Lesson 100 Amplified -- HAGIOSMOS

 HAGIOSMOS

American: holiness, purity 

HAGIOSUNE

American: state of being holy, state of belonging to Theos 

            In Amplified Lesson 17, we studied those labelled by Theos as holy. Here we continue the study to examine this state of existence. 

Almost Greek (Words in italics are translator’s additions.) 

1^st Thessalonians 3.11 May He, our Theos and Father Himself and our Kurios Jesus, the Christos, direct my way to you. May the Kurios make you abound and superabound in agape toward one another and toward all, even as also me toward you. May He sterixai [securely set, make steadfast] your hearts, blameless in hagiosune, before our Theos and Father and in front of our Kurios Jesus, the Christos [Anointed One, Messiah, Christ], with all his Hagioi [holy ones, sacred ones, consecrated ones, saints]. 

1^st Thessalonians 4: Finally then, brothers, we request of you and parakaloumen [call near, invite, urge, exhort, encourage, solace] you in the Kurios Jesus, even as you received from us how it is necessary to walk and to please Theos in order that you superabound the more. For you know what commands we gave to you via the Kurios Jesus. For this is the thelema [determination, choice, decision, decree] of Theos -- your purification: for you to abstain from porneia [whoring, incest, non-marital sexual intercourse], for each one of you knows how to possess his own vessel [body] in hagiasmos and time [value, esteem], not in passion of forbidden desire as the ethnoi [nations, races, non-Jews, gentiles] not knowing Theos. Not shall you climb over or be covetous of your brother in a deed because the Kurios is the Ekdikos [One meting out justice] concerning all these as indeed we earnestly testified and forewarned you. For Theos not called us to impurity, but in hagiasmos. So those despising you, not despise man but Theos, the One giving His Hagios Pneuma to You. 

2^nd Thessalonians 2.13: I ought always eucharistein [express gratitude to, give thanks to] Theos concerning you, brothers, egapemeoi [having been unconditionally loved] by the Kurios, because Theos chose you from the beginning to soteria [rescue, safety, salvation] in hagiasmos of the Hagios Pneuma and conviction of the truth to which He called you, via my euaggelion, [good news, gospel, evangel] to acquisition of the glory of our Kurios Jesus, the Christos. So then, stand firm, brothers, and firmly grip the transmittals that you were taught either by logos [word] or by a letter of mine. 

2^nd Corinthians 6.14: “Therefore, come forth emergent from the middle of them [those willfully disbelieving] and be separated,” says the Kurios, “and do not attach yourselves to the impure and I will receive you and I will be to you for a Father, and you will be to Me for sons and daughters,”

says the Kurios pantokrator [all-ruling, almighty, omnipotent].

 

ISAIAH 52.11: [YHWH speaking] “Turn off! Turn off! Go out from there! Not touch the foul! Go out from her midst! Distance yourself! Arise, the prepared of YHWH and I will take you into My favor and I will be to you a Father and you will be to Me for sons and daughters.”

 

HOSEA 2.1: [YHWH] “… it shall be said to them, ‘Sons of the living El [Theos].’” 

[Paul continues] Having then these epaggelias [announcements, proclamations, promises], agapetoi, let us cleanse ourselves from all stains of flesh and of the Hagios Pneuma fulfill hagiosunen in the fear of Theos. 

Romans 6.19: I speak as a man due to the feebleness of your flesh for just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness toward lawlessness, in this way now you present your members as slaves to dikaiosune [equity, justification, rightness] toward hagiasmon. Because you were slaves of hamartias [missing the mark or goal; error, offense, sin], you were free to dikaiosune. Accordingly, what fruit had you (at that time) over which now you feel ashamed? for the telos [end the point aimed at, the end of this age] of those fruits is death. But now, having been freed off hamartias (having been enslaved to Theos), you have your fruit toward hagiasmon and the telos, eternal life. For the wages of hamartias is death but the free charisma [gift, endowment, faculty, deliverance] of Theos is eternal life in our Kurio Jesus, the Christo. 

