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

Lesson 98 Amplified -- APISTOS

 APISTOS

American: being without faith 

APISTEO

American: to be without faith 

APISTIA

American: faithlessness 

APIETHEO

American: willfully lack faith 

In Lesson One, we studied faith. Here we consider the opposite. 

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

1^st Corinthians 6: Dares anyone of you (having a matter against another of you) to be judged before the adikeo [unjust] and not before the hagion [holy, sacred, consecrated ones; saints]? Don't you know that the hagioi will judge the kosmon [universe, world, cosmos]? And if the kosmos is judged by you, are you unworthy of small judgments? Don’t you know that we will judge aggeloi [messengers, angels]? (I’m not speaking of this present life.) If (in fact) then, you have judgments in this life, do you seat as judges those being least esteemed in the ekklesia [assembly, church]? I say,“Shame on you!” Isn’t in you a wise one? Is not one in your midst who will be able to judge between his brothers? But brother amidst brother is judged and this before [by] those apiston. Actually (then) it is already a failure with you that you have lawsuits amidst yourselves. Instead, why not accept injustice? Instead, why not be apostereisthe [deprived, despoiled]? But you do injustice and apostereite [deprive, despoil] and these acts to brothers. Or not know you that those adikeo [unjust] won't be heirs to the Kingdom of Theos? Do not be led astray! Not pornoi [male prostitutes] nor idolaters nor moichoi [adulterers] nor effeminate nor sodomites nor thieves nor greedy nor drunkards nor revilers nor plunderers; in no way shall they be heirs to the Kingdom of Theos. And some of you were these but you were totally washed; but you hegiasthete [were made holy]; but you edikaiothete [were rendered just] in the name of the Kuriou and in the Hagios Pneuma of our Theos. 

1^st Corinthians7.8: I say to the unmarried and widows that it is kalon [beautiful, virtuous] for them if they also remain single as I am. But if they not exercise self-restraint, let them marry for it is better to marry than to be inflamed with lust. To those having married, I command (not I but the Kurios) that a gunaika [woman, wife] isn’t to be separated [divorced] from her man [husband] but if she is separated [divorced], to remain unmarried or to be reconciled to her man. A man isn’t to send away his gunaika. To the rest I say (I, not the Kurios), if any brother who has an apistos gunaika and she is pleased to live with him, not let him send her away. A gune with faith in Jesus, who has an apistos man and he is pleased to live with her, not let her send him away. For the apistos man hegiastai [has been made holy] by the of-the-faith gunaiki and the apistos gune hegiastia by the of-the-faith man, otherwise your children are [would be] impure but now they are hagia. But if the apistos separates, let them be separated. The brother or sister isn’t in bondage in such matters. Theos has called us in peace. For how know you, O gunai! whether you will soseis [make safe, save] your man or how know you, O man! whether you will soseis your gunaika? 

1^st Corinthians 10.23: All is right or lawful to me, conversely, not all positively contributes. All is right to me, conversely, not all builds up. Let no one seek his own good; conversely, each one should seek the good of the other. Eat everything being sold in a meat market, not examining even one piece via conscience for the earth and its contents are the Kurios’. Indeed, the whole earth and its fullness are the Kuriou’s.

 

PSALM 24.1: YHWH’s is the land and its fullness [contents]; the earth and those who live in it.

 

PSALM 50.13: [YHWH speaking] “Mine is the earth and its fullness.”

 

1^st Corinthians 10 continued: Now, if anyone of those apiston invites you and you decide to go, eat everything set before you, not scrutinizing even one item via conscience. But if anyone tells you, “This meat is a sacrifice to idols,” do not eat via [for the sake of] that one striving to disclose this fact and for conscience’ sake. Now, by conscience, I not speak of yours but the conscience of the other person.

 

2^nd Corinthians 6.14: Don’t be caused to be unequally yoked with apistois [those without faith] for what fellowship have dikaiosune [equity, justification, rightness] and lawlessness? What koinonia [sharing, partnership] has light with shadiness? What agreement has the Christo with Belial [“Worthlessness”, “Satan”]? or what share has one who pisto [has faith, has reliance] with one apistou? What vow [contract] has a temple of Theos with eidoloi [images for worship, idols]? For you are a temple of a living Theos, even as Theos said,

“I will inhabit them, and I will walk among them, and I will be their Theos and they shall be to Me a people.”

 

Hebrews 3.18: And to whom did He [Father God] swear that they wouldn’t enter into His rest, except those apeithesosi. And we see that they weren’t able to enter in via [because of] apistian.

 

Hebrews 4.2: for indeed we are eueggelismenoi [having had the Gospel announced to us] even as they also, but the Logos [Word] didn’t profit of those hearing; the words not having been mixed with pistei [faith] in those hearing. For we (those pisteussantes [having faith]) enter into the rest, even as He said, “As I swore in My orge, ‘They shan’t enter into My rest,’”

 

Psalm 95:10: “For forty years I was disgusted with that generation and said, ‘They are a people who err in their heart and they don’t know My [Father God’s] ways, to whom I swore in my aph [orge], “If they shall [They shan’t] enter into My rest.”’”

