Welcome to another beautiful ride to the book of Philippians. Paul wrote this letter to a church that was dearly beloved by him. And we're in the 17th or the 18th verse at this time. We'll be teaching a little bit of Greek and mostly theology, of course. And I hope you're enjoying it. I've got a lot of comments out there. Of course, we have titles to these messages besides just what they are from the Greek. We're preaching from Greek, actually. And let's do something here unusual. If I can do it, keep my Hebrew and Greek and Latin and English all separated, we'll say our alphabet together. Alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, Yoda, Kappa, Lambda, Noob, Noob, C, Omicron, Pyro, Sigma, Tau, Upsilon, Phi, Keep, C, and Omega. So there we have our alphabet. And let's start here. To, De, Ato. Kai, Himes, Karete. Kai, Sin, Karete. Mui. In our life as Christians we we receive salvation by grace, period. That's it. Salvation is by grace or it's nothing. If Jesus Christ was not divine, we have no salvation. So there are some things that are, we need to know that Jesus is divine, he is deity, he is God in flesh, okay? Without that, we have no salvation. And when we are saved, then we have an unction. We have an energizing effect from the Holy Spirit and from the Spirit that dwells in us to make us want to serve Him. So we have a sacrifice. After the sacrifice, we want to serve the Lord. Now, we can go off the wrong way. We can do all kinds of things. that are wrong, but that unction is still there. If you look at the tabernacle, when you come into the tabernacle, the tabernacle is a type of Christ, and it's a type of the church also, which some people don't really realize, but it is. When you come into the tabernacle, I don't know where my tabernacle chart is here. We're moving and everything, and everything's helter-skelter, but you see this curse, this fence, white fence, linen fence, that white represents the righteousness of Christ, and you walk in the front, through the curtains there and through the front of it, and you see an altar, a sacrificial altar. And that's when we are in Christ, we are saved. And the first thing that we want to do is to be baptized, really. I mean, Maryland's been baptized three times, And Sharon, how many times have you been baptized? Whatever, anyway, four times. Yeah, well, and I've been baptized twice in my life. But I wanted to have scriptural baptism, so I sought it out. And Marilyn did also. I baptized her. I baptized Sharon. And they have scriptural baptism. Baptism doesn't come from the hands of the preacher, it comes from the authority of the churches that give you that authority. And then we want to serve the Lord. And so there's a sacrifice first and then comes service in our lives. Some people, I have dealt with people in my life that went forward when they were young to be baptized and to be saved and they were young people And basically, many people say, well, it didn't take. It didn't take because, really, they weren't saved. And they go off and do things that they shouldn't be doing. And that doesn't bother them. They don't have any conscience of it. When you don't have a conscience of it, that really is a problem. I had a young woman call me one time. She was a mother, had children. She was a pastor's wife. She was in Texas, I believe. And she called me and she listened to me preach on sermon audio and she wanted to talk to me because she thought I could answer her problems. I don't know why her pastor couldn't or her husband couldn't or whatever, but they didn't give her the right answers. She just didn't feel like things were working out right. She didn't have a conviction of the Holy Spirit, a comfort of the Holy Spirit or anything. Everything was up helter-skelter with her. It was just, she just felt like she was dying and going to hell. And she was a Sunday school teacher and all this. And she had been baptized in Vacation Bible School, and that's one thing about Vacation Bible School, it's a wonderful thing, but be careful with it. Be careful with the young people. Talk to them. Ask them if they really know what sin is, if they're really repenting of their sins, if they're really calling on the Lord to save them. They can go through all emotions, and it doesn't work. Anyway, she called me, And she had called Sermon Audio, and they told her to call Valley Baptist Church, where I was a volunteer pastor there, volunteer minister. And they didn't want to give her my phone number, because they don't normally do this. Well, anyway, she just crying and begging them to give me my phone number. So they called me, and she called me. Or I called her, I think is what it was. Anyway, I talked to her. I think her name was Jennifer. And she told me that she felt like she was going to hell. Her pastor said she was all right. Her husband said she was all right. She said, you're a great Christian woman. She said, but I don't feel all right. I don't feel all right every day. I don't feel all right when I sleep or when I'm awake or whatever. I don't