanga Tuatahi, te Kōrama o ngā Āpotoro Tekau mā Rua, ngā Kaiārahi Whānui, me ngā āpiha o te Hāhi. Ko te tikanga o te whakaū, ko te hāpai i tētahi atu tangata, kia aro atu tātou ki a rātou, kia pono ki tō rātou e whakapono ai, kia mahi e ai ki ō rātou nei kupu. Ka kōrero rātou e ai ki te wairua o te Ariki, e mārama ana rātou ki ngā take o nāianei, te hekenga iho o te tino uaratanga o te pāpori, Mā te hiki whakarunga i ō tātou ringa, e whakaū ana tātou i tō tātou tautoko, ehara i te mea mō taua wā noa iho, engari, i roto hoki i ō tātou nei oranga o ia rā.

Ko te whakaūnga hoki, he hāpai ake i ō tātou tumuaki ā-rohe me ō tātou pīhopa, ngā kaiārahi o ngā kōrama me ngā kaiwhakahaere, ngā kaiako, tae atu hoki ki ngā kaitohu hopuni i roto i ō mātou wāri me ngā pou ā-rohe. Pātata atu ki te kāinga, ko tā tātou, he hāpai ake i ō tātou hoa rangatira, ā tātou tamariki, mātua, whanaunga, me ngā kiritata. Ina hāpai ake tātou tētahi i tētahi, e mea ana tātou, “Kei konei ahau māu, ehara i te mea kia hāpai ake i ō ringaringa ina ‘tautau ana ki raro’ heoi kia noho hei āhurutanga, ā, hei momo kaha i tō taha.”

Ko te tikanga o te hāpai ake kua kitea ki roto i ngā karaipiture. Ki ngā Wai o Moromona, i taunaki ai ngā mema hou o te Hāhi i rumakina ai, “kia waha i ngā taumahatanga o tēnā, o tēnā, kia māmā ai; … [kia] whakaāio i te hunga e tika ana kia whakaāiotia, me te tū hei kaiwhakaatu o te Atua i ngā wā katoa, ā, i ngā mea katoa, ā, i ngā wāhi katoa.”

Ki ngā Nīwhai, i mea a Ihu: “Hāpaingia ake tō koutou māramatanga kia tiaho atu ki te ao. Nana ko au te māramatanga e hāpaingia ake ai e koutou.“ Hāpaingia ake tātou i te māramatanga o te Ariki ina ū ai tātou ki ō tātou kawenata, ā, ina tautoko hoki tātou i tō tātou poropiti ora, i a ia e kōrero ana i ngā kupu a te Atua.

I mea a Tumuaki Russell M. Nelson, i a ia e mahi whakarato ana hei āpotoro o te Kōrama o ngā Āpotoro Tekau Mā Rua, “Ko tā mātou whakaū i ngā poropiti, he whakaūnga takitahi, ka whakapeto ngoi tātou kia hāpai ake i ō rātou whakaarotau poropiti nei.”

He mahi tapu te hāpai ake i te poropiti. Kāore tātou e noho wahangū, heoi, ka tautoko i a ia, whai i āna tohutohu, whakaako i ana kupu, ā, ka karakia mōna.

I mea atu a Kingi Peniamine ki te iwi, i roto i te Pukapuka a Moromona, “Engari, he rite au ki a koutou, e noho ana i raro i ngā ngoikoretanga katoa o te tinana me te hinengaro; heoi, kua whiriwhiria au … kua tukuna e te ringa o te Atua … ā, kua tohungia e tōna mana kāore nei ōna rite, ki te mahi whakarato ki a koutou i runga i ōku ngoi, ōku whakaaro me ōku kaha katoa kua homai nei e te Ariki ki ahau.”

E hāpai ake i ngā ringa o Mohi.

