Names of God & Christ - Pistos Alethinos

 PISTOS ALETHINOS 

(pis-tos' al-ay-thee-nos')

FAITHFUL and TRUE

Revelation 19:11

Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called FAITHFUL and TRUE.

With righteousness He judges and wages war. 

Pistos/Faithful: trustworthy. Strong's writes: believing the faith God imparts. (wow) 

Alethinos/True: truthful. Strong's writes here that this word emphasizes the authentic unity between what is true and where truth originates. (how awesome is that!) 

And this Mighty Warrior is prophesied in Psalms and Isaiah, as well:

Psalms 45:3-5

Strap Your sword at Your side, O Mighty Warrior; appear in Your majesty and splendor. / In Your splendor ride forth in victory on behalf of truth and humility and justice; may Your right hand show Your awesome deeds. / Your arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s foes; the nations fall beneath Your feet.

Isaiah 63:1-4

Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.” / Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress? / “I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained."

And, again, in Matthew 16:27 

 For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done. 

Jude 1:14, 15

Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.” 

Revelation 19:12-13, 15

He has eyes like blazing fire, and many royal crowns on His head. He has a name written on Him that only He Himself knows. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God.

Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 

His holiness demands a righteous people, a people who must choose to follow Him, The Word of God, now, on this side of eternity. There are no second chances after death. There is no limbo, no purgatory. There is now; there is heaven (for the righteous born again believer who follows Christ) and hell (for the unrighteous wicked who refuse to believe that Jesus Christ is Lord). 

As Jeremiah wrote thousands of years past, Choose this day whom you will serve..as for me and my house, we will serve The Lord. And in my house? We will serve The Lord. The prodigals will return to The Lord and He will receive them into His kingdom and into His dwellingplace. 

Do you believe? I do.

 

TELL ME THE STORY OF JESUS

The TRUE God & Eternal Life

 ALETHINOS THEOS AIONIOS ZOE
(pronounced ah-lay-thee-NOS theh-os' ahee-OH-nee-os dzo-ay)

TRUE GOD AND ETERNAL LIFE

1 John 5:20

And we know that The Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is True: and we are in Him who is True--in His Son Jesus Christ. He is The TRUE God and Eternal Life.

John 14:6

Jesus answered, “I am The Way and The TRUTH and The Life. No one comes to The Father except through Me."

    In Christ is eternal life and when we are in Christ, Eternal Life is in us.

2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, Who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Jeremiah 10:10

But the LORD is the True God; He is The living God and Eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.

    When I invited Jesus into my heart and gave Him, surrendered to Him, control of my life, Jesus came to live in my heart. And when that happened, I began to live in Him. Under my own power this just isn't possible. But under the leading of God's Holy Spirit, as I follow Him, He will mold me and make me over into the person God wants me to be.

    As the potter works on the clay on the wheel, so God works on His people, the people who have called on His Name for our salvation. Being Truth, why would we follow people who lie to us? We wouldn't, and must not, listen to words that speak against The TRUE God. There is only one WORD of God, one JESUS CHRIST, one ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD, one TRUTH.

    This is a daily walk, a day to day living out our faith in Jesus Christ. Forgiving (others) daily and being forgiven (by God) daily. Seeking to spend time with God daily: from early in the morning to when we fall asleep. Do we stop speaking to our spouses after we get married? No, that would be foolish. God expects us to spend time with Him and we should enjoy doing so. He is, after all, The TRUE GOD and we want to hear The Truth being spoken to our ears and our hearts.

    Let us come into His presence with joy, with praise, with great expectations, with a desire to please God and not ourselves. Let us be filled with His Truth as we hear the ministers preach The WORD. Let us be filled with His Truth as we read our Bibles and study His WORD. Let us grow strong in The WORD that we might share The WORD with the hungry souls seeking The TRUTH.

JESUS MESSIAH - Chris Tomlin