Philippians the three third chapter in verse number nine Paul was writing to the church of Philippi, and he's exhorting them First of all he brings in the deity of Jesus Christ and How that basically without the deity agrees to Christ and without the death burial and resurrection We would have no salvation at all. We have salvation is not in the law only damnation Damnation is in the law, in the commandments. You find it damning and commanding people to be put to death. There is no leniency there at all. 3 and verse 9 now, and let's read this from the Amplified Bible for the next few verses. Then we'll go back and look at it from the Greek. Let's go back to verse number eight. And more than I, I count everything as loss compared to the riches, the privilege of supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord and of knowing more deeply and thoroughly and acquainted with him a joy unequaled. For his sake I have lost everything and I consider it all garbage. so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him believing and relying on Him, not having any righteousness of my own derived from any obedience to the law and its rituals, but possessing that genuine righteousness which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith. And this is so that I may know Him experientially, becoming more thoroughly acquainted with him, understanding the remarkable wonders of his person, more completely and in the same way experience and the power of his resurrection which overflows and is active in believers, that I may share the fellowship of his sufferings and being continually conformed inwardly into his likeness, even to his death, dying as he did, and Paul did die as a martyr, remember, so that I may attain the resurrection that he will raise me from the dead. Not that I have already obtained it, this goal of being Christ-like, or have already been made perfect, but I actively pass on so that I may take hold of that perfection for which Christ Jesus took hold of me and made me his own. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider that I have made it my own yet, but one thing I do for getting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead. I press toward the goal, toward the mark, to win the heavenly prize, of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. All of us who are mature, pursuing spiritual perfection, should have this attitude. And if in any respect you have a different attitude, that too God will make clear to you. Only let us stay true to what we have already attained. And right there is where we will quit, I believe. When we come back to the original language, now the Amplified Bible is a very, very good explained translation. It does the best job of explaining the Greek and the Hebrew that I know of in a translation, except going right to it like we do. 3 and verse 9 now, Kai, Uretho, in alto, me econ, emen, decaiosune, ten, ec, nomo, ola, ten, dia, pistios, cresu, te, ec, theo, decaiosine, epi, te, peste. Starts out with chi, that's a conjunction, page 208. And I may be found. Now look at this word, urethro. It is first person singular, that's I. And then first aorist, subjunctive, passive voice. That I may be found. I may be found, be found, that's subjunct, that's a passive mode. And subjunctive, may be found in him. It's up to me. I may be found in him. that locative there, a locative singular masculine third person pronoun, that auto, and then preposition, page 137, in him. Not, that little particle of negation, page 268, having my own righteousness. Having there is a present participle, active, nominative, singular, masculine, and then my, and made, accusive, singular, first person pronoun, righteousness, my own righteousness, dikaiosune, the, out of the law, the righteousness is out of the law, but, strong adversity of conjunction there now, the, righteousness there, tein, and we're talking about the dikaiosune up there, it goes back up to the dikaiosune, but the righteousness is through, tisios, faith, faith, For in grace ye are having been saved through faith, and that is not of yourselves." The faith didn't come from you, it comes from God. The faith belonging to Christ Jesus. The faith in, now again we have tame there, but it's going back up to the Kaiosunen. The faith or the righteousness out of God, righteousness upon the faith. Faith produces righteousness. In our physical life, we have a real true father and a real true mother. We do. Even if you're adopted, you still had a true father and a true mother. You have connection to the human race. Now when we're born again, we have a true father from heaven. And the one that births us, literally, the one that gives us the ability to be born again is Jesus Christ, and he did that by his blood and his death on the cross of Calvary. And therefore, we can be called sons of God, and really be heirs of God. Weos. Heirs of God. Not just techno, not just technically born. Yelad in Hebrew, techno in Greek, that's just a live birth. but heirs in Christ Jesus. Everything you see in the universe one time, you will be taking part of it because your husband owns it all. He owns it all. And those that are bought by his blood, even in the family of God, are part of that unity and that wonderful new world, new universe that Christ will be establishing. Verse number 10, Tu nonae auto cai te dinamen teis anassatios auto cai koinonion pathematon autu simma forfizominos tu thanato auto You know, Paul's whole ambition in life was to get closer to Jesus all the time. Every day he wanted to be closer to Jesus. You know, he was taught by Him, the resurrected Jesus, for basically three years he was taught by Him personally. But that wasn't enough. That wasn't enough. You know, when you love someone, it's