Pērā tonu, i tōna pakeke kotahi rau tau, kua tiakina, ā, kua tohungia a Tumuaki Russell M. Nelson e te Ariki. Ko Tumuaki Harold B. Lee, i taua wā he mema o te Tumuakitanga Tuatahi, i whakatauākitia ai te tauira o Mohi e tū ana i te tihi o puke Rephidim. “Ka hanga ngenge ngā ringa o [te Tumuaki o te Hāhi],” tana kōrero. “Ka tapore pea nā ngā haepapa taumaha; heoi, i a tātou e hāpai ake i ōna ringa, ā, i a tātou e ārahi ana i raro i ōna tohutohu, i tōna taha hoki, e kore ngā kēti o rarohenga e whakawhere ki a koe, otirā, ki a Iharaira. Ko tō haumarutanga, ko tō mātou anō haumarutanga, he mea e tūpono ana nā tō tātou aru, kāore rānei, i ērā kua tohungia e te Ariki hei rangatira mō tōna hāhi. E mōhio ana a ia ko wai hei rangatira mō tōna hāhi, ā, e kore a ia e hē.”

He maha ngā tau a Tumuaki Nelson e mahi whakarato ana ki te Ariki. Ko tōna pakeke, wheako whānui, mātau, ā, tōna whiwhi tonu i ngā whakakitenga, he mea tika ai mō ēnei rā tonu. Kua mea a ia: “E whakarite ana Te Hāhi o Ihu Karaiti o Te Hunga Tapu i Ngā Rā Ki Muri Nei i te ao mō te rā e ‘whakakīa ai te ao e te mātauranga o te Ariki’ (haia 11:9). … Kua whakamanahia tēnei mahi e tētahi whakapuakitanga ā-wairua e rua rau tau ki muri. E iwa anake ngā kupu o tērā: ‘Ko tēnei taku tama arohaina. Whakarongo ki a ia!’ (Tirohia Hōhepa Mete—Hītori 1:17).”

Kua mea hoki a Tumuaki Nelson: “Kāhore he wā pēnei ki ta tātou nei, puta noa i te hītori o te ao, nā, he mea tino whaitake te mātauranga mō tō tātou Kaiwhakaora ki ngā wairua o ngā tāngata katoa. Me whai whakaaro ki te tere e whakatikahia ai ngā raruraru kōmingo puta noa i te ao—me ērā hoki i ō tātou ake oranga—mēnā i kōwhiri tātou katoa ki te aru i a Ihu Karaiti me te whakatinana i ana whakaakoranga.”

E aku teina me aku tuahine, me kaha ake tā tātou hāpai ake, ā, kia iti iho ngā amuamu, me kaha ake te ū ki te kupu a te Ariki, Ōna ahuatanga, me Tana poropiti, nāna i mea: “Ko tētahi o ā tātou tino wero i tēnei rā, he mōhio rawa i te rerekētanga o ngā pono a te Atua, me ngā whakataruna o Hatana. Ko tērā te take i whakatūpato te Ariki i a tātou kia ‘īnoi tonu, … kia whakahinga [tātou] i a Hatana, ā, … kia puta atu i ngā ringa o ngā kaiaru a Hatana e hiki ake i ngā mahi a [te hoariri]’ [Whakaakoranga me ngā Kawenata 10.5; kua tāpirihia te mea whakahaka].”

Te whakatapunga anō o te Temepara o Manti Utah.

I te marama o Āperira kua pahure ake, i riro i a māua ko Tuahine Rasband te honore ki te whai wāhi atu ki tā tātou poropiti arohaina rāua ko Tuahine Nelson mō te whakatapunga anō o te Temepara o Manti Utah.

I whakaohorere a Tumuaki Nelson i te katoa i reira i tana urunga atu ki te rūma. Tokoiti noa iho mātou i mōhio mō tāna taetanga atu. I tōna aroaro, i tere tonu taku rongo i te māramatanga me te karangatanga poropiti e kawea ana e ia. Ko te harikoa i kitea atu ki ngā kanohi o ngā tāngata i kite ā-whatu tonu i te poropiti, ka noho tonu mai ki ahau mō āke tonu.

