Lesson 123 Amplified -- AGONIA

 AGONIA

American: a struggle, anguish, agony

Hebrew Aramaic: makobah 

Just prior to Jesus’ being arrested by the Temple Police, on the mountain called Olivet [of Olives], and seeing his atrocious death before Him, he was in agonia. He prayed to his Father Theos.

Almost Greek: [Words in italics are translator’s additions.] 

Luke 22.39: And going forth, as usual He went down to the Mount of Olives. Now, the mathetai [learners, pupils, disciples] also followed Him. Now, coming upon the place, He said to them,

“Proseuchesthe [humbly beg God, pray] that you will not enter into testing.”

And He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw and placing His knees on the ground, He proseucheto, saying,

“Father, if You boulei [will, resolve, intend], carry away this cup off [from] Me. But not My thelema [determination, choice, decision, decree], conversely Your thelema be caused to be.”

Now, they stared with wide open eyes upon an aggelos [messenger, angel] from Ouranou [Heaven] strengthening Him. And being caused to be in agonia, He more intently proseucheto. Now, His sweat was caused to be as if clots of blood falling down upon the earth. And standing up from proseuches (coming toward His mathetas), He found them fallen asleep (from their grief) and said to them,

“Why do you sleep? Standing up, proseuchesthe in order that you not enter into testing.”

 

ISAIAH 53.1: Who has supported our report? and to whom is the arm of YHWH exposed? For He comes up as a sprout in His face and as a root out of parched earth. Not is to Him a form not is to Him magnificence that we should see and not an appearance that we should delight in Him. He was disdained and abandoned by men; a man of makobah [anguish, affliction] and knowing maladies and as men hiding faces from Him (being disdained) and they not value Him. He has firmly borne our maladies and He has carried our makobah.

 

1^st Thessalonians 2: For you yourselves know our entrance to you, brothers, that it hasn’t been empty. Even though having undergone hardship before in Philippi, Macedonia as you know, we were [I was] bold in our Theos to speak to you the euaggelion [good news, gospel, evangel] of Theos in much agonia. For our paraklesis [imploration, urging, exhortation, encouragement, consolation] wasn’t of error nor of impurity nor deceit but as we have been approved by Theos to be entrusted with the euaggelion, so we speak; not as pleasing men but Theos, the One testing our hearts. For neither were we then in logos of flattery (as you know) not with motive of avarice (Theos is Witness) nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others) being able to be burdened as apostoloi [delegates, ambassadors, apostles] of the Christos. We were gentle in your midst as a nurse brooding her own children. Longing for you so and having such warm feelings for you, I shared with you not only the euaggelion of Theos but also my own psuche [soul, life, psyche, ego] because you have been caused to be agapetoi [unconditionally beloved] to me. 

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GOD FOR CHILDREN

Dear Aliona,

 

I have been thinking about how I might explain to you who God is. When we say “God”, we mean our Father in Heaven. Father God created everything that exists: our world and everything that is alive in it, the sun and the planets in our Solar System, our galaxy the Milky Way, and the entire universe that we see with telescopes in outer space. Father God does not need a physical body. He is a spirit being.

Father God gave birth to His only Son, Jesus. At first, Jesus was also a spirit being. Later Jesus was born as a human being. He grew up in Nazareth in the northern part of what is now Palestine. When he reached the age of thirty-three, he went to be baptized in the Jordan river by John the Baptist. As He came up out of the river, the Holy Spirit of Father God came down from Heaven and came into Him.

The Holy Spirit is a part of Father God that He sent to our earth to live within people. Jesus, as a man, is the first human ever to receive the Holy Spirit. After He arose into Heaven, Father began giving the Holy Spirit to people on the earth who put their faith into Jesus as their Rescuer or Savior from going to Hell after they die.

Now, here is the most difficult concept for us to understand. Father God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are ONE! They are called the Trinty. Oneness means they constantly are of one mind. They think alike. Father God is the Boss. Jesus and the Holy Spirit do whatever He tells them to do. Father has given Jesus the entire earth and its people as His kingdom. He is our King, our Master, and our Lord.

I want to see you soon and talk about God with you. Surely you have a lot of questions to ask of me. 

I love you, Ali, 

Poppi

GOD

 GOD 

Been pondering about telling my granddaughter about the Trinty. Heard that she once said,

“Why don’t they just say Jesus?” 

To me the differences among Them are primarily functional.

