KINGDOM of GOD

 KINGDOM OF GOD 

Been musing on the Kingdom for a long time. Have begun to remind myself, whenever my imp plants negative thoughts, that I am living in the Kingdom. 

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

1^st Corinthians 4.18: While I wasn’t expected to be coming toward you now, some were puffed up. But shortly I will come to you (if the Kurios thelese [determines, chooses, decides, decrees]) and I won’t know the logos [word] of those having been puffed up, conversely, the [their] dunamei [forces, powers, works of power]. For the Kingdom of Theos not consists in logos, conversely, in dunamei. What do you want? that I come to you with a stick or in agape [unconditional love] and a pneuma [breath, spirit] of gentleness? 

Colossians 1.9: Via this [From the day we heard], we also don’t pause [stop] proseuchomenoi [humbly begging of God, praying] to Theos over you and asking that you be made replete [complete] in recognition of His thelematos in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. And that you be made to walk appropriately of the Kuriou [Lord, Master], compliant to all in every good work; that you are being fertile and growing into the recognition of Theos in all dunamei, being empowered [enabled] down [according] to the great vigor of His glory to all a cheerful endurance and makrothumian [forbearing, patiently restraining]; that you amidst charas [cheerfulness, calm delight, joy] eucharistountes [are gratefully giving thanks] to the Father to qualify us to the portion of the lot of the hagion [holy, sacred, consecrated ones; saints] in the Light. He Who rescued us emergent from the authority of shadiness and transferred us into the Kingdom of the Son of His agapes. He in Whom we have redemption via His blood; the freedom of [from] hamartion [misses of the mark or goal; errors, offenses, sins]. Jesus, Who is the eikon [image, likeness, statue, icon] of the invisible Theos, the firstborn of all creation because in Him all was created: the things in the ouranois [skys, heavens] and the things upon the earth; the seen [visible] and the invisible, whether thrones or lordships or rank or authorities. All has been created via Him and to Him and He IS before the birth of the whole of creation and all is presented in Him. Also, He is the Head of the somatos [body], the ekklesias [assembly, church]. He, Who is the beginning, firstborn emergent from dead in order that He may be caused to be in first place in all; because in Him all repletion [completion] was approved to dwell and via Him to completely reconcile all to Himself [Father], making peace via the blood of His stake [cross] via Him; whether the things upon the earth or the things in the ouranois. 

Luke 11.16: But others, testing Him, were seeking a semeion [sign, indication] from beside Him emergent from Ouranou [Heaven] but He (knowing their thoughts) said to them, 

“Every kingdom divided over itself is laid waste and a house over [against] a house falls. Now, if also Satanas is divided over himself, how shall his kingdom stand? You say that in Beelzeboul I AM ejecting the demons but if I eject the demons in Beelzeboul, in what do your sons eject demons? Via this, they shall be your judges. But if in the finger of Theos, I eject the demons, then the Kingdom of Theos has arrived upon you.

 

Luke 17.20: Now, being asked by the Pharisees, at what time comes the Kingdom of Theos? He answered them and said, 

“The Kingdom of Theos not comes amidst viewing, neither will they say LO! in this same place nor LO! there for the Kingdom of Theos is INSIDE you!” 

Mark 1.14: Now, after John the Baptizer was surrendered, Jesus came into Galilee kerusson [proclaiming, heralding] the euaggelion [good news, gospel, evangel] of the Kingdom of Theos and saying, 

“The time has been made replete [complete] and the Kingdom of Theos approaches. Metanoeite [Think differently, turnabout 180⁰, repent] and pisteuete [have reliance, have faith] in the euaggelio.” 

Mark 10.13: And they brought Him children in order that He might touch them but the mathetai [learners, pupils, disciples] admonished those bringing them. But seeing this, Jesus was indignant, and He said to them, 

“Aphete [Allow] the children to come to Me and do not estop them for of these is the Kingdom of Theos. Amen! I say to you, whoever not receives the Kingdom of Theos in the same way as a child, not (in no way) may he enter into it.” 

Matthew 3: Now, came John the Baptistes [Baptizer], kerusson in the wastelands of Judea and saying,  

“Metanoeite! for the Kingdom of the Ouranon has arrived.” 

