Ephesians. The book of Ephesians, even though the book of Ephesians is not the book of Ephesians according to the oldest manuscript. The book of Ephesians is a circular letter to all the churches and even to us today in all reality. We're going to start in verse number 17 in the second chapter of the book of Ephesians. How far we get, I won't know until I get there. I'm going to start reading in verse number 16 from the Amplified Bible. and that he might reconcile them both, Jew and Gentile, united in one body to God through the cross, hereby putting to death the hostility. What it said to the last class meeting, I talked about the amalgamation of the races. We're all one now. We're all one in Christ. All those that have believed in Christ are one. And he came and preached the good news of peace to you Gentiles. who are very far away, and peace to those Jews who are near. For it is through him that we both have a direct way of approach in one spirit to the Father. So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens and outsiders without rights of any citizenship, but you are fellow citizens with the saints of God's people who are members of God's household, the family of God. Having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole structure is joined together, and it continues to increase, growing into a holy temple in the Lord, a sanctuary dedicated. The word sanctuary means a holy place. dedicated, set apart, and sacred to the presence of the Lord, in whom, or in him, and in fellowship with one another, we also are built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. In 1 Corinthians, the third chapter, or no man can lay a foundation other than one which is laid, which is Christ Jesus. Now if any man builds upon a foundation with gold and silver and precious stones, wood, hay, and stubble, each man's work will become evident, for the day will show it, because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work. If any man's work which he has built upon remains, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work is burned up, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, yet so as through fire. Do not you know that you are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwells in you? What beautiful verses, all written by Paul. Beautiful verses written by a beautiful man. 2.17, now we're going to go into the Greek. you egg and L.E. Sato and rain and him and toys muck wrong. Hi and rain and toys in Gus and having come he preached for himself and a conjunction page two hundred and eight and Elton having come second heiress, participle active, nominative singular masculine, from Erkamai, having come. Now the word, there is a second heiress word. In John 1.14 it says, kai holo go sarska genito. And the verb form is the same form. And the Word, or Jehovah, flesh He became and dwelt among us, and we beheld the glory of the Lord, and we only beheld the love of the Father, full of grace and truth. The Word, the Jehovah having become flesh. And having come, He preached for Himself, 2nd Arist. 2nd Arist is a punctiliar action, but it has a durative linear period of time in it. Better than 1st Arist. 1st Arist is a knife-blade action. When you're saved, ye are having been saved. 1st Arist. having come, he was here for a period of time. And so it's a posterior action, but it is a little puritive linear in this second heiress form. And the word, kaihalo gosar tziganot, and the word, or the Jehovah flesh, he became. It was a period of time where God became flesh and dwelt among us. And having become, he treats for himself, third person singular, first heiress, indicative middle voice, peace. Now, a good message. He's a good messenger. He's called the angel of the Lord. And right here is the word angel also in it. Angel means messenger. Jesus was an angel of the Lord. He is not an angel, but he's a messenger of the Lord. And many times in the Old Testament where it talks about the angel of the Lord, it talks about the messenger of the Lord, and here is the word for it right here in the New Testament. And he preached for himself peace and reign of shalom. Page 575 in Bollinger's. To you all, peace. The opposite of stress or anything. Complete serenity. To you all. That is deity plural, second person pronoun. Amen. To you all. The ones far away. And he's talking about the Gentiles. The ones far away were Gentiles. And the one that we have, Toys Macron. Toys Macron. That means the ones, that's deity plural, definite article, but practical substantive in there is the ones. That's understood. The ones far away, a little adverb, page 256. And chi, conjunction to away and peace. The ones far away and peace to the ones near, angus. Peace to the ones drawn near, to close. Verse number 18 now. This is quite a verse right here. I don't want you to know what's all in this verse. Psalm 23 in verse there, and also John the 10th chapters in this verse. Because, a little conjunction, because through, preposition him, through of him, through and from him, and out of him, and in him, genitive singular, objective singular, masculine third person pronoun, We have, always we have, first person plural, present indicative, active, we have it constantly and continually, the, tein, pros, ah, go, gain. The ability to access by admission, accuses singular feminine. Literally what it says, that lead right into the face of God. Into the presence of God. In the Old Testament, they never looked at God as their Father, really. They never looked at God, they could not address God as Father. Because Jesus is able to bring us close to Him, and by Jesus we have inheritance. By Jesus we become sons and daughters of God. Marilyn, the Lord's Prayer. I quote the Lord's prayer time. Our Father, which art in heaven. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive our debts as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. In Jesus name I pray, amen. Our Father. Our Father. Our ability to say our Father is a gift of God from and it came through Jesus Christ. Not as a nation of Israel, not as a Greek or a Gentile, but as a child of God, we have access prosago gain. We have going forward, we have a mission, we have approach, we have a public view of God. Because through Jesus we have it. The ones both, amphoteri, both, the ones both in one spirit, in preposition 137, in one spirit toward the Father. Before Christ, no man could call and address God as Father. But now, we have that model prayer. We have that model prayer telling us that we can address God as Father. That never done. Psalm 23 and John the 10th chapter. Jesus said, I am the good shepherd. Psalm 23 tells us about Jesus before He became. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. 