Welcome to another wonderful class. We're doing Greek reading and research from the book of Philippians. And Philippians is a fantastic book. It has a lot of love in it. And we'll look over here, review what we did last week, just a little bit. We're going to start on 1 and 8. Well, let's look at the city of Philippi. Who was the writer of Philippians? Paul the Apostle. All right. Pavlos of Pavlos. Philippi was named after Philip of Macedon. Philip of Macedon, who took over the city in 358 BC from the Thracians. Philip of Macedon is the father of Alexander the Great. Mark Anthony took the city of Philippi into the Roman Empire in 42 BC. Later, Augustus Caesar made Philippi a Roman colony. Philippi became a major city on the great Roman road. Paul met Lydia, the seller of purple, and the whole household of the Philippian jailer were saved there in Acts 16, 12-15 and Acts 1622 through 24. The writing of this little wonderful miniature, what we might call gospel, was about 61 AD. Of course, it's written by the Apostle Paul to the Philippians, which was a church there. The Philippians were a church from Rome in his captivity. The Church of Philippi was Paul's pride and joy always, and they had always been there when Paul needed them. Paul is a prisoner in Rome. He was a prisoner in Rome probably two times. He was released shortly, and then he was arrested again, and then he was executed. He was facing very many hardships there. And if you were in prison, if your family didn't feed you and clothe you, you died. Simple as that. They weren't going to take care of you. He knew he was facing death. And in this letter of love, Agapeo. Agape. In this letter of love, Paul tells this wonderful church of his triumphs and difficulties. Paul attacks the Judaizers trying to set them straight. Paul fights the Gnostic heresy about the person of Christ. 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. Jehovah was Jesus, and that he was a very creator of the whole universe. Your modern-day Judaizers today are the Seventh-day Adventists and those akin to them. The modern-day Gnostics are the Jehovah Witnesses and the other cults holding to their Antichrist doctrines. How those who do not believe in the deity of Christ can read the letters of John and Paul and still hold to their Antichrist doctrines is beyond human spiritual reason. The word Philippines means lover of horses. As we study the word of God, we are like little children playing in the waves of the seashore. 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 our hearts and souls and lay aside this carnal nature and be able to glorify him in pure divine worship. We worship him because he is divine. Now let's start with number one and eight. Martus, Gar, Mu, Ho, Theos. Donald Greywire over there in Wales now, follow along with me. You're going to make it. Hos, Epi, Potho, Pontos, Hemos, En, Splog, Nuis, Christo, Esu. It starts out with a little casual particle there, gar, even though it's the second word in the verse, that's where it starts. For, witness, we got a word martyr right out of that word, that's martiz, martiz. Martyr comes right out of that word. For the witness of me, belonging to me, mu, genitive, singular, first person pronoun. Now we have hotheos. Hotheos, that's a definite article there, nominative, singular, masculine, and then theos is nominative, singular, masculine, noun. Do you see how the definite article and the noun that it's describing there are pointing to? agree in number, gender, and case. And then we have the word hos. That's how. How. And the epipotho. First person singular present indicative from epipotheo. And that means I long after, I sincerely desire, I hold you upon my mind always, pontos emos. Always, you all. Now we have the word in there, and our English word in comes right out of that preposition there. In, splog, splog, noice. Splog noice means you are, I hold you tenderly in my guts. That's what it literally says. In my bowels, my tender mercies. When you, and I know probably everyone who's been out there, I hope maybe you haven't, But almost seems like that. Have you ever had one of your children almost get killed? You just saw him just barely escape death and your guts just twisted up? Or when you had your mother or your father die and you're holding them and your guts just twist up? That's what this is about. That's that kind of feeling, gut feeling. The tender mercies. of Christ, belonging to Christ, Genitive, Singular, Masculine, Esus, Christ Jesus. And Esus is Joshua in the Old Testament, and it means Jehovah's Save. One in verse nine now, Cai-tu-to, tro-shu-ka-mi, he-na, he-aga-pe, he-mo-n, e-ti, ma-lo-n, cai-ma-lo-n, pe-ri-si-u, epi no se, kai pa se, ai se se. A little conjunction there. Page 208 is where it comes from. And then we have a little demonstrative pronoun. And this, I pray. This thing, I pray. First person singular, present indicative, middle voice. What does that mean? I pray from my heart. I pray from myself. Prost and Eucharist. And prost is