I roto i te īnoi whakatapunga, i pākiki a Tumuaki Nelson i te Ariki kia hāpai ake Tōna whare tapu i ērā katoa ka kuhu atu ki te temepara, “kia whiwhi rātou i ngā manaakitanga tapu, ā, kia ū tika hoki ki ō rātou kawenata … kia ū ai tēnei hei whare rangimārie, hei whare atawhai, ā, hei whare whiwhi whakakitenga matawhaiaro mō ērā katoa e kuhu tika atu ai ki ēnei tatau.”

Me hāpai ake tātou katoa e te Ariki ki te rangimārie, ki te atawhai, ā, ki te mea tino whai take, arā, te whakakitenga matawhaiaro hei whakakore i te mataku, i te pōuri, me ngā tohetohe e karapotia ana i te ao.

I mua i te hui, i tū māua ki waho ki roto i te rā me Tumuaki Nelson rāua ko Tuahine Nelson kia kite i te tirohanga ātaahua. He tino kaha ngā hononga whakapapa tō Tumuaki Nelson ki te wāhi rā. I tau ai ōna tipuna tokowaru ki ngā taiororua e karapoti ana i te temepara, pērā ki ētahi o ōku tīpuna. I mahi tōku tipuna koroua a Anaru Anderson hei kaiwhakarato mō ngā paionia tawhito. Tōna tekau mā tahi tau rātou e mahi ana kia oti rawa ai te Temepara o Manti, te tuatoru i roto i Ngā Maunga Tokatoka.

I a māua e tū ana ki tō Tumuaki Nelson taha, i riro mā māua e hāpai ake me te tautoko i te poropiti a te Atua i roto i ngā whakanuitanga o te whakatapunga anō o te whare tapu a te Ariki. He rā e kore nei au e warewaretia.

“Ka hanga tātou i ngā temepara kia whakahōnore i te Ariki,” tā Tumuaki Nelson i taua rā tapu. “Kua hangaia kia koropiko ai, ehara mō te tirohanga noa iho. Ka mahi kawenata tapu tātou e whai mana mutunga kore nei i roto i ēnei pakitara tapu.” E whakahui ana tātou i a Iharaira.

Kua kawea e Tumuaki Nelson me ngā poropiti katoa i mua i a ia i ngā temepara tapu ki roto i ō rātou ringaringa. I tēnei rā, huri noa i te ao, e toru rau rima tekau ngā whare tapu a te Ariki e whakahaeretia ana, kua whakapāohotia, ā, e hangaia tonutia ana rānei. I tōna karangatanga hei poropiti, mai i te tau 2018, kua whakapāohotia e Tumuaki Nelson, 168 ngā temepara.

“I roto i ta tātou nei wā,” kua mea a ia, “ka whakahono tino tika nei ngā wā o te Atua, ngā kī, me ngā kaha katoa (tirohia Whakaakoranga me Ngā Kawenata 128:18). Mō ēnei take tapu, inaianei ka tūtohu ngā temepara tapu i te whenua. Ka whakapuaki anō ahau, kāore pea te hanganga o ēnei temepara e panoni i tō oranga, heoi mā āu mahi whakarato kē i roto i te temepara.”

“Ko te Kaiwhakaora me Tōna Whakaakoranga te tino manawa o te temepara,” e ai ki te Tumuaki. “Ko ngā mea katoa kua whakaakoria ki roto i te temepara, mā ngā tohutohu, otirā, mā roto i te Wairua, ka whakapiki i tō tātou māramatanga mō Ihu Karaiti. Ka herea Ana mahinga tapu i a tātou ki a Ia e ngā kawenata tohungatanga tapu. Kātahi, i a tātou e pupuri ana i ngā kawenata, ka whakataua tātou e Ia ki Tana mana whakaora, mana whakakaha.”

