Welcome to another message from God's Word. We're in Philippians, the fourth chapter, and starting with verse number six. And I want to read a little bit of this from the Amplified Bible before we get started. Here we go, verse number six in the Amplified Bible. Do not be anxious or worried about anything, but in everything and every circumstance and situation, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, continue to make your specific requests known to God. And the peace of God, that peace which measures or reassures the heart, that peace which transcends all understanding, that peace which stands guard over your hearts, and your minds and Christ Jesus is yours. Finally, believers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable and worthy of respect, whatever is right and confirmed by the word of God, whatever is pure and wholesome, whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever is admirable and of good repute, if there is any excellence, if there is any worthy of praise, think continually on these things. Center your mind on them and implant them in your heart. The things which you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things in daily life and the God who is the source of all peace and well-being will be with you. Now let's go back and look at it in the original language. By the way, a lot of people wonder why that I preach from Greek and Hebrew. I remember one of my students, 20 years ago at least, that was in my class on 1st and 2nd Peter, I believe it was, at Valley Baptist Church, and he was a former pastor. And he wasn't pastoring, hadn't been pastoring for a few years. I preached a couple of messages and he'd come up to me and he said, I've never heard anybody preach from Greek and Hebrew before. He said, this is fantastic. He said, you know, he said, when I was pastoring, he said, I just finally just run out of something new to preach, and I gave up. He said, with this, he said, it is a bottomless pit. It is a well of knowledge and everything. He said, I just, I'm all excited. About six months later, he said, I just threw my hat back in the ring. He said, I'm going to Washington, and I'm going to pastor a church up there, Oregon, one or the other. And I said, well, God bless you. He said, you fired me up from the original language. And I want to tell you this also, that Bible scholars, they don't study the Bible from English. Let me tell you that one more time. Real, genuine Bible scholars and theologians do not study the Bible from English, or German, or whatever. They go back to the original source. And they study it from that source. They study the text of the Bible. They study all of this. and they study it from the original languages. They don't study it from the translations, because translations are translations. Now, as I read this Amplified Bible to you, that is a translation. It's a pretty good explained translation. But there are places in there that it is wrong. And we'll go to the grammar and to the syntax of the sentences that we study. And we will see it from the inspired word, this is from God's lips through his own prophets. So that's why we do this. And I have been studying, this is Greek we're studying tonight, but I have been spending a lot of time studying Hebrew. I get up early in the morning, I haven't been feeling well. I get up real early, about four o'clock, and I go out in my little area where I study Hebrew and write Hebrew, and I write Hebrew for two or three hours or four hours or something in the morning before daylight. And I'm loving it. Always. It's always something there that just grabs ahold of you that the Englishness doesn't. Simple as that. So now let's get in here as we go on further. And we're in 4 and verse 6. We're talking about Christian prayers. And the last message I did is that prayer is not a burden. Prayer is not a punishment. Prayer is a privilege. You go into the Muslim world. Of course, they don't believe in Jesus Christ as the Christ of the Bible. He's just a prophet, and he didn't die on the cross for anybody or whatever. And Muhammad basically takes his place. But they got to pray five times a day. They have to pray five times a day. And they had to pray in Arabic. That's it. You've got to pray in Arabic. Well, pure Arabic, they say, which basically that's somewhat of a misnomer. It's like pure English today. English is evolving. So did Arabic. Anyway, we have Catholics that they go, that say so many Hail Marys, you've sinned, go say so many Our Fathers and so many Hail Marys, and this is praying and basically you're doing penance. You're punished with it. Prayer is not a punishment. It is a privilege that we come to God and just tell Him our hearts. Come to God and just speak to you Speak to God like you're talking to your best friend. Give him your heart. Give him your heart. And that's what it's talking about here. This is talking about prayer. Prayer is not a punishment. It is a privilege. Prayer is something that you have when you've been born again that is a right. You can say, our Father, which is in heaven. Our Father, our Father. I'm coming to you. I've got a problem here. Our Father, thank you for what you've done for me all of my life. Thank you for what Jesus did for me. Thank you for getting me through this problem here or that problem there. Thank you. You know, if you go to your mother and father all the time and all you do is tell them your problems, wouldn't you like to tell them how you appreciated