Philippians from Greek. We're going to start on page number, we're on 2 and 11, and I think we're on page, or last, number 12. And we're talking about the deity of Jesus Christ. Without the deity of Jesus Christ, you have no salvation. Without the deity of Jesus Christ, as the second person of the Godhead, you have no salvation. Because only through Him do we have access to the Father or God or Heaven. Verse number 11 now. Kai pasa glosia. exohomo lo gesete hote kirios esus chrisus eis doxatu artheu that is patros and every chi conjunction page 208 God made Christ Lord of all in this verse chi And every, comes from 311 there, page 311, and then tongue, language, glossia, we got a word glossary from that, that's a dictionary or a glossary. And every language, it should say out the same things, confess for itself, third person, singular, first person, indicative, middle, or subjunctive, middle, It may, every language should say out or say the same thing and confess for itself because, hote. That little conjunction there, page 294. Lord, Kyrios. The word here, Kyrios, means high and mighty. It means Jehovah in the Old Testament. Many times where it talks about Jehovah in the Old Testament, the Septuagint will put down Kyrios. And of course, this is Greek. And because the Lord, or Jehovah, Jesus Christ, Esus Christu, by the way, what does the word Esus mean, or Jesus? It's Yahshua in Hebrew. It means Jehovah saves. Christ, Christos, Hamashiach, the anointed one. Unto, glory of God the Father. Unto, it means unto and beyond extension or limitation of thought or verbal action in that grammatical rule there. Glory of God the Father. Now in verse number 12. Number 12. Hoste agapetoi mu kathos panpote hipo kusate me hos en te parousia mu monon ala nin polo malon en te. That's a long verse. apousia mu meta phobo kai tromu tein iaoton soterion Cata ergo seste. Now this verse has been very much misused. They use it with part of the book of Hebrews also. So as, it's a little conjunction particle, page 444, beloved ones, nominative plural masculine. Beloved ones, belonging to me, mu, there's a little genitive singular, possessive Pronoun just as that comes from kata and holes page 314 and they're Pond totay always pawns always a little adverb from possum totay page 300 and 407 also Ye obeyed ye people kusat a it means you listened and obeyed and Hear and obey, that's what it means there, second person plural, first person indicative, active, not, particle of negation, page 268 there, May there, and what is the equivalent in Hebrew? It's low, low, by 15, in Brown, Driver, and Briggs. Just as, or as, this little adverb here, page 444, in the presence, That's in that location there, it's locative. Page 137 in the Analects of Greek Legend. In the presence of the parousia, when I'm standing beside... There's definitely an article, locative, singular, parousia, presence, being beside in one's presence of me only, but... monon there that's an adverb page 272 and then but strong adversity conjunctive conjunction there page 15 now mean adverb of time 280 by much more that little dative singular adjective there but rather now here's we have a comparative malone in the but rather much more in the Absence of me. That's a best. Ah, this is a pussy a pussy up. It means when I'm not there away from you me with That little janitor singular movie there move Metta with page 265 fearful boy phobu fear and trembling the of yourselves salvation Salvation is a gift that's not earned. Work it out. Second person plural presence, imperative middle voice. Work out to the finish. God does not save us outside of our own free will. We are to know who has saved us and constantly be aware of the price that Christ paid for our salvation. Hebrews 5 and 9, the writer of Hebrews proceeds to prove implicitly of actual falling away from the grace of God. It's not saying that, it's falling away. What happened to Hebrew Christians there in Hebrews 5 and 9 say that you're falling away from the grace of God. The Hebrew Christians had come in and believed and baptized and then went back to the law. The law didn't save them. They walked off from the grace of God. The law didn't save them. The whole idea is a hypothetical but impossible statement. In Romans 8, 38 and 39, it tells us nothing in this world, not even ourselves or angels or anything else can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus. 213 now, Theos, Gar, Esten, Ho, and Ergom. In himen, Kai, To, Thelen, Kai, To, and Ergen, Hipertes, Eudokios. God. Nomine Singular Masculine. For God, He is the one energizing us. God is the one energizing us. God is the one that's giving us the ability to do what we do. It's God working in us that makes us be a Christian, to act like a Christian, to live like a Christian, to think like a Christian, to breathe and eat like a Christian, everything. The one energizing us. That's not only singular, masculine, present, participle, active in us, in you all, He says here, both, now here we have a Cumulative Particle, page 208 on that CHI there, it's not and, but it's both, the to will, the will, the free agency, he fixes your want to, in other words, and, conjunction, 2-A-1-8, and the to work, that little present, infinitive active, that's what makes us want to serve the Lord. Marilyn, you like to go to church on Sunday, don't you? And on Wednesday, don't