feel OK. I feel condemned. I said, well, OK. Let's just look at this situation. She said, I think you can answer my questions. I listen to you preach, and you really know the Bible. I said, okay. I said, first of all, I said, how hard was it to get a hold of me? And she said, well, not very hard. I said, okay. So I said, you didn't give up, did you? Something just told you you had to do this." And she said, yes, I had to do it. I had to talk to him. I said, okay. I said, then the Holy Spirit's working with you. Well, she said, I think the Holy Spirit just erased me. And I think I'm erased from God's Word. I've been under all this preaching God's Word, and I've never been saved. I just feel lost. I feel like I'm condemned. I feel like I'm reprobate. I said, well, I said, tell me when you were saved. She said, I went to vacation Bible school, and I went forward, and I was saved. I said the Lord's Prayer or whatever, and they baptized me, and that's it. I said, did you know what sin was? Did you repent of your sins? She said, I didn't know what sin was at all. I really didn't know. I was too young. I said, OK. I said, that's the problem. You're lost. You don't know the Lord. I know of him and I know everything about him, but she said, I said, do you believe that Jesus Christ is son of God and came into this world to save sinners? She said, yes. Do you believe he died and was buried and rose again? Yes. I said, okay. I said, would you like to pray and ask the Lord to save your soul and forgive you for not doing this a long time ago? And she said, do you think he'll forgive me? And I said, well, sure he will. I said, what do you think? I said, let's do it. You know, so she prayed and everything else and she was just, just bubbling over with happiness. And now she knew. She called me back later on and she told her pastor and told her husband that she was saved and that she just had all the, all of the comfort that she, she was just happy, joyous. She didn't have to go to hell anymore. She could go to heaven. Well, salvation first, the sacrifice is first and then you come to service. When you go to that altar, when you went into the tabernacle, there's a salt or a sacrifice. Then the next thing is baptism. It's a baptismal font there. That's the great labor. And at first, the priests, they were dipped in that labor, and then they washed their hands and feet as they went in for service after that. And that typifies the church member coming in, he's sacrificed, then he joins the church by way of baptism. You're not baptized in church, but you're baptized after you come forward and ask for church membership, and then you're baptized, and then you're a member of the church because you have obeyed the Lord. Then you go in the tabernacle, and on the right-hand side, you see an altar there with a table of showbread. Then you see a sacrificial altar up there for incense. And then over here, you see a candlestick with light. That typifies church membership in there. When you're a member of a church, then you have the right to take the Lord's supper. That typifies that the presence of the sons of Israel were always before the God, but over here and in the church is where you really get serious with your prayers. You pray at home, of course, but in church you go and you let your mind, your heart be joined with all of those and you're praying together and loving one another and in unity and praying and then we have the light of the Holy Spirit and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit, that the comforting of the Holy Spirit and leadership of the Holy Spirit came upon the church on the day of Pentecost. The church was already there. It was called out from the seashores of Galilee. So we have sacrifice and then we have service. And that service is what makes us happy in the Lord when you're serving the Lord. You're happy that you're serving the Lord. You feel like you're doing something for all of humanity and serving your Savior at the same time. A lot of times Christians have given their lives in different places in the world even today for the Lord because of their persecution that we have still. But many Christians don't want to give to God's service to the Lord, to his churches, to help them propagate the gospel and pay the bills, so to speak. So you have sacrifice, you have service, and then you may have to give your blood according to where you live in the world, and even in America today, it may come to a time of that. I thought here a while back that if things didn't turn out with this election, I didn't know what things were going to turn out like. But to match your sacrifice with your blood and with your money, to give to the Lord, to give to the Lord. Now, let's go back and read this. Moreover, we could verse the conjunctive particle, page 85, the same, also, ye, ye rejoice, and rejoice with me. Now, as we serve the Lord, it makes us happy. When we serve the Lord, we rejoice in serving the Lord. Now, verse number 219, El Piso de Enquiro, Asus Timotheon, Toxios