Matthew 10: And having summoned us twelve mathetas [learners, pupils, disciples], He gave us authority over impure pneumaton [spirits], so as to eject them and to heal every malady and every weakness. Now, the names of these twelve apostolon [delegates, ambassadors, apostles] are:  

First, Simon (who is called Rock) and Andrew (his brother) Bar Jona; James Bar Zebedee and his brother John; Philip; Nathanael Bar Tolmai; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector [That’s me, and my brother], James Bar Alphaeus; and Judas surnamed Lebbeus [in Hebrew] who was called by his Latin surname Thaddaeus [called in American: “Jude”]; Simon the Kananites [“Zealous”]; and Judas Bar Simeon the Iscariot who also surrendered Him. These twelve Jesus set apart [sent out], having commanded us, saying, 

“Not go into the road of the ethnon [nations, races, non-Jews, gentiles] and not enter a city of the Samaritans but travel toward the perishing sheep of the House of Israel. And traveling, kerussete [proclaim, herald], saying that the Kingdom of the Ouranon has arrived. 

John 3: There was a man (emergent from the Pharisees) named Nicodemus [“The People is Victor”], who was a chief of the Jews [member of the Sanhedrin]. He came to Jesus by night and said to Him,

“Rabbi [Teacher, Master]! we know that You have come from Theos as a Teacher for not even one man can do these semeia (which You do) unless Theos is with Him.”

Jesus answered him,

“Amen! Amen! I say to you, if one doesn’t receive birth from above, he is unable to perceive the Kingdom of Theos.”

Nicodemus said to Him,

“How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot reenter into his mother’s womb and be born a second time.”

Jesus answered, 

“Amen! Amen! I say to you, if one doesn’t receive birth both emergent from water [physically] and from the Hagios Pneuma [spiritually], he isn’t able to enter into the Kingdom of Theos. That receiving birth from flesh is flesh; that receiving birth from the Hagios Pneuma is pneuma [spirit]. Don’t marvel because I told you, ‘You must receive birth from above.’ The Hagios Pneuma breathes where He thelei and although you hear His phone [sound, tone, noise, voice], you neither know from where He comes nor where He goes. So, it is with everyone who has received birth emergent from the Hagios Pneuma.” 

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Lesson 124 Amplified -- BIAZO

 BIAZO

American: to force or to crowd oneself into 

BIASTES

American: a forcer 

            This lesson is about the Kingdom of God. Our Lord Jesus, the Christos, says, in Matthew 18.3,

“Amen! I say to you, unless you revert and are caused to be as the children you cannot (by no means) enter into the Kingdom of the Ouranon [Heaven].”

In Luke 17.20,

 He tells the Pharisees,

“The Kingdom of Theos not comes amidst viewing; neither will they say LO! in this same place nor LO! there, for the Kingdom of Theos is INSIDE you!”

In the scriptures below He says that the Kingdom of Theos is being entered by force!? 

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

Luke 16.14: Now, the Pharisees also heard all these words and being money-lovers, they scoffed at Him. And He said to them, 

“You are dikaiountes [justifying] yourselves before the faces of men but Theos knows your hearts because the lofty in men is an abomination before the face of Theos. The Law and the Prophets [Old Testament] was preached up until John Bar Zekaryahuw. From then on, the Kingdom of Theos is being euaggelizetai [good news being announced, being evangelized] and all are biazetai [forcing themselves into, crowding into] it. But it is easier for the ouranon [heavens, sky] and the earth to pass away than for one keraian [the dot of an “i”] to fall.”

 

[This may be a condemnation of the editing and additions to the five “Books of Moses” and “The Books of the Prophets” that had been practiced for scores of years in the copying of texts by the grammateis [writers, recorders, scribes, secretaries].] 

Matthew 11.11: [Jesus speaking] “Amen! I say to you, there hasn’t arisen (in those born of gunaikon [a woman]) one greater than John the Baptistou but the mikroteros [smallest, least] in the Kingdom of the Ouranon is greater than he is. Now, from the days of John the Baptistou (until just now) the Kingdom of the Ouranon is biazetai [being entered by force or crowding] and the biastai [forcers] seize it. For all The Law and the Prophets proepheteousan [before told, prophesied] until John and If you choose to receive this, he is Elijah! He who was expected to come! He having ears to hear, let him hear! But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like little boys sitting down in the marketplace, prosphonousi [sounding towards, shouting to] their comrades and saying, ‘We played the flute to you, and you didn’t dance! We bewailed to you, and you didn’t chop [beat the breast in grief].’ For John came neither eating nor drinking and they say, ‘He has a daimonion [demonic being, demon].’ And the Son of Man came, both eating and imbibing, and they say, ‘LO! a gluttonous Man and a wine drinker; a philos [friend] of tax collectors and hamartolon [missers or the mark or goal, those erring, offenders, sinners].’ And wisdom is edikaiothe [justified, vindicated] from her children.” 

