The gospel is preached in this little book. This little book was written about AD 61 or so by the Apostolos Paulos, the Apostle Paul. Philippi was, the city was named after Philippa Macedon, who took over the city in 358 BC from the Thracians. Philippa Macedon is the father of Alexander the Great, And Mark Antony took the city of Philippi into the Roman Empire in 42 BC. And Mark Antony also placed Herod the Great over Judea. Mark Antony and Cleopatra. Later, Augustus Caesar made Philippi a Roman city, a colony. Philippi became a major city on the great Roman highway, or the Roman road. Paul met Lydia, the seller of purple there, And the whole household of the Philippian jailer was saved there in Acts 16, 12-15 and Acts 16, 22-34. Like I said, it's written about the year AD 61. It's written by the Apostle Paul to the Philippians from Rome. The church of Philippi was Paul's pride and joy and they had always been there when Paul needed them most. Paul is a prisoner in Rome and is facing hardships and most probable death. By the way, he was probably a prisoner in Rome two different times. He was released shortly for a while and then he was captured again and imprisoned and then executed. When Paul states to live as Christ and to die as a gain, he knew exactly what he was about to face and what he said. Paul had already died once. When you die once, what have you got to be afraid about? The Lord raised him up. He had something to do so the Lord didn't let him go away. He knew what he was about to face. In spite of love, this letter of love that is, and in spite of Paul's hardships, he tells this wonderful church of his triumphs and difficulties. Paul attacks the Judaizers trying to set them straight, and Paul fights the Gnostic heresy about the person of Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul and John the Apostle, their two great messages are the person of Jesus Christ is Jehovah of the Old Testament, living in human flesh. Paul defends the deity of Christ in Colossians, Ephesians, and Philippians. Paul wanted the Judaizers to know that Christ nailed the law to the cross, and that the God Jehovah, and that he was the God Jehovah, and that he was the very creator of the universe. Your modern-day Judaizers are Seventh-day Adventists, and, of course, the Jews, and those akin to them. The modern-day Gnostics are called the Jehovah Witnesses. And the other cults, holding to their Antichrist doctrines, Of course, Herbert Armstrong and Garner Ted Armstrong also believed that. But now, what is left of the church there in Pasadena that was Armstrong's is now an evangelical Christian church. They said they listened to me preach, and they got converted. That's wonderful. That's amazing, I tell you. The letters of Paul and John still hold all on their Antichrist doctrines is beyond human and spiritual reason. Why that the Jehovah Witnesses, why do these people hold on to this is beyond any human reason, because it's a spiritual warfare, people. Satan works in false religion. The word Philippians means lover of horses. My name Phillips means lover of horses, philo and hippos. As we study the Word of God, we are like children playing in the waves of the seashore. Remember when I took you out in the ocean almost 30 years ago, Marilyn, and you played in the ocean with the waves slapping? That's like us walking in the Word of God. It's like walking in the very edge of the sea waters. All we do is get our feet wet in the wealth of God's knowledge. We have the oceans of knowledge to swim in when we are with our Creator. He will open our minds and we will lay aside the carnal nature and we will be able to glorify Him in pure worship and glory forevermore. I'm looking forward to that. The Apostle Paul, Paulus Apostolus. the Apostle Paul, Paul the Apostle. He will have a salutation to the Philippian church from verses 1 and 2, chapter 1, 1 and 2. Paulos kai themotheus douloi Christo eisou pausen tois hagiois in Christo eisou. Tois usen in Philippios sine episkopos kai deikoniois. Paul. Paul means small, doesn't it? He was saved about 33, 34 AD, somewhere around there. Not too long after the death of Christ. He stood there as they stoned Stephen. And he gave the verdict. He held her close. He was a man that basically threw the first stone. He condemned him. He was on his way to Damascus. to kill Christians and imprison them when God stopped him. Jesus appeared to him and said, Paul, Paul, or Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? He said, who are you, Lord? He said, Jesus, whom you persecute. That changed Paul. It changed him. He came from a Pharisee of Pharisees, one of the most strictest of sects. A Hebrew of Hebrews to become a Christian to the Gentile dogs that he called but dogs before. Paul and Timothy. Paulos Kai Timotheus. Kai there, a little conjunction, page 208. And a clinical Greek lesson. And then we have the word Timotheus. Timotheus means one who is honorable. Timotheus, one who is honorable to God. to be honorable to God, Timothy. Timothy is a precious name. It is an honorable name. And then we have the word douloi. Douloi is a slave. It