The book of Ephesians, from the original language. We will go and do that in a few minutes. We're going to start actually in verse number three. But we're going to read the first part from the Amplified Bible. And our church is all together here today, Fish Lake Valley. We don't even have anybody on the phone today. Televisiting. Ephesians 2. Now the book of Ephesians is actually not to the church of Ephesus. It was a circulator to all the churches. So even to us today, this is a message to us today. It's a general or universal epistle. And you He made alive when you were spiritually dead and separated from Him because of your transgressions and sins. And when you once walked, you were following the ways of this world. influenced by the present age in accordance with the prince and the power of the air, Satan, the spirit who is now energizing and working in those disobedient and unbelieving who fight against the purpose of God. Among those unbelievers, we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, our behavior governed by sinful self, indulging in the desires of human nature, without the Holy Spirit, and the impulses of the sinful mind, we were by nature children under the sentence of God's wrath, just like the rest of mankind. But God, being so very rich in mercy because of His great, wonderful love of which He loved us, even when we were spiritually dead and separated from Him because of our sins, He made us spiritually alive together with Christ, for by His grace, His undeserved favor and mercy, you have been saved from God's judgment. You can go back to Romans 6. Let's go back there for just a moment. Romans 6. Romans 6. What shall we say to all of this? Should we continue in sin and practice sin as a habit so that God's gift of grace may increase and overflow? Certainly not. How can we, the very ones who died to sin, continue to live in any longer? Or are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ, or because of Christ, were baptized because of His death? We have therefore been buried with Him through baptism and death, By the way, the only form of baptism there actually is, is immersion. Sprinkling and pouring is not baptism, people. It's not baptism. Immersion typifies the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. Not sprinkling and not pouring. We have therefore been buried with Him through baptism. be called unto death, so that just as Christ is raised from the dead to the glory and power of the Father, so we might also walk habitually in the newness of life, abandoning our old ways. For if we have become one with Him, permanently united in the likeness of His death, we will also certainly be one with Him to share fully in the likeness of His resurrection, the Anastasia. that our old self, our human nature without the Holy Spirit was nailed to the cross with Him in order that our body of sin might be done away with so that we would no longer be slaves to sin. For the person who has died with Christ has also been freed from the power of sin. Now we who have died with Christ We believe that we also will live together with Him. Because we know the self-evident truth that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will never die again, death no longer to have power over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin, ending His power and paying the sinner's debt once and for all. and the life that he lives, he lives to glorify God in unbroken fellowship with Him. Now let's go back. Let's read this from the original languages. We're going to start with verse number 3, but we're going to look at a few things. Without Christ in your life, you have no power to even live for Him. You don't. Have you ever tried to civilize a cat? Have you ever tried to civilize a cat? Well, you can use a shock collar on a dog, you can spank a dog, you can correct a dog, and you can make him quit doing certain things. But a cat just delights in torturing things to death and killing things. They will kill birds, Catch a bird and then let it go like it's going to get away and then catch it again. That's torture. That's terrorism. They go out there and they catch a mouse and they'll play with that mouse and just hold it down there and look at that mouse and they'll let that mouse go and they'll jump on it and get it again until finally they decide to kill it and they crush it with their teeth. That's in nature. It's just there isn't it? It's there. It is there. It says here in verse number three, te sarcos kai ton daionion kai ametha tecna fise orgeis hos kai hoi lepoi. And the flesh and the thoughts of the minds and we were kept on being an offspring by nature of wrath as also the ones remaining The ones that are still there, the ones that are not saved, the ones that are not covered by the love of Christ. They will stay there and they won't ever come out. Little children are safe from the wrath of God, little babies, because they've never come to know to right from wrong, even though they do sin, babies sin. They will lie to you. When there's nothing wrong with them, they'll bawl and squall if they want your attention. Tell you like, I'm dying here, come and help me. And there's nothing wrong. They just want your attention. The Gentiles did not have a monopoly on sinful behavior. They did not have a monopoly over it. Israel was just as bad. Verse number four, Ho Dei Theos, Plusios Hom En Elei, Dea Tain Polain, Agapain Auto Hain Agapason Himas. These are beautiful verses by the way. Everything here is pure deity, is pure heaven. Moreover, that wicked, versative, conjunctive particle there, page 85, a little analytical lexicon. Moreover, the one, the God, the God, rich, abundantly lavish, pluseos, that's overflowing, being in mercy, ile. You