The book of Philippians, the fourth chapter, a few verses here from the Greek language. I'll read it in the Amplified Bible first. Therefore, my fellow believers, whom I love and long for, my delight and my crown, my wreath of victory, in this way I stand firm in the Lord my beloved. I urge Euodia and I urge Cynthia to agree and to work in harmony with the Lord. These two people were not getting along very well in the church, evidently. And by the way, they made a little bit of a mistake here when I said my wreath of victory. That's not what I was talking about. We'll get to that in a minute. They usually do pretty well in Greek, but this time they missed the boat. Indeed, I ask you, too, my companion, to help these women to keep on cooperating, for they have shared my struggle in the cause of the gospel, together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life. Rejoice in the Lord always, delight, take pleasure in Him, and again I will say rejoice. Let your gentle spirit and your graciousness and unselfishness and mercy and tolerance and patience be known to all people. The Lord is near. That's where we'll quit right there. And we'll go back and look through this. Hoste Adelphoi Mu Agapetoi. epipothetoi kara kai stefanos mu hotos stekete en kyrio agapetois. So as, now this word here, hoste, comes from hos and te, and the hos is on page 444, and it means so as to speak, or in this manner, Brothers, Adelphoi, and remember this, as these people were, when we're born into the world, we're born from a real father and a real mother. Unlike Jesus, he was born not from the Adamic race, not with Adam's blood in him, but with God's blood in him, like Adam was. Let me explain that to you for just a moment. The word Dom has got red in it. It's got Dom, it's got blooded, Adam, Adam. Adam, God created Adam. Now, he formed him as he formed the dust of the earth, not from dust, but as he formed it. And he's a primary creation of God. And then when he formed him, he breathed into him the breathings of life, and what he breathed into him was his blood. And he became a living being, a living soul. a living soul, ha-gah nefesh. Now, when Jesus was born, if he'd had the blood of Adam in him, that blood was contaminated in Genesis, the third chapter. But he didn't have that contaminated blood in him. He came from the seed of the woman. The woman does not pass on the sin nature to the child. The man does. And so Jesus' blood and his life came from God. He literally, God, reproduced himself. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, so whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have an everlasting life. When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son, made of a woman, made of a woman, that he might redeem those under the law, that he might redeem those that were under the curse of the law. Now, Adelphoi here, we have a mother and father of earth, earthlings. And we have, when we're born again, a father from heaven. We're born from heaven. We're born again from above. And so these, so as born again brothers of me. Agapetoi, this word comes from agapeo and agape. And it means a sacrificial love like in John 3.16, for God so loved him sacrificially that he gave his only begotten son. And so, brothers of me beloved here, beloved, beloved of God and beloved of me, and longed upon, longed upon, there's a little verbal adjective, epiposateoid, epiposateoid. It's out in a minute. And joy. Cara, joy. And that word passion is there in that word epipotheo, pathos. Joy and Stephanos. Now here's the problem that they did. The word Stephanos does not mean a crown that is won. It is a crown by birth. Every child that Paul the Apostle birthed of God became part of his crown. His crown. The crown there, the name Stephen and Stephanie comes from this word too also. Crown, reward, you can look that up on page 376 by the way. The crown of me So as this Hutoser, thusly in this manner, Stakete, ye stand fast in the Lord Beloved, in our beloved God. You know, as you mature in Christ, as you study God's Word, and as you wake up and live this day and wake up and live tomorrow and wake up and live the next day and maybe you live the last 50 or 60 years. 