Amen! One very important word that comes up so often and is abused and taken for granted in this way is the word Amen. Everybody says it, but what does it really mean? It does not mean, I am finished with the prayer. Even I have said, that Amen means "so let it be", or "so be it." Actually, the word comes out in its full meaning in Isaiah 65: 16, where it says, "...he who pronounces a blessing
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in the land shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth." The words translated 'by the God of truth', both times in this verse, are really 'by the God of Amen. Amen means the absolutely perfect, always faithful, totally reliable Truth. When someone says Amen to God, they are actually saying that what they have said is from the heart and absolutely true. So this word is used as a solemn oath here in Isaiah and in other places in the Bible. This is a word that is not to be taken lightly. Every true prophet, when he spoke for God, had to say, 'Thus saith the Lord.' If Jesus had been only a man, if he had been only a prophet, as so many people seem to think, He too would have to have said 'Thus saith the Lord.' But, Jesus didn't ever say, 'Thus saith the Lord.' Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you..." These words in the original are, "Amen, Amen, I say unto you..." As in John 8:51, "Amen, Amen, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death." or, as in John 5:23, "Amen, Amen, I say unto you, he who hears my words and believes on Him who sent me has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." The reason why Jesus didn't ever say, 'Thus saith the Lord,' is because Jesus is the Lord. Immanuel, that is, God with us, God born into the family of man to be our Kinsman-Redeemer. "Never man spake as this man." Jesus is even called "the Amen, the faithful and true witness" (Rev. 3:14). One of the criminals who was dying, nailed to a tree next to Jesus' repented and looked to Jesus and said, "Lord, remember me when you come into you kingdom." Jesus said to him, "Amen, I say to you, today, you shall be with me in paradise." Many people have said Amen to God with their lips, but only those who have hated their own lip service and empty promises to God, who have repented of them, are the ones who have told the truth to God. When the Son of God puts it in your heart to do that, you'll be saved.
Do you know what you are saying and mean what you say AMEN. I really think you will find this interesting. Some will never say AMEN again by accident. MAR 7:6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with [their] lips, but their heart is far from me.2CO 1:20
For all the promises of God in him [are] yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. MAT 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. from Jerry gaffney and Edward Crawford
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