Hebrews 2.5: For He didn’t subject the coming habitable land (about which I speak) to aggelois [messengers, angels], but somewhere one solemnly testified, saying “What is man that You remember [are mindful of] him, or the son of man, that You observe him? You made Him [Jesus] a little less than the aggelous. You crowned Him with time [value, esteem dignity] and glory, and You set Him over the works of Your hands. You subjected all under His feet.” For in order to subject all to Him, He left not even one thing not subjected to Him but now we don’t yet see all having been subjected to Him. But we do see Jesus, having been made a little less than the aggelous, so (by the chariti [graciousness] of Theos) He might taste death for everyone because of His suffering and death, having been crowned with glory and with time [value, esteem, dignity]. For it was fitting for Him (because of Whom all exists) bringing many sons to glory; to perfect Him (the Author of their soterias) via going through suffering. For both He hagiazon [making holy] and the ones hagizoneboi [being made holy] are all of one for which reason He isn’t ashamed to call them brothers, saying, “I will apaggelo [announce, proclaim] Your name, Father, to My brothers and I humneso [will hymn to, will sing praises to] You in the midst of the ekklesias [assemblies, churches].” 

PSALM 22.22: [Jesus speaking] “I will celebrate Your name to My brothers. I will halal [praise] You among the assembly.” 

Hebrews 10.5: …“Thusia [animal sacrifice] and prosphoran [a presentation, a present, a gift] You not desired but You prepared a human body for Me. You weren’t pleased with whole-consumed [burnt offerings] and thusia as to hamartias. Then I said, ‘LO! I come’ (It has been written about Me In the heading of the Bibliou [Bible].), ‘Theos, to do Your thelema [determination, choice, decision, decree].’”

 

PSALM 40.6: “Zebach [slaughter, animal sacrifice] and minchah [apportionment] You didn’t desire. You have opened ears to Me. Zebach and chataah [offering for sin] You haven’t requested. Then I said, ‘LO! I come;’ in the Megillach [Roll, Scroll, Bible], it is written of Me. “I delight to do Your delight, My Elohiym.’” 

[Hebrews continued] Saying above, “You not desired, nor were pleased with thusia and prosphoran as to hamartias (which are prospheran [borne toward, brought near to an altar] according to The Law [1^st five books of the Old Testament, Books of Moses, Pentateuch]),” then He said, “LO! I come to do Your thelema, Theos.”

He takes away the first in order that He may set up the second, by which Will and Testament we hegiasmenoi [are made holy, are sanctified] via the prosphoras of the somatos [body] of Jesus, the Christou [Mashiyach]; once for everyone. Every priest stands (down to day by day, as a public servant), serving and often prospheron the same thusia of which not even one can take away hamartias. But He, prosenelkas [having offered] one thusia on behalf of hamartion, in perpetuity sat down at the right of Theos; from then, accepting [awaiting] until His enemies are placed as a stool for His feet. For by One prosphora He has perfected (in perpetuity) those being hagiazomenous [made holy, sanctified]. 

Hebrews 12.7: If you endure discipline, Theos is dealing with you as with sons for who is a son whom a father not disciplines? If you are without discipline, of which everyone has been caused to be a participant, then you are bastards, not sons. Moreover, we had fathers of our flesh as correctors, and we respected them. Shan't we much more be subject to the Father of Pneumaton [spirit] and shall live? For they in fact disciplined us for a few days down to the seeming-to-them good but He does so for our profit, to partake of His hagiatetos [holiness, sanctification]. In fact, all discipline seems for the present not to be of joy but of grief but later it gives back to those having been trained through it, peaceable fruit of dikaiosunes. Therefore, straighten up the dangling alongside hands and the enfeebled knees and make straight tracks for your feet in order that the lame not be turned aside but rather, be healed. Pursue shalom [safety, peace, health, happiness, prosperity, friendship] and hagiasmon with everyone, without which not even one person will see the Kuriou. 

Hebrews 13.8: Jesus the Christos [Mashiyach] is the same yesterday, today, even to the ages. Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings. It is kalon [beautiful, virtuous] for the heart to be confirmed by chariti [graciousness]; not by foods, by which those walking in them weren’t profited. We have an altar of which those serving the tabernacle haven’t authority to eat. For of the animals, whose blood is brought by the high priest into the Holy of Holies concerning hamartias, the somata bodies] are burned outside the camp. Indeed, Jesus, in order that He might hagiase [make holy, sanctifiy] the people via His blood, suffered outside the gate. So, let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach. For we haven’t here a continuing city, but we seek the coming city. Via Him, let us always offer up a sacrifice [offering] of praise to Theos, that is the fruit of the lips confessing to His name. 

