After taking one last look at the chapel he built, Smith, knowing that his work is done, slips into his car and drives quietly off into the night. And the men who believe that God in very deed has spoken laws that illuminate, and commandments that guide, and promises that calm and strengthen and fulfil themselves, will surely prepare in their hearts an appropriate receptacle for those precious and infallible words. Little children, keep yourselves from idols. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. Otherwise, if you bless in the spirit only, how will the one who fills the place of the ungifted say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you are saying? Amen is a Hebrew word that is essentially an affirmation of truth or agreement, meaning something like ‘so be it’, ‘it is so’, or ‘it is true’. He takes these very thoughts of my text, and in their double aspect too, and says, 'Just because God is faithful, do you Corinthians think that, when I told you that I was coming to see you, I did not mean it?' T/F, 5. 'He who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of Truth.' To him [be] glory and dominion for ever and ever. It is used in Jewish, Christian and Muslim worship as a concluding word or response to prayers. It is the heralding of good news about God in Christ by a person who is called, sent and anointed by God to make biblical truth plain, beautiful and powerful. Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. There is implied in the title that He really has spoken, and declared to man something of His will, something of His nature, something of His purposes, something of our destiny. A person pours out his heart to God in a circle of prayer and there is complete silence. II. And all the people shall say, Amen. Yet the Hebrew and Greek words for amen appear hundreds of times in the Bible and have several uses. (“TRULY”), Revelation 3:14 (King James Version: “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God.”, CLICK HERE  for a list of 63 Bible verses containing the word AMEN, The video below is the final scene in the 1963 film LILIES OF THE FIELD directed by Ralph Nelson. All that are with me salute thee. This Hebrew word means firm, and hence also faithful ( Revelation 3:14 ). As in Psalm 106:48, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. And they who are trusting to the God of the Amen! There is only one path clear across the deepest gulf, which we poor pilgrims can tread with absolute safety that it will never yield beneath our feet. Amen and Amen.” In the last book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation, the Hebrew and Greek word AMEN finds its culmination in JESUS AS THE AMEN, the beginning Alpha and the ending Omega, the SO BE IT Witness to TRUTH. 'Men shall be blessed in Him,' or rather, 'shall bless themselves in Him,' which is a declaration, that all needful benediction shall come down upon humanity through the coming Messias, as well as that men shall recognise in that Messias the source of all their blessing and good. Amen. In most languages of the world where Christianity has taken root the word “Amen” has been taken over untranslated. So that’s one more reason we should make more of this echo of agreement than we do in corporate worship and prayer. When great things are being spoken to God or about God in a public assembly, the fitting thing to do is to express agreement and affirmation. And it is unnatural and unhealthy. In Revelation 22:20 John says, “He who testifies to these things [namely, Christ] says, “Yes [= Amen], I am coming quickly,” to which John cries, “Amen. 'He that blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself' -- unless he is a fool -- 'in the God of the Amen!' He is author of. To him [be] glory both now and for ever. The 'God of the Amen,' in both senses of the word, is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the seal as well as the substance of the divine promises, and whose voice in us is the answer to, and the grasp of, the promises of which He is the substance and soul. Amen and amen! God says “Amen” to us through Christ in the cross, and we respond with “Amen” to God through Christ in preaching and prayer. Even so, Amen. So that the thought opens up very beautifully and simply into these two, His truth and our faith. It’s not about traditions of high church or low church. I [am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. Amen is a declaration of affirmation first found in the Hebrew Bible, and subsequently in the New Testament. “Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he will never see death.” It can also be used colloquially to express strong agreement, as in, for instance, amen to that.”, Many who read English translations of the Bible will be shocked to discover Jesus in His teachings used the word , amen, “amhn” often (c. 99 times) because the translators chose to translate the Greek word ἀμήν as “Truly” or “Verily.”, John 8:21 His answer is just beneath the surface in verses 15–16: What is the outcome then? It is a kind of prayer, a kind of exultation before God. The “Testimonium Flavianum Question” (My Two Cents), The Bible is Accurate — Manuscript Evidence, Colors & Dyes For Clothing in Ancient Rome, Thanksgiving: First Foods, First Friends—1620, Ancient Ossuaries Uncover Biblical Truths. Amen. So the text declares that, in those days that are yet to come, the whole earth shall be filled with men whose eyes have been purged from ignorance and sin, and from the illusions of sense and the fascinations of folly, and who have learned that only in the God of the Amen is the blessing of their life to be found. The next step is to enter your payment information. But dysfunctional worship dishonors God in ways that healthy worship doesn’t. Mary’s Perpetual Virginity & Jesus’ Brothers, Why Pollen on the Shroud of Turin Proves it is Real, Christian Inscriptions in Roman Catacombs, Eruption Of Mt. Modern Persecution of Christians in China, Patriarch Jacob’s Well & St. Philoumenous. And, as we know, its liturgical use is that, in the olden time, and to some extent in the present time, it was the habit of the listening people to utter it at the close of prayer or praise. It brings a vision of God and the world that keeps some things in the culture, rejects other things in the culture, and touches everything in the culture. Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. Cursed [be] he that lieth with his mother in law. Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, [be] honour and glory for ever and ever. April 14, 1828 Noah Webster (1758-1843) published An American Dictionary of the English Language. Language is an expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language.”, Since our childhoods, most American people have turned to Webster’s Dictionary for all definitions of English words. JPS Tanakh 1917 Blessed be the LORD for evermore. He says first that Christ is God’s “Yes” to all the promises of the Bible: “As many are the promises of God, in him they are Yes.” Christ is God’s “Amen” to all that he has spoken. Amen, and Amen. God's truth has corresponding to it our trust. To the only wise God our Saviour, [be] glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and for ever. But what should we do if we still feel insecure about our looks? All other bridges across the great abysses which we have to traverse or be lost in them, are like those snow-cornices upon some Alp, which may break when the climber is on the very middle of them, and let him down into blackness out of which he will never struggle. Amen. Watch the video below. Or consider this beautiful scene of reverence and worship from Nehemiah 8:5–6: Ezra opened the book [the word of God] in the sight of all the people for he was standing above all the people; and when he opened it, all the people stood up. What would Paul say? Whose [are] the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever. God's faithfulness demands, and is only adequately met by, our faith. Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Blessed is Lord Jehovah to eternity. And if it happens regularly without an echo or a reverberation in the mouths of God’s people it is unnatural and unhealthy. He is not rejecting the gift of tongues. I think he would say, God is calling us not to be isolated, silent, encapsulated individuals in worship. 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