The Gospel – God Breathed Words

Posted on January 23, 2024January 24, 2024 by christianwordsblog

(Christ’s eternal) ANGUISH

Out of the anguish of his soul he shall seeand be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. (Isaiah 53:11) *

Jesus’ agony on the cross was for all to see, the spectacle of suffering was the deterrent the Romans intended; but Isaiah says Jesus endures spiritual torment. Can it be that Jesus suffers even as he is glorified?

The word translated ‘anguish’ is עָמָל amal which means trouble, labour or misery. It intimates a sustained burden from which there is no escape.

Posted on March 5, 2018March 5, 2018 by christianwordsblog

TONGUE (LANGUAGE)

tower-1897536_1920 — ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.’ Genesis 11:4

Ten days after the Ascension of Jesus Christ there was a miraculous event on Jerusalem during the Feast of Shavuot or ‘Weeks’, most commonly referred to as Pentecost.

All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. (Acts 2:4)

Posted on October 9, 2017October 9, 2017 by christianwordsblog

DEATH

Barker, Thomas, 1769-1847; The Bride of Death

While warrior cultures like that of the Vikings sought a heroic death, today death is feared or ignored. Western medicine is given over to the pursuit of protracting life, even at the expense of its quality. For humankind, however, death was not and is not God’s intention but is the result of men and women’s rebellion.

Posted on September 2, 2017October 29, 2017 by christianwordsblog

TENT

7dee4607e572fb555305c9d81f812f79 — Bedouin black tent.

For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. (2 Corinthians 5:1)

Posted on June 29, 2017August 18, 2017 by christianwordsblog · 3 Comments

Preach

Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you. (1 Thessalonians 2:9)

The Greek word that is most often translated as ‘preach’ is κηρύσσω – kérussó (Strong’s 2784). The word in the Koine Read more