65 years ago, I asked the Lord to save my soul. 65 years ago. And as I age and as I commune with God I am more thankful for Jesus Christ every day because he is the one that will take me in the cabin it is not me for burst to now you'll be on parakaló hi sent a cane I parakaló parakaló toll auto phone a Her name means good and road. It comes from you and hodos. Good road. That's what her name means. It means traveling, a person that is traveling, a traveling road. My name in Indian is Sugamata Tonka. Shukumeata Tonka in Lakota, and my name is Traveling Dog. And here, her name is the traveling girl, the good road, the woman that travels on the good road. I beseech you, para and kalo, this comes from para and kaleo, and it means, it's first person singular, present indicative, active, and it means I beg you from the bottom of my heart. I stand behind you, I hold you, I whisper in your ear, and I beseech you, and I beg you. Chi, and the conjunction phase 2a, and syntyche, syntycone. Her name means accident. Accident. That's what her name means, accident. I beseech, first person singular, present indicative active again from power of collio, I call beside and then we have the word told the one same to thank to thank the same live in harmony in the Lord live in harmony in the Lord from name to thank the same present infinitive active from from mayo in the Lord thank the same in the Lord how do you think the same in the Lord you know people that are married for a long time. Marilyn and I have been married for quite a few times, several lustrums, haven't we? And sometimes she knows what I'm going to do before I'm going to say it, huh? And I know what she's going to say before she says it. All we have to do is look at each other and we can figure out what's going on. To think the same, to think alike, to commune in your mind. When you're a member of a church, the church ought to think alike. The church ought to think alike. 4 in verse 3 now. Nei eroto kai si nose, si keke, si labano, altoes, haitenes, ento yongalio, sin el thalason, Yes, nei in Greek is yes. Nei is yes. Nay. No is ook, or may. Yes, I ask, eroto. First person singular, present indicative, from eroto. Now, this word, I ask there, it means I ask also you, genuine. It means to more than ask, I am pleading with you. I am interrogating you. I ask deeply, sincerely, interrogatingly, also, and this word chi here, this is a cumulative particle, not a conjunction, in page 208, that you, that little second person pronoun there, genuine, you may say, genuine, it's vocative senior. Genuine. Genuine fellow worker. Also genuine fellow worker. Shigete, shi, suzuki, fellow worker. Ye help or ye receive together or take together, that word second person singular, present indicative middle boy, present imperative middle boys, that is. Receive together, you take together them who, in the gospel, into young Leon, the good news, they struggled with. Me, with both Clement, Clement, Clementos, Clementos. That means merciful. Clementos means merciful. There's a lot of Italian people named Clement, Clemente, merciful. and a conjunction H208 and the ones remaining loepon that's genitive plural present participle active from loepo and the ones there ton is a genitive plural masculine just like the participle it's identifying there and pointing to but we have the word ones down there the ones remaining the ones there is a practical substitute and it's just taking As a grammatical fact, that the onesie is there. Fellow workers, yoke fellows, as oxen are yoked together to plow, pulling the same load. We all need to pull the same load. The pastor is not the one that needs to just pull the load. I know many times in my life, and all the time I was at Valley Baptist Church for more than 20 years, I paid my way. Now here in Fish Lake Valley in our little church here, discover the word missionary by the church, I'm paying my own way also. If some of you want out there to help, thank you. I need the help, especially this time of year. The fellow workers, yoke together people, pulling the same load of me, genitive, singular, first person, pronoun, of whom the names, the onomatopoeia, in the Book of Life, in the Biblio Zoes. This is the only use of this term here, outside of John's writing, by the way. And some of the words here that Paul used are used only one time in the New Testament. The Book of Life. Our names were written in the Book of Life back in eternity past, before God created anything. He knew us. He knew you, Marilyn. You little blue-eyed thing over there. He knew you. You know that? Jesus, God, knew you in eternity past. He knew me. He knew all of you out there. He knew your names, He knew the life, everything that you would live, because He's omnipresent. He can jump from one eternity into space and time and see it just like it's right here all the time, except He'd see your whole life. The ones remaining, fellow workers of me, of whom the names in the book, in Book of Life, in Biblo, the Scroll of Life, all the saved names were written in the Book of Life before God ever created the heavens and the earth. or he ever created the angels. And he knew that he himself would break into