comes from Deo. Now, the doulois are bought and paid for slaves. Paul and Timothy bought and paid for slaves belonging to Christ, Christou Isou, belonging to Christ Jesus. Christou means it comes from the word Hamashiah, Hamashiah in Hebrew, which means the anointed one. And this is the Greek word for it. And then we have the word Esu, Jesus. It's a negenitive case. And both of these are negenitive cases, which are the case of possession. Paul and Timothy belonged to them. They were his possessions. And then it says, Esus is basically coming from Yahshua, and Yahshua means Jehovah saves. What a more fitting name Jesus could have than that. and then passing all of it, this little adjective here, to the one saints, Tois Agiois. And the one saints there literally means, you know, we talk about different saints, we saw St. Peter, St. Paul, St. John, St. Matthew, St. this and this. Well, this is St. Jim talking to you. There's St. Marilyn over there. We are all saints when we were born from above. The word saints there comes from alpha and gay, not of earth. Once not of earth. When we are born again, we are no longer earthlings, we are heavenlings. Heaven is our home. All the saints in Christ Jesus. In the preposition, page 137, in, and that is in the locative case, in Christ Jesus. We are locked into Christ. We are in Him. And He is in us. In Christ Jesus. In Christ Jesus. And then it says, And TOIS here, it's a deity, plural, definite article, and it has a practical substance that says, to the ones being. Look at that word being there, OUSEN. That is a deity, plural, masculine, present, participle, active. The ones being in, that little preposition, page 137 there, in PHILIPPI. In PHILOPIOS. the areas of Philippi. Now, in Philippiois, that's plural. And so this means all of the area around Philippi. With, a little word seen there, with a little preposition, and then episkopos. The Catholic Church and the Presbyterian Church and all these get this word episkopos there as bishops. Bishop. But all it means is overseer. It means a pastor. Pastors. I am an episkopos. None of us are worthy of it, but God calls us to that position. The pastors, the overseers. It comes from epi and skopos. You've got a word, you've got a scope, you look through a scope. A telescope. That's the word scope comes from right where we're at there, skopos. And it means the ones who oversee. And then conjunction again, page 208. Or it can also mean a particle of, a cumulative particle that is, which means also. Deacons, deacons, deaconios. That literally means to run around and stir up dust. Dust kickers. To run around and stir up dust. Somebody that does something. A deacon isn't a position, a deacon is a profession. A deacon isn't a position as much as it is a profession. You work. You do something in the church. And what do deacons do? Well, sometimes they clean the church out. Sometimes they go out and visit the widows and the orphans. Sometimes they go to the hospitals. These are all the things that deacons do. They're supposed to stir up dust. I worked out in the oil fields so many years ago. I'm telling you, it was a long time ago. I think about that another lifetime, you know. And we would be out there in the work, in the oil fields, most of the time, you didn't have time to eat lunch, didn't have time to sit down or hardly get a drink of water. And it was hot or cold. I mean, I have thrown chain, quick chain, The chains that spin the pipe together, which they don't do anymore, it's too dangerous now. But I've whipped that chain out there and lost tails in that area, and when the mud would come out of there, it would freeze the chain on the pipe. And the tail would freeze. We had to cut the tail off the chain. It had a soft rope tail on it, a manila rope tail. And we had to cut the tail off it because it would freeze to the pipe, couldn't get it off. Sometimes we'd be set in cement. Some of you oil field guys out there, you oil patch people. We'd be set in cement. That means you don't have anything to do except clean the place up. And when you get the place cleaned up, you can rest for a minute, maybe. That's when you get out there and you take a rock and try to knock the light out of the crown 136 feet up or whatever dumb thing you might do. Maybe walking up a pipe in the B door there and keep them falling off. Maybe throwing a pipe out across the mud pit out there and walking across that and see if you can keep from falling in it. Some dumb things like that. But every now and then, we see dust coming. And here comes the drilling superintendent, what they call the pusher, out there. And he said, get out, boys, and stir up a little dust. Dust kicker. One, two. Carisi, Mankai, and Rene. Apus to you, patro simon, cai curio esucrisu. Grace, thankfulness, unmerited favor, caris, to you all. That's deity plural, second person pronoun. Now, in Hebrew, they would say shalom. In Arabic, they say shalom. Shalom, in contrast with strife and an absence of contentment and agreement, a state of health and well-being, a state of non-troubled, undisturbed well-being. Shalom. Page 575. in