know, one of the titles of Jehovah, the Jehovah titles, is the man of loving kindness. The man of loving kindness. That man of loving kindness gave his life for us on the cross of Calvary. But without the resurrection, it wouldn't be anything. Do you know that? Many of the religious, the Gnostic world, you've got your Jehovah Witnesses, you've got your Muslims also. They don't believe Jesus Christ ever, the Muslims say He never died on the cross. Without Jesus dying on the cross, you have no salvation. The world is dead and going to hell. All of it. What would even happen to the cosmos itself? Jesus Christ, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, He died on the cross to redeem the world. Back from Satan's power, Satan would tear it up. Look what Satan did back in the eternity past. After he sinned and rebelled against God, he destroyed the earth. Genesis 1 and 2, it says, We haaretz hagatohu v'vohu. We yoshef k'el p'nei hamayim. We ruach elayim. El Haman. And the earth she had become formless and void, and darkness and chaos was over the face of the earth. But it said, Spirit God mourned over and suffered over the faces of the deep. Jesus mourns over all of us, doesn't he? He mourns over every, that's a type of salvation there, people. Genesis 1 and 2, it's a type of redemption. The Lord pre-constructed this earth and put you on it. Put us on there in the person of Adam. He's rich being in mercy. Mercy. Elie. Helios. Dia, tein, polein. Mercy because of much love. Agapain. If God didn't love the world, he could go zip and destroy it and wipe everything out and everybody on it and start all over again if he wanted to. He told Moses that one time, didn't he? There Moses, one of the Israelites see him down there when he took him out of Egypt and they go down there and Aaron made a calf and said, this is Jehovah that took you out of Egypt and they worshipped it. And went back to their hellish ungodly, demonic worship that they had worshipped. They weren't worshipping God in Egypt, people. They weren't worshipping God in Egypt. They had all the pagan gods. All the gods that God showed them that he was more stronger than all of them. And all the ten plagues. Ten times he showed them. He was stronger than death. He was stronger than the frog gods, than the Nile River. He was stronger than their idea of life and reincarnation and all this stuff. He was stronger than all that, but He is the God, the Creator God. Much love of Him, genitive, singular, masculine, that it belongs to Him, but it also comes from Him, obligative, singular, masculine, third person pronouns. Then we have the word Hain there, which is which, accusative, singular, relative pronoun. which He loved us. When He was on the cross at Calvary, when He was dying there, I think in the mind of God He saw every person in this world that would ever be saved. Maybe He even saw the ones that would reject Him and be gone to hell because of their rejection of Him. And Israel paid the masterful cost. You remember when Paul said, five times, he said, he's innocent, he's innocent, he's innocent, he's innocent, he's innocent. And they said, crucify him, crucify him, crucify him. And he said, I'm innocent of this man's blood. And they said, let his blood be upon us and our children. And it has. It has for 2,000 years. Verse number five now. Kai, ontos, himos, nekronos, tois, PARAPETO MASSEN SIN EXO APOYESIN TO CRISTO CARITE ESTIN SOSO MINOI We have this little parenthetical clause here at the last. And being, chi conjunction, and tying this sentence to the sentence before Being, Anomaly, Singularity, Presence, Participle, Active, from Amy. Being us. Dead. We're dead. We're necros. Necros means you're dead. When you leave this world without accepting Jesus Christ as your Savior, asking Him to forgive you, you are double dead. Two times dead. Being of us, dead ones. to the trespasses. Trespasses mean perapatomosin. The word hamartia also means to go astray. By the way, you so-called scholars out there, hamartia does not mean to miss the mark. Hamartia means to go astray. The word astokio means to miss the mark. It comes from tshatha in Hebrew. Mr. Thayer made a mistake. He brought tshatha into hamartia, which it is not. It's more like perapatio. or Amartya. Amartya comes from Amiro to go astray, away, out of the path. And to the trespasses He made us together alive in Christ. We're alive in Christ by grace. Kariti. That's instrumental singular. By grace, by mercy. Ye are, ye exist, having been saved. You know, you don't have to teach your children how to sin, do you? No, you don't have to. But you know what you have to teach your children to do? To behave. Children need a mother and father. Many children in America today don't have mothers and fathers. A mother and a father is supposed to teach a child to behave, to be civilized. Civil-ized. Police is a Greek word. It means to act like. We'll get the word police from that also. Please make sure everybody behaves themselves, don't they? A mother and father is supposed to teach a child that, first of all, they love them. They love them and they've given their life for them if they have to. That's the number one thing that a parent is supposed to teach you how. Number two, there's a difference between right and wrong. And you have to tell them what wrong is and what right is. They just naturally go to the wrong way, don't they? Many times they go the wrong way. So you have to tell them, and maybe you have to spank them up straight. That's what the word in Greek is, spank them up straight. And tell them this is wrong and this is right. You reward them when they do right, and you discipline them when they do wrong. By grace, ye are having been saved. By grace. By