the human race to marry the seed of the woman and bring himself into space and time so that he might die for us, suffer for us, pay for our sins that we have committed, yet he suffered for. That's real foreknowledge, people. They're Revelation 13 and 8, Revelation 20 and verse 15, and John's writing. Verse 4 and verse 4 now, 4 and verse 4. Carete in curio. Pontote, Pauline, ero carete. Rejoice with, rejoice with, ye rejoice, second person plural, present indicative, active, from Cairo. Ye rejoice in the Lord, pontote always. That's a little adverb that comes from Pos, page 308, 300 in the analytical Greek lexicon. Again, a little adverb, page 300, in I shall say ye rejoice. And again, I shall say to rejoice. Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice in the Lord, that your names are written in the Lamb's book of life, that God loved you before the creation of the heavens and the earth. This ought to make you humbled. I'm a sinner. I don't know about you. I'm a sinner. Without the blood of Jesus Christ, I could never make it through the pearly gates. No way. it takes his grace to save me and it take his grace to save you now in verse number 5 where we're going to end and 6 that is to epi epi a case him own no say to posse in entrepoise ho curios ingus, ingus, ingus. The forbearance of ye, the modesty of ye, the epi, the epi ekes. It's a Latin. The Latin word here is modity, modesty, modity, modesty. Meekness, active modesty, an adjective. James 3, 17, 1 Timothy 3 and 3. Of ye, Let it be known. Third person singular. First heiress. Imperative. Passive. Let it be called to be known. You don't have to say a word about it. Your personality should show that. To all. Pausine. Anthropos. To all men. Deity plural. Myceline. A little section of the lycian word there. Mankind. All mankind. All of Adam's children. The Lord is near. Jehovah is near. He is always near. That word, Angus there, that's an adverb, page 111. It means always near at hand's grasp, at finger touch. The Lord is always near for you. Have you ever been in a time in your life when you Didn't know whether you were going to live or die. I've had that a lot. Too much. Not exciting at all. But you're going into some operation or something. I remember going in for my first back surgery in 1972. They had to fuse my whole lower back, and that was an experimental situation. I was under anesthesia for 9 and 1 1⁄2 hours. Now, if I have to go through this brain tumor thing, it's going to be 10 to 12 hours, which let's see how that happens, if that does happen, if I live long enough. Anyway, they gave me a 50% chance of living. And I was in my 20s. I was young. I was strong at that time. I was out in the oil fields working and destroyed my back. And I was going to be paralyzed or else have this operation, so I had to have it. or else I wouldn't be walking the rest of my life. Well, they rolled me around in that bed for 19 hours, but I woke up. I was in shock. I shook, and my teeth shattered for days off and on, days and days and days. And I prayed to God all the time. I get my mind off of that, and I take myself someplace else. I take myself up there near him, up there near him. I was on morphine. I had over 80 shots of morphine. And I was about half awake and half asleep all the time. I prayed, and I was listening to Bible classes, and they were on reel-to-reel tapes. And I'd put one of them on, and I'd wake up, and the tape would go, do-do-do-do-do, flip-flip-flip-flip-flip. I'd listen to all of it. Then I'd put another one on. I'd lay there, and that was all I could do. And I just listened to the Bible and Bible teaching. Finally, one time, I think I was hallucinating, and this reminds me of that right here, this word, the Lord is near. I'd been studying some Greek and some Hebrew and a little Latin and things, and a whole lot of Bible. I was laying there one night, and I saw Jesus just come out of heaven. I'd been talking to him all the time. But I just saw him come down out of heaven. This, like I said, this is probably a hallucination from the morphine, but it was real as it could be. He came down and he said, am I Ericka Myanon, which was a combination of Latin and Greek. I knew what it was. He said, I am coming soon. That was more than 50 years ago. more than 50 years ago. But I still feel it today. It felt like he was right there. I saw him walk in there and here he was and he just reached onto me and picked me up off of that bed like that. Some people said, well, maybe you were dying and you lived, you came back to life. I was a really inspired by that, even though I didn't think that it really happened. There was a real good Christian man in the bed next to me, and