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Father God is the originator, creator, of all that exists. Before anything was, He is. Americans call Him “God”. Hebrews called Him “Yahweh”. Greeks call him “Theos. Jesus called Him Father and….

 

Mark 15.33: It now being caused to be the sixth hour [noon], shadiness [pitch black darkness] was caused to be over the whole land until the ninth hour [3 PM]. And at the ninth hour, Jesus hallooed [cried out] with megale [huge, great] phone [sound, voice],

“Elio! Elio! Lama sabachthani?”

Which methermeneuomenon [is being translated] from Hebrew Aramaic/Chaldee into Greek:

“O My Theos! O My Theos! To what did You abandon Me?”

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Father God spontaneously created or gave birth to the second member of the Trinty, His only Son. 

Hebrews 5.5: So also, the Christos [Mashiyach] not glorified Himself to be caused to be a high priest but the One speaking to Him did so:

“YOU ARE My Son! Today I gegeneka [have created, have given birth to] You.”

 

PSALM 2.7 I will declare the statue of YHWH: He said to Me,

“YOU ARE My beloved Son! I yalad [have given birth to] You today.” 

He is first mentioned in the Old Testament or Old Blood Covenant as Melchizedek. 

GENESIS 14.18: After his [Abram’s] return from nakah [striking, slaughtering] of Chedorllaomer (and the kings with him) to the valley of Shaveh, Melchizedek (King of Salem) brought out bread and wine; He was [is] a priest to the El [God] on High.

{Salem is a transliteration (by King James’ translators) of the Hebrew Shalom

 [safety, peace, health, happiness, prosperity, friendship]} 

PSALM 110.4: YHWH has spoken and won’t repent,

“YOU ARE a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.” 

Functionally, Jesus is God in the form of man [mankind]. 

Luke 1:30: the aggelos Gabriel said to her, 

“Not fear, Maryam, for you have found charin [graciousness] from beside Theos and LO! you will conceive in your stomach [womb] and bear a son and you will call his name Jesus. The same will be megas [big, large, huge, great] and will be called the Son of the Highest. And the Kurios [Lord, Master] Theos will give to Him the throne of His forefather David and He will rule over the house of Jacob to the ages and there won’t be an end to His royalty.” 

Father God being Spirit, we are unable to perceive Him. Jesus is the image of the Father. When we look upon Jesus, we see Father in a way we can perceive. 

John 14.6: Jesus says to him,

“I AM THE WAY and the TRUTH and the LIFE. Not even one person comes to the Father except via Me. If you had known Me, you also would have known My Father and from now on you DO know Him and have seen Him.”

Philip says to Him,

“Kurie! show us the Father and it satisfies us.”

Jesus says to him,

“AM I so long a time with you, Philip and still you not know Me? The one seeing Me HAS SEEN the Father. 

Jesus’ suffering on the cross was, to people, the visible suffering of Father and of Jesus, together, to reconcile sinful humans to Him.

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The third person of the Trinity is the Holy Spirit. He is the indwelling God. Father set aside a portion of Himself to dwell within everyone who is rescued or saved through Jesus’ suffering and death. Being from Father God, He is “holy”. Since Father God is spirit, He is also “spirit”. He is, then, called the Holy Spirit, or historically in America, the Holy Ghost. 

Acts 2: Now, in the fulfilling of the Day of Pentekostes [Hebrew Feast of Pentecost], they were all unanimous at the same place. Unexpectedly emergent from the ouranou [sky] was an echos [loud noise], just as borne of a violent wind, and filled up the whole dwelling where they were sitting. Themselves [They] stared wide-eyed at thoroughly partitioned tongues as of fire. It also sat upon each one of them and they were all filled of the Hagios Pneuma and began to utter words in different glossais [tongues, languages], just as the Pneuma gave to them to enunciate. 

            What does the Holy Spirit do for the person He inhabits? For those being granted this endowment, He prays to Father in a language which the Christian he inhabits does not know. This prayer is not limited to the person’s understanding, or mind, because he does not understand the language. It may be said that these prayers are from deep in one’s spirit, perhaps about a need of which the person is unaware.

            As a person becomes accustomed to “praying in the Spirit”, that one may do so when faced with a sudden serious event; for example, viewing a traffic accident; when one may be unsure of what to ask of the Father.

            Some sense the need to “pray in the Spirit” when suddenly feeling depressed. Their prayer quickly lifts the depression, and they assume that they have prayed for someone else’s need.

            Is “praying in the Spirit” controlled by the person doing so? Absolutely! Some describe themselves as similar to an AM/FM radio. In “AM”, one prays with one’s mind. In “FM”, one prays through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. In either case, the person controls which mode is in operation. 