Bullinger's analytical lexicon. The peace which is the result of forgiveness, engaged by the blood of Christ, free from anxiety, care, and grieving, from perplexity to peace, the future state of your life and your mind forever will be Shalom, Peace, and Rene. Grace to you and also, that little conjunction there, peace, tranquility. Bollinger 575. From God, the origin of it is, it's a preposition there, Apo, from God the Father of us. God is our Father when you have come to the Lord Jesus Christ, come to God by the Lord Jesus Christ. We have the privilege of doing that. If we realize that Jesus is the Son of God, that He is Messiah, HaMashiach, to Christo Eloheinu. If we realize that He is a Messiah belonging to God, and that He is our Savior, that He died for our sins, He was raised for our justification. If we come to God repenting of our sins and asking Him to save us and forgive our rotten souls for whatever sins we have or, I mean, even omission, what we haven't done, we have the right to call God Father. through Jesus Christ our Lord. Grace to ye and peace from God the Father of us and the Lord Jesus Christ. One and three now. We're moving right along here, see? Eucharisto. Tu, te, eu. Mu, epi, possen. Te, bene, himon. I thank God, I give thanks, first person singular, present indicative, I give thanks to the God of me, upon all the remembrance. Mene, mene, that means remembrance. We've got a word headstone here from this, we have memorial stone, a monument from this word, a grave marker, to the memory of a person. That's the root of this word, mene. In remembrance of all of you, all of this little church here in Philippi, the Philippian church, one in four. Pantote en pase diese, mu heper pante himon, meta cariste desane poiminos. always, pon tote, always, that little adverb there, pon tote, in every, in every, that little adjective there, locative singular, in every petition. The word here, dese, comes from deo. Deo means to bind. The word desmos, that word there, the word slave, comes right out of this word, it's want, it's bound. And when we bind our minds to God in prayer, What can make you so seek and reach out and grab for God in prayer? Troubles a lot of times. But do you just pray to God? Just pray to thank Him? Have you ever been thankful? This is the time of the year to be thankful. You know, Thanksgiving, we got Christmas coming up, we got New Year's, we got a new year maybe to serve the Lord. God gives us another time, another day to serve Him. Every petition, That's when we bind our mind and hearts and souls to God. Every petition of me, belonging to me, mew, first person singular, genitive singular, he appeared on behalf of, or for the furtherance of, a little preposition there, of all, genitive plural, of you all, with, preposition again, grace, or joy that is, kal-ras, joy, the petition making. That little word, making, that's nomine singular masculine present participle, middle voice. I see people so many times, this, the only time they want to think about God is when they're asking God for something like, Paul, I want a cracker. Paul, I want a cracker prayer. If you're really engaged with God as your Him, His Son, as your Savior, you will want to talk with Him and you'll want to walk with Him. You will want to do those things. You'll want to be in His presence. You'll want Him with you every day, every footstep that you take, every time you sleep through the night. You want God there. He's there. He'll always be with you. One in five now Epi te koinonia himon esto joan galeon aputes protes haemeris acri tu nin. Upon the fellowship, epi te koinonia Things we have in common. The word communism comes from this. This word right here. When you have all things in common, you're a communist. Except communism doesn't work that way. That's just etymology of it, because I haven't seen that ever work except among the American Indian people and the churches of the Lord Jesus Christ. Upon the fellowship, the things in common of you all, Himon, genitive, plural, second person, pronoun. Unto, page 119 there, that little idea there is the extension or limitation of thought or verbal action. You can go to it, through it, over it, under it, and through it, and in it, in the gospel, ento yon gileon. And the gospel there is, comes from you and on gileon, it means a good message. Good message from, that little word preposition, from page 40 by the way. from the first days. Do you remember the Philippians were a praying people, the Bereans were a praying people, and they were studying people. I remember when I dedicated my life to God, I was saved when I was pretty young, 13 years old when my grandmother died. I went to a little charismatic church, a little full gospel Tabernacle, a little Pentecostal church. And I knew the pastor, I just loved the pastor and his wife and his children. But they didn't preach much of the gospel, but they gave me a Bible. And I read it. And one time I read that Bible and I underlined it and I read it and I just, it was, I ate it, basically. I was alone, the one person in my life that was always there for me was killed by my