Ephesians 5.25: Men [Husbands]! agapate [unconditionally love] your gunaikas [women, wives], even as the Christos also egapese the ekklesian and surrendered Himself for its sake in order that He hagiase [might make holy, might sanctify] it, cleansing it by bathing in a rain of rhemati [utterances] in order that He might present it to Himself as the glorious ekklesian (not having spot or wrinkle or any of such defects) but in order that it be hagia and unblemished. 

1^st Timothy 4.4: For every creation of Theos is kalon and not even one thing is to be cast off. Having been received amidst euchariston [gratefulness, thankfulness], it is hagiazetai [made holy, sanctified] via the Logou of Theos and enteuxis [supplication, prayer]. 

2^nd Timothy 2.20: Now, in a big house there aren’t only vessels of gold and silver but also wooden and earthen vessels; also, some to timen [value, esteem, dignity] and some to disgrace. Accordingly, if any thoroughly cleanses himself from these, he will be a vessel to timen [value, esteem], hagiasmenon [having been made holy, having been sanctified] and euchreston [useful] to the Despote [Despot, Master] having been prepared to every good work. 

1^st Peter 3.15: But hagiasate [make holy] the Kuriou Theos in your hearts, being ever ready toward pleading your case (to everyone asking you) a logon [word] concerning the elpidos [expectation, hope] in you, amidst prautetos [mildness, humility] and fear, having a good conscience in order that in that they slander you as kakopoleo [doer of worthlessness], they may be shamed down, those insulting your good behavior in the Christo. For it is stronger [better] to be a good doer if the thelema [determination, choice, decision, decree] of Theos thelo you to suffer, rather than to suffer for being a kakopoleo. 

PSALM 110:1 A statement of YHWH to My Adonay [Lord, Master]: “Sit at My right until I set Your enemies a stool for Your feet. The rod [scepter] of Your strength shall YHWH send forth out of Zion. Rule in the midst of Your enemies! Your people shall be willing in the day of Your might. In the majesties of qodesh [hagiasmos], from the womb of the dawn comes the dew of Your youth to You. YHWH has sworn and won't repent: You eternally are a Priest according to the order of Melchizadek!” 

End of one hundredth Lesson

Lesson 99 Amplified -- SOTERIA

 SOTERIA

American: rescue, safety, salvation 

            In Amplified Lesson Thirty, we studied Our Savior, Jesus the Christos. Here we expand the discussion to salvation, the condition of being saved. 

Almost Greek: (Words in italics are translator’s additions) 

1^st Thessalonians 5: Brothers! You have no need to be written concerning the times and occasions for you yourselves know that the day of the Kurios, as a thief in the night, so it comes. For when they say, “Peace and security,” then destruction unexpectedly comes upon them as birth pain to the pregnant woman and they may not (in no way) escape. But you aren’t in shadiness, brothers, such that the day should seize you as a thief. All of you are sons of the Rays [Light] and sons of the day. We aren’t of shadiness, therefore let’s not sleep as the rest but let’s be vigilant and be sober. For those sleeping, sleep by night and those getting drunk, are drunk at night. Since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on the corselet [body armor] of pistis [faith] and of agape [unconditional love] and a helmet of elpis [expectation, hope] of soteria. For Theos not placed us prostrate into orge [violent passion, fury, rage, wrath] but for acquisition of soteria via our Kurios Jesus, the Christos (the One having died on our behalf) in order that whether we keep awake [live] or we sleep [die], we may live together with Him. So, parakaleite [call near, invite, urge, exhort, encourage, solace] one another and be a builder up one to the other as indeed you do. 

2^nd Thessalonians 2.13: I ought always eucharistein [express gratitude to, give thanks to] Theos concerning you, brothers, egapemeoi [having been unconditionally loved] by the Kurios, because Theos chose you from the beginning to soteria in hagiasmos [holiness, purity] of the Hagios Pneuma and conviction of the truth to which He called you, via my euaggelion [good news, gospel, evangel], to acquisition of the glory of our Kurios Jesus, the Christos. So then, stand firm, brothers, and firmly grip the transmittals that you were taught either by logos [word] or by a letter of mine. 