it instead? That's what they want to hear. They don't want to hear your problems. They don't want to hear bad news bears. They want to hear, hey, I'm doing fine. Thank you for raising me like you did. I've seen so many things. There was a time when I thought you were really stupid. And all the things that you did, I didn't think was necessary. And now I realize that you were pretty sharp. One boy at one time said, it's an old story. He said, I thought my father was so stupid when I was 17 years old until I was 30. And all of a sudden, I woke up, and I didn't know how that old man learned as much as he learned since I was a youngster. Well, God, your Father, is there to hear your words, to hear your praise, to hear your thanks, to hear your problems. Here are the obstacles that you go through. Let's go back and read this. Maydain, merim nate al en pante te prosuke cai te dese meta eucharistia ta ito mata himon no risesto Prostontion. I turn it over here to make sure there's not a B. Some of these verses are pretty long, and they'll take up two pages. Medane. It comes from one there, and on the end of it, it's a henus, where it comes from. And then it comes from delta epsilon de, which is the week of birth of the conjunctive particle. And then a particle of negation, that's me in the front of it. more not one thing that's what how you literally translate more not one thing or nothing but moreover not one thing is accusative singular ye be anxious you all be anxious that's second person plural present imperative active it could be indicative also not ye be anxious, not you to be worried, stop being worried, be an optimist. But, strong adversity of conjunctive, page 15, all, in, preposition, our English in comes right out of that, in all, ponte, that's a little adjective describing all things, all things, And that, I say all things there because the word things is a practical substantive. All things, in, and here we don't have in there, but we got te, which is locative singular. But in the prayers, or in the prayer, and the petitions, look at that prosuche. That prosuche means to bend the knee toward. I this I've seen that you know I'm an old man so I've been in the ministry more than 50 years and I've seen different people pray at times I've I had a bus ministry when I was very young in my 20s I saw young people I taught young people I taught Sunday school I taught preschoolers even and It is astounding how some people pray. Just astounding. The youngest ones are the best examples of prayer. They are, really. Now, old people and young people, I think, are the best prayer warriors in all reality. I remember when I'd get children involved. You know, these are little Children, like five years old or so, and I teach him a little Greek and Hebrew. I taught him from this chart up here, this dispensational chart. They knew more than their parents is about the Bible, and they were preschoolers. And then their parents started coming in and looking in the windows and listening to me because they were learning. But the little child Children, I have a little child praying, you know, If you're not like a little child, you're not going to get into the kingdom of God, Jesus said. You've got to come in like a little child. A little child, they don't know anything but that God is great, that he's God, and they haven't had a lot of problems most of the time, except if you were raised like me, you know, in extreme poverty in India village. But, These little children would pray. Sometimes they'd get down on their knees and they'd pray. Sometimes they'd close their hands. Sometimes they'd look up in heaven and they'd say, God, Father? And they just, they're looking at him in his face. They can see him there. I remember my daughter, Dakota, she went through a lot of hard things in her life. From her birth mother, she was a real problem. Anyway, she was tortured a lot. And Dakota would lay there in bed at nighttime. I'd go tell her stories. I'd read her the Bible. I'd read some of my Indian stories to her. Then I'd tell things that happened in my life. And she'd just sit there and be so excited. You remember that, Marilyn? She'd go, please, daddy, daddy, tell me this story. Daddy, daddy, daddy, tell me this story. Well, either way, when I'd ask her to pray, she'd just lay there with her eyes wide open, just look up in heaven and say, God, I really need you. I've got some problems here. And she wanted him to answer her problems. She needed him to answer these problems. And she trusted him to do that. And this is what these verses are telling us. It says, prayer is not a burden. Prayer is not torture. Prayer is a privilege. I mean, how many of you go to a psychologist? Have any of you out there ever gone to a psychologist? I've got the best one right up there. Talk to him. Nothing, be anxious, but in all prayers, prostrate, bending your knee toward him, and all the prayers. the petitions day CA that means to bind your heart to God it comes from Dale it means to bind when you're in prayer concentrate on him concentrate on him and all bending a knee toward and all prayers we have Thanksgiving you can restart us you can reach the off That means good gifts, a form of prayer. And now the Catholic Church calls the wafer the Eucharist. With all thanksgiving, the request, I te mata, this petition now, with all petitions, one prayers, and two petitions, and the other request, our petition, Aitemata, a petition. Sometimes maybe we need to write down the