Archaios (ancient) refers to something very old or from the beginning of the world. To subscribe to this podcast please go to iTunes and subscribe to “The Koine Greek Word of the Day Podcast”
“When Israel saw the great power which the Lord has used against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in His servant Moses.”
So the whole ten plagues thing? apparently that didn’t make the people believe in the Lord. And the whole Passover thing? that didn’t make the people believe in the Lord. What about that pillar of cloud and light protecting them from act? well, that didn’t make Israel believe in the Lord. But when God wipes out the army of Israel’s oppressors only then do the people believe in the Lord? This is a tough crowd.
But maybe I’m giving us too much credit. We also quickly forget the amazing things God does for us. We move out of trial and into blessing and we forget the hours of anguish we spent calling on the name of the Lord to save us. Our trials end and our reliance on God wanes.
I always appreciated the asceticism of the desert fathers. The people who would gave up everything and lived in the desert to focus God. The people who would sit for years on a pillar because the trial helped them maintain their reliance upon the Lord.
The greatest act of worship may be learning how to believe in God in the midst of blessing. I suspect very few of us are good at that.
Abussos (Abyss) describes the place where demons dwell. To subscribe to this podcast please go to iTunes and subscribe to “The Koine Greek Word of the Day Podcast”.
Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the
human race you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to
take upon him our nature, and to suffer death upon the cross,
giving us the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant
that we may walk in the way of his suffering, and also share
in his resurrection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives
and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever
and ever. Amen.
Here’s some stuff I came across this week…
1. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated only 41 years ago today.Have a great weekend.
“Moses said to the people, ‘Remember this day in which you went out from Egypt, from the house of slavery; for by a powerful hand the Lord brought you from this place.’”
Each of us who have a relationship with Jesus Christ needs to remember that we have been brought out from a house of slavery; our slavery was a slavery to sin. We were brought out by the powerful hand of the Lord. We did not earn it, we did not deserve it, we merely accepted a gracious gift from our God. A gift which enabled us to live in community with God.
It is good to remember where we were and how for God has brought us out. Thank God today for his grace.
Mellw (to be about to) may mean inevitability, a future occurance, or a delay. To subscribe to this podcast please go to iTunes and subscribe to “The Koine Greek Word of the Day Podcast”.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
‘ Or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!
Exodus chapter 12 is probably one of the most important chapters in the Old Testament for Christians. This chapter teaches us about the Passover lamb which was sacrificed so that the spirit of God would pass over the houses of the Israelites and not take the life of the first born.
In the New Testament Jesus becomes our Passover lamb. We can use his blood so that God will forgive us and Passover our sins on the day of judgment.
In Exodus 12, God says, “[This] is a Passover sacrifice to the Lord who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but spare our homes.” God continues, “It is a night to be observed for the Lord for having brought them out from the land of Egypt; this night is for the Lord, to be observed by all the sons of Israel through their generations.”
The Israelites celebrated Passover to remember God delivering them from bondage in Egypt. Christians celebrate Easter to remember Christ delivering us from the bondage of sin. Take time today to remember what Jesus has done for you.
Monos (only) is the root of the modern English prefix mono. To subscribe to this podcast please go to iTunes and subscribe to “The Koine Greek Word of the Day Podcast”.
God prepares a means for the Israelites to be freed from Egypt. Not only will they be freed from their captors, but they will take with them much of the wealth of the nation. God made the Egyptians look favorably upon the Israelites, and the Egyptians freely gave them their wealth.
God will accomplish God’s will, and it will be accomplished to a degree of completeness that we seldom expect. The Israelites wanted freedom and to return to the Promised Land. God was setting them up to be released with great wealth. God is able to provide for our needs before we even now our needs.
Nekros (dead) can refer to being dead or refer to one who is dead. To subscribe to this podcast please go to iTunes and subscribe to “The Koine Greek Word of the Day Podcast”.