something that means forward, and it means to bend the knee toward. To get down on your knees and pray. In order that, a little conjunction there, the love. Hey, Occupy. The love. Now this word love here, Is a divine love. This is one of the gifts we have. Today we have faith, hope, and love. All the other gifts, the gift of apostles, the gift of prophets, and all that, is all gone. The Bible's completed. But we have faith, hope, and love. And love is one of the very indicators of salvation. You begin to love God. You love God. And you love your fellow man, Paul says. and the love belonging to you all, hymone. That's genitive, plural, second person pronoun. The love belonging to all of you, yet, eti, a little adverb comparative there, page 171 in the analytical Greek lexicon. And then we have another comparative, malone, kai malone. More and more. More and more. Paris, Suez. It may abound. It may be validated. It may be multiplied. Third person sitting in the presence, subjunctive active. Now subjunctive mode means what? The mode of doubtful affirmation, but it's possible. Now Paul's praying to these people and he said, I hope you love one another and I'm praying for you and I hope you do all of this. And then he says, it may abound in epi noce. That means complete knowledge, because it's epi on the front of that, that's compound. Epi is page 153 and 4 in Analectical Recollection. Then the word, this word comes from nome. And we got our word knowledge right out of this. Knowledge comes right out of it. It's ginosko. It's what it goes back to. Ginosko. And how does the word knowledge start? It starts with a K, doesn't it? Well, it starts with almost the same thing. It starts with a gamma here. And it's got a knowledge sound. Ginosko. Ginosko. Full knowledge. And all spiritual understanding. Internal sense of perception. That word is AISTEISEI. AISTEISEI. That's a spiritual understanding, internal, soul-ish, a soul understanding. Your soul understands. One in ten now. EISTO DOKIMAZEN HIMASTA DIATHRO DIATHERONTA HINA EITEI ELIK KRINEIS KAI aproskopoi es hemeron Christo. Now we have the word, a little preposition there, extension or limitation of the thought of rebel action. In reference to, as a result of, to prove, the proving ground, the test, the test stone, to test gold and silver and precious metals, they have a way to do that. And this is the word dokimazo, dokimazein, this present infinitive active from dokimazo. You all, again, you all, second person plural, accusative plural, second person pronoun, the differing. It really means to be sorry through. Sayings that differ, differing things. That's a accusative, plural, neutral, present participle active word there. dia ferronta. It comes from dia and ferro, the ones, things that are carried through, through carry. In order that, little conjunction there, ye may be, second person plural and perfect indicative active, ye may be and content to be tested. Elicrenes, tested. This means to put in the sunlight. This means to have light on it in all directions. Now, I was in two movies where they had the light up. One movie was lit up too, but it was out in the daylight. But I was in Charlie Barrick and Stallions and the Nevada Story and I was standing there in two of them. That's all I did, standing in the light. Now, You may not realize this, but the color movies, you know, the Technicolor movies, they want you lighted from every direction. Now, some of the old black and white movies, they wanted shadows, but they wanted shadows in certain directions, so they would have a lot of light. Some of the lights would be 5,000 candle power. Now, this is what this is. This is 5,000 candle power. You're lit up from all directions. Tested by the sunlight, tested in the sunlight. If you get a splitter in your hand or something sometimes, you go out in the sunlight to see if you can see it or to get it out. And when you get old like me, it's almost impossible to see it. You can't get enough magnifying glasses in your hand. Tested and judged in the light under close observance and aproscopoi. Unoffending. Not causing to stumble. Not throwing a roadblock in somebody's way. Apokopois, there, that means to cause to stumble. And then we have the word ace again, page 119. That little preposition there, extension, limitation, thought, or verbal action. Unto the day of Christ. Hoped that this church would stay in it in power that they would love each other and so the Lord comes back to get him again One and eleven now One in verse 11 Pat play role minnow a car pawn a Dikaiosine ton dia eisou Christou eis doxon kai apanon theou. Having been filled. That's nomine plural masculine and it's perfect participle passive. Now it's perfect tense that means it's been done. It's done. Now it is passive voice that means it was done upon them. How do you get filled? How do you get filled with the love of God and the fruit of the Spirit? How do you do that? Huh? Reading. You get filled with it because you open the door. You open the door to your