things, and as we're praying, we can look at our little list, so we don't forget anything. Of course, you know what, if you forgot something, you can just say, oh, Father, I forgot this. And he's been listening all the time. I mean, he's there. Look at all the billions of people in the world today, and yet he listens to every prayer all over the planet. Petition with Eucharistios, with Thanksgiving, and the Christ of you, you all, let it be known, third person singular, present indicative, present imperative passive, that is, from no reason toward to God. Prost, ton, theon. Prost, ton, theon. Prost, a little preposition there, ton, accuses singular, masculine, definite article, and it agrees with number and gender case with theon. We had a word theology right out of that word, theon or theos. Here's accuser singular masculine. 4 and verse 7 now. Cae he erene tu theu. He perecusa ponta nun fru rese tas cardias. I'm trying to pronounce this very slowly for you. Himon cae ta Neuma, Ta, Himon, and Christuisu. And the peace. Look at this word, ereni, peace. Up here someplace, I've got a lexicon here on page 575. I don't remember what page it's on. Let's see if I can find Bollinger's real quick here. If I can see it, find it. Maybe. I see it over there. Page 575. I'll just read it to you. It's a critical Lexican correspondence to the English and Greek and Hebrew Bible. Actually, my bones hurt. Right up here someplace also is a Bible from H.T. Hubbard. my Hebrew and Greek teacher and my father in the faith, basically. He had a note in there, and I'll remember that note on page 575. And he was becoming senile. He was senile for quite a while. He was still teaching the Seminary Greek and Hebrew, but he'd lose his way to his class, they'd have to lead him to his class. But he got in the classroom, he knew what he was doing to do. This is on page 575, right there. Peace, Arrheni, rest, in contrast with strife. Denoting the absence or end of strife. The influenced by the Hebrew, Shalom, a state of health and well-being. Now, all this is in Greek and Hebrew, by the way. It denotes a state of untroubled, undisturbed well-being. The peace which is the result of forgiveness enjoyed must not be confounded with the peace Christ has made by the blood of His cross. The peace of God in Philippians four and seven where we are back there is the peace which God has as being free from all anxiety and care arising from his perfectly knowing the future in proportion therefore as we make our request unto him a measure of peace which he has will keep us from being careful or full of care. Careful means full of care, full of what we might call anxiety. There's all kinds of anxiety medicine out there, but this one is the best right here. Prayer. Hi. Hey, Iranian to see you. Hey, hair, pear, air, Kusa, Panta, noon, through race. Hey, Todd, Cardia, Simone, Kai, Tom, Noah, Ma, Tom, him on and Christ, who is who? We read that again and the pace. Hey, a rainy Shalom, Shalom, Shalom, That's a very beautiful word, shalom, and peace. The word shalom means an agreement. When you are on the right standing with God and you're in agreement with God, you have peace. It means an agreement. There is a barith, a covenant that God makes with us with the blood of his son, and that peace, that forgiveness of your sins, because of what Jesus Christ did for you, gives you a reini. It gives you shalom. It's a eucaritas. It is a gift, a good gift. The peace of God. He hiper ecusa. That's an ominous singular feminine present participle adjective from hyper echo. It means beyond having. It means beyond having. You can't contain it. You know, you have a cup. This is a 16 ounce bottle here of a Maison Perrier France Ultimate sparkling water. And I drank it and it clears my throat up a little bit. Now it holds 16 ounces. That's what it says right there. point nine fluid ounces now The piece there that's talking about if you tried to measure this This is a sixteen point nine ounce deal here, but the piece of God will go to a hundred ounces You know God is so powerful that if he could take the whole universe Universe and take it and put it in a 12 by 12 box if he wanted to the one surpassing beyond having all mind understanding comprehension that we're mean noon there he shall guard pro a race a he shall guard he shall safeguard third-person singular future indicative active from fruit root we all he shall guard the hearts of Utah Scott yes we are cardiac from that the heart of ye, and the himon chi ta, and the thoughts of you. He shall guard the hearts, noi mata, and the thoughts, your mind, how your mind thinks. He shall guard how your mind thinks in Christ Jesus. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Verse number eight now. Ta loipon adelphoi. Hosa esten, elethe, hosa semna, hosa dikaya, hosa agna, hosa profile, hosa yufema, etes arite, kai etes epinos, Tauta logesesta. To the remaining brethren, to the ones left behind, you know, to the other ones, to the remaining brethren. To loipon adelphoi. And remember, the word delphi means from the same womb. Hwat hosah, what things, that's a little correlative. Page 203. What things are they are it is literally it is literally third person singular present dig the vacuum from Amy I? Lathe a Lathe means what Aletheia? They have a woman's name is Althea comes from this word. It means no shadows. No shadows everything is in the light Whatever things are true that means no shadows. That's absolute when you can be verified and