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Lesson 122 Amplified -- ENERGIA

 ENERGIA

American: activity, efficiency, energy

ENERGEO

American: to be active, to be efficient, to be energetic 

Reading the New Blood Covenant book of James, we are reminded that the Christian’s life is not to be static, but dynamic. We are to be doing, not merely studying, yet those who are disabled and homebound may still engage in the highest activity in the Kingdom of Theos; praying. 

Almost Greek: [Words in italics are translator’s additions.] 

2^nd Thessalonians 2.5: Don't you remember that I told you these things while I was still with you? And now, you know that one is holding down his being revealed until his set time. For the musterion [secret, mystery] of anomias [lawlessness] is already energeitai [active]. Now, he is merely holding him down until it comes into being emergent from the middle. Then the anomos [lawless one] will be revealed, whom the Kurios will destroy by the pneumati [breaths, spirits] of His mouth and katargesei [render him entirely idle or useless] by the manifestation of Himself at His return; of whom [him, the lawless one] is the parousia [coming] down of the energeian of Satanas in all dunamis [force, power] of pseudes [false, deceitful, pseudo] semeia [signs, indications] and terasi [wonders] and with all unjust delusions in the lost because they not received the agape of the truth, whereby they might sothenai [be made safe, be saved]. Because of their rejection of the truth, Theos will send to them fraudulent energeian for them to pisteusai [to put their faith in], pseudes [falsehoods, lies] in order that all those not pisteusantes in the truth but having approved injustice, may be condemned. 

Colossians 1.24: Now, I rejoice in my sufferings over you and supplement the deficit of the stresses of the Christou in my flesh over His somatos [body], which is the ekklesia [assembly, church] of which I was caused to be a servant down to administration from Theos. That administration was given to me to [for] you, to make replete the Logos [Word] of Theos the musterion having been kept from the ages [beginning of time] and from the generations but now was revealed to His hagios [holy, sacred, consecrated ones; saints] to whom Theos ethelesen [determines, chooses, decides, decrees] to make known what is the wealth of the glory of this musterion in the ethnesin [nations, non-Jews, gentiles]: the Hagios Pneuma, Who is the Christos [Anointed One, Messiah, Christ] inside of you, the elpis [expectation, hope] of glory. We kataggellomen [promulgate, publish, officially make known] Him, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom in order that we may stand beside [present] every man complete in Jesus, the Christo, to [for] which I also labor, competing [struggling] down to His energeian, the One energoumenen [active, efficient, energetic] in me in dunamei [force, power, works of power]. 

Colossians 2.8: Watch out lest you shall be seducing anyone via philosophy [sophistry] and empty delusion down to the traditions of men (down to the principles of the kosmou [universe, world, cosmos]) and not down to the Christon, for in Him resides all the repletion of somatikos Theotetos [bodily Deity]. You are in Him (having been made replete), Who is the Head of all rank and authority. In Him you were also circumcised with a not-made-by-hands circumcision in the divestment of the somatos of hamartion  [body of sin] of the flesh. In the circumcision of the Christou, you were co-buried with Him in baptismati; in Whom you also were roused from death via pisteos of the energeias of Theos awakening Him emergent from dead. You, being dead in offenses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He [Father] reanimated you with Him [Jesus], chapisamenos [having granted as a favor, having forgiven] you all the offenses, blotting out the transcribed-down-to-us in dogma [laws, statutes, decrees] (which were covertly contrary to us), Father has lifted it emergent from the midst of us, nailing it to the stake [cross]. Having totally stripped the ranks and the authorities, He [Father] made a public display of them, having triumphed over them in Him [Jesus]. 

Philippians 3.17: Brothers! be fellow imitators of me and observe those walking thus, just as you have a tupon [a die set, a shaper, a model, a type] in me. For there are walking all around those of whom I often told you and now tell you (even weeping), the echthrous [haters] of the stake of the Christou whose end is destruction; whose belly is their theos [god] and who glory in their shame; who think on the earthly. For our citizenship is in Ouranois [Heavens]. Emergent from there, we also fully expect a Sotera [Deliverer, Savior] the Kuriou [Lord, Master] Jesus, the Christou, Who will transfigure [transform] our soma of humiliation into it being caused to be conformed [similar] to the somati of His glory down to the energeian of His capability, even to subordinate everything to Himself. 

End of One Hundred Twenty-second Lesson