All right, we studied the seven churches of Asia a week ago, and remember what that teaches. It teaches something. There were seven real churches in Asia at that time. Thank you. There were seven real churches in Asia at the time that John wrote this letter, or book, whatever you want to call it. By the way, the word book comes from the Greek word biblios, or biblion, and it means a scroll. And when, at the time that it was written, there weren't books like you see here. It was a scroll. It was rolled up. And it was on one long scroll, maybe thirty feet long, and it was rolled up like this, and they would unroll it and read it. And that's the way writing had been done for thousands of years, basically. In the New Testament period of time, they started changing that until it was book form. like we use today. And that way you didn't have to unroll the whole... If you ever try to find John 3.16 in the Gospel of John, you'd have to unroll it until you found it. Otherwise, you just turn to it in a page. And this is what you call codices. A codex. And it was a book bound together. And that started probably earliest around 100 to 200 AD. right after the Bible was completed. And many of the Christian teachers and scholars changed over to the Codex or the book form real fast because it was opposite of what the Jewish way was of unrolling the scroll. And so they said, we're different than them. And the Jewish, some of the Judaizers, I never get up here and drink, but I'm dehydrated. The Jewish would roll their scrolls and the Christians would open their books. And there was difference. There was a difference in it. They say, we are different. We are not of that group. The Judaizers, they were having trouble with them during the early days. And what did the Judaizers teach? What was the problem with the Judaizers? Hm? Who knows that? What's the problem with the Judaizers? Young lady, you know that? Answer. To the law. To the law of Moses. They were used... You know, it's hard to change somebody. When you're raised up eating gravy and biscuits... It's hard to change, isn't it? Well, that's the way it was for them. It was part of their culture to keep the law, to keep the Sabbath, to do the things that they had been doing for hundreds of years. So the Judaizers, when they were saved, they followed Jesus for a while, but they said, hey, we're still going to go to church on Saturday, on the Sabbath. By the way, the only Sabbath there ever was was Saturday. That's the Sabbath. But Jesus nailed the Sabbath to the cross, so it's done away with. There's no more need for a Sabbath. He is our rest. If somebody worshiped on Saturday today or something, as you would do in the Old Testament, it would be kind of an insult to Jesus because He is our Sabbath. He is our Sabbath. And He is our rest. We rest in what He did, not what we do. Well, there was problems. They wanted to wear the same kind of clothes. They wanted to act like they had done before. They wanted to meet like they had done before. And they still wanted to be circumcised. Even though Christ was the real, the new covenant, they still wanted circumcision to be part of the new covenant. Circumcision was a sign of the Old Covenant. That was the Abrahamic Covenant and the Mosaic Covenant. It was reconfirmed in that. But the New Testament, that's not part of it at all. That was a sign for a time. And when the real king of Israel came and Israel rejected that king, Israel was set aside, as you can see out here. Maybe you can't see this. Put that a little higher on your little charts. God set Israel aside, and He called out His church, and He empowered her, and sent her out, and she became many churches. There, the law was done away with. The Sabbath was done away with. Well, after this period of time, some of the Jews still wanted to be Jews. Peter was a real problem in the early church. He was a big problem among the early Christians and the early churches. Because he was so Jewish, the Lord made him go and baptize the first converts from among the Gentiles, and that was Cornelius House in the Book of Acts. In Peter's dream, he showed Peter a great tablecloth coming down out of heaven. On this tablecloth were walking around animals like Wilbur, the pig, camels, and things that they weren't supposed to be eating. and all kinds of unclean things for a Jew to touch to his mouth. And the Lord told Peter, Arise, stand up, Peter, and slay and dress these animals and eat them. He said, No way. Nothing common or unclean has ever touched my lips. And you know what? The rest of his life he was still that way. Paul had to put him down a couple of times to get him under control. He rebuked him because he was fellowshipping more with the Judaizers than he was with the real Christians. And the Judaizers were the real problem. That doesn't mean that Peter wasn't a good Christian, because he did finally lay his life down for the Lord. But Paul had to rebuke Peter and tell Peter, Peter, you are going the wrong way. Quit being a Jew. Be a Christian. Because that's what God has called you to be. Not the Jewish. The Jewish system was set aside. Now, you're a Christian, you're an apostle, and building churches for the Lord Jesus Christ. Do that. Don't go back keeping the law because the law was only a pointer to me, to Christ. And that's what it was. The law pointed