Whatsoever things this little correlative here again face 203 is a same off same not same not same not mean serious grave Life and death Whatever things life and death serious, whatever again a Little nominee plural neuter word comes up whole souls Whatever is just it means, right? Right? Whatsoever things, a little corollary again, page 203. Agna, that Agna means purity. Not earthly. But it says not of earth. Whatever things are not of earth. We, I did a message here, a couple of messages ago, and I said, strangers, pilgrims in a foreign land, The world that we live in when we become born again is a foreign land. Our habitation, our citizenship is in heaven, not epites geis, not upon the earth, el hadrits. It's in heaven. Hashemayim, guranos. Whatever thing's true, whatever thing's just, whatever thing's pure, not of earth. Whatever thing is prosfile, lovable, pleasing, just winsome. Whatever things, it's just like sitting down beside a stream, bibling along, and just laying there, just watching the little fish out here. I remember when we moved up here that the only place I had to preach was down on a creek. And Marilyn would sit there and look at me and listen to the creek roaring down there. And the fish would line all up one day, Marilyn, and just sit up there and look at me. The fish would pay attention to me. And one time, Marilyn was all excited. I thought a mountain lion or something was coming up behind me, maybe a bear or whatever. The way she was, her eyes were so big and she's going like this, look, look, look, look, look. It was a albino kangaroo rat. It was a big one. I didn't need to look at that right then. I was busy one night. Whatsoever things are lovable, whatsoever things are well spoken of, honorable. And then it says, if or since, actually that's a first-class conditional particle there, any virtue, that means excellence, moral quality, excellence in every way, then chi, conjunction, by two as in eight, if or since, any, we have the word epinos. Epinos means to pray. It means to praise. It means to praise God. Thank you, Lord. I told you the other day, I was down on the farm, and boy, I had a lot of plumbing problems down there. I still do. When I go down, I have plumbing problems. Some of the pipes go back there to 1921. And I was out here working on this one three-inch or four-inch pipe, I guess it was, and it had a nipple, three-quarter-inch nipple welded on it, and old black pipe that was on there originally was broken. And it was twisted off down in there. I went and I was praying all the time. I always have God's part of my life. You know, he's, I'm with him. If I'm working at changing the tire or whatever I'm doing, he's with me. And I was down there. I didn't want to get this thing out. And if I couldn't get it out, I couldn't turn the water well back on. What am I going to do? There was a couple of times that I had to whittle out a broomstick and drive it down there, and then it'll swell up inside and it won't blow out, hopefully. I didn't want to do that. I had something there that I needed to do with it. I had an outlet that I needed to have there. Anyway, I went and got the torch, beat on it with a hammer granularly to where it kind of loosened up in there. I heated that thing up on the inside and made it all red. I put an EZ Out in that thing and it just came out like it was supposed to, like nothing was wrong. I was just thanking God all the time. The guy was working with me, Ricky, he said, boy, that is, that's a miracle. I said, yeah, it is. Thank the Lord for this miracle. It came out just like it, I mean, like nothing was wrong. Praise God when something happens like that, with praise. Praise God. And if any praise or peace finals. These things, keep on your mind. Second person plural present indicative middle boys. Keep on your mind for yourself. Think about what God has done for you. Can you just sit down this night and just start praying to God and just start thanking him for everything he's done for you the last 20 years? 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 years? Can you do that and think about it and tell him about it? Logis este, that comes from Logisimae. Think about those things. Verse number nine now. Ha, kai emate, kai paralabete, kai accusate, kai edete, in emoe, tauta prozete kai ho theos teis irenes estai met himon. Which things, that little ha there, that's a little relative pronoun, which things both, and here we have kai in 208 in your analytical Greek lexicon, and it's going to be a cumulative particle here, it means both, ye learned, and ma-tha-te, it comes from ma-tha-no, ma-tha-ma-tha-no, it means you learned, second person plural, second aorist, indicative, active, and it happened for a period of time. If puncture, you're in action, but it's like this little thing here, like I relate to a camshaft on a car. There's a sharp lobe, and that's quick, and then these hot rods, The vowel stays open for a long time. And that's like the second aorist here. Like second aorist. Which things you received, you learned, you learned over a period of time, and ye received over a period of time, punctuality of your actions, second percent rule, second aorist, indicative active, from paro-lombano, ye learned, or ye received, and ye heard, This comes from akuo. We had to order acoustics out of this word. Ye heard and ye heard, conjunction there on that kai. Ye heard, second person plural, first aorist indicative active, punctiliar, straight, point time action. And