LOVE - (Greek) four types: Storge: empathy bond; Philia: friend bond; Eros: romantic love; Agape: unconditional “God” love.

(Hebrew): LOVE stands for more than just romantic attraction or strong feelings towards those close to you; it also stands for the truth, respect and obedience Christians hold for God.

God is Love (1 John 4:7-16)

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

9 By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

12 No one has beheld God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.

13 By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

14 And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

15 Whoever confesses the Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God.

16 And we have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Greek PALE (pawlay)—primary meaning is “to wrestle” or “struggle”. The word “wrestle” is a very good translation, even in this context of a soldier’s armor.

Recommended Reading: Rick Renner’s teaching called Spiritual Warfare is Real.

Ephesians 6:12 wrestle = the most vicious, brutal of all the sports. Everyone in the first century knew about this sport. Wrestling was a PALE CULTURE, SUCH AS FOOTBALL IS A CURRENT “PALE” CULTURE.

There was a palace of combat sports. Only 3 kinds of sports: boxers, wrestlers, pankration. Not like what we have until today. You fought until one lived and one died. Boxers took hides 16’ long hides and wrapped it on themselves from elbow down and down their arms to their knuckles. Then attached/wrapped serrated nails, sharp like hunting knives to their knuckles. That is how they boxed.

Wrestling was in the nude and there were no rules. A tactic was to grab the opponent’s hand and break his fingers. Another tactic was to take the thumb and gouge the opponent’s eye out. So he could no longer see to wrestle. And to finish the opponent off was to get behind him, wrap his arms around his waist and throw him up on the air and throw him down to the ground and snap his back. Leaving the opponent paralyzed.

If you survived the boxing match and the wrestling match then you were invited into the Pankration. Pan means ALL and kration means POWER. It meant a Pankration had more power than anybody else. They were the men that had won the boxing and wrestling match. They had more power than anybody else. They entered the ring and fought each other as boxers, wrestlers, and with spiked clubs until one died and one lived. All of that is inside the one word “wrestle”.

Paul was describing a major warfare: no rules. Satan doesn’t play fair. And no one is exempt. Jesus has given us POWER OVER ALL THE POWER OF ENEMY. WE ALWAYS WIN!

SACRIFICE: 1. An act of offering to a deity something precious, especially the killing of a victim on an altar; 2. Something OFFERED in sacrifice; 3. Destruction or surrender of something for the sake of something else; 4. Something given up or lost the sacrifices made by parent(s)

(Hebrew) = meaning to save, rescue, savior. In liturgical context, it refers to a cry expressing an appeal for divine help. Also, it was the shout of praise or adoration made in recognition of the Messiahship of Jesus on His TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM.

Palm Sunday is celebrated as the TRIUMPHAL ENTRY into Jerusalem. It is the last seven days of Jesus’ earthly ministry here on earth. He was being honored as The King.

In Luke 19:30 Jesus instructs two of his disciples to go into the village Bethphage and where to find the colt. They bring it to Him - a donkey that has never been ridden before. The disciples laid their coats on the donkey, then Jesus sat upon it.

And most of the crowed kept spreading their garments on the road, and others kept cutting branches from the trees and scattering them on the road. (Matthew 21:8)

And the crowds that went ahead of Him and those that followed Him kept shouting, HOSANNA (O be propitious, graciously inclined) to the Son of David, the Messiah! Blessed (praised, glorified) be He Who comes in the name of the LORD! HOSANNA (O be favorably disposed) in the highest (heaven). (Matthew 21:9)
[see also Psalm 118:26]

RESTITUTION: An act of restoring something to its rightful owner; recompense for injury or loss; a legal action causing to serve restoration of a previous state.

"Nothing impure will ever enter [the city] (the New Jerusalem), nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life."  Revelation 21:23

Jesus has made restitution for you [mankind]. by Him willingly going to the cross, He restored back to us what was stolen. Jesus has given you [mankind] the opportunity to receive and accept the result (restitution).

There is power in the blood Jesus shed on the cross. You now have the right to receive back eternal life in the New Jerusalem by letting the blood of Jesus cleanse you through repentance. Jesus then restores back to you eternal life. Then revival takes place in your heart as you get renewed by the Word in your mind (Romans 12:2). Be blessed in Jesus' name!

JUDGE (verb) - pass judgment

The mountain of the house of the LORD will be established ... Come let us go up to the mountain of the LORD… that He may teach us concerning HIS ways, And that we may walk in His paths. For the law will go forth from Zion … He will judge between the nations, and will render (inflict, repay) decisions for many peoples. (Isaiah 2:2-4)

Redeem: exagoridzo = permanent removal from captivity

Because this word is used in connection with Jesus redeeming us from the curse of the law, Paul is telling us plainly that Jesus’ sacrificial death didn’t only pay the penalty for our sin; His death removed us from living under the curse henceforth!  His ultimate plan was to buy you out of [your] miserable condition and then to place you in His family as His own child.  You are forever removed from the curse of sin and the law.  

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, “Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree.”
Galatians 3:13

Vigilant: to be on guard, watchful, attentive

You don’t have to fall victim to the devil’s attacks!  Peter tells us, “Whom resist steadfast in the faith…” (1Peter 5:9)

If you’ll resist the devil, you can run him clear out of your mind and your life.  He doesn’t know how to deal with those who stand up to him, so he runs in fear when a believer challenges him!  If you can’t resist by yourself, find people who know how to pray and let them help you!

MINISTERS: HUPERETAS = "self chained" to a decision

If you aren’t committed to go all the way in fulfilling your God-assigned task, you probably won’t do it.  You must be absolutely committed to do what God has called you to do. “chaining yourself” to your decision to obey so you cannot flee in hard times.  If God has called you, don’t jump ship!  He needs you in the bottom of the boat in order to keep the Body of Christ moving forward toward maturity.  You are very important.  
Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.  (1 CORINTHIANS 4:1)

YOU ARE VERY IMPORTANT!

DEEDS: ERGA = works, lifestsyle

It seems right that the “doctrine” of the Nicolaitans was that it was all right to have one foot in both worlds and that one needn’t be so strict about separation from the world in order to be a Christian,  This, in fact, was the “doctrine” of the Nicolaitans that Jesus “hated.”

Just as the men of Israel compromised themselves with the world and false religions, now the “doctrine” of the Nicolaitans was encouraging compromise.  And compromise with the world always results in a weakened and powerless form of Christianity.  But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. (Revelation 2:6)