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