Pampsaye, Heman, Hina, Cago, Upsayco, Noose, Ta, Perry, Himon. There's a lot of beautiful words in this verse. El Piso. That's first person singular. President Dickey Evacue from El Piso. That's the root of it right there. That means a hope. But it is more than a hope. I hope. Moreover, I hope in the Lord Jesus. That's what it talks about. This word hope here is a guaranteed hope. It's not, well, faith, hope, and love are the three gifts we have today. And hope is something that God gives us, but it's more than a hope. It's guaranteed future. It's a guaranteed, uh, uh, expectance. You expect to go to heaven? It's guaranteed. It's guaranteed, uh, secured, a secured loan, a secured, when you put money in the bank, it's FDIC insured, all that, and hopefully it is. But inflation can kill it. You have a guaranteed hope. It's not just a hope. It's a guaranteed future existence. We could verse the conjunctive particle again, page 85, that little day there. And it starts, the verse actually starts with that, even though day is the second word in it. Moreover, I hope with a guaranteed future in the Lord. Now when we ask the Lord to save our souls from the word of God, we have all the assurance that he does, don't we? We have all the assurance that he saves us. Like I talked to Jennifer that time, She realized that God, if she called upon him to save her, he'd save her, even though she had never done that. And she thought she was just condemned because she'd heard the preaching of the word of God so many times and hadn't done it, but people were discouraging her from doing it. Finally, she did it. I remember one time I was in a church service, and the piano player, was playing. She was a beautiful piano player, beautiful girl, beautiful piano player. Just her family were great servants in the Lord. She was up there playing the piano at the invitation, and she left the piano and went down crying at the altar. She'd never been saved. She'd been in church all her life just like this, but she realized at that moment that she'd never been saved. She never really repented and asked the Lord to save her soul. So she flew off of that piano stool and went down there to the altar and was saved. We had to do without piano for a while. We should get back up there. Came forward for baptism. I hope in the Lord, Jesus, Timothy, Timothy, Timotheus. What does Timothy mean? What does Timothy mean? Comes from timo, timio, that means to honor. And then theos on the end of that means honorable to God. The name is honorable to God. Now, he was a resident of Lystra. His father was Greek, and his mother was Jewish. And Acts 16 and 1 tells you about that. 17, 14, and 23, 5. Colossians 1 and 1, 1 Timothy 1 and 5, and 2 Timothy 1 and 1. We know about this about Timothy, Timotheus. And the book of Acts, by the way, is one. You know that Luke was the first great biblical church historian And there's when we have a lot of church history in the book of Acts But they call it the acts of the Apostles that should be the acts of the churches or church history the history of their churches Timotheus Toxios Toxios is a little adverb there page 398 It It means real fast Toxios We get our word taxi, I believe, in the English language from that. When you want a ride in a hurry, you holler, taxi! You know, and get one, maybe, if you're around where they are. Out here in Fish Lake Valley, you could holler all day long. You never see one in 100 years, I don't think. Shortly, I will send, or to send to you, Pempsie, that's first Harris, infinity, back there from Pimple. I will send to you all. that word him in there, that is a dative plural, second person pronoun. In order of that, a little hena, page 201 in the analytical Greek lexicon, kago, that means I also. It comes from kai, a conjunction, page 208, and then ego, which means I. I also, I may be of good cheer. Or that's not really what it means. It means my soul will be feeling good. Good soul, literally, good soul. Comes from Psyche, and you, good, on the front of that word. First person singular, present, subjunctive, actually, that I may be happy. Subjunctive motive of doubtful affirmation, but it can happen. And then word noose there. That word has come from Gnosko, and that's no. We get our word in English out of this, to know, know, K-N-O-W, that's where it comes from right here, is this word gnoos. And you swallow that gamma there, gnoos. Just like you swallow and knowledge, you snolage and to know, you don't pronounce the K. That is novity, singular, masculine, second, aorist, participle. Having known, the things concerning you all." Now he said, I heard about you guys. Your reputation goes beyond your vicinity. And verse number 20 now, Uthaniah, Uthaniah, Gar, Echo, Iso, Socon, Hostes, Nosios, Ta, Peri, Himon, Mary Manasseh. No one, no over not one, for more over not one, we have that guard there, that's a cadageral particle, page 75, page 1175 in A.T. Robertson's. I haven't even written that down either. All right. For I also, I have, look at that word echo there, that's first person singular, present