grandmother. I had nothing. I had no stability whatsoever left. No one else loved me like her. She raised me from the day I was one day old. My mother gave me away because I was too much trouble. Now she would see me and she'd come and visit me, but my grandmother raised me. But she got killed when I was very young. And I was just grabbing at straws. And I went to church, and I had a step-grandmother that was going there. Wonderful woman. Mrs. Brown was her name. And I went down. They were just preaching, and I just walked down to the altar. They were actually talking in tongues and shaking tambourines and doing all kinds of stuff. You know, they were really getting all emotional. I went down there, and nobody went down there except for my ex-step-grandmother, which I just love dearly. She was a wonderful Christian woman. And she came down there and told me, Jimmy, what's wrong? And I said, I think I need to be saved, but I don't really know how to do it or what it even means. But I feel terrible inside. I feel lost, and I need something. And she said, well, Jimmy, all you have to do is come to Jesus. You believe Jesus Christ lived and that he was the son of God and all this? And I said, yeah, I've been reading the Bible. I believe it. I said, I just feel terrible, though. I feel like I've got to go out and sacrifice my dog or cat or chicken or something to come to God. And she said, no, Jesus is all you'll need. She talked with me down there for quite a few minutes, and I asked the Lord to save my soul, and I've been saved ever since. I haven't always walked with the Lord. I went through some hard times in my life, but He was always with me. Always with me. And I thank God for that woman, that dear woman, that could lead to me. Because nobody else, no deacons, no preacher, nothing went down there with me, just her. I would have still been down there lost if she hadn't come. And I know one day that I will thank her, because she's already with the Lord. I know she is. Fellowship of Ye in the Gospel. From the first days, when I got saved, I wanted to read more Bible. I couldn't get enough. And then later on, when I came to God and gave my life to Him, just said, here I am. I was so excited about learning the Word of God, I just couldn't get enough of it. I couldn't hear enough messages. I listened to the radio, and it just wasn't enough. I wish I had sermon audio out there with the Discover the Word, because there you got more than any seminary would ever put out. I wish I'd have had that. But I took old reel-to-reel tapes. I listened to everything. I listened to heresy. I listened to truth. And I studied history. I read every book I could lay my hands on. I started studying Greek and Hebrew. And the Bible, of course. I couldn't get enough. And that's the way you ought to be when you're saved. You ought to be on fire for the Lord. The gospel from the first days until the little conjunction of time, Akri. Can be an adverb also. And the now, a little adverb of time. Until the days until the now. from the beginning until the now. By the way, if you're out there, I think I have this book of Philippians in PDF form. If you will email me, I will email one back to you. If you want to give me an offering, that would be wonderful. If you don't, that's all right, too. I didn't do it for me. I did it for you. And so, if you'd like to have one of these, please just email me and I'll try to get one to you. I have done the Book of Philippians before, but it was such a brief situation that I thought that I needed to go back and do it again. I've done every book in the New Testament, and several in the Old Testament, and I'm finishing the Book of Exodus right now. We lay Shemot. One and six. Poethos, alto, tuto, hote, ho, en arxamenos en hymen ergon agathon epitelese acri hemeris Christo esu. Having been confident Nominative singular masculine perfect second perfect participle active if this is a perfect completed this having been caught Confident having been thoroughly persuaded this thing I'll told this little Word I'll told the monster pronoun their thing That are because the one having begun The one the one there is Jesus and the Holy Spirit, but by the way the one having begun, nominee, singular, mass, and first heirs, participle, middle boys, in you all, ergon, agathon, a good work in you. A good work in you. Agathon there is more than kalos. It is a spiritual thing. It is a accusive, singular, spiritual what we might call ambition. Ambition means the act of going around in circles, by the way, in the English word, but it means that we are active. When you're in the Lord, you want to be active in his stuff, in his work. You want others to know you and know him. A good work, he shall complete, a bring down to the finish line. Third person singular, future indicative, and epitelio. Epi there is a little preposition, page 153 and 154. And then telio means to the end. Telio, we have terminal islands. Telescope, you look in and see way out there at the end or something. Telescopic view. He shall complete Ecri until the day of Christ Jesus. until the Lord comes back and