you? She gets up, and we're older people, and everything we do takes a lot of effort. But she puts on a dress every day and fixes herself up and puts little earrings on and everything. It just looks real good. She is ready for church. She wants to go to church. The will, that word there is the The agency, the spiritual activating force, and the to work on behalf of goodwill. The gravity of God's grace, it holds you in there. The force of gravity on the earth keeps us together. The earth doesn't fly apart. The earth stays together, the gravity. God, in his gravity, in his energizing force, holds us together for him and in him. Quote 214 now. Panta poiete coris. Gegismon cae dialogismo. For all things ye do, All things, that's a practical subject there, all things ye do, you consistently do, second person, present, imperative, or indicative, active, without murmurings. All things you do for yourself without murmurings and debatings. That means talking through, talking about. The Gnostic know-it-alls debated over everything, claiming superior knowledge and everything your modern-day agnostics are such as Jehovah Witnesses, naming the name of the Savior yet without belonging to Him. Jehovah is Christ. If you're a Jehovah Witness, you believe that Jehovah is Christ. But Jehovah became real flesh. that he might redeem us back to himself with his real blood. 215 now. Hina, Geneste, Amem, Amemtoe, Kai, Akeroi, Tekna, Tu, Arthiu that is, Imama, Meson, Geneas, Skolios, Kai, diatramenes in hois fineste hos fosteres in cosmo. In order to that, you might become for yourselves blameless. You might do this. God is working in you, he's working with your spirit, and he makes you want to become blameless. Second person plural, second heirs, subjunctive middle voice. Blameless, amemptoi. Pure. Uncontaminated with the things of the world. And, chi, conjunction there, harmless. Akeroi. Children of God, harmless children of God. What does harmless mean, though? Now, here we had just this, within this last week, we had an invasion and a terrorist act down in Louisiana, New Orleans. They killed the guy, all the people he wanted to kill. But the Bible tells us if we want to be children of God, if we want to act like children of God, we're supposed to be harmless. We're not supposed to go out and kill people. We're not supposed to go out and kill people just to be killing them. God does not tell us to go kill people. The Quran does, but not the Bible. He, of course, read the Quran and said, I'm going to go out and kill somebody. I want to kill somebody. That's not Christian. That's not of God at all. That's perversion of God. Harmless. children, tecna, born sons, tecna, that's what it means, born sons of God, belonging to God, his possession, that's genitive singular masculine, unspotted, amamu, amama, unspotted, in the middle of a generation twisted and crooked. We do live in a crooked and twisted generation today, don't we? Yeah, all you have to do is look at the protests in the streets, you look at the bodies that are being killed all over the world, people killing people, murdering people, killing people. How many children, what was it, October the 7th a year ago, that over there in Palestine, that they beheaded all these little children? What did a little child do? But they behead them, they rape and they pillage. They rape and they pillage. That's part of it. You know, in war, if you got to go fight a war, you go and you win. But you don't go in there and rape all the women and behead little children and rape little children because they do. They do that. You don't do that. That's not righteous warfare, if you want to call it that. Unspotted in the midst of a crooked twisted generation having been thoroughly twisted and perverted in whom ye shine as Luminaries as like the Sun and the moon and the stars in the world I'm gonna tell you something Now, maybe Islam looks upon those men that killed the people in 9-11, that did all this damage, that have killed people all over the world, constantly. Wherever they go, they kill people. Wherever they go, they kill people. In the name of Allah. Allah Akbar. God is greater. Allah is greater. And they say Allah Akbar and they kill somebody. Boy, how opposite from the Bible. How opposite from the Word of God. Opposite. Verse number 16 now. Logon, zoes, epikontes, eis, cox, ema, emoi, eis, hemeron, christo, hote, uke, eis, kenon, edramon, ude, eis, keen on ek boy also let's go look at some of these words now we're reading the amplified Bible in just a minute word of life I mean the gospel is words of life words of life when they go out and say Allah Akbar and they kill people blow themselves up whatever they do to kill people That's not words of life, that's words of death and eternal damnation. Words of life holding up. Nomine plurimasque in present participative. Words of life holding up unto, boasting to me, coxima, boasting, boasting, bragging to me in the day of Christ. In order that or because, this little casual article, I'll tell you there, not, abrogation 294, unto vain I ran. Canon means emptiness. You know, I was so shy when I moved to California from Fish Lake Valley. I went down there and I went to Fairfax School, I think I was about the seventh grade, And I was so shy around people. Up here, you know, we had like 30 kids in the school. That was from first