heart so the Lord can do it and the Holy Spirit does it. Having been filled with the fruit, that word karpon, that's accuses singular masculine. This could be used as a fruit of the mind. the fruit of the womb, the fruit of physical offspring, or the fruit of noble actions, as here. Having been filled, having been caused to be filled, fruit of righteousness, dikaios innes, the fruit of righteousness, describing the fruit of one's actions in life. And then it says, That's an accusative, singular, masculine, definite article. The through, the things through. Jesus Christ. We come out of Jesus Christ and we are born in Christ. Genitive, singular, masculine. Jesus means Jehovah. Christos, Hamashiach in Hebrew. The anointed one of God. And then we have ace, doxon. Ace again, extension or limitation of the daughter of Robert Lackson, page 119, doxon, glory. Accuses singular feminine, doxa. Docio is where it comes from. Glorification. Fema. And a pinon, honor of God. praise, applaud. There was a great woman one time called Susan in history, and she was a woman that went around praising God all the time, praising God, praising God, singing and praising. She was like a minstrel, singing and singing and praising God. Remind was reminded of her a while ago when Sharon was leading us in prayer. She praised the Lord for three or four or five minutes Because he's worthy of praise We need to praise him because he is worthy. He is he is our Savior. He is our only He he is the only thing that will get us into heaven period the only thing then in verse number 12 good nose game Day he moss Bula my Adelphi Hote, ta, ka, eme, malon, ace, pro, ka, pen, to, yong, lio, el, le, li, then. Teno, Gnosko again, present infinitive active from Gnosko. Romans 8 and 28. Let's go look at that for just a moment. if I can find it Romans 8 28 Paul's writings that he just absolutely just he opens up the windows of heaven let's start with verse number 26 826 And in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness, Austenia. For we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. We pray from our heart. And he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is. because he intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. For we know that God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to become conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren, And whom he predestined, these also he called. And whom he called, these he also justified. And whom he justified, these he also glorified. What then shall we say to these things, if God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own son, but delivered him up for us, how shall we not also with him freely give us all things. Who will bring the charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies. He who is the one who condemns. Christ Jesus is he who died. Yes, rather, he who is raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. who also shall separate us from the love of Christ, shall tribulation, distress, persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword." The sword was about to kill Paul. He was about to be slain. Just as it's written, for thy sake we are being put to death all day long. We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered, but in all things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, or any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." What a statement, isn't it? That's what he's talking about right here. I want you to know something he says. Moreover, I want you to know, you all to know, I wish, Buleme, Buleme, that word I may, that means that spiritual activating force, I wish from the very depths of my soul, brothers, Adelphoi, from the same womb, that, conjunction, the things according to me, rather, in reference to, the pro-cop-tain, pro-cop-pain. Pro-cop-pain means to chop forward. That means to blaze a trail. I'm going through all these problems, he says, to show you that I'm blazing a trail for you. How many of these individuals here would have to die also for the gospel of Jesus Christ and for Christ who died for them? The chopping forward of the blazing the trail of the gospel, it has come. That's why Paul said, I'm going through all of this so that you can see the trail I leave behind. You can follow Christ by following my footsteps. Isn't that something? Follow Christ by following my footsteps. 