takes us all with Him. He's going to finish that work that He started in your heart. That's one confidence that we have, one assurance that we have. One poithos, one assurance that Christ will finish the work that He starts in you. You may wander along, away from it at times in your life. You may do stupid things. But you know what, the Lord is always going to be there and just kept on whipping you into the line and just putting you down the right path. 1 in 7 now. 1 in 7. Kathos, Esten, Diokon, or Dikion that is, Emoi, Tuto, Phonein, Phonein, Hiper, Ponton, Himon, Dioto, ekein me en te kardia imas en te tois desmois mu kai en te. Apologia kai bebe ose. Tu, Ioan Galilu, sig koinonius mu teis karitos. Pantas imas ontos. Just as, it comes from kata and hos. Kata and hos. This is a combined word there. It's a little particle. According to or just as, page 314 in Thayer's lexicon. Just as, it is right, it is, it keeps on being right, third person singular, present indicative of the EIP from Amy. It is, and keeps on being right, just. Just. Dikaios. Dikaiosene. Just, for me. Dative, singular, possessive, pronominal, adjective. This thing, to tell, to think. This word comes from phronail, or comes from phren, actually the root of it is, and it means to understand, have a horse sense. Horse sense. I used to tell Brother Madden so long ago that he had more horse sense than a herd of wild mustangs. Wild mustangs will keep you alive, people. You ever train one of them mustangs, you go out there in the woods with him, or out in the country, the prairie like this, he's gonna keep you alive. When my next door neighbor, when his wife was a young, well, she was a baby in the basket, her mother was pregnant with her, And they were living down on the Arlemont Ranch just straight east of me. And they would not allow her to ride a horse when she was pregnant except the one I had trained, the Mustang, because the Mustang would be safe for her. He would keep her safe. It's just, for me, the thing to thank on behalf of all of you all, because Dia, toe, a cane, because the to have me in the heart of you all. I'm in the heart of you all. Marilyn, I know you like me a lot, don't you? Huh? Huh? Okay. Am I always in your heart? Well, you're always in my heart, too. You love somebody. We can relate to that because this is human. But you know something? Jesus follows us wherever we go, and he's always there. You know, I do a lot of work. I like to... I'm a mechanic. I do all kinds of little carpenter works and all kinds of stuff, and I'll get into a point where I didn't think I could get something apart or whatever, and I say, Lord, help me do this. Just help me think the right thing, thoughts. Help my hands do the right thing. And you know what? It happens. I didn't waste that prayer. I've been, I'm a plumber, a pipe fitter, electrician, a mechanic, carpenter, all of these things. And I carry the Lord with me whatever I'm doing, because he's always there. And Paul says to this church, this is a work of his hands, and a work of the Holy Spirit. This church is a work of his hands, a product of his employment. Because to have me in the hearts of you all I'm always have in your hearts now that little a cane there. That's a present infinity vacuum from echo Always you have me in your heart In both in the bombs of me that was this moist now I He was in jail. This is a prison epistle, by the way. He's in jail, he's in prison, and he's writing this letter to this church. And he's thanking to them that they always have him in their heart, and he has them in his heart. Because he's in bonds, but you know, every one of us that are saved are bought and paid for as slaves of Jesus Christ. We're not our own anymore. Apologia. This word, apology, comes to that word, and also apologetics comes in this word. The defense and confirmation, beboi eisei, that means to shore up, to put a foundation under it, beboi eisei, of the gospel, to shore up, to make firm the gospel, partakers of, this word is sine and koinonios, things that we have together in common. You have a child of God, and another child of God, they got something in common. They got something in common. They got the same Father. For takers of me and the grace, the grace in all of you, the grace that literally captures us, being, ontasere, that's present, participle, active, accusative, plural, masculine, primami, God captures us, and he captures each of us in our little churches to love each other, to have each other in our hearts. We have things in common, and what we have in common is Jesus the Christ, Hamashiach. Jesus, Jesus, Yahshua, Hamashiach. Jesus, our Savior, our Lord, our Christ, our companion in this world, always with us. Our Father, we send this message out for your honor and glory. Help it to encourage people out there. Help it to guide them to this. Reach out and grab them and keep them too. Help us to follow you, Father. Help us to walk through this world that sometimes it's not easy to walk here. Sometimes we have very many disappointments in life, but help us through all those disappointments. In Jesus name I pray, amen.