219. Ara un ecete este zenoe cae paro coe ala este sin apolitae hom hageon cae oecoete tu fiu. Then, a little adverb of time, ara, then, therefore, a particle, no longer, uc and eti, two words combined into one little adverb, negation, and then we have not, any longer, er. Second person plural, present indicative active from amy, er, strangers, annoying, aliens, without knowledge and without share. Strangers. Different family. Different place. You know, the Gentiles, basically before Jesus came, many of them, or most of them, were sons of Satan. Sons of demons. Because they were worshiping demons. But Jesus came and he preached peace unto them. He kept telling them, you don't have to sacrifice your children, you don't have to bring tons of money to church, I come to you freely. Come unto me, you drink of the water of life, for I am the bread of life. No man has come down from God, but it's on the bread of life that came down from heaven to you. Strangers and pilgrims, temporary dwellers, pilgrims that just walk through the land. Now today, people, we are pilgrims in this world because our dwelling place is heaven. We are pilgrims in the world, just passerbys, just sojourners that just walk through the land, because this isn't our permanent home. Our permanent home is within, with God in heaven. But strong adversity can knock you, page 15. Ye are, right now, ye are, second-person plural, present and indicative of how active you are and will be for always, fellow citizens, sine politi. Here only in the New Testament is this word used. Ye are fellow citizens, together citizens. The word police comes from that. Together citizens, ye are, when you talk about an honest person, he's a citizen. If he's not an honest person, he's an outlaw, simple as that. fellow citizens of the saints, the holy ones, and the family of God. Here we have the family of God. Everybody that's born again into this world, everybody that's asked the Lord Jesus Christ to forgive them of their sins and call upon Him to save their soul and know it happened. If you know it happened, you're going to change. Simple as that. You are in the family of God. Without baptism, without anything, the family of God means all of those that are saved. Gentiles that were far away now have access to the family of God. They are now in one family. Now let's look at verse number 20. epoye ko do me thentes epi to themalio ton apostolon kai tofeiton ontos agrogonianon alto Christu esu. I think that's all of that one. Two and twenty. Now it's talking about Now you've been born again, now you can be built, you can become a member of a New Testament church. And you're going to be built upon a foundation. Having been built upon the foundation, 1st Aries participle passive voice, having been placed upon the foundation, epoi e colo meo. There's an idea in here. of Damascus steel, having been pounded down upon the foundation, pounded down, welded, glued together. I used to have a couple of, actually I've had three forges in my life, and out there on our porch out there I have a, I was just piddling around one day and I made a mule shoe, And then I took a railroad spike and I welded it to it in this forge and pounded it together. Now you used to use borax and you could dip this, get it hot, dip it in borax and then pound it together and it would become one piece of metal. You can take a piece of steel cable, real hard steel cable. You can take that cable and heat it up and then you can pound it and pound it and pound It'll look like Damascus steel. And a lot of people make knives out of that. They call them Damascus steel knives. They make them out of cable. But a real Damascus steel, you take it and you put it in the forge, and you pound it out, then you thread it out, then you roll it over and pound it again, and you pound it a hundred to a thousand times. And that is where you get the little waveforms in it, because it's been folded and pounded. We've been welded like a blacksmith, fitted firmly together and welded. Upon the epi, page 153, the definite article, the foundation, the themelo, the idiom singular comes from themelos, and thema antithemi, it comes from thema antithemi, which means the place and the pound down, the feet down. of the Apostles, the foundation of the Apostles, and Prophets, Propheto. Prophet means to say something before it's going to happen. Being, that little being there comes from Amy, but it's a general plural masculine present participle. Being, a cornerstone, a chief corner, built upon and around the cornerstone. This stone was polished and it was inspected very closely for flaws. You cut a, Jesus is the chief cornerstone. But a cornerstone in the Bible, they took a stone out and make sure it didn't have any, then they would chisel it and form it and then they would polish it to make sure there were no imperfections in it. Jesus had no imperfections in it. He is our chief cornerstone. Because the whole building rested upon that cornerstone. The heaviest weight was on that stone. The cornerstone of Him, Christ Jesus. The starting point of the foundation was the cornerstone. Everything but the weight of the whole building was laid upon that cornerstone. In the Old Testament, Samson was led to the chief cornerstone where the pillars of the whole building stood and rested. And he pushed the pillars apart and the whole building fell down because it was on that cornerstone. It was usually four feet by six foot. Like a triangle stone. Like that. Four foot by six foot. The chief cornerstone. Verse number 21, and that's where we're going to finish for today, number 21. Holy verse is a holy verse. The room we're sitting in today and standing in today is a holy place. It's like the Holy of Holies. Because we have direct access to God. He's right there. The curtain is flipped. We're having access to God. In whom? That little preposition there, in, page 137, just like the Greek preposition in. In whom? Locative, singular, masculine, relative, pronoun. In whom? All. Little adjective plural means all. Every building. The word oikodome means the act of building. And a church should be actively building all the time. Actively building always. Sin ere mo le gu mine. Being together fitted. Fitly together. Welded and glued together. present participle, passive voice, nominee singular feminine, seen in aromologia. Fitted together, pounded together like a Damascus steel coin, or whatever it is, whether it's a plow or whether it's some type of pruning, pruner, or whether it's a sword or a knife. She grows, third person singing, a present indicative, Having been fitted together, she grows into, in reference to, unto and beyond, that little accusative preposition there, page 119, a holy place. The dwelling place for the Shekinah glory of God. Jesus is here with us today through His Spirit. He's there. If you're in church, He's there. The Bible says, and you have to realize where two or three are gathered together in my name, I'm in the middle of it. That's talking about a church. It's not talking about just two or three people. It's talking about church organized. It could be only two or three people. But it is a real church, and Jesus is there. A holy temple in the Lord, where the Shekinah dwelling place of God is, All the knowledge in the world will do you no good unless you understand the family of God and the church and the way of salvation. Nothing else matters, people. Nothing else matters. That's it. We're built upon, pounded upon, and laid down like a Damascus steel plate in the temple of the holy, dwelling place of God. Our Father, we send this message out for your honor and glory wherever it goes throughout the world. Please use it. Please forgive me where I found you. In Jesus' name I pray.