grace. This is a little parenthetical clause. This stands there. It goes further than the sentence does. In grace, ye exist. We exist in grace. We exist in it. You're having been saved. Look at that. Instrumental, singular, carite, and then estin, ye are, ye continue to exist, such as in plural, present, indicative, active. Ye continue to exist, having been saved. That's nominative, plural, masculine, perfect, participle, passive. You are saved. You don't save yourself, you are saved. Almost every religion teaches you, you have to do something to get to heaven. The Catholics, you've got to go confess your sins to the priest, don't you? And you've got to make payment for that somehow by saying so many prayers, so many Hail Mary's, so many Our Fathers, all this, you have to do that. And then, still, it starts all over again, doesn't it? Israel, Israel When they come to the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, when they came to that, they confessed their sins on that lamb, they cut that lamb's throat, and that innocent lamb died for their sins. The lamb didn't do anything. He goes there just like, he's going up there and said, oh, they're going to pet me, they're going to do this, and all of a sudden his throat's cut. He's dead. His blood's all over the place. That's a typified Jesus, right there. But you know what? It all started over when they walked away. It started all over again. When you're saved by grace, you're saved forevermore. Period. 2 and verse 6. This is a Hebraism here, by the way. He has raised up together, this is the future perfect in Hebrew, like future perfect, that's this wow consecutive perfect. Future perfect, He has raised us up together and set us together and has seated us together in the heavens. Jesus sees you with Him in your glorified body, in your place in that eternal abode. And He has raised us up. Third Person, Singer, First Chorus, Indicative, Active, Sumption, Scene, and Guide Roll. And He has seated us together, Scene, and then Calthystomy. Seated us together, Third Person, Singer, First Chorus, Indicative, Active, in the heavenlies, in the heavens, in Christ. God sets us and sees us glorified with Him in the future. He sees us with all of our rewards, which we will lay at His feet, because without, we could do nothing without Him. Verse number 7 now, this is the final clause. Hina en dexteste entois eonsen tois epi erco minois Hiperbolon, Plutos, Teis, Caritos, Auton, Enchrestoteti, Ephimos, Enchrestouissou. In order that, this tells you, this is the final clause now, in order that, He shall clearly demonstrate and show us and point out to us, third person singular, first heiress, Subjunctive middle voice. He may do it. Middle voice for himself. In the ages, the ones coming. In the ages, the ones coming. Over-exceeding and excelling and surpassing. Nominative, singular, neuter, present participle, active. This is hyperbole. An exaggeration. Overly excelling. Riches. the riches of grace, of the grace, the active goodness, genitive, singular, feminine, belonging to Him, genitive, singular, vassal, third person, pronoun, how to, in mercy, in mercy, in kindness. God is kind. God is kind. God is kind that He loves us so much. So many times we disobey him. You ever see your child disobey and you know you gotta whip him? It's not good. The child disobeys and you know that you gotta whip him. One of my sons, I'll tell you, really used to just give me a terrible time. I'd go in there and I'd whip him. I believed in whipping kids. You know, we did that back then. I was whipped when I was young, a lot. But my son, I would talk to him, and I'd talk to him. I'd sit him down, and I'd talk to him first. And if they say they were sorry, if they were wrong and everything, they might not even get a whipping. If I really saw that they were sorry, but not so with that boy, I'd whip him. And I said, are you ready to straighten out? No! No! I said, what is wrong with you? Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Are you ready to quit now? No! Finally, he said, I'm not giving up, yeah, okay, I'm sorry. Why didn't you do that the first time? What's wrong with you? That rebellious spirit, rebellious spirit, that's Adam's nature, you know. No surpassing riches of His grace, belonging to Him, in His goodness and His mercy, Romans 2 and 7, if you want to go back to that one, that's another place that's used. Upon us, in Christ Jesus. If it wasn't for Christ Jesus, we'd get the hammer on the head every time. Our head would be on the chopping block all the time. Because we just aren't human, aren't we? We are human. And we're no good. But the grace of God, through His love, loves us. And wants us to follow Him without correction. and He is Elohimu. I like that word in Hebrew. God belongs to us and we belong to Him. The only reason why we belong to God is because we have fallen under the blood of Jesus Christ. We've asked Him to forgive us. We've asked Him to save our souls. That's the only reason that we can exist in this world today. We exist for Him. There was a pagan god And he said, in Zeus, we live, exist, and have our meaning. And Paul used that. He quoted that, didn't he? In God, we live, we move, we have our existence. We have our meaning for life. Our Father, we thank You for this message from Your Word. Please use it. Please forgive me where I fail You. Please let it go out into the world, that the world might live from it. Hear Your Word. I pray for all my students all over the Philippines and Australia and New Zealand and all over Europe and Wales and the United Kingdom and Finland, India, China, all the places that I know that they're listening, I pray for them. Please forgive me what I've done to you. Use your word.