grade to ninth. We had 30 kids. And I'd go down, and all these kids all around me. And I could outrun anybody down there. I could just run like a wind, like a deer. And they got me out there in the foot race on some type of a thing. I don't know what it was. They were having foot races between different schools. And I was supposed to run in this race. And I got out there, and I ran in vain. I'm telling you. I was so shy. I got out there, and here we took off, and I'm standing in place, just running up the storm, going nowhere. I was so much in shock, or whatever it was, with all these people around me, I couldn't run. I couldn't run. I just ran in vain. I ran nowhere. And here I ran, and I ran them all. But I ran in vain that day. I didn't get anywhere. I'll never forget that. I was so embarrassed, and I just wanted to run, hide underneath a desk or something, go hide behind a bush or something. Ran in vain. I ran. First person singular, second aorist indicative active from treco. We got a word trekking along out of this word right here. Neither. who can day condemnation there neither in vain I labored the Apostle Paul now when you do something for the Lord maybe you don't think it's good enough now on the website sermon audio and you could go on sermon audio and you can look back in years you can go back to 1970 or 1950 or 40 or whatever you can look on there in years and see sermon Around 1970, something, a lot of my sermons I did on reel-to-reel in the beginning, and I did it just to pick myself apart, like, I should have done this, I should have done that. But there's a sermon on me there when I preached seven ducks in a muddy stream, which is a real, you know, real fundamental thing. It's an old sermon. And I got up there and preached at this youth rally. I was in my 20s, early 20s. And I was a young preacher then. And I got up there and preached. And there were seven people saved with that little mediocre sermon. And five people came forward for baptism. And this sermon was basically nothing. But the power of God working with that message was unbelievable. People crying and everything, and they came forward. I preached up in Porterville. Another same thing. I preached a little old mediocre message up there, and it's on there, in early 1970s. Now, I was preaching earlier than that, but this is the only one that I had recorded that I still have. And I went up there and preached in Porterville, and the same thing happened up there. They had like 23 people came forward for salvation. Oh! I couldn't believe it. And yet, I was just trusting God as meager as I was. I mean, you have to realize that, you know, I became a ham operator in 1960, but I couldn't talk on the radio until the 70s. I went through my whole 10-year licensing period without ever saying one word. Nothing. Because I couldn't talk. I just couldn't do it. I'd try to key up a microphone or a key or something. I just couldn't do any more. Somebody say, somebody out there! Shaken all over. You know, I just quit. Just walked away. When I'd get up and preach, when God called me to preach, when I got up and preached, I'd get up there and I'd preach the Word of God, and I didn't have anything else to say. I'd get down there and sit down, and I wouldn't say another word unless you asked me a question. I just couldn't talk. Now, no matter how mediocre I thought it was, God blessed it. There's one out there when I went out to Shafter. I've taken you out to that church. This was a long, long time ago, early 1970s. And I preached the message out there for like 45 minutes. And the preacher got up there and he said, I didn't know you could preach like that. I wouldn't do anything except preach in the Bible. He said, you just started. I think that was not very many messages I had preached when I did that. And I drove all the way out there and that was like 38 or 40 miles, 50 miles, something like that from where I lived. And I had a car that was one of them that you didn't drive around the block very far because it might break down. But I drove out there. I drove all the way up to a little old town up by Fresno, California. I went in there and I walked into this church, and this boy came up there. Nobody else. There was deacons in the church. There were people all there. I preached Sunday school lesson, and I preached the message. Nobody came up and said anything to me but this one little old teenage boy. And his mother wasn't there. Well, he said, Mr. Phillips, he said, if you'll drive me home, my mother's got lunch for us fixed. And nobody else wanted to do this, but my mother said she'd do it, so we're taking care of you today. So I went home, and I went in this place. This woman, her husband had run off and left her and divorced her. And she had a wood-burning cook stove in that house, and it was cold in the wintertime, and it had a board floor, just boards, that's all. It's clean. Everything was clean. The whole yard was full of yard sale stuff. because that's how she kept herself going and that boy. That boy was just full of questions. That woman had fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy. She had corn on the cob, and she had fried pies. I think they were fried apple or apricot pies that day, and it was wonderful. She wasn't worthy. They didn't make her welcome in the church. vain. Somebody's laboring in vain there. They