End of One Hundred Twenty-fourth Lesson

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. 

End of One Hundred Twenty-third Lesson

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

Lesson 121 Amplified -- APOLOGIA

 APOLOGIA

American: a plea, giving an account, a defense 

As Christians, we are urged (when asked) to explain our faith in God. This is true evangelism, not forcing our views on someone at an inopportune time but seizing the opportunity to humbly confess our childlike faith in God. 

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

1^st Corinthians 9.3: My apologia to those examining me is this: Haven’t I the privilege of eating and drinking? Haven't I the privilege to take along a sister (a gunaika [woman, wife]) as do the rest of the apostoloi [delegates, ambassadors, apostles] and the Kuriou’s Lord’s, Master’s] half-brothers and Rock? Or do only Joses Bar Nabas [“Son of Consolation”] and I not have the privilege not to toil. Who serves as a soldier at his own wages [no wages] at any time? Who plants a vineyard and not eats from the fruit of it? Or who shepherds a flock and not eats of the milk of the flock? I not speak these things down to man’s judgment, do I? Or not says The Law also these things? For in the Law of Moses [Pentateuch, 1^st five books of the Old Testament] it has been written,

“You shan’t muzzle a threshing ox.”

 

DEUTERONOMY 25.4: You shan’t muzzle an ox when he is treading out grain. 

Theos isn’t concerned about oxen, is He? Or is He speaking altogether for us [our sakes]? Yes! for our sakes. For us it was written because the one plowing ought to plow upon elpidi [expectation, hope] and he threshing to thresh upon elpidos of sharing in the elpidi harvest. If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it mega if we shall reap from you the fleshly things? If others in you have a share, shouldn’t we have more? But we not used this privilege; conversely, we patiently endured all in order that we not give anyone a hindrance to receiving the euaggelion [good news, Gospel, Evangel] of the Christou [Anointed One, Messiah, Christ].” 

2^nd Corinthians 7.10: For sadness down to the choice of Theos works metanoian [reversal, repentance, compunction] to irrevocable soterian [rescue, safety, salvation] but worldly sadness fully works out death. Notice this same issue (for you to be grieved down to the choice of Theos), how much it fully worked out (in you) spouden [speed, alacrity, eagerness] also apologian, also indignation, also fear, also a longing, also zelon [heat, zeal, ardor], also retribution! 

2^nd Corinthians12.19: You think that again I apologoumetha [am defending] myself. Before Theos (in the Christo), I speak the whole truth for your upbuilding, agapetoi [unconditionally beloved]. Now I fear, lest coming, I somehow find you not what I wish and may be found by you not what you wish. How is it among you? Is there quarreling, zeloi, thumoi [passions, anger, indignation], intrigues, defamations, whisperings, haughtiness, instability? I fear lest my Theos again humble me with you at my coming and that I shall grieve over many of those having previously done hamartia [misses of the mark or goal, errors, offenses, sins] and not metanoesanton [thinking differently, turning about 180 degrees, repenting] over the impurity and poneria [depravity] and licentiousness that they have practiced. 

Romans 2.9: Theos will give to those (in fact) by cheerful endurance in good work seeking glory, timen [value, esteem] and incorruptibility [immortality] eternal life but to those emergent from intrigue (even in fact willfully disbelieving the truth but approving injustice), He gives thumos [passion, anger, indignation] and orge [violent passion, fury, rage, wrath]. There will be stress and calamity for every psuche [soul, life, psyche, ego] of man working totally kakon [the worthless], (firstly for the Jew and also for the Greek) but glory, time [value, esteem] and peace for everyone working good (firstly for the Jew and also for the Greek) for there isn’t partiality with Theos. For as many as hamarton without The Law will be totally destroyed without The Law; as many as are hamarton in [under] The Law will be krithesontai [judged, put on trial] via The Law for the hearers of The Law aren’t dikaioi [equitable, just, right] with Theos; conversely, the performers of The Law dikaithesontai [shall be rendered just]. For when the ethne (not having The Law by nature) do the deeds of The Law, these (not having The Law) are a law to themselves (who show the work of The Law written in their hearts), their consciences testifying and their thoughts alternately accusing or else apologoumenon [defending] them in the day when (down to my euaggelion) Theos krinei [will distinguish, will decide, will judge, will put on trial] the hidden actions of men via Jesus, the Christou. 