 

Hebrews 11.6: At-space [Apart from] pisteos, it is impossible to please God. It is necessary for the one approaching Theos pisteusai [to have faith] that HE IS and that He becomes a rewarder to those seeking out Him.

 

Mark 16.9: And having stood up [arisen] (at dawn) on the first day after The Sabbath, He first appeared to Mary (the Magdalene) from whom He had ejected seven demons. That one having traversed the distance from the tomb, announced the good news to those having been caused to be amidst Him; who were grieving and wailing. Those were hearing that He lives and was closely examined by her, yet they apistesan. And after these events, He appeared to two (emergent from them) walking all around. He was rendered apparent (in another form [different appearance]) traveling into the country. Likewise, those going off, they announced their experience to the rest and neither did they episteusan [have faith]. Eventually, He was rendered apparent to the eleven (as they reclined at table) and He chided their apistian and hard-heartedness because they apisteusan, those having closely examined Him as having been awakened. And He said to them, “Traveling into all the kosmon, keruxate [proclaim, herald] the euaggelion to all creation. The ones pisteusas [having faith] and baptistheis [being immersed, being submerged, being baptized] will be sothesetan [saved] but he apistesas will be condemned. 

Revelation 21.6: And He said to me, “It is caused to be! I AM the Alpha and the Omega; the Start and the Finish. I will gratuitously give to the thirsting (emergent from the fountain) the Water of Life. The one subduing will inherit all and I will be (to the same) Theos and the same will be to Me, son. But the timid and the apistois and the detestable and the murderers and the pornoi and the drug dealers and the idolaters and all the false ones; their allotment is in the lake burning with fire and sulfur which is the second death.”

End of Ninety-eighth Lesson

Lesson 97 Amplified -- USELESS

 ACHRELOS

American: useless 

ANOPHELES

American: useless 

MATALOTES

American: uselessness 

            In the last lesson, we studied usefullness. Here we consider the opposite. 

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

Romans 3.9: What then? Are we superior? Not at all! For we have already charged both Jews and Greeks, all to be under hamartian [missing the mark or goal; erring, offending, sinning], just as it has been written:

“There isn’t a dikaios [equitable, just, right] one; not even one. There isn’t one comprehending. There isn’t one seeking Theos. All turned away; together achreioo [rendered useless]. Not one is doing chrestoteta [usefulness]; not even one is. An opened grave is their larugx [throat, larynx]. With their glossais [tongues, languages] they are deceitful. Venom of asps is under their lips whose mouth is full of curses and bitterness. Their feet are keen to shed blood. Destruction and wretchedness are in their path, and they not knew the path of peace. Fear of Theos isn’t from in front of their eyes. 

Philemon 8: Therefore, having much directness [boldness] in the Christo to order [command] you to do the proper thing because of agapen [unconditional love], I rather parakalo [call near, invite, urge, exhort, encourage, solace] you to do it. Being of this sort (just now an old man and a captive of Jesus the Christou) I, Paul, parakalo you concerning my child Onesimus [“Profitable”], the one at one time achrelos to you but now euchreston [useful] to you and to me) whom I procreated in my bonds. 

Luke 17.5: And the apostoloi [delegates, ambassadors, apostles] said to the Kurio,

“Increase our pistin [faith].”

Now, the Kurios said,

“If you have pistin as small as a kernel of mustard seed, you may say to this sycamore-fig tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and even it would obey you. Now, whom of you having a slave (plowing or shepherding, who enters emergent from the field) will say to him? ‘Having come in, directly recline to eat.’ Conversely, won’t you say to him, ‘Prepare something upon which I may dine and having girded yourself, serve me until I eat and imbibe and after doing these things, you may eat and imbibe.’ Does He hold gratitude to that slave because he did the acts prescribed to him? I think not. The same also you (when you have done all prescribed to you), say, ‘We are achreioi slaves. We have merely done what we ought to do.’”

 

Hebrews 7.11: If therefore, perfection was via the Levitical priestly office (for the people have been given The Law under it), why is there still need for another priest to arise (down to the order of Melchizadek) and not to be said [called] down to the order of Aaron? For the priestly office being changed, of necessity a change of law occurs. For He of Whom these words are said has partaken of another tribe, from which not even one man has given devotion at the altar. For it is clear that our Kurios has arisen out of Judah, as to which tribe Moses not spoke even one word concerning priesthood. And it is still more abundantly quite clear, that if another Priest arises, down to the likeness of Melchizadek, Who hasn’t been caused to be so down to a law of a fleshly command but He will be down to the dunamin [force, power] of an indissoluble life. For it is testified, “YOU ARE a Priest to the age, down to the order of Melchizadek.”