I woke up, and I said, did you see that? He said, what? There was nothing. I said, Jesus walked into this room. He said, no he didn't. He said, you were hallucinating. I walked in there, and he laid me down, said Am I or am I not, and then he opened the door and walked down the hallway. and out. Now I'm not saying I had a vision or anything at all, but it affected me greatly. It felt like I was in his presence. My hair stood on end. I had a lot more of them too. He is near you always. I don't have to have this vision to where he comes and talks to me. I know he's there at my fingertips all the time. He's there. He's at my very beckoning call. He hears every word I say. And I talk to him a lot. I'm a mechanic. I'm a carpenter, an electrician, and a whole bunch of things. I just pray sometimes when I'm working on an object or something, I just say, Lord, help me through this. Help me find this thing. And pretty soon, I find it. I lost a little boat the other day, or a little nut, actually, a castle nut, if you want to get down technically to it. It was a little castle nut. And I lost it, and I said, boy, I'll never find that again. Then I got up there, and I was thinking, and I said, well, I'm going to trace my tracks and go back where it might be. And I went back there, and there it was, this little tiny thing, not over a quarter of an inch wide, little bitty thing. And there it was. And I got it. I put it back where it belonged. Oh, it was so wonderful. And I said, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Every time I remember praying out on the farm, I have all these problems out there, plumbing problems and things, and I ask him, I will, one time I remember this, I was working this guy named Ricky. He said, what are we going to do? This water is here, we can't turn the water on? Kind of like last week. Until I fixed this thing, I had a problem back last week, down there on the barn. Anyway, there was this three inch pipeline, and it's a pretty thin wall, and it's what it is, it's a steam generator tubing, steam tubing that goes through. You have to rattle them out and everything, but these three inch lines were in there and they had welded all these together. There was no joints in there that were screwed together. They're all welded together. And here is a three quarter inch female fitting coming up out of it. And this thing was done in probably 1940 and it was brittle and the pipe broke off. I want God a torch and prayer all the time. Lord, please help me get this done. And I didn't really think I could do it. I was going to try, and I knew how to do it, but I didn't know whether it would work or not. I beat around on that thing gently so it didn't get any more cracks in it with two hammers all around like that. Then I heated it up real good, and I put this easy out in there, and here it came right away. It shouldn't have, but it did. Came right out. And I just said right then, thank you, Lord. And Ricky said, what were you doing, praying? I said, I've been praying all the time on this deal. Yeah, he said, I didn't think we were going to get that out. How are we going to fix this line? You know, you can't weld it or what else. It's just, it's hard to weld a line with water in it. But we did it. We got it done. Thank the Lord. He's always at my fingertips. Now, that's pretty materialistic, but I'm going to tell you something. God is in your life. He's there. He's at your fingertips when you need Him. Just remember, He's there. He doesn't have to come down out of heaven and walk in there and pick you up off a table and say, Amy, Erica, Mai, Anon. He's there. You don't have to see that. Prayer and meditation. You know there's monks and they'll sit in a temple for hours and hours and torture themselves saying the same prayers over and over and the Lord said, I hate that. I hate it. I don't want that. I don't want these reputation players. I want you to talk to me like I'm your friend. Because Jesus is your friend. You talk to God because Jesus gives you the right to talk to God. You can call Father, Father because of that. God the Father, you can say right, Father. You can say that and know that he's hearing you. Prayer is a privilege. It's not an ordeal. It's not a punishment. You know, in the Catholic Church, they go in there, oh, I've sinned, I've done this, I've done that. Go say 50 Hail Marys and Our Fathers and all of this. Prayer to them is a torture. But prayer is a privilege. It is something, a right that we have as a child of God. He wants to be part of your life every day. He wants to be there at your elbow, at your fingertips, sitting beside you in that car when you're going through a snowstorm or horrible accidents. I