indicative, I have, I have, for over no one I have equal sold with, like, minus. It means equal sold. E-sol-si-con, e-sol-si-con, that means equal sold. It's a, together solds. Together solds. No one I have together solds more, who, that word hostess there, now that's an interrogative pronoun, who, and then with the word nosios, genuinely sincere adverb there, nosios, genuinely sincere adverb, the things peri, that means around, a little 317 preposition there, around you all, I shall keep in mind. Now this word here, That word nocio, sir, it means genuine, sincerity. It means a bona fide birth certificate, literally. A verified, bonded birth certificate. Papered. Who? Genuine, bonded birth certificate. The things concerning of you all. I shall be like-minded. Literally middle-minded. I shall keep in the middle of my mind I shall keep you, your care, in the middle of my mind. Third person singular, future indicative, active. From Mary Minow. Have you ever had someone in the middle of your mind all the time? I think when I'm gone, you've got me on your mind all the time, don't you, Marilyn? When I'm gone. Yeah. It means, this is a very beautiful verse. First of all, Paul says, I know that you are verified. I know that you have a verified, legitimate birth certificate, that you are saved, because I can tell it, because of your service. I know you're saved because of your service. You're bonded. And I shall keep you always in the middle of my mind. Verse number 21. hoi pantes gar ta iaoton zetusen u ta esu kriso for it starts out here with a third word in there that's where it starts that little casual particle page 75 and 1175 for all the ones the things of themselves Look at that with the things there, that's a definite article there, and it's talking, but it's got a practical substance with it. The is the definite article, and substance, practical substance is the things of themselves, and themselves there is a genitive, plural, reflexive, pronominal adjective. That's a real long title for that. The things of themselves, they seek. What does a child of God seek? What does the child of God seek? Does it seek the world or does it seek God? Do you seek the world or do you seek God? The things of themselves they seek. Third person plural, present indicative, evicted from satio, they're zealous for. That means the boil. Out there on the wood-burning cook stove right now, I've got a pretty good fire going in there and I've got two pots sitting on there because the humidity is really low up here. If you walk through this house your fire will come from your finger sparks that far when you go to touch something metal Zip like that and it hurts So I have to keep those pots boiling And that's what that means the boil you seek you boil over Not the things of Jesus Christ Not the things of Jesus Christ now, let's go back and look at these verses from 17 to 21 and from the Amplified Bible, but even I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith. Paul's rhetoric dies here. For preaching the message of salvation, I still rejoice and share my joy with you. You, too, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me. We are like-souled or like-minded. But I hope in the Lord Jesus Christ to send Timothy to you, so that I may also be encouraged by learning news about you. For I have no one else like him who is so kindred in spirit who will be genuinely concerned for your spiritual welfare." He's going to send Timothy to take care of them. who deserted me after my arrest all seek to advance their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ." Not the interests of Jesus Christ. Seek. Many people here, they are zealous for their own selves. So many politicians don't care anything about the people they represent, do they? So many politicians don't care anything about the people they represent, They lie to get into office and they cheat and steal and build up their own finances all the time in there, whether it's 5 years or 20 years or 50 years or whatever. They're building up their own interests. They don't care about you. I can't see a politician doing that. They live in the same world and same country we do, but some of them act like they're part of China or Russia or some other country, Cuba. When we serve the Lord together, we ought to seek God's will and God's things. So they did not seek the things of Jesus Christ, but their own, their own not wants and needs. They did not seek what Jesus wants, they just seek their own wants and needs. Our Father, we learned a lot from your Word. We're learning a lot from your word. Help us to apply it to our hearts, our minds, our souls, and help us to serve you and love you more every day because of what you've done for us. Please forgive me where I fail you. In Jesus' name we pray, and please take this message throughout the world to comfort, to convict, to save souls, to let them know that they are saved, giving them the joy of your salvation and others out there that they might think more of your calls and not their own. In Jesus name I pray, amen.