For an annulment of the preceding command comes about because of its asthenes [strengthlessness, weakness] and anopheles for The Law perfected not even one person but the present command is a bringing in of a better elpidos [expectation, hope] via which we draw near to Theos. And by how much occurs this? It isn’t without oath-taking [swearing] for those truly are being caused to be priests without oath-taking but He [Jesus] with oath-taking via Him [Father] Who says to Him,

“The Kurios [Father] swore and won’t change His mind, ‘“YOU ARE a priest to the age down to the order of Melchizadek.’”

By so much, Jesus has been caused to be surety of a better blood covenant. In fact, there are many having been caused to be priests, being prevented to continue by death. But He has the priestly office, not to be passed on because He remains to the age [end of time]; therefore, He is also sozein [able to make safe, able to save] those to perfection, those drawing near to Theos via Him, ever living to intercede on their behalf. For such a High Priest was fitting to us; hagios [holy, sacred, consecrated], akakos [without worthlessness], undefiled, having been separated from hamartolon [missing the mark or goal; erring, offending, sinning] and being caused to be higher than the ouranon [the skies, the heavens], Who hasn’t need (as do the high priests) to offer sacrifices down day by day (firstly, for their own hamartion, then for those of the people). For He did this once for everyone, offering Himself up. For The Law appoints men (having infirmity) high priests but the logos [word] of the oath-taking, after the giving of The Law, appoints a Son having been perfected to the age. 

Titus 3.9: But stay aloof from stupid speculations, tracing by generations, quarrelling and battling of law for these are anopheleis and empty. Avoid a heretic [schismatic, divider] amidst [after] one and a second warning, knowing that such a one has been perverted and hamartanei [misses the mark or goal; errs, offends, sins], being self-condemned. 

2nd Peter 2.9: The Kurios knows how to rescue the well-reverent emergent from the testing but the unjust are being curtailed [contained] to a day of kriseos [decision, judgment rendered, verdict] but especially those traveling backwards in fleshly lusting and disgusting leadership [authority]. These are brazen darers, self-pleasing, not trembling when blasphemountes [speaking irreverently, profaning, blaspheming] the glorious, where aggeloi (being greater in strength and dunamei [force, power]) not bring down on them a blasphemon [abusive] krisin [judgment] in proximity of [before] the Kurio. But these are like irrational, physical-living animals having been procreated to capture and to slaughter. Blasphemountes where they have no knowledge, they shall be totally destroyed in their ruin; taken care of for injustice by suitable wages. They consider daytime indulgence a pleasure, reveling in stains and flaws in their delusions, faring well with you. Having eyes full of a moichalidos [adulteress], also not refraining from hamartias, they are entrapping unstable psuchas [souls, lives, psyches, egos]. Having a heart trained in avarice, having accursed children, abandoning the straight road, they have been caused to stray, following out the road of Balaam the son of Beor, who egapesen [loved] the wages of injustice. But he received a reprimand for his own transgression. For a mute beast of burden, speaking in the phone [sound, tone, noise, voice] of a man, restrained the insanity of the prophetou [before-seer, prophet]. These are waterless fountains, clouds driven by tornadoes, for whom the gloom of shadiness is reserved to the ages. For speaking puffed out words of matalotes, in licentiousness they entrap (in the lusts of the flesh) those barely escaping these overturned-in-fraudulence [error]; professing freedom to them while themselves being slaves under corruption [decay]. For by what someone has been made worse [defeated], to this he has also been enslaved. For if having escaped the contamination of the kosmou [universe, world, cosmos] in a recognition of the Kuriou and Soteros [deliverer, savior], (Jesus, the Christou) and again being entangled by these and been made worse, the last state has been caused to be worse to them than the first. For it would be better for them not to have recognized the road of dikaiosunes [equity, justification, rightness], than recognizing it, to revert [turn back around, 180 degrees] emergent from the hagias commands transmitted to them. But to them has happened the truth of the proverb: “A dog reverts upon its own vomit and a bathed hog reverts into a muddy wallow.” 

Matthew 25.24: Now, also approaching, he having received the one talent said, ‘Kurie! I knew you, that you are a hard man, harvesting where you not sowed and collecting from where you not winnowed and fearing (going away), I hid your talent in the earth. LO! you have what is yours.’ But responding his kurios said to him, ‘Ponere [Hurtful] and lazy slave! You knew that I harvest where I not sowed and collect where I not winnowed. Accordingly, it behooved you to throw my silver to the bankers and coming back, I would have received mine with interest. Accordingly, take up from him the talent and give it to him having the ten talents, for him having, all will be given, and he will super-abound but from him not having, even the little that he has will be taken up from him. And eject the achreion slave outside into obscurity. There [In that place] will be lamentation and grinding of the teeth.’” 

End of Ninety-seventh Lesson