113 now. Hoste, tus, decimus. MU FONERUS ENCRESU GENESTE EN HOLO TO PRETO RYU KAI TOIS LOPOIS PASIM. So as, that word hoste there, so as the bonds, that word, look at that, the chains, the manacles, the leg irons, The handcuffs. I remember a long time ago, in the 1870s, my grandfather was a marshal in the Indian Territory. His name was Sam Paul. And he had picked up this murderer, actually, and he took him home. And he fed him a good dinner there with his family. He had his gun sitting right here, and the old boy was sitting right over there so he could take care of him if he had to. Anyway, the guy thanked me. He thanked everybody and told them that they were good Indians, because he was Indian. Checks us all. And they took him up to the bedroom up there. And they didn't have a jail. But my grandfather, he was my great-great-grandfather, actually. My great-great-grandfather had a bedroom there and had a big feather bed in it. But it had leg irons, and he put the leg irons and the manacles on the person. And when that guy got up there, John Farrell got up there, he walked in the room and he said, what's those irons for? He said, I'm going to put them on you. You ain't putting them on me. He said, I don't put them on you, I'll kill you. My family's going to be safe tonight. He said, I've been real gracious to you. But he said, don't push your luck. He jumped out the window. My grandfather shot him and broke his leg. And he's sitting out there screaming and writhing in misery and everything out there, and my grandfather going down there cursing him every step of the way. He said, I brought you in here, treated you like a prince, and taken care of you, and hear you out here dying in my front yard, and you ought to be asleep up there in that feather bed. And he got out there and he said, oh, Mr. Paul, Mr. Paul, don't shoot me, don't kill me, don't kill me. And then he started praying to God that Sam Paul wouldn't kill him. And when Sam Paul got up here, he said, it's not between You and God, or me and God, is between you and me, bam, you're a dead man. Bonds, chains, manacles. They treated Paul like he was the most desperate criminal. John Farrell was a desperate criminal. He needed to have chains on him. Some of these people that are in prison, I'll tell you, they need to have chains on them because they're vicious people. Leg irons. But Paul was not a killer of people. He preached salvation by grace, salvation through the blood of Jesus Christ. So as the bonds, my manacles, chains, handcuffs, and leg irons belonging to me, Mu, genitive singular, first person pronoun, manifest. manifest The bonds of him showed That he had done nothing but preach the gospel and the Jews were mad at him. They wanted to kill him They wanted him dead. I mean there in Palestine there in the land of Israel they had to put hundreds of guards to keep Paul alive people had sworn that they wouldn't take a drink or eat until they killed him and blood oaths Manifest in Christ to become that little in second heiress infinitive middle voice to become for himself and all the Praetorian guard the Praetorian the special elite guard of Caesar they were guarding Paul and the ones Remaining are left behind all all of those left behind Beautiful beautiful message in it Beautiful message. Let's go back and read it now from the Amplified Bible, just New American Standard for a moment. If I can find it over here. Philippians. My Bible's so marked up I can hardly read it. Philippians 1 and 7 through 13. With good all render service as to the Lord and not to men. Go on for all. Get back over here again. For I am confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. For it is only right for me to feel this way about you, because I have you in my heart, and since both in my imprisonment and in the defense of the confirmation of the gospel of you all are partakers in grace with me. For God is my witness. How long for you that with the affection of Christ, that I long for you. Sometimes, you know, when you're going through troubles like this, you want to have other Christians around you. You need them. you need that comfort for God is my witness how long for you and all with the affection of Christ Jesus and this I pray that your love may abound and still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment so that you may approve of the things that are excellent in order that to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and the praise of God. Now I want you to know this thing, brethren, that may many circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel, just like Romans 8 and 28. So that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else. Look at that. He said, am I in prison? And now I'm in prison, so I get to preach to the elite soldiers. He didn't say, oh, Moe is me. He said, boy, this is an opportunity. This is an opportunity. In all of our troubles and trials in life, it's an opportunity. And this today is your opportunity. your opportunity to serve the Lord in Him, to glorify Him with your life, and like Paul said, I'm glorifying God with my life, to glorify God with our lives, to speak His word, to manifest His love in all things. Our Father, we send this message out tonight for your honor and glory. Please use it. Please let it touch people's hearts all over the world, throughout this country, all the way back to Pennsylvania with Nancy, and all the way over to the United Kingdom, and Wales, and New Zealand, the Philippine Islands, where all these students listen to these messages every day. Please, Father, forgive me where I fail you. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.