We've done several different messages today. We did one on the secrets from the ancient languages. We did one on compassion and love for one another. And now we're going to do one on the deity and humanness of Christ. Paul is combating here with the Gnostics. And the children of Israel, all of it. He's got quite a war going here. And we will study this. We're going to study about the triune God. We're going to hear all of this in these next few verses. Medain, kat, erathion, meday, katah, kenodoxion, alah, tain, etapenophrosinae allelus hagumenoi hyperrecontis mea ton meidane moreover not one thing that comes from the little definite epsilon there the we can verse it can dump your particle 84 and then it comes from the word may, that's a adverbic negation or particle negation that is, page 268. And then n, it's just a numeral. More over not one thing, according to Kata, page 213, there's what it comes from, it's shortened here for euphony. Euphony means good sound. No more over not thing, according to rivalry, Eretheon. Rivalry. That is jealousy. Rivalry. Northern, according to, nor, mayday, there again, there, mayday here. Neither or nor, a little conjunction, page 265. According to, that's a preposition, page 213 again. And then, can no docion, empty glory. Empty glory. Kano means empty. Empty pride. Jealousy, empty pride. This is like the O in infinites, the zero. Zero. Sometimes people are born in this world with this absolutely a silver spoon in their mouth, so to speak. And then they're born with nothing. Nothing. I am so thankful that I was so rich when I was young. Usually I tell you I'm so poor, but I was rich because my grandmother and my grandfather loved me. My mother didn't want me after the first day when I come home from the hospital, and she told my grandmother, I just can't take care of him, he bothers me too much. I can't rest, can't sleep or anything else. So my grandmother took me because she was rich in love for me, and she was until the day she died. He was killed in 1960. Died in 61, just right at the end of the year, and the first person to die in Beckerville, California in 1961. A drunk man ran over her. This broke her body all to pieces. Nothing according to green glory, but strong adversity conjunctive. Page 15, in humility. That word is ta-pe-tho-fro-si-ne. It talks about a dignified mind. It talks about austenacious humility. We know something. We all ought to know this. I've talked to some real highfalutin Christians in my life that they thought God had chosen them and they were the best there was. And I've talked to some that said, I haven't sinned for 50 years and things like that. That's not humility. Humility is realizing who you are and that you are a sinner saved by grace, even though maybe you thought until you come up to the point that you just basically had no sin. I remember when I read the Old Testament, I went to this Pentecostal church and they gave me a Bible. I didn't hear him preaching there, but I read that Bible. And I felt like a dirty dog. I thought I had to go sacrifice my dog, my chickens, or something to come to God because I was no good. I was rotten. I went down there to that altar and my ex-step-grandmother came down there and said, Jimmy, what's wrong? And I said, I think I need to be saved, but I don't know anything about it. And she led me to the Lord. And I just, my mind changed. I felt free. I felt forgiven. humility in this dignified mind with one another, with one another, elenus, counting. Let's look at that word counting there. Egoimai, that's where it comes from, it's present participle, middle voice, nomine plural masculine. Counting for myself, excelling, this word surpassing everything, it comes from apor and erkeko, surpassing everything and all boundaries and all limits themselves. Verse number 2 and we're going to go back and then we're going to read it from the Amplified Bible. Not the things, that little particle of negation there, page 268, that word in the May there. the things of themselves. Hiaton, that is a reflexive pronominal adjective there, of themselves, each one. Escatos, escatos there means each one individually. Looking at and fixing your gaze upon, your eyes upon, present participle, active, nominative, plural, masculine, from scopio, scoping out. In a scope, you don't see things all over, you see what you look at, right there, where you're pointing. You see that object only, you don't see the things around. Looking as an object, fix your eyes upon, but also the things of others, each one. Others, different one kind, different ones, a little adjective there. Davis Grammar, that one, page 59. others of a different kind, each one, each and every one separately. Now let's go back and look at these two verses in the Amplified Bible. Let's go back all the way to verse number one. The if in here, the conditional particle, first life conditional particle, as I said before, so it's not if in English, it is since. Therefore, since there is any encouragement and since there's comfort in Christ, as there certainly is in abundance, first life conditional particle, the condition is determined as fulfilled. And if there is any, or since there is any condition of love, since there is any fellowship, there we share in the Spirit, since there is also a great depth of affection and compassion. Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love toward one another, being knit together in the Spirit, intent on one purpose and living a life that reflects your faith and spreads the gospel. the good news according to salvation through faith in Christ. Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit through factional motives and strife, but with an attitude of humility. Being neither arrogant nor self-righteous, regard others as more important than yourselves. Others are more important, they're different from you. Look upon them as more important than your own needs. And I see that sometimes in Christian people and it's a great trait. Now let's go here in verse number five. Now I told you earlier there's different kinds of words for love. Agapeo or agape, that means sacrificial love that you love, that's a godly love for God so loved the world. And I had one writer, I wrote a whole book on Agape that it wasn't a divine love because he said the Pharisees loved Agapeo, the praising man, more than God. Well, they gave their souls, they loved their souls, or their pride unto death. And here we have words, we're going to compare words for mind also. We have the word agape, we have the word philo, which means to love deeply as a friend. We have the word eros, which means to have an erotic love for one another. We have the word storgeos or geio, which means to love as family, a very close family love. And then you have the word ponerio, which means a twisted love. And here we're going to look at some words for mind also. Two in verse five, tuto, fronete in gemen ha chi in Christo esu. And I want you to have this mind, I want you to think like Christ. He said, you think or you consider, that's a way of looking at things and others, that's second person plural present imperative active, froneo, this way, in preposition, page 137, in you all, which also in Christ, Jesus. Think like Christ. Think, you know what Christ thought of? Going to that cross for you and me. I know that he felt all of my sins on his back and on his shoulders in that cross. And I'm ashamed of it, that he had to die for me like that. I am ashamed of that. That's the kind of shame that leads you to salvation. That's the kind of shame that gives you the grace to go on. Here we have the word phronē here. But there's our five words from mine, graciously in Greek, the five words. The first time I ever heard this, I like to fell to my seat. I was sitting down at CMBI, California Missionary Baptist Institute, and Brother Madden got up there, and we were teaching from here. Like this. We were teaching from the book of Philippians and from the book of Ephesians. And he was talking about the five words for mind. When he said that, a click in my head. I want to know these. He said, you have to look them up. You have to look them up. So I went home that day and I got my word, my Greek Bible out. I had Bollinger's lexicon there and it had different words for minds in it and everything else. And I looked it up and I got them all down, except for one, and then I had to go back the next day. I said, I got this one, this one, this one, this one. What's the other one? Anyway, I remember that man. I loved him so much. One noose, noose. That's neen, omicron, epsilon, signa, or N-O-U-S is the way you pronounce it, noose. That means the faculty of perception. It means understanding, it means feeling, it means judgment, and it means determining spiritually. Ephesians 4.13 and Philippians 4.7 and Colossians 2.18. And all these are Paul's writings by the way. A new facility of thought. A new faculty of imagination. A branch of understanding that is high. with a new birth, that comes with a new birth. And then we have the word Nome. The word Nome, we get the word knowledge right out of this. Get a mind, knowledge. Nome. Gamma, Nu, Omega, Mu, and Eta. The ability to discern. Knowledge. Capacity of judgment as far as conduct is determined. 1 Corinthians 1 and 10. The direction or channel to a certain object determines the way that you facilitate your understanding and judgment of it. Emphasize a saved person looks at problems differently from the carnal passion and carnal mind. The word knowledge comes right out of that one. Then we have the word Bule. Bule. Bule means simply the mental will or plan. Bule and Thelma are spiritual activating force, I like to say. A noble act. Acts 27, 39, 2 Corinthians 1, 17, Matthew 1, 19, and Acts 15, verse 37, and Hebrews 6, 17, verse 19. Active force. The boule is an active force of energy. The word frame now, the word frame, that's phi, rho, eta, nu. The diaphragm, or method of the mind, or intellect, carnal intellect. This is carnal intellect. You ought to know better. Horse sense. Horse sense. I say that. I told Brother Madden one time, I said, you got more horse sense than a herd of wild mustangs. You know, I used to train mustangs. We had, yesterday afternoon I came home and there was two mustang stallions in my yard out here and I had to shoo them away. get them out of the yard so they wouldn't eat up the trees or go over there and jump the creek and eat my neighbor's hay sack. Horse sense. You know, if you train a Mustang, all horses and breeds of horses have different temperaments. You've got warm bloods and you've got cold bloods. And you've got hot bloods. Horses that are very, you know, thoroughbreds. The Gravians are hotbloods. The coldbloods are the draft horses. The warmbloods are the calm quarter horses sometimes if you breed them to that. You can breed them to the hot side or the cold side. The way you look at things, the mind, the brain. Horse sense. I trained a lot of mustangs in my life. One of them went down here on the Harlemont Ranch And they said that was the best horse they ever had on that ranch. That horse would keep you alive. Mustangs are survivors. If they weren't, if they're not up running around out there, that means they didn't survive. So the only ones that are living are the ones that survived. The Indians were the toughest people. The ones that survived all of that persecution back there, the ones that survived it all were tough. They made it through it all. The Mustangs are tough. They're survivors. You go up there in a wild sheep, you get big horn sheep, the antelope, the deer, the old ones were survivors. Survivors. Horse sense, that word frame there means horse sense. Survival sense. The diaphragm or midriff, the mind or intellect, the carnal intellect. This is the subtlety of mind which neither saved nor lost is able to see sometimes. Common sense, horse sense. 