Season 6, Episode 2, Friday was not the End

52, 6-2, SHOW  NOTES & COPYRIGHTS  (4/15/2022)Today is Good Friday and we prepare for the celebration of Easter this Sunday, the resurrection of the Son of God, Jesus.  Today we have poems from all three books that were written about this time.Discussion:The first one is from God’s Rhyme, pg. 99WHEN DID JESUS PRAY ABBA?Someone asked, “Did Jesus call out Abba while on the cross?”“Abba?” was the next question to be spoken.“Yes, Abba, if one were to be speaking in Hebrew, to call out Abba would one be calling out daddy?”And moreTime and TranslationsLanguagesFrom oneTo anotherTo the Greek, Abba is father;it’s origin from the Aramaic.Abba,Father of a child,as in YAHUAH,the  Creator of Heaven,the stars, the sun, the earth,the Father of our Lordand Saviour, Jesus.Then the search becomes research,which is all well and goodas long as it doesn’t get in the wayby making the simple harder to say.Simply put as would a childcalling out to his father,calling out to Abba, his papashows a child’s endearing love.And so it was in the garden,where before the cross, Jesus prayed.knowing the end was the beginning.knowing, both as man and God.He fell to the ground and prayed,            “Abba, Father", he said,            "everything is possible through you.            Take this cup from me.            Yet not what I will,            but what you will.”  (Mark 14:35,36, NIV)Abba, Father, Daddy, Father.Abba, the personal intimacy.Father, the proper sign of respect.Together, a cry of understanding.So it was at Gethsemane.in the garden while the disciples slept.It was here that He did prayso that the very next daywhile on the cross,dying for the lost,His prayer would be heard,“Father, forgive them,for they do not know what they do.”  (Luke 23:34)Sometime near the end of 2011 I had gotten restless, not with God, but in my celebrating God.  Many more times than not, I felt worse when I left church than when I left the house to go to church.  I had the opportunity to talk to a good friend about this.  His memories of our friendship are philosophizing, and sitting on the front porch.  I told him that I needed to find peace in my worship.  He told a friend who told a friend who called me one day and asked if I would like to attend a weekly Bible study group.  I said yes.  This was a new experience for me.  I felt alive and experience more growth in my faith than I had in years.  This became my church, at least for awhile.)  At on meeting the question came up, when did Jesus use "Abba."  Dan, the friend of a friend, asked me to research this for the next week's meeting.  I'm pretty sure he knew it would be written in poetic form.PS:  Dan and I lived on the same block, just around the corner.  Even though our daughters played together and our wives knew each other, we...