never enough, is it? Is it ever enough? Never enough. Christ loved us for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes him should not perish but have everlasting life when the fullness of time had come God sent forth his son made of a woman made under the law they might redeem those that are under the curse of the law and that's what we're talking about here the gospel of the to know him to know him second aris infinitive active to know Him, that's Christ, and the power of the resurrection. You know, you people that have seen people die, you've seen people die, Marilyn, I know. They're dead, aren't they? They're dead. They don't move anymore, they're dead. And to make them move again and Anastasia stand back up is an extreme, superb miracle. But we know that all mankind, dead in Christ, or lost, will all be resurrected. Anastasia. The Great White Stone Jumper will resurrect all the lost. But before that, all the saved are resurrected. And Paul said, I want to know more about that all the time. I want to know more about the power of his resurrection. The dinamontes anasacios. The resurrection of him and the fellowship. The kononion and apothematon. The fellowship and the sufferings of him. Semaphormphizomenos. That's quite a word there. It's not what he's thinking. They're masculine, present participle, passive voice. taking part in, fellowshipping in, suffering together. That's all in that word there. And being transformed with him, transformed to the death of him. Paul's passion was to get more personal acquaintance with the suffering of Christ, to the deepest secrets of his Christian experiences. I've been looking at something lately. I've read about this, you know, 50 years ago. The Shroud of Turin. And the more they study that, that's probably one of the most studied artifacts in the world, is the Shroud of Turin. And the Shroud of Turin, as it comes out, is more and more possibly the real shroud, the burial cloth that Jesus was wrapped in. There's things there that are just impossible to be anything else. They don't understand how it made it through all the fires it's been through and everything. And you know, John Calvin talked about it. He said it was a farce and et cetera, et cetera. But I don't believe it is. The more I look about it, the more I look at it and study about it, the more it looks like that it possibly could actually be his burial shroud. And His image is on it. But in the Word of God, we see His image. Without ever seeing the shroud or anything like that, no holy relics or anything, but, you know, I don't believe in all that, those holy relics business, but this shroud is, I think it's something coming out at us so we can see the suffering of Jesus. There were over 700 lacerations on that person that was wrapped in that shroud, over 700 lacerations. The way he was put, there was marks where the cap or crown of thorns were put upon his head. Everything in that thing, and it's like a three-dimensional thing, which is, they said, I don't know how it's that way, but it just shows a three-dimensional image there. He was over six foot tall. A man of much grief and much suffering, whoever that was. They died with 700 lacerations on them. And Paul said, I want to latch on. I want to attain. I want to grab on to that suffering. I want to experience his grief, his love, his passion, like he did. I want to get right in his heart, right in his body, in his soul, in his mind. 3 and 11. E poscara tesor ace, taine, exon, ostason, taine, eck, necron. If, or since, how that I may attain, how that I may attain, now that's a third class conditional here, it's spelt like a first class, but it isn't because of the subjunctive mode in the cada, anna, taso. First person singular, first air, subjunctive active, that I may attain to the outstanding, the resurrection out of the dead ones. I want to attain that. I want to feel that. I want to tell others about it. Jesus Christ has the power to raise himself from the dead. Now the Bible says that the Father raised him, that the Spirit raised him, that the Eternal Spirit raised him, and that Jesus said, you destroy this temple in three days, I shall raise it up first person. The whole triune God raised Jesus from the dead. The power of the Anastasia, the resurrection. The outstanding from the dead ones. The standing up from the dead ones. And then Paul says here in verse number 12, Hote Ede Elabon E Ede Teta Lu Omai Dioko De E Kai Kada Labon F Ho Kai Kada Le Kada Lema Frane or Thane that is Hi Po Christo Esu Not that I already have received. Not that I already, that ook, that little adverb and negation there, not that I, that there, the conjunction, 294. Already, a little adverb there, I have received, already, have perfected, matured, tete lu omai. First person singular, perfect indicative, passive, teleoa, that I have been perfected or matured, I hunt down, I chase down, first person singular, present indicative active from teoco, and if indeed I may latch on to or I may hold on to cada labano, that means that's a strengthened form of lambano, first person singular, second aris subjunctive active, upon which also I was apprehended by Jesus Christ. Apprehended. We're arrested by Christ, aren't we? You ever think about that? You know, I was arrested two times in my life. I was innocent, too. First of all, now, I know that I'm an old man now, nearly 80 years old, and I don't have my Native American distinctive, my slanted eyes and my dark black eyes and black as a crow's wing hair and things like I did. And I was very dark-complected, too, because I always worked out in the sun. Anyway, I was going down the road there in Bakersfield, Colorado, and one time this cop put the red light on me. He got out there and had me stand up against my car and