1 Corinthians 14, 20, 4, 16, and Romans 12 and 3. Then comes the word Sophia. That's one of your favorite words isn't it, Marilyn? Sophia? That's what Sophia, Lauren, that name, it means something. It means the ability to use all the faculties of the mind, eis agathon. And eis agathon, I'll write that down there, for the good. For the good, eis agathon. to bring about noble or righteous results, the ability by which divine things are apprehended, known and used in James 1 verse 15, the ability to adapt physical means to bring about righteous results, Acts 6 and verse 10. These are some of the words that are very important. some of the words that are very important. Let's read this last word now from this last verse. Verse number four and five, actually. Do not merely look upon or look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. You know, you see people in politics, you see people that are in politics that make their family rich. And you see people in politics like Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt, even Donald Trump, they are rich. They didn't have to, they worked for what they had. They got it, they attained it, and they're keeping it. But when they're going into public service, they're serving other people. They're not serving themselves. They're not serving their family. They already got it made. For generations they got it made. They got money. But they serve people to for humanity as a debt they owe to humanity. Do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. Have this same attitude in yourself which is in Christ Jesus. Look to Him as your example and selfless humility. Selfless humility. Selfless humility. You can look at people in the world. You heard the story of the Christmas night or Scrooge and all that stuff. I mean, they went to him and asked him to help these families and make a donation for them and he ran along. Then he had this terrible dream that this death angel came to him, so to speak. The Reaper, the Grim Reaper came to him and he gave him one more chance. And he got out the next morning and he went and fixed everything he'd made bad. He changed his mind. That's a good old story. You know, stories like that. We used to have Roy Rogers and Randolph Scott. All these people, John Wayne and many of these people, they would go out there and they would always be standing against evil and the wrong in society. And many times they'd give their lives for it. They'd lose the woman, the love of their life, sometimes and sometimes they'd get her. But in all of this they were doing things for other people. Other things for other people. Not living for yourself, but doing things for the other people. You look down to the history of presidents and you'll see that sometimes. Those that live for themselves and build up their own fortunes and families. And those that live for society. You know, originally when you became president or you became a senator or you became a representative, you had to take, this was a sacrifice. You lost money. You didn't gain money. You lost money. George Washington didn't want to be president, but they wanted him to be president. They wanted him to be the king. He said, no, we just got rid of that. And he was one of the richest men in America, but he gave two terms of his life for the American people. Two terms of his life. And I think about the word Theodore Roosevelt. The word Matthew, we just finished the book of Mark in the Bible, but the book of Matthew in the Bible, I thought about the word Matthew, it means gift of God. But I just learned something recently, the word Theodore, is a Greek equivalent to Matthew, which means gift of God. Now think about Theodore Roosevelt. Theos, God, Dore. Dora means gift, gracious. Theodore means a gift of God. And how that man, Theodore Roosevelt, really was a gift of God to the American people. And Matthew, of course, was a gift of God. Matthew and Theodore are the same words, actually, the same names. I hope that you're learning something from God's Word. I hope God is touching your heart with it, guiding you, leading you to a more consecrated life, a life that would be honorable to God, a life that's not your own. You're not your own. You are God's when you're a child of God. If you're not a child of God, then you do whatever you want to do. in life. You just go on like the rest of the world. But when we're born again, when we need to, when we serve God, we serve him, not for glory, but for in humility, for his sake, you live on this land. Whether you're 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, maybe 100 years old. Jimmy Carter, I think about him, he was kind of a failure as a president. But that was one of the greatest men that ever walked the face of the earth. He lived a life of service. A life of service. He wasn't really a politician. He was a scientist. He was a nuclear scientist. But he lived a life of service for other people. A life of service. May we live that kind of life of service for our Lord and Savior. Our Father, we send this message out for your honor and glory. Please use it to honor and to exemplify and to uplift your name among all people all over the world. In Jesus' name we pray, and please forgive me where I'm going.