“Ko te hunga katoa e koropiko ai i roto i te temepara,” e ai ki a Tumuaki Nelson, “e riro ai i a rātou te mana o te Atua me ngā anahera ‘e whaimana ana i runga i a rātou’ Whakaakoranga me ngā Kawenata 109:22]. Ka nui ake tō māia mēnā ka mōhio koe, i te mea he wahine, he tāne rānei kua whiwhi i tōna hoatutanga tapu [he rangatahi rānei e haere ana ki te temepara] e mau nei ki te mana o te Atua, ehara ko koe anake i tēnei oranga? Ka māia koe i te mōhio ka āwhinatia koe e ngā anahera?”

Kua whakamāramahia ki ngā karaipiture, ngā anahera e toro atu ana ki te hāpai ake i a tātou i te wā i ngāwari ai te koropiko a Ihu Karaiti i roto i te Kāri o Kehemane. Nā Tōna whakamamaetanga i Homai a Ia i tētahi Whakamārietanga mutunga kore. “Koia,” i whakapuaki a Tumuaki Nelson, “te mahinga aroha nui rawa kua tiakina ai i roto i te hītori. … Ki reira, ki Kehamane, i ‘whakamamaetia te Ariki ki te mamae o ngā tāngata katoa, kia rīpenetā ai ngā tāngata katoa, ā, kia haere mai ki a ia’ [Whakaakoranga me Ngā Kawenata 18:11].”

“Tangohia mai tēnei kapu i ahau,” te ui a Ihu Karaiti, “hei aha koa ehara ko taku e pai ai, engari tōu e pai ai.

“Ka whakakitea atu tētahi anahera ki a ia mai i te rangi, e whakakaha ana i a ia.”

He anahera e karapoti ana i a tātou i tēnei rā. Kua kī a Tumuaki Nelson, “[I roto i te temepara,] ka ako koe me pēhea te whakawehe i te ārai i waenga i te rangi me te whenua, me pēhea te ui atu kia tautokona koe e ngā anahera a te Atua.”

Ka kawea māramatanga ngā anahera Te māramatanga a te Atua. Ki ana Āpotoro Nīwhai i mea a Ihu, “Nana Ko Au Te Māramatanga e Hāpaingia Ake Ai e Koutou.” I a tātou e whakaū ana i tō tātou poropiti, e whakaatu ana tātou kua karangahia a ia e tō tātou Kaiwhakaora, nōna “te māramatanga … o te ao.”

E Tumuaki Nelson, hei māngai mō ngā mema me ngā hoa o te Hāhi o te Ariki puta noa i te ao, e rongo ana tātou i ngā manaakitanga kia hāpai ake i āu whakaakoranga, kia hāpai ake i tāu tauira o te oranga pērā ki tō Ihu, ā, me te hāpai ake i tō whakaaturanga manawa whiwhita o tō tātou Ariki me tō tātou Kaiwhakaora, te Kaihoko ma tātou katoa.

Ka tuku au i taku whakaaturanga āpotoro ko Ihu Karaiti “te māramatanga … o te ao.” Tēnā, me “hāpai ake” tātou katoa, Āna apataki, i Tōna māramatanga. I runga i te ingoa o Ihu Karaiti, āmine.

Ngā Taipitopito

  1. Tirohia Whakaakoranga me ngā Kawenata 1:38.

  2. 2 Nīwhai 4:20-21.

  3. Tirohia Ronald A. Rasband, “Words Matter,” Liahona, Mei 2024, 70–76.

  4. Whakaakoranga me ngā Kawenata 81:5.

  5. Mōhia 18:8-9.

  6. 3 Nīwhai 18:24

  7. Russell M. Nelson, “Sustaining the Prophets,” Liahona, Noema 2014, 75.

  8. (Mōhia 2:11).

  9. Tirohia Whakaakoranga me ngā Kawenata 21:6; 81:5.

  10. Harold B. Lee, in Conference Report, Oketopa. 1970, 153.

  11. I roto i “The Restoration of the Fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ: A Bicentennial Proclamation to the World,” ka kī: “E whakapuaki koa ana mātou kei te koke whakamua te Whakahokinga Mai kua awherotia noatia mā te whakakitenga tonutanga. Kāhore rawa te ao e pēnei tonu ana i te mea mā te Atua e ‘huihui ngā mea katoa i roto i a Te Karaiti’ (Epeha 1:10).”