basically he stopped me. He arrested me for being an illegal alien. Now, I said, you know, fella, you ought to be able to talk to me and tell me that I'm not an illegal alien. Well, let me see your driver's license, all this kind of stuff. Then again, they did it again. Another time they arrested me for being an illegal alien. Well, they used to arrest those back then because they were illegal and they were aliens. They came in here unlawfully. Now they're paying them to come. At least this last administration's been paying them to come. The outlaws and criminals and rapists and murderers and all of them. And they've done plenty of that here. We know. That I may be arrested, apprehended by Christ Jesus. If you are arrested and apprehended by Christ Jesus, hallelujah! Because you know what? He's got your attention. That cop, those cops, when they flapped the red lights on me, I had to pull over, you know. Now they don't even do that, they just run to the next state if they can get there. No law and order. But, I pulled over. And, can you out there believe that they, me speaking to them in the kind of language I'm speaking to you right now, in my inflection, in my vernacular, that they thought that I was an illegal alien? I couldn't even speak any Spanish except for a few words. I was arrested by the agency of Jesus Christ. Arrested by Christ. That's the title of the message. Arrested by Christ. We all should want to be arrested by Christ. We are controlled by Him. We ought to be, want to be, controlled by Christ. We want to be handcuffed by Him and hogtied by Him, as it says in the first chapter of the book of Ephesians. Verse number 13 now. Adelphoi, ego, imaton, ulogizomai, katelefene, hein, de, ta, men, opiso, epilon, Nik in Texas, I hope that you're enjoying these classes in Greek today still. You say you're still listening to me eight hours a day, so this is one of them. Maybe I've arrested your attention in the Word of God. Adelphoi, that means brothers. And it means more than brothers. It comes from Ah and Delphi. It means from the same womb. We, when we're born of God, we're from the same womb. Jesus Christ died and shed his blood for all of us. As I refer back to that shroud of Turin again, I look at that. And Jesus is not there. Of course, he's risen. If that is his death shroud, Wow. Wow. I just almost feel it on my own body. I can't imagine the 700 lacerations that was there on him. So weak from the beatings that he could not carry the cross to Calvary. Brothers from the same womb, I myself, Ego ematon. That's a reflexive pronoun. I myself, not, little adverb of obligation, 294. Logesomai, I do not calculate, I do not reckon. This is the word, how do you calculate your bank account and everything, that's the word logesomai. And I reckon, I calculate, first person, singular, present, indicative, middle voice, or myself. Cada le fene. I have gained control. I haven't totally gained control. That's perfect participle infinitive. One thing, but one thing, the things, indeed, behind me. Opiso, that means behind. Behind me. Little adverb of place, page 290. Epilomthon nominos. Laying down and turning back upon. The things that were behind me are behind me. Nominis singular, massin, present participle, middle voice. Laying down for myself the things but ahead of me, before me, am prosten. From here on, and here's a word that's used, the epiectenominos. That is nominis singular, massin, present participle, middle voice. That means to run, always leaning forward. You know, if you're running and leaning forward, if you try to stop, you're going to fall on your face, aren't you? Now, you've got to slow down slowly. You've got to get your feet in motion where you can stop. He said, I'm not stopping. I'm running. I'm not going to stumble. I'm not going to do any of this. Look forward to the finish line. 3.14 now. Kata, skopon, dioko, esto, rabeon, tes, ana, klesios, tuthio, and kresusu. According to the mark, the skopon, the tunnel vision, I'm going to have tunnel vision here. You know, I have a friend that I've known for 50 years, I guess. And ever since I've known him, he's had tunnel vision. He couldn't see to the side. He had no peripheral vision. He had to turn his head all the way around when he looks at you. He can't see you over here like that. He doesn't have any. His wife told me he's going down the highway two or three different times, and she's on the side of the road fixing a flat tire, and he went on past her because he didn't see her on the side of the road fixing her tire. Tunnel vision. According to tunnel vision, I run after. That scope only, that means to look through a scope and a scope only. To look through the sights and don't look to the sight right or left, look through the sights. I run after, first person singular. Present indicative, active. I run after unto the bra bae on, unto the prize. This word here, bra bae on, that means the umpire, the official that actually hands the prize to you, of the high calling, the High Calling God, that is being arrested. We have this high calling, and with this high calling we're arrested. The high calling belonging to God in Christ Jesus. Arrested by God, kept by God, controlled by God, and kept handcuffed and leg-ironed to his will. I remember a long time ago, actually, 1875, I think it was, somewhere around there, I know this story. My great-grandmother told this to me about her father. Her father arrested a man by the name of John Farrell. He had killed a man in Texas. This is the real story of the Rooster Cogburn and True Grit thing. This is the deal. Sam Paul, my great-great-grandfather, was the first Indian Marshal, Indian Marshal, U.S. Marshal in Indian Territory. He was also the first United States citizen American Indian. And