ye saw. Ye saw over a period of time, second person plural, second aorist indicative active, again, from haorao. You saw it with your mind's eye. You saw it in example, in me. In me, in moi. little preposition, an unlockative singular, first person pronoun there, in me. These things, tauta, these things, prosetae, prosetae, second person plural present, imperative active, you practice. It comes from proso, practice it, continually. And chi, hothios, and the God of the peace, that owns peace, that belongs to peace. Peace belongs to Him. He is with you. I'm rainy. Este, third person singular, future indicative, active. He shall be with you always. He shall be with you all. God is always with us, isn't He? I've traveled millions of miles in my life. and driven a lot of miles. I've had a couple of pretty bad accidents, but most of the time I've avoided them. And I've been through some real bad storms, floods, everything you can think of. And every time I'm there, I'm thanking God. I'm thanking God. Right directly behind me, about nine miles, is a hot well out there. And I went out there, and I was praying one night, just enjoying it. The skies were really black up in the mountains and everything. You'd see lightning and thunder up there and everything. And when I went out there, it was just peaceful. It was kind of almost warm. And it was early spring. And I had taken a bath out there in that 105-degree water, just glowing by myself out there, just enjoying, praying, and looking at the stars. And the ground began to just almost rumble. Well, I got out of there, dried off, and I didn't have much clothes on. I had my underwear and a T-shirt and overalls, bib overalls. Didn't even have any shoes on. Didn't bring any shoes. And I started coming back towards this way. I got out there about a mile, and I run into a wall of water. I mean a wall. It was a river two miles wide. Roaring, rushing, roaring, roaring, roaring. And the ground was just shaking. I drove about a mile into that flood and I had to try to get out of there. I couldn't go the other direction. I figured everything was going to wash away. I didn't know where the water was coming from. I got out there and the car quit. It was like it ran out of gas. What had happened is a tree limb went underneath, and there was a flex line underneath there, and the gas hose, and it kinked it, and it couldn't get any gas. It was dying. Well, I had two pistols with me, and I stuck my pistols in my pockets, and I put a little old coat on. I had a hat, and I had some hunting boots behind the seat, so I put them on, but I didn't have any socks. I began to walk. I walked about a mile and a half through that river. And it was this deep, like this, some places almost over my head. And the water's running real hard, and it's full of mud, and rocks are rolling, branches and trees are coming down with this thing, and I'm dodging all this stuff in the middle of the night without a light. Finally, climbed up on that little hill, remember? Remember when I told you I climbed that little hill? Look, see if I can see through the lightning flashes where the water quit, where the river quit. I couldn't figure out where in the world it's coming from. Well, it was, it had washed out. It had 17 washouts across Highway 264. There was a lake down there where there wasn't before. There was river over two miles wide that wasn't there before. And I was praying all the time. I got out there, finally got on dry ground. And then we had the horizontal lightning running on the ground. One of them struck in front of me. I don't know, maybe 50 yards or something like that, but it blinded me. I couldn't see. Closed my retinas in my eyes. So bright. So I put one foot in front of me, feeling the hard road, and I walked another three or four miles like that. And it began to pour down rain. Lightning was all over the place. I got out there to the road and I finally could see out of one eye a little bit. And here came a car. And I'm out here, mud all over me and two pistols and all this kind of stuff. Looked like some deserted outlaw out here. A robber's roost or something. They stopped. And I said, can you take me back down toward town? And they said, we're not going that way. And I said, you're not going that way. Because I said, the road's washed out. I can carry you that much. You can't go that way. And they wanted to go to Hawthorne. I said, you're gonna have to go around and go over Leida and come back that way. But I said, that road's washed out. So they brought me back down there. I prayed, prayed, prayed, prayed. I went out there the next day, and my Jeep pickup, I had a J4000, a one-ton Jeep pickup, and the bottom of the tires were that far off the ground, like here, like 36 inches. The road was washed out completely, and it was brush around each tire, and it was setting up there, and I just kind of walked underneath the thing almost, and there was the gas line with the holes, and I just straightened that out, got in the thing, and it started right up. I figured I'd find it out in Timbuktu someplace underwater, but the Lord took care of that, too. I thank God for it right now, and I thank God for it a thousand times since then. I thank God, the God of heaven, for loving me and putting up with me. Our Father, we send this message out for your honor and glory. Please use it for your sake, for the sake of those out there where they are in the world. Please forgive me where I fail you. In Jesus' name I pray, amen.