remember I've been a ham operator and a CB operator for a long, long time, since 1960, but it took me a long time to talk. Probably until 1970, I couldn't talk. 10 years of silence, but listening a lot. I was going to seminary in Bellflower, California in the 1970s. I monitored classes down there since 1969 or 68. And I was coming back home in the middle of the night, and it was so foggy down on the ridge route. I was going through Tahoe Pass. And I was listening on the radio. I had a Yaesu FT-707 sitting there. And I was listening to channel 19 or 15, one or the other. I can't remember which one it was. They said, watch out, watch out, watch out. There's people all over the road. There's wrecks everywhere. There was a 75 car pile up there. And I just slowed way down. And you know how hard it is, Maryland, out there in that tule fog. It's just almost one white line. If you can see that, it's a miracle sometimes. And I went through there. I went out in the meridian. And I just went through all of this and went down, went down, went down, slowed down a lot. But I never had to stop because I knew it was coming. I came in here. I bought a generator for Maryland. Because we had to have a generator for our oxygen several years ago now. I don't know how many it's been, five years ago or something. Four. And I was coming in from, I bought it in Bakersfield, California, and I was coming in from Old River, and it's pretty heavy, and I had my Tundra pickup, 300,000 miles on it, coming up over Montgomery Pass. And the car didn't quit. I came up there and the snow was so hard that I couldn't see three feet in front of me. I couldn't see where the road was. And I was creeping, creeping, creeping. It took an hour and a half to go 11 miles down into this valley. And I was talking to her on the radio all the time on the Maryland. All the time talking to her on the radio. Praying, praying, praying. The Lord was there beside me, right in my seat with me, guiding me. So many times God has brought me through those things. So many times I should have died in crashes. 1970-something, I had a head-on crash with an Oldsmobile 98 going 95 miles an hour, and I was doing 45 in a cheap one-ton pickup. My boy, that was exciting. The guy, the other man, got killed instantly. I'm driving this Jeep pickup, I got my hands on the steering wheel, I got my foot on the brake. We're going to hit head-on, I couldn't do anything about it. He was drinking a little bit and driving pretty fast coming home from his daughter's wedding, of all things. I held my hand on that thing, and I pushed that steering wheel through the windshield. The impact was so great. I broke the brake pedal off of that 1953 Jeep one-ton pickup. I went backwards faster than I was going forward, but at an angle. I was going this way, and I went like that, at an angle, probably 40 miles an hour backwards. I had my foot on the brake, but nothing was there, no brakes. The car just kept on going, going, going. Sparks were flying all over the place. I opened the door. The key of the ignition was in my knee, my right knee. And my hands were all bloody. I had a bag of walnuts in the seat, and half of them were cracked all over. I opened the door and looked out there, and there was no front end on that Jeep. My 289 Ford engine was laying out there in the middle of the road, the transmission. It knocked the ring gear off the flywheel. It broke the bell housing completely, it crushed it. The engine was out there, the front end was all over, laying in different places. That's a powerful, hard, made out of steel and iron. It was all over the place. Two weeks later, I had another wreck. I flipped over in the air, but I landed on my wheels. Rubber side down, not shiny side up. Or shiny side up, not down. I pushed my son, I pushed him in the floor, I got my mouth cut all to pieces. Had another mouth underneath my mouth. Two mouths. I got out of that and I said, Lord, are you trying to talk to me? Lord, have I been talking to you enough? That's when I really turned around in my life. He got my attention. Has he got your attention? Is he talking to you? Has he got something for you to do? God wanted me to preach his word. I'm an operator for 10 years and never could say a word. I was so bashful, mic-shy, I could key the mic and couldn't say a word. I couldn't even send a CW signal out. I couldn't do it. I'd key up the microphone, they'd say, is somebody out there? This is just Jordan shaking. Couldn't talk. Boy, it was real hard. And here God called me to preach. Let me tell you something else. Another little tiny story. God deals with you these ways. In all of these ways, He deals with you. My grandmother got