they didn't have a jail there in Falls Valley, Oklahoma, which was named after his father, Smith Paul. So he went out and a Texas man came up there and told him, Sam Paul, I'm looking for a man, he's got a big Texas hat, kind of woolly chaps, and his name is John Farrell. And he came out of Texas and he killed a man down there. And I'm here to arrest him, take him back, but I have no authority. It is your job. He said, I'll take care of it. So we went out and looked at him all over the place. He finally found him in his ex-girlfriend's kind of bar, tavern, pool hall, whatever you want to call it. And he came in there, and he had been looking, they hadn't seen him, and so he finally came up, and when Sam was about to leave, he looked over there, and here's this guy with a description of John Barrow. So he gets off his horse, goes back in there, and sets out the table. And anyway, the guy walks up there, and he asked for some whiskey, and he gave him whiskey, and he said, boy, this is good whiskey. And then Fanny, she calls over to Sam. She said, Sam, Paul, did you bring any whiskey today? And he said, no. He said, I wasn't bringing any, but I'll bring something back as soon as I can. The guy took off over there towards Sam Paul and he run over there with a real smile on his face. He says, boy, Mr. Paul, he said, I'm glad. He said, this is the best Kentucky bourbon I've ever tasted. This isn't regular moonshine. He said, I tried to do the best. He said, now, you know my name, but what's your name? And he said, John Farrell out of Texas. He reached his hand and shook his hand and Sam Paul pulled his pistol out and said, you're under arrest. You're under arrest. And he took him back to his house. They treated him really nice. They gave him a nice dinner and everything. And he took him upstairs when he was going to put him to bed that night. He said goodnight to the family. He said, you are really good Indians. Real fine, classy Indians. He's a white man, you know. Most Indians, you know, they had the idea they'd live in teepees and dirt and all that kind of stuff. But these people lived in a mansion. These were high-class Indians, you know. The Chickasaws were the civilized tribes along with the Cherokees, the Creeks. They had great farms and plantations in the South. And they moved them in the Indian Territory, and they did the same there. Well, anyway, Sam Paul took him upstairs. He bid the family goodnight and everything. He took him up there, and when he took him in the bedroom, he had the light with him. And on the floor was hand manacles and leg irons. He said, what are you going to do with that? He said, I'm going to put them on you. My family's going to be safe tonight. He said, you ain't putting them on. He said, I'll put them on you. I'll kill you, one or the other. Well, he jumped out the window. And Sam Paul shot and broke his leg. And he's sitting out there bleeding to death. in the rose garden in the front yard, and he walked down cursing him all the way, said, you ought to be asleep up there in that bed of bed, and you're out there dying in my front yard in my rose garden, and I got to go to Fort Smith, Arkansas, and old Judge Parker's going to try to hang me again for killing White Owl off. Well, he didn't want them laying arms and chains on, did he? He didn't need them after he's dead. Sam walked out there and he started asking God to save him and begging Sam Paul not to kill him. He said, it's not between you and God, me or me and God. It's between you and me and your dead man. He shot him in the heart and killed him. He said, that's it. That's over with. No more chasing after you anymore. Because the law said that if a criminal tries to escape in Indian territory while he's under a law, you're supposed to stop him with deadly force, and he did. And then George Parker tried to hang him again, because he's a white man and not an Indian, or a black person, or a Mexican. You know what? I like those leg irons and manacles that the Lord puts on me. Do you? They're for your own good. The high calling of God, being arrested, being leg ironed and chained. Verse number 15, Hosoi un teloioi tuto fronomen kai ate eteros. Fronete kai tuto hothios himen apokalipsi. For as many of therefore mature, the more mature Christians this, let us thank and remember first person plural present subjunctive active, and if anything is difficult. Now the word difficult is also different there. If anything is different, of a different combined comparatively. It's a comparative here, comes from Materos, page 170 and 71. You think about it for a while, think about it, think about it with common sense, that's the word for native. second post and plural present imperative active also this thing that the God to ye he shall uncover disclose himself 316 now plain ace ha F thoughts omen toe alto stoic cane Nevertheless, plain, little adverb there, page 328, in what we have arrived, or we run, we proceed, ace there, preposition, extension, limitation, the thought of verbal action, page 119, what, little interrogative adjective there, phenomenal adjective, we have arrived, or we run, we proceed, we advance, here comes some Fa, fa no, page 424. It means to outstrip beforehand to the same, to walk and behave. To walk, stoicane. Present infinity, you have to come stocio. We got our word stoic from that word. Calm, collected, determined. Let us, whatever we do, wherever we go, whichever way we turn, let us remember that Christ is with us. We are arrested, we are handcuffed, and we are leg-armed. And we like it. Our Father, we send this message out for your honor and glory. Please use it wherever it goes. Please forgive me where I fail you. Please honor yourself with this. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.