to Christ. And the law was supposed to show all mankind that there was nothing that you could do to really keep your salvation and to work for it because you couldn't make it. You can't do it. The Pharisees in Jesus' time What was a Pharisee? What does the name Pharisee mean, by the way? The name Pharisee. What does it mean? Pharisee. Separated ones. They were separated. They were higher and holier than anybody. And by the way, there weren't a whole lot of them. Maybe one out of ten thousand Jewish people was a Pharisee. They were only dedicated enough to be a Pharisee. They were very dedicated people. And Jesus was constantly butting heads with the Pharisees, and he told them, you are sinners. You've whitewashed the outside of tombs, but they're still corrupt. I don't care how you clean up a dead body, it's still going to be dead, isn't it? It's a dead, corrupt, rotting flesh. Dead. Bath is dead. And that's what he said. He said, you polish up tombs, but they're dead. He said, you make great long prayers in the marketplaces, and then you go and rob widows and orphans and take from them and require a temple tax from every person, whether they can afford it or not. You're taking from these people what is their very living. And Jesus told them one day, as these Pharisees were going and putting their $20 and $100 and $1,000 bills into the offering plate, one poor widow woman took in and put, actually what was equivalent to one cent. It was two mites. She put in two mites, which is only worth one penny in our money. And how much is a cent worth? Not much. Couldn't buy much with it. Well, you couldn't buy much with it back then. He said they put in what they didn't need. They didn't need that today to eat. What that woman put in was what she was going to eat on. She was going to take that money and eat with it for this day. She might could have bought a cup of broth or maybe one little part of a piece of bread for that penny. And that's what she was going to eat that day, was that penny. But she gave that penny instead, so she had nothing to eat at all. Maybe not for a couple of days. The Judaizers were those people that trusted in the law. And what did Jesus tell the Judaizers in finality? He finally said something to them that squelched all of their great ambitions of keeping the law. They said that they kept more than law because they made their own little laws, and one of those little laws was that they tithed from their herb garden in their backyard. They would tithe those herbs. And that wasn't required in the law, but they went beyond the law. What were the... Yeah, yeah. They were even interpreting the law and adding more to them burdens. Well, everything starts off with a good intent. Yeah, it goes backwards on you. Anyway, Jesus told them, your law says you shall not commit adultery. They said, we didn't commit adultery. You want Jesus told? Did you ever look? And their law, their rabbinical law, you know when Jesus was talking to the woman at the well in Samaria? According to them, he should have been stoned to death. Did you know that? He broke the rabbinical law. He should have been stoned to death because you did not speak to your own wife in public. Not a rabbi. You couldn't even speak to your own wife in public, let alone a strange woman. So that was terrible for them. But Jesus says, beyond the rabbinical laws or whatever, He said, I tell you that if you look upon a woman with lust in your heart, you don't do anything. But you just looked. You have committed adultery already and you are guilty of the law. That was a rough one. And what was the other thing? He said, I tell unto you that if you are angry with your brother without a cause, that you are a murderer. What was he telling them? When Jesus preached in Nazareth, what did they want to do with him? Did they become angry with him without a cause? What did they want to do to him? Stoning and throwing him off a cliff. They tried to murder him. They were what? These Pharisees and Levites were murderers. He said, you're murderers, he said. So that's what was going on at that period of time. the struggle between Judaism and Christianity, and Paul's group and Peter's group, basically. And they were going off, and Paul had to rebuke Peter. Well, during the early churches We see that in the history of the seven churches of Asia. We see Judaism and also we see paganism in some of the churches. And that's what we study, the seven churches. And then we studied last week, last Wednesday night, we studied about the trail of blood. And I haven't got the books yet. I was going to bring you some books if you wanted some of those. I think they're about a dollar a piece. or $2 or something like that, or a little trail above. It's a history and a trail, like I taught you last Wednesday. And for you that weren't here, you can listen to the tape, and I'll give you some of those next week probably. I'll probably have them by then. Anyway, it tells about the histories and the vision of the churches as it came down through time. You've got one right there. Can you show that little chart up here, brother? Anyway, it talks about the history of the Church, and this is what I'm going to be teaching on Sunday night, too, except I'm going to go to bed early this Sunday. It talks about the churches when they started out, and they started