2^nd Corinthians 6: Being your fellow worker, I also parakaloumen you not vainly to receive the charin [graciousness] of Theos, for He says,“At a favorable time, I heard you and in a day of soterias, I helped you.”

 

ISAIAH 49.8: Thus says YHWH:

“In a favorable time, I paid attention to you and in a day of yeshuwah [deliverance, salvation], I surrounded [enfolded, embraced, hugged] you.” 

2^nd Corinthians 8: Because even if I grieved you in the first letter, I not regret it now, even though I did regret it then. For I see that that letter (even if indeed it grieved you for an hour) has caused change. Now, I am joyful, not that you were grieved, conversely, that you were grieved to metanoian [thinking differently, turning about 180 degrees, repenting]. For you grieved down to the choice of Theos in order that you might not be injured in even one word emergent from me. For sadness down to the choice of Theos works metanoian to irrevocable soterian but worldly sadness fully works out death. 

Romans 1.16: For I am not ashamed of the euaggelion of the Christou for it is the dunamis [force, power] of Theos to soterian to the whole population pisteuonti [having faith]; first to the Jew and also to the Greek [everyone else]. 

DEUTERONOMY 30.14: For the dabar [logos: word] is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart in order that you may do it.”

 

Romans continues] But what says it? “The rhema [utterance] is near you (in your mouth and in your heart).” That is the rhema of pisteos (which we kerussomen [proclaim, herald]), that if you acknowledge [covenant] in your mouth the Kurion Jesus and pisteuses [have faith] in your heart that Theos awakened Him emergent from dead, you sothese [will be safe; will be saved]. For with the heart one pisteuetai [holds faith] toward dikaiosunen [equity, justification, rightness] and with the mouth one acknowledges toward soterian. For the Graphe [Scripture, part of Old Testament] says, “Everyone pisteuon [having reliance, having faith] upon Him won’t be shamed down,” for there isn’t a distinction for the same Kurios of all of mankind (both of Jew and of Greek) is wealth to all those appealing to Him for,

“Everyone (whoever invokes the name [authority] of the Kuriou [Lord, Master]) sothesetai [will be safe; will be saved].” 

JOEL 2.32: [YHWH speaking] “For it will be that all, who call out to the name of YHWH, mala [will be smooth, will be slippery, will escape, will be saved] for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance,” as YHWH has said, “and there is a survivor to whom YHWH shall call out.” 

Philippians 2.12: So then, my agapetoi, just as you have always obeyed (not just as only in my presence but now much in my absence), work out your soterian with fear and trembling. For Theos is the One active in you both to thelein [determine, choose, decide, decree] and to do for His good pleasure. Do everything apart from grumbling or disputing in order that you may be blameless and innocent children of Theos, blameless in the midst of a skolias [crooked, warped, perverse] and corrupt generation in whom you shine as lights in the kosmo [universe, world, cosmos], holding the logos of life (into a boast to me) in the day of the Christou, that I not vainly ran nor felt fatigue in vain. 

Ephesians 1.3: Eulogetos [Fine spoken of, Commended, Blest, Praised] be the Theos and Father of our Kuriou Jesus, the Christou, Who blest us with all spiritual eulogesas [blessing] above the sky [in Heaven], in Jesus, the Christo, as He selected us before the founding of the kosmou [universe, world, cosmos] to be hagious and unblemished before Him. He was predestining us (in agape) to adoption via Jesus, the Christou, to Himself down [according] to His good pleasure and thelematos [determination, choice, decision, decree] to the praise of His glory and charitos [graciousness] with which He favored us in the Egapemeno [Beloved] in Whom we have redemption via Jesus’ blood; aphesin [forgiveness] of paraptomaton [side slips, lapses, deviations] down to the riches of the Father’s charitos. Which graciousness He caused to abound to us in all wisdom and intelligence, making known to us the musterion [secrets, mysteries] of His thelematos down to His good pleasure, which Father proposed (in Himself) for administration of the fullness of times, to head up all the ouranois [elevation, the heavens, the sky, aloft] and the earth in the Christo. In Him [Jesus], we have been selected to be an inheritance, being predestined down to the purpose of the Father, all working down to His boulen [will, resolve, intention]; His thelematos for us to be His praise and glory, those having previously trusted in the Christo. In Him [Jesus], you were also hearing the logon of truth, the euaggelion of your soterias and in Whom you pisteusantes [were also having reliance or faith]. You were sealed up with the epaggelias [announced, proclaimed, promised] Hagios Pneuma, Who is the earnest [down payment, deposit] of our inheritance until the redemption of the possession to Jesus’ praise and glory. 