didn't make her welcome to church because she had been divorced. But she was raising that boy at home as a Christian. That boy was so excited when I preached. I preached four times that day. I took him back and I preached again. Nobody ever said anything. They shook my hand, said, thank you. You know, that's about it. Zoom, they went out the door. And the boy took me home and he said, now, They don't have any money to pay you. And I've driven over 100 miles there. But she said, my mom said, if you wanted anything out in that yard, in that yard sale, you could have it. And we want you to get something. Please, please take something. I went down there and I got a little desk for my son, Gary, to do his homework on. And I can't remember a couple little things that I got there. And I was so blessed by that situation. That boy went to the seminary later, became a preacher. I'll never forget that. That was the most gracious situation. That woman did not run in vain. Even though she wasn't welcoming the church, she did the job of the deacons. She did the job of the church members, and the church was a lot of people in that church. It was, I mean, about 75 people if I remember. It was pretty filled up. It was only a giant church, a little old country church, but this woman that had been rejected by them became the servant. She gave me some Fried pies to take home and some food on the way. She had made sandwiches for me, and I think she gave me two or three fried pies. I was by myself all along, and I never forgot that all of my life. She did not run in vain. She did not labor in vain. A wonderful experience. I was raised in extremely poor circumstances, much poorer than that. We had a dirt floor and no door. She had an old unpainted house, it was like a lease house or something, an old railroad house or things, and it was old. But everything, the yard was clean and everything, except for all this stuff was. The house was very clean, and that woman got in there and fixed a dinner for me that was better than any restaurant I could have eaten in. And it was all you could eat. I never did eat a lot, but I had two pieces of chicken, I think, at least. She had cooked a whole platter full of chicken. Corn on the cob, mashed potatoes, and I know they didn't have the money to do it, but they did it. They did it. Sacrificial giving, sacrificial loving, because the woman was saved from her soul out. Boy. I wish, I'm sure she's gone to be with the Lord now, but I wish I could have gone back and thanked her a hundred times. A hundred times. I can't remember the name of the church, but I remember her. I don't remember her name, but I remember what she did. I don't even remember the boy's name, but I remember what he did. I don't know anybody else that's in that church. Nobody else impressed me at all. but her. Let's go back and read this for just a moment, from 11 through 16 here. And that every tongue will confess and openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord Sovereign God. He's Sovereign God, He's Jehovah. To the glory of God the Father, So then, my dear ones, just as you have always obeyed my instructions with enthusiasm, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, continue to work at your salvation, that is to cultivate and bring it to full effect, actively pursue spiritual maturity, with an awe-inspiring fear and trembling, using serious caution and critical self-evaluation to avoid anything that might offend God or discredit the name of Christ." I just think of that woman every time, and that boy. For it is not your strength, but it is God who is effectively at work in you, both to will and to work, that is, strengthening and energizing and creating in you the longing and the ability to fulfill your purpose for His good pleasure. Do everything without murmuring or questioning the providence of God. You know, the Gnostics would make an argument out of everything. He said, don't act like a Gnostic. Don't try to pick everything apart. So also you may prove yourselves to be blameless and guileless and innocent and uncontaminated children of God without blemish in the midst of a morally corrupt and crooked and spiritually perverted generation among whom you are seen as bright lights, beacons shining out of glory in the world of darkness, holding out an offering to everyone the word of life so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to rejoice greatly because I did not run my race in vain, nor labor without result." I am glad that little thing happened to me. Not a little thing. That woman may be in reward right now, that boy. I don't know whether they even remember me or not, but I remember them. May you have experiences like this also. May you be touched by some humble person in a humble way. You know, Jesus walked in humility, didn't he? He walked in humility. But he was sovereign God. He was eternal God, Jehovah. Yet, he became obedient, like we should. Obedient to death. Even to our death. Our Father, we send this message out for your honor and glory. Please use it. Please, I want to thank you for that little tiny visit I had with those people up there so far out in the country on that dreary, wet, stormy winter day so many years ago that uplifted my spirit and soul to this day. Fathers, thank you for them. Father, forgive me where I fail you. In Jesus' name I pray, amen.