errors, like Judaism, Judaizers. And it started complicating and complicating more, more and more lies, more and more complicated. They've got one lie, so they have to tell another lie to cover that one up. And anyway, what evolved into what became the Catholic Church. And then what happened after that time? Then they divided in the Eastern and the Western Church. And what we know is the Greek Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Church at that time. But all of the things that they practiced today did not begin instantly. It didn't go back to Christ. It evolved. One little error led to another one, and another one, and another one, and another one. Now, this is something else. A lot of those people, like in Roman Catholicism, went back to Judaizing again, in all reality. In Israel, what did you have? Where did you go originally? Well, synagogue, but they had one tabernacle and one temple. They had one high priest that interpreted the law for them by the Urim and the Thummim, you know, the things that he would put on and God would reveal to him in the Old Testament, because they didn't have the written word like we do today, and he would interpret for them. So guess what you have in Roman Catholicism? You have the Vatican. You have one Holy Father that interprets and gives new laws and makes new dogmas. And of course all the dogmas always outweigh the Word of God. OK? It was something that just moved in, just kind of grew. It's kind of like, how many of you have a refrigerator? I remember before we had one. We'll have iceboxes. I still call them an icebox. But sometimes when you have even this modern device, a refrigerator, you will cook something and you will put it back in the refrigerator. And when you pick it out and take it back out, it looks different than it did before. It has spots on it. Green and black and different colors. It changes color and form. It starts to degenerate. My wife cooks some real good salmon or something here a while back. And I eat a little bit of it. And I found that the other day. I opened it up and it looked different than it did three weeks before. It was a little different looking than it was before. It changed. That's the way error is. Error starts out as just departing from the truth a little bit. We're just going to go over here just a little way. Not very far. Not from over here to this wall. And all of a sudden, you're home on the outside of the wall, and you don't know how you got there. Well, that's what happens. Now, the Lord Jesus Christ, through the Apostle John, is writing these letters to us in this age. And in this period of time, we have the churches that have these errors from paganism and the OK, in them already. And then we have these pagans over here that are practicing pagan things. And some of the things that Paul writes in his letters, he tells the women who do not dress a certain way to be different than the rest of the world. And God really should be able to and be represented by His children in this world, you really ought to look like a Christian. What is that? What is that today? Sometimes when you come to church, you really don't know what it's supposed to look like, do we? We don't know. But we should not look like the world. We know that. We should not dress like, talk like, or look like the world. We try to bring that in the churches sometime, and what we do is the same thing. It's contamination. And when you contaminate something, it becomes poison. And it grows that way. The Lord's churches are supposed to be clean. He says that I want my churches to be a chaste virgin. A woman marries her husband. And she said, I've waited for you, darling, all of my life, except... Here and here, I only had five affairs before I was with you. I've waited for you. And the one man, the one who looked at the man, well, did you wait for me? Well, I only had nine affairs. So I waited for you. But the Lord says that he wants his churches to be chaste virgins. You know what a virgin is. We know that. That's untouched, unspotted. That's what he said he wanted his churches to be. That's what he expects of us. If you want to rule and reign with Christ, that's what's expected of you. That's it. That's what he says in his word. I didn't say anything about salvation now. I didn't have anything to do with salvation. Ruling and reigning with him. That's his bride, his special chaste virgin. I won't go into that too much, too deep. All right. The revelation of Jesus Christ, written by John, the first chapter in verse nineteen says, graphon, un, ha, edes, kai, ha, That last little phrase there, meta-palta, John uses that throughout the book of Revelation, after these things. So you'll see that many, many times. And John is writing here, and then he says, You write, second person singular, first person imperative, the Lord is telling him what to write down. He said, you write therefore, which things you saw. Remember I told you that John was taking in the spirit world, in spirit, into eternity. And he saw these things really happen before his own eyes. Now he's going to tell us what he saw with his eyes. And you just start using a little bit of your imagination, what he saw. John saw the Battle of Armageddon. He saw it. John saw the Antichrist stand up in the temple in Jerusalem and tell those Jews that, I am God. He saw that. He