God's agets ascribe the will and the glory to God when they perform miracles, yet Jesus performed miracles on his own authority. Likewise, prophets never spoke on their own authority. They say, "Thus says the Lord. But Jesus says, "Truly I say to you" dozens of times, asserting that his words are certainly true because he says them. Jesus often uses the formuLam when he corrects errors or is engaged in disputes. When Jesus instructed Nicodemus, for example, he appealed not to Scripture but to his own authority, saying " Amen, amen, I say to you" John , 5 ; see also Matt , 5, 16 ; ; Luke ; John , 24, 25 ; , 32, 47, Amen lego humin also punctuates the teaching of truths unknown in the Old Testament, and seasons startling sayings for which Jesus offers no proof other than his own authority.
Here the amen implies that Jesus' words, like the Father's, are true merely because he utters them Matt ; ; Mark ; Luke ; John So in Matthew 5 Jesus comments on the Old Testament or Jewish interpretations of it six times in the chapter, saying, "You have heard that it was said , but I tell you. In this way, whenever Jesus says "amen lego humin" [ ajmhvn levgw uJmi'n ], he shows awareness of his authority, his deity.
This evidence of Jesus' messianic self-consciousness is important because it resists skeptical attacks on the faith. Critics try to exclude many texts that present Christ's deity on the grounds that they are unauthentic.
But implicit claims to deity, whether they be Jesus' use of the amen or other ones, appear in virtually every paragraph of the Gospels, and cannot be explained away. Paul's use of amen returns to the Old Testament world, except that he utters amen only to bless, not to curse.
Many times Paul's letters burst into praise of God the Father or God the Son and seal the confession with the amen Rom ; ; ; Gal ; Eph ; Php ; 1 Tim ; ; 2 Tim A doxology appears at or near the end of several letters, and all close with the amen.
Other letters end with a blessing on his readers, again completed with amen 1 Col ; Gal Paul also invites his readers to say amen to the promises of God 2 Col ; see also Rev Amen also closes spontaneous doxologies in Revelation; there, however, the object of praise is more often the Son than the Father ; ; ; Jesus used the word differently because Jesus is different from anyone who ever lived.
You say we are loved You say we belong to you Your grace is enough Nothing more that we can do You say we've been bought by your blood, by your blood And all that we can say is amen. The Bible begins with the creation of all things, and quickly moves to the account of humanity being created in the Garden of Eden.
The garden was where we were designed to be — a place of intimacy with God and one another, a place of peace, joy and fulfillment. Although sin tainted that perfection, through the blood of Christ we have hope for the future restoration of all things.
Because he alone is perfect, because he is God with us, because he is Truth, because he is the ruler of creation, and because he is the Amen, we have hope in him. The Bible ends with a vision of the future restoration of all things, and the final verse of Scripture is a longing for the day this occurs, when all is brought back as it should be.
My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. Come, Lord Jesus. He serves as worship pastor at Calvary Longmont in Colorado and spends his weekends exploring the Rocky Mountains with his family. Connect on Twitter , Instagram , or at JasonSoroski.
Shoebox Collection Week is Here! Jason Soroski jasonsoroski. It originated in the Hebrew Scriptures, as a reply of confirmation, and is found in Deuteronomy as an affirmative response made by the people. Furthermore, in the Books of Chronicles, it is designated that near BC, the word is used in its religious meaning, with the people responding with "amen" to receiving the blessing: "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from now and unto all eternity".
Yet the Hebrew and Greek words for amen appear hundreds of times in the Bible and have several uses. Amen is a transliteration of the Hebrew word amen. The verb form occurs more than one hundred times in the Old Testament and means to take care, to be faithful, reliable or established, or to believe someone or something. The idea of something that is faithful, reliable, or believable seems to lie behind the use of amen as an exclamation on twenty-five solemn occasions in the Old Testament.
Israel said "amen" to join in the praises of God 1 Chronicles ; Nehemiah ; and at the end of each of the first four books of Psalms.
Well, we're told in John 14 , Jesus says, whatever you ask in my name that will I do that the father may be glorified in the son. So from that, we realized that there's an explicit passage about praying in Jesus' name.
But more importantly, the truth that points to is is the larger truth found in the new testament that we have access to God the father through Jesus. When Jesus was crucified, the veil of the temple was split in two from top to bottom. And Hebrews tells us that, that we then have access to God through the veil that is his flesh.
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