Welcome to another message from the book of Philippians. Paul's love for this church was great and intense. We're going to start verse number 17, but I'm going to read it from the Amplified Bible first for a few verses. This is a beautiful, almost like a benediction. Not that I seek the gift itself, but I do seek the profit which increases to your heavenly account, the blessing which is accumulating for you. But I have received everything in full and more. I am amply supplied, having received from Epivitis the gifts you sent to me. There are the fragrant aroma of an offering, an acceptable sacrifice which God welcomes and which he delights. And my God will liberally supply and fill until full your every need according to his riches and glory in Christ Jesus. To our God and Father be the glory forever and ever. Amen. To our God and Father be the glory forever and ever. Amen. Remember me and every saint in Christ Jesus, the brothers who are with me greet you. All God's people wish to be remembered to you, especially those of Caesar's household. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Verse number 23. Now let's go look at it from the original language. We'll look at these words. See men may tie. Boo. I think I might have missed one. Fellow imitators. That's what it was. Same mimic. The word, our word mimic comes right from this scene. Mimic Tay of me, the additive singular first person pronoun ye become for yourselves individually. Now that second person provo present indicative middle from get them. I, you become for yourselves brothers and Mark scope pay tape. Keep an eye on the ones, and thus, who we owe, thus, or thusly walking about. Peripatuentes, it comes from peripatio. Accused the plural masculine, present participle active for that word, and then kathos, just as, it comes from katanos. Just as, or in the same manner that ye have, ye continue to have, a type of us. We get a word typewriter from this word typos, type, typone, typone. Be an example, be a pattern, be a footprint. You know, in the book of Genesis, in the original language, in the Hebrew language, it says there that Adam, when God gave, Adam hypnotized or God hypnotized Adam and put him in a deep sleep, operated on him, took out his sides, plural, and bones and blood and flesh and made a woman. And man said to her, she is my foot track. She walks just like I walk. She moves just like I move. She looks like me. She's my foot track. She's my pathway. And Paul is using this term here in Greek. It says, be a type. Let us beat down a pathway. You know, on a pathway, I don't know whether you, I'm kind of a wild Indian almost, just about half tame, maybe. Anyway, I go up in the mountains, and when I go up in the mountains, I'm looking for things, and I see things that other people don't see. Is that right, Marilyn? Remember how I told you to look for the animal highways? Yes. Animal highways. And now you see the animal, she said, there's an animal highway right over there. So you look at these animal highways, these foot tracks, and that's what this was, a type for us, a foot track for us. We're blazing a trail for you. Look and be imitators of those that follow and walk like we do. Follow the same highway, the same road. The Indians called that the red road, the red road, the red pathway. 3.18, and here it says that many walk contrary to the Spirit of Christ, or contrary to Christ. Peloi gar peripatousen hous polikes elegon hymenin dei cai klaon legotus ecthrus tu staru tu Christu. Now, let me explain something for you. Donald Grewar from Wales wrote a note to me the other day. And it says, does anybody know why that God wrote the New Testament in Greek and not in Aramaic or some other language, or Hebrew or whatever? Well, one of the things is that the Greek language is the most perfect language. Every article, every word is inflected in some way, either a noun or a verb. It's conjugated or it's inflected, one or the other. Every one of them, and number, gender, and case are all the same, so you know exactly. You're not going to get lost in there, taken off on the wrong trail. That's one of the reasons. Number two reason, and the absolute most important reason, is that the whole world spoke Helles, or Koine Greek. They all spoke. It was common to all of them. They communicated. The Jews even used the Septuagint most of the time instead of the Hebrew. They would go through their ceremonies in Hebrew, but they studied the Bible in Greek in the Septuagint. Later on, they didn't have the Old Testament again until after Christ. until the New Testament times, they started putting the Bible back together again from Hebrew. Of course now, after the Dead Sea Scrolls, we have Bibles that go back probably 1,000 BC. Copies of it there, at least for that period of time. The Hebrew is a very dramatic, it is very powerful, what we call language showing a lot of action. It's very limited in vocabulary, but it shows a lot of action. And that's what we have in the Gospel of Mark. We see that coming through Mark, because he's writing it with a Hebrew mind, or the Aramaic mind. Hebrew and Aramaic are very closely together. The Hebrew, many of the Jews, they thought that using Hebrew in everyday language would be like blasphemy. So they used Aramaic, which was a slang Hebrew. Written with the same letters and everything, but not exactly the same. Eloi Eloi l'ma sabachthani, and Eli Eli l'ma sabachthani. That's the two. One is in Aramaic, and the other is in Hebrew. And it's quoted in the New Testament there. And Matthew, of course, is in Hebrew. Anyway, let's go about here and look at it. Now, Donald, I hope that that helped you a little bit. and thank you for all your comments also and thank you people out there for your questions too. I try to be accessible to you. Ploygar Peripatousan. Many