killed. She was my mother. My great-grandmother and my grandmother raised me. My mother gave me away to them when I was one day old. I'd been in the hospital, actually. I was probably a week old or something. I was in the hospital, had all kinds of problems. They had to give me blood transfusions and everything else. Anyway, when I got out of the hospital the first night, my mother put me over there in her little crib, and I moved around and bothered her. So she went to her mother and she said, Mama, I can't sleep with him in the house with me. Can you take care of him? And she said, she never gave you back. She didn't want me. That was her excuse, anyway. She got killed. She got killed. A drunk driver ran over her and killed her. And I just was lost in this world. I was the only person in the world that really loved me at that time. And I just felt lost in the world. And I went to church, where my friend, father was pastor of that church, and it was a charismatic, hyper-charismatic church. They didn't preach, really. They preached, but they just preached in unknown tongues and such and such, and it was kind of a confusion. But I was, they gave me a Bible and I read the whole Bible and I was in conviction and I went down to the altar when they were preaching. They didn't give an altar call or anything. Matter of fact, they just talked in tongues and went around all over the place shouting hallelujah and all of this. It was not really, and I love those people too. They were good, morally Christian, wonderful people. They just didn't preach the word of God. But God was under my skin. He was in my heart from his word. I went down there, my ex-step-grandmother, went down to Jimmy. She said, what's wrong? I said, you know, Grandma got killed. She said, I know, Jimmy. I said, I'm really sad, but I feel like God wants me to be saved. I don't even know what that means. And she led me to the Lord. Providence, providence, providence, providence, providence, all over the place. I don't think that I've ever, from the time in my, I was born in this world, I don't think there was a time that God wasn't around me. You know, I, I told you before I fell down an outhouse one time, when I was probably less than a year old, and I was screaming for my grandfather, and he slowly came out there and fished me out, And I almost drowned in Kern River when I was young, too. My stepdad told me. I said, can I go swimming? He said, well, just haul off and jump in there. Well, I'm a stupid little kid. I just hauled off and jumped in there and let her drown. Dumb. A lot of things, you know. Nearly drowned and blown up, whatever. But the Lord was always near me, always near me, always there. I look back and I see that there was never a time in my life that he wasn't at my fingertips calling me to him. Calling me to him. Learned to walk out crawling in a cotton field picking cotton. Probably 120 or 30 degrees in Bakersfield area. Working up here chasing wild horses and trained in wild horses, and those are little dangerous beings. I got horseshoe prints and teeth marks all over me. God brought me through all that, too. I thank my Lord, and I thank my gods. Prayer is a privilege. It's not an ordeal. You don't pray because you're being bad, and you pray all these prayers again and again and again because you think somehow those prayers are going to wash your sins away. Jesus Christ's blood washes your sins away. It is not the prayers, repetitious prayers like the Muslims, like the Buddhists, like the Catholics do. It is prayers from the heart that you come to God and He is there and you say, Lord, Jesus Christ died for my sins. I know that. I want to be saved. I need you to save my soul and forgive my sins and renew my heart and my mind and teach me to love you. In Jesus' name, we ask you, Father, to use this message wherever it goes throughout the world for your honor and glory. I'm an old man now, and all I know to do is just preach about you and how you love this how their son died for us. Every day, I appreciate that more. Father, use this message throughout the world, in the media that you've given me. You know, I prayed a long time to you, Father. I just prayed somehow in the world that your truth and your absolute, undiluted word would be able to go out throughout the world. I didn't know how it was going to happen either. But the internet, even though it's so bad, it can be so good too. Father, help it. Go out, help me to be able to get enough funds now to pay for these things at the end of the year in a hard time that I'm having financially too. Please put it on people's hearts to give this time of year. Please forgive me where I fail you. In Jesus name I pray, amen.