saw automobiles. He saw airplanes. He saw all of this. And he didn't know what to think about it. So he writes down about this stuff. And we're going to see these things as we get into this book. Okay? Right? Therefore, what things that you saw, and the things, or the whiches, we don't have that in English, but the whiches, which things they are, and whiches, which things are about to occur or to become after these things. All right? And then one in twenty. To misterion, ton, hepta, asteron, pus, aedes, epi, teis, dexios, Mu? Chi? Ta? Hepta? Lusnias? Tas? Chrysas? Hoi? Hepta? Osteris? Ongoloi? Tone? Hepta? Ecclesione? Asin? Kai, Hai, Lixnia, Hai, Hepta, Hepta, Ekklesiai, Hason. That's a long verse. Verse number 20. It said the mystery, all right, the mystery or the secret of the seven stars which you saw upon the right side of me, of Jesus Christ. Alright? The mystery or the secret of the seven stars which you saw upon the right side of me and the seven lampstands. What is a lampstand? Yeah, a candle holder. Now, they didn't really use candles at this period of time. They used lamps that had oil in them, probably olive oil most of the time, sometimes animal fat or whatever. But it would be a lampstand. Now, the lampstand did something. What did the lampstand do? It held the oil. And the oil, as it was burning, illuminated something. All right? Now, think about that. We're going to find out that these lampstands are the churches. Jesus said to the little church that he was calling out in his ministry, he said, You are the light of the world. You are the salt of the earth. This is Frigidivoli speaking. Without the law of Moses, people would not have known what right and wrong is, would they? Not in depth and in detail. The system today that we... Oh, I can't hardly even say it. That's supposed to be running this country. It's supposed to be built upon the civil law of Moses. Boy, I have a problem with that. It's supposed to be. No nation will ever stand that will not protect its citizens. by the laws of that covenant, of that old covenant. The civil law. What does civil mean? What's politics, by the way? What's politics mean? Huh? What is politics? Well, it comes from a Greek word, polis, which means many. Okay, what's a tick? That's a blood sucker, isn't it? That's really, I'm kidding about that, but Pauline, this does mean many. All right. The way you rule the many is by laws and order, by law and order. It seems like law and order is only purchased in this country by those that can afford it. That's how it's done, but under the civil law, Every man was supposed to have an equal voice and an equal stand in that nation. I don't care how poor he was or what, he had his day in court. Okay? Now, if we are the light of the world, then we have to show forth God's world, and we have to show forth what a Christian is supposed to be like in this world, if we are lights of this world. A lampstand. And by the way, we really aren't the light. We are that thing which holds up that light. Do you see the difference? We aren't the light, Christ, and his word is the light. But we're supposed to hold it up, where it can shine. It should say there that ye are the light of the world, but ye are the lightbearers of the world. You're the one that carries the light out to where people can see, to live by. He said the seven lampstands, the golden lampstands, gold in the Bible stands for what? Metallurgy. We know what gold is. That's the heaviest metal and the most dense metal there is. What does, if you had radiation on the other side over there, right over here, what could guard you from that radiation better than anything? Gold. What do they use usually? Lead. When you go to the, the next time you go to the dentist and they bring out a lead apron for you to put on you and guard you, say this isn't good enough, I want gold. It'll work better. Alright? And it does. Gold is more dense than lead. It will protect you more. But in the Bible, gold stands for divinity. The lampstand, the outside of the lampstand is pure gold. When the Lord sees us, when we're born again, He doesn't see us, but He sees His blood on us, that divinity. We are divine because we are His children. He sees us. He doesn't see our sins. He sees His blood, Christ's blood on us. The golden, the seven stars, what are the seven stars? They are the angels. Who's angels? What is an angel? Angel. Angelos. Do we know what the word is? Have you ever known somebody named Angel? The word, the name Angelea or Angela, that means angel. Sometimes you hear somebody about the name of an angel or Asus, Jesus, okay? But angel is a messenger. And it says, the seven golden lampstands and the seven stars. The seven stars are luminaries in the sky. Okay, luminaries in the skies. Luminaries in the skies. A star is a luminary in the sky. It's a light. It's finally cooling off in here. Are you freezing now? It's too hot or too cold like the old days around the fireplace. One side was freezing and one side was burning up. Your back was freezing cold and your front was sweating. That's the way this room is so far. Messengers. Messengers. Hot and cold. They are messengers of the seven churches. They are. The last stands. are the churches, and the messengers of the churches, they are the pastors. They are the teachers in the church. When I preach the word of