Ephesians 6.10: For the rest, my brothers, be empowered in the Kurio and in the might of His strength. Put on the whole armor of Theos to be able to stand against the wiles of the diabolou [leader to shame, devil, satyr] because it isn’t us wrestling against flesh and blood but against the chiefs, against the forces, against the kosmos-rulers of the shadiness of this age; against the pneumatika [spiritual] powers of ponerias [whoring, committing incest, doing non-marital sexual intercourse] above the sky! Because of this, take up the whole armor of Theos in order that you may be able to stand against [oppose] in the ponera [hurtful] day and having worked out all, to stand. Stand then, having girded about your loins with truth.

 

ISAIAH 11.5: [Jesus] Rightness shall be the belt of His waist and fidelity the belt of His loins.

 

[Ephesians continues] and putting on the breastplate of dikaiosunes

 

ISAIAH 59.17: [YHWH] He put on tsidqah [dikaiosune] like armor and a helmet of yeshuwah [soteria] on His head.

 

[Ephesians continues] and having shod your feet in the preparation of the euaggeliou of peace.

 

ISAIAH 52.7: YHWH says, “LO! how suitable [appropriate] on the mountain of God are the feet of him bringing glad news, making shalom [safety, peace, health, happiness, prosperity, friendship] heard, bringing news of good, making heard yeshuwah [soteria], saying to Zion, ‘Your Elohiym reigns.’” 

[Ephesians continues] In [Above] all, having taken up the shield of pisteos [reliance, faith] in which you will be able to quench all the having-been-made-fiery darts [arrows] of the ponerou [hurtful] one, take up the helmet of soteriou, and the sword of the Hagios Pneuma (which is the rhema [utterance] of Theos), via all proseuches [humbly begging God, praying] and deeseos [making petitions, making requests, making prayers], at all times proseuchomenoi in the Hagios Pneuma and keeping awake to this same in all persistence and deesei concerning the hagion [holy, sacred, consecrated ones; saints]. 

1^st Peter 1.3: Adorable is the Theos and the Father of our Kuriou Jesus, the Christou; the One Who down to His much compassion begot us into living elpida [expectation, hope] via the anastaseos [standing up again, resurrection] of Jesus, the Christou, emergent from dead to an imperishable, unsoiled and unfading inheritance; having been guarded in Ouranois [Heavens] for you in the dunamei of Theos. It was being guarded via pisteos into a soterian ready to be revealed in the final time in which you jump for joy. Just for a puny time now, the testing of your pisteos which is more precious than gold is distressing in motley tests [trials] that eradicate via fire. But being tested, you may be found into praise and timen [value, esteem] and glory in the revelation of Jesus, the Christou, Whom not having personally known, you agapate [unconditionally love]; into Whom (just now) not clearly discerning, you are pisteuontes. [having reliance, having faith]. But you jump with joy (with inexpressible joy) and glory to tend [care for] the telos [the point aimed at, the end of this age] of your pisteos, soterian of your psuchon [souls, lives, psyches, egos]. With respect to which soterias, prophetai [before tellers, prophets] searched out and explored, propheteusantes [before telling, speaking under inspiration, prophesying] with respect to the charitos [graciousness] to you; inquiring into whom or what sort of time the Hagios Pneuma of the Christou made clear to them, testifying (in advance) to the Christon’s sufferings and the glories accompanying these sufferings. It was revealed to them (not only to themselves but to us) that they served [distributed] the same truths which now were announced to you via those euaggelisamenon [having announced the good news] to you in the Hagios Pneuma, sent forth from Ouranou, in to which aggeloi [messengers, angels] yearn to look. 

End of Ninety-ninth Lesson