  12. Russell M. Nelson, “The Future of the Church: Preparing the World for the Savior’s Second Coming,” Liahona, Apr. 2020, 6–7.

  13. Russell M. Nelson, “Pure Truth, Pure Doctrine, and Pure Revelation,” Liahona, Nov. 2021, 6.

  14. Russell M. Nelson, “The Power of Spiritual Momentum,” Liahona, Mei 2022, 99.

  15. Dedicatory Prayer, Manti Utah Temple, 21 April 2024,” ChurchofJesusChrist.org.

  16. I roto i te Pukapuka a Moromona, i ngana te poropiti a Moromona ki te whakaahuru i tana tama a Moronai i roto i tētahi reta, i te wā i noho tahanga a Moronai, ā, i whāia ia e ōna hoariri. I tuhi a ia, “Engari mā te Karaiti koe e hāpai ake, mā ōna whakamamaetanga me tōna matenga … e okioki ai i roto i tō hinengaro mō āke tonu atu” (Moronai 9:25).

  17. I mua i te whakatapunga o te Temepara o Manti Utah i te tau 1888, e rua ngā temepara i whakatapua kētia ki Utah: the St. Te Temepara o George Utah i te tau 1877 me te Temepara o Logan Utah i te tau 1884. I hangaia te temepara tuatahi o te Whakahokinga Mai ki Kirtland, Ohio, ā, i whakatapua i te tau 1836. He maha ngā whakaehunga ā-wairua i hua ai i ēnei hui, ā, i whakahoki mai anō ngā kī o te tohungatanga e Mohi, Eria, rātou ko Irāia, kia tīmata wawehia ngā mahi temepara me te huihuinga o Iharaira.

    I rekoata a Hohepa Mete, “He Petekoha, ā, he whakatapunga kā tika, ka roa nei e maharatia ai, nā ka haere whakamua te oro mai i tēnei wāhi ki roto i te ao, ā, ka tuku iho ngā mahi o tēnei rā ki runga i ngā whārangi o te hītori tapu ki ngā reanga katoa, pērā ki te rā o Petekoha, ka kautehia hoki tēnei rā, ā, ka whakanuia hei tau tiupirī, otirā, hei wā e koa ai te Hunga Tapu o te Atua Teitei Rawa” Joseph Smith, Journal, 1835–1836, pp. 189–90, josephsmithpapers.org; spelling, capitalization, and punctuation modernized). I whakatapua te temepara o Nauvoo i te marama o Mei 1846, i muri i te whakarerenga a te Hunga Tapu i ō rātou kāinga me ō rātou hapori. Neke atu i te 6,000 ngā Hunga Tapu i mahi kawenata temepara i mua i tā rātou kāwhakina atu ki te Tai Hauāuru. Tirohia ngā Hītori Hāhi, “Nauvoo Temple,” Gospel Library.

  18. Russell M. Nelson, i roto i “:President Nelson Rededicates Manti Utah Temple,” Āperira. 21, 2024, newsroom.ChurchofJesusChrist.org.

  19. Tirohia Scott Taylor, “A By-the-Numbers Look at the 168 Temples Announced by President Nelson,” Church News, Āperira. 14, 2024, thechurchnews.com.

  20. Russell M. Nelson, “The Future of the Church,” 8–9.

  21. Russell M. Nelson, “The Temple and Your Spiritual Foundation,” Liahona, Noema. 2021, 93–94.

  22. Russell M. Nelson, “Rejoice in the Gift of Priesthood Keys,” Liahona, Mei 2024, 121.

  23. Russell M. Nelson, “The Atonement,” Ensign, Noema. 1996, 35.

  24. Ruka 22:42–43.

  25. Russell M. Nelson, “The Temple and Your Spiritual Foundation,” 96

  26. 3 Nīwhai 18:24.

  27. 3 Nīwhai 11:11.

  28. 3 Nīwhai 11:11.