Philippians 1.3: I always eucharisto [express gratitude, give thanks] to my Theos Father God]  over all my remembrance of you in all my deesei [petitions, requests, prayers] over you, amidst all charas [cheerfulness, calm delight, joy] making the deesin over your koinonia [sharing, partnership] into the euaggelion from the first day that you heard it until now; being convinced of this very thing, that He having begun a good work in you will fulfill [finish] it until the day of Jesus, the Christou. Just as it is dikaion to me to think this over you all via holding you in my heart (in both my bonds [imprisonment] and in the apologia and confirmation of the euaggelion), all of you being co-participants with me of the charitos [graciousness]. For Theos is my witness of how I yearn for you all in the splen [spleen, guts, bowels, sympathy] of Jesus, the Christou. And this I proseuchomai [humbly beg God, pray] in order that your agape yet more and more superabound in discernment and in all perception to your bearing through testing in order that you be proven sincere and inoffensive to the day of the Christou; you having been made replete [complete] with fruits of dikaiosunes [equity, justification, rightness] via Jesus, the Christou, to the glory and the praise of Theos.

[Philippians continues] Brothers! I want you to know that my things [circumstances] have come for the greater progress of the euaggelion. So too, my bonds have been caused to be clearly apparent to be in the Christo in all the praetorian [courtroom] guards and to all the rest [everyone else]. The majority of the brothers trusting in the Kurio (because of my bonds) dare to speak the logos more superabundantly without fear. Some (in fact) the Christon kerussousin [proclaim, herald] via love of silver [money] and quarreling but some via delight [goodwill]. Those [the former] (in fact) kataggellousin [promulgate, publish, officially make known] the Christon emergent from intrigue (not purely [sincerely], in order to add to my bonds) but these [the latter] proclaim the Christos emergent from agapes, knowing that I lie [languish] for apologian [defending] the euaggelion. 

Luke 21.10: Then, He [Jesus] said to them,“Ethnos [nation, race, non-Jew, gentile] will rise up against ethnos and kingdom against kingdom; both megaloi earthquakes down to place [from place to place] and there will be famines and plagues; there will be both great terrors and great semeia [signs, indications] from Ouranou [Heaven]. But before these occurrences, absolutely all will throw their hands upon you and will pursue [persecute] you, surrendering you into the synagogues and keeps, being led before kings and governors because of My name but it will turn into a testimony to you. Accordingly, put this into your hearts, not to premeditate apologethenai [make a defense, a plea] for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which not even one of all those opposing you will be able to refute. 

2^nd Timothy 4.9: Directly make haste to come toward me for Demas deserted me. He egapesas the present age and has traveled to Thessalonica, Macedonia. Crescens [“Increasing”] went into Galatia, Asia Minor. Titus [“Honorable”] went into Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Pick up John Mark and bring him with you for he is euchrestos [useful] to me to [for] service. I sent out Tychicus [“Chance”] to Ephesus, Asia Minor. Coming, bear [bring] the outer garment which I left with Carpus in Troas, Mysia and the biblia, especially the parchments. Alexander [“Man-Defender”], the coppersmith, showed to me much kakia [worthlessness]. The Kurios will give away to him down to his works. You also greatly be on guard against him for he opposed our logois [words]. In my first apologia, not even one man was present with me, but all deserted me. (May it not be charged to them!) But the Kurios stood beside me and empowered me in order that via me, the kerugma [proclamation] might be fully carried out and all the ethne [nations, races, non-Jews, gentiles] might hear. I was rescued emergent from the mouth of the lion. The Kurios will also rescue me from all ponerou [hurtful] work and sosei [will make safe, will save] me into His above the sky [heavenly] kingdom, to Whom be glory to the ages of the ages. Amen! 

End of One Hundred Twenty-first Lesson