ones, for many ones, they walk about continually, third person plural, present indicative, active, peripatio, whom many often I said, or I kept on saying to you all, first person singular perfect indicative active, I kept on saying to you all, it's plural, himen, now, nin, a little adverb of time, page 280, moreover now, also, weeping, the word kla-oi, kla-on, kla-on there, kla-oi is what it comes from, it's kla-on, it's nominative singular masculine present participle active, weeping I say, first-person singular present indicative acting to the ones being active haters extras being active haters of the cross many of the Jews were they hated Jesus they hated him and they persecuted Paul hating the cross the star rule to Christo the ACS agnostics you know that they what we might call the Pharisees and the Sadducees. The Sadducees were religious, but they didn't believe in God. Can you imagine that? They were atheists in a way, and of course Caiaphas was one of those Sadducees that really didn't believe in angels, spirits, the resurrection, or anything. And I say to the ones being active haters of the cross of Christ, the cross of Christ, the staron, the staron, the cross was a humiliating thing. I've said this a couple of times lately, but the Shroud of Turin is a very fascinating thing. Many people really believe that it's probably one of the most studied artifacts of all in history, period. He goes back all the way to the time of Jesus, they say. It had been in fires, had been repaired a few times, but it shows a 3D image of Christ, or some man that was crucified that had over 700 lacerations on his body. And I don't know of any other person that had that much lacerations in history. It would have been recorded, I believe. Christ was beaten nearly to death before he was crucified. And you could see his face like in a 3D form. The cross of Christ, and it was a very humiliating thing. The people back then didn't want people to see their nudity or their nakedness. They were what you might call modest. Today, you go to the movies or look out and walk down the street and you'll see women and men that are hardly dressed at all. But back then they didn't do that. But you were taken and you had all your clothes stripped off of you and you were beaten naked. Then you were taken naked and put on the cross cry. They always have pictures of a, like a diaper around him. But he didn't have that. He had no clothes on at all. When he died, they could very easily see that he died. Because urine would run out, feces possibly. That's what happens when somebody dies. All their muscles relax and all the body fluids starting escaping. It's a horrible, horrible humiliating death of the cross. But the God of heaven brought himself from eternity into space and time to die on that cross for us. They hated the cross of Christ. They're active haters of the cross of Christ. 319 now. Hon tu telos apoleia hon ho theos he coelia Many people in the world today, God is their appetite, God is their belly, what they want. You see people just absolutely, just greedily looking at an item, wanting that item. Wanting that woman, wanting that man, wanting that child, wanting that car, wanting that house. Wanting something. Wanting, wanting, wanting. Of whom, Janity Pro, Reddity Pronoun, of whom the end, these people that hate to cross the cross, is Apollia. Apollonia Apollo's or all of those words are from this here It means destruction The end is destruction of whom? The God the belly their God is their belly Carnal desires and appetites and the glory Chi, hey duck saw and the glory in the shame of them ice grotesque That's the word there. It means total shame. It means sensuality. It means to want to eat too much. It means sexual appetites is unfulfilled. They never can get enough food. They can never get drunk enough. They can never make love to enough men or women. The shame of them, the ones, the things upon earth, the earthlings. This is what we call earthlings. Earthlings. All they think about is materialism. The materialists of the world, epigay. That's where it comes from. Earthling. Adamic nature. Basically hoarding things, hoarding money, hoarding whatever. Thinking about these things all the time. Nominee, plural, masculine, present participle, acting, fronuntes. Thinking about it all the time. Never getting your mind off of it. That's all they think about. That reminds me of the old movie, Scrooge. You know, they have that Christmas story, Scrooge. And this guy was just absolutely a penny pincher. He was wicked to men and hard taskmaster. All of a sudden, one night, he had a hypnose dream, a hypnotic dream. And God sent the Graham Weeper to him. And he woke up, and he started changing his life. He started giving things, helping people. A little cripple boy, his workers, he changed. He changed. When you're born again, you change. When you're born again, you change. 3 in verse 20 now, Hymongartopoliteotuma in Ouranois heparche ex hucai soterra apadexometha creon esu Christon. Four of us Hamas is us, genitive plural, first person pronoun. Four of us, the citizenship. To, poli, here we get a word politics from this word. Polituma, polituma. Our citizenship, our politics, everything about us, in the heavens. Our whole citizenship is in heavens. Our idea of government, Her idea of right and wrong changes. We think about things in a different way. We are a colony on earth belonging to heaven. We are a colony on earth belonging to heaven. Just a colony, just a little village, just a little outpost. In the heavens, he parquet Existing third person is English President Dick de Gatting from Hippo and Arkone. Existing, ever-existing, out of where, who, there, a little adverb of place, page 294. Also, chi here is not a conjunction, but also, but also, and that's a cumulative particle, page 208, and then, so terra, savior, we wait for. You know Joseph in over 70 ways and 70 times he was the type of Christ. And in Greek, in the Septuagint, it calls him Soterra Cosmou. Soterra Cosmou, the Savior of the world. And Jesus Christ is the Savior. He's our Savior. He's the Savior that's going to buy back the world. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. What a beautiful, beautiful story. John was quite a writer. I really enjoyed John's writings, probably more than anyone. For one thing, John loved Jesus, and Jesus loved John, and he imparted to him more love and more trust than all the others. You know, the Catholic Church tried to make Peter their first pope. They should have. If they were going to make anybody a pope, they ought to make John the pope. But of course, there are no popes. But John, Iona, the person of love. I call him the son of thunder also. But he loved our Lord. He leaned on our Lord's chest there at the supper. Jesus told him things and then on the cross of Calvary one of the first persons that he talked to when he was dying Was John? He said John Look at your mother Woman look at your son He gave his mother Mary For John to take care of and look over her and he lived longer than all the rest of them, too Because he did that he had the last revelation from God there on the island of Patmos. He was the pastor of that church in Ephesus for many, many years. They say until he was over a hundred years old. He wrote 1st, 2nd, 3rd John, he wrote the Gospel of John, and he wrote the book of Revelation. The Revelation of Jesus Christ. The Savior So Teotihuacan, the savior of the world, we wait, we look for, we look for with outstretched neck, standing on tiptoes, looking, looking. First person plural, present indicative, middle voice, for ourselves. We want to, we're looking anxiously so we can touch Him. Touch Him. You know, Jesus touched me. touched you all over the world if you've been born again. He touched you with his life and with his blood, with his forgiveness, with his love. And it rubs off on us a little bit. It should, doesn't it? We'll look out and we wait anxiously for the Kyrio Gesu Christoun. Kyrio Gesu Christoun. the Lord, Master Jehovah, Jesus the Christ. Jehovah is that word kirio. That's the word in the Old Testament, in the Septuagint, the Lord for Jehovah is kirio, or kirios. Verse number 21 now. That's where we'll finish for this evening. Hos meta skema tise, to soma tes tā pein no sīos, himōn sīma mōrfōn tō somāti tēs dōxia autōn karatēn. That's a long verse. Energēon tū dināste autō kāi hipotākse autō tā pānta. that's a long verse there, who, a little nominative singular masculine relative pronoun, who Jesus Christ, he shall change, according to his schematic, his blueprint, that word meta, with, schematize, that word is only used two times in the New Testament. And another one back here, this word in 317, sema mimeneque, that's only used one time in the New Testament. Here and in 1 Corinthians 11 and 1. And here we have this word meta-schematize. It's only used two times in the New Testament. Here and in Romans 8, 28. He shall change, according to a pattern, the body of the humiliation, the lowliness, the low estate, the tapenosios, of us taking part in metamorphosis seen morphon here we have word metamorphosis right out of morphon taking part in or metamorphosis of the body of the glory of him according to of the glory the body the somata the soma of the body of the glory of him according to the energizing Energion. We got our word energizes right out of that. Energizes right out from Energion to Dynaste. Energizing and operating and to be able to present infinity passive to be calls to be able to Dynaste. That one right there, that means the calls to be able to him. Even, again here, now we have a particle of affirmation here, 208 Chi again, to be subject to, to stand under and obey, Hippo Toxe, stand under and obey. These are like soldiers in a line at attention. They're standing under a general or a captain or whatever. He is a captain of our souls, isn't he? To be subject to, 1st Aries Infinitive Active, Hippo Toxe. The thing's all. The body of our humility, the state that we have today, don't you ever get tired of temptation with your life? Paul said that he was just miserable because of temptations and things in his life. Jesus was tempted, but he sinned not. We get tired of that. One of these days we're going to be conformed like Jesus. We won't have that. We won't have the temptations, we won't have the anger, we won't have the disappointments in this world. You know, I've run into a lot of bad people in my life, bad contractors, just bad people in general, crooked people, deceitful people, charlatans, and then you look at at the world and you see that that's what the world is. It's a world full of sin, greed, power, wickedness. One woman said to her children one time, I want to put the fear in you because fear is power. Fear is power. And that's what the world wants. You know, we live in a democratic republic and we had a lot of trouble with that the last four years. It wasn't quite a democratic republic anymore. It was kind of a very, very no freedom of speech in all reality. Very much censored in every way. But now we might have a breath of air of freedom again, and I pray so. But we know that the world is not going to be wonderful and utopia, but heaven is. We are just a colony of pilgrims, just a colony of pilgrims in a foreign land. We're a colony of heavenlies in a earthling world. Our Father, we send this message out for your honor and glory. Please use it wherever it goes for your sake. Save souls and convict sinners of sin, righteousness, and judgment to come. Please forgive us, please protect us from wicked people and wicked things. In Jesus name we pray, amen.