God, people hear it. It is being messaged. See, I'm a messenger. You thought I was an angel, didn't you? The teachers are messengers. in the churches, all right? Messengers in the churches. That's what the stars are, the luminaries in the sky. Here we have the sky being illuminated by stars, and the earth down here is illuminated by lampstands holding up the light. Do you see the order? The temple in the Old Testament days was built funny. The temple had real thick walls. The Temple of Solomon is what I'm talking about. It had real thick walls. And, in the old days, when they built a house, in the ancient of times, the walls were thick, because they were usually made out of stone and wood. And the walls The windows would taper out like this, and they would gather the light and shine it in the house. If you have a house without doors and windows, you have a dark house. Well, back in those days, they didn't have electricity. So, they would do this. These ones were built in a wall. They were built at an angle, and it would gather the light. But the temple was built opposite of that. They didn't do that. The temple walls and the windows, it was built like this. The light was gathered inside and shined out. It shined like a flashlight beam out of those windows. What was the inside of the walls of that temple covered with? Gold. Gold's a real good reflector, isn't it? It reflects. It doesn't really tarnish. Some of the, we bought a stove today and had it put in our fireplace and it has a gold trim on it, because gold doesn't tarnish, like silver or brass or something does. It's not supposed to tarnish. Well, the inside of this, it shows the divinity. And God's children are supposed to be covered by the blood of Jesus Christ, which is divine. Remember what the lampstands are? All right? The churches are the lampstands. They are pure gold, and they hold up the light. They aren't the light, but they let the light shine. Okay? And there were seven lampstands in here, and that's the number of perfection, by the way, in the temple. And when they were all lit, it shined, and at nighttime, the light shined out of the temple. It didn't gather light. It shined light. And that's what he's talking about here. John knew about this. He knew about it. He said, like the temple in the Old Testament, shine forth the light of God out into the community. And it was set up on the hill in Jerusalem, and you could see it for a long way. a long way, so that the world ought to be able to see us for a long way. Not as bad influences, but as good influences. Gold and seven stars, the messengers they are of the seven churches they are, and the lampstands, the seven churches' assemblies they are. Okay? It's said that the messengers of the assemblies are the stars, the luminaries, and that the churches are the lampstands. That's what this translates. John is translating and interpreting what this symbol means. Okay? Have you got that? The lampstands are the churches, the stars are the messengers, are the teachers of those churches, the pastors. All right? Now we go to the second chapter of the book of Revelation. We're through the first one now. Here we are in the eighth class, and we're making progress. to angelo teis in episo ecclesios dropson tade lege ho croton tus hepta aceros in te, dexia, aptu, ho, peripaton, en, meso, ton, hepta, lyxneon, ton, trison. Let's look at this now. Read it in Greek, now let's look at it in English, see what we can decipher out there. All right? A little better than politics, isn't it? Medi-tics. All right? By the way, this is the message to the church in Ephesus. The subject begins at chapter 2 and verse 1, and it goes to chapter 2 and verse 7, if you want to write that down. I think maybe in your little deal there, Marked out there maybe. To the messenger, to the church in Ephesus. You write. He has a message to the church in Ephesus. Alright? Now remember I told you back when we started talking about these seven churches of Asia. What period of time, what does the word Ephesus mean? Emphasis. What? Relaxed. Relaxed. When the Lord called out His little church, He empowered it there in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost, they were real happy. They started making a lot of converts, and they were just getting, I mean, having some real good church services there in Jerusalem and around about. And when you get people doing that, they just want to stay there, don't they? The Lord had told them to get out and as you're going out to the world, as you are going, make disciples wherever you're traveling. Heavy persecution came upon that church there and it spread out and made many churches throughout the land. And the persecution is what spread it. And they used to say in the Baptist histories that the more Baptist bled, it was like fertilizer, the more churches. More people adhere to the truth when they see somebody suffering for what they believe instead that guy believes what he's what he's doing he believes in that There's got to be something to that and they did down through the ages to the messengers messenger of the church of Ephesus right now this coverage From 33 A.D. to about 251 A.D. Remember what happened in 251 A.D.? That's a church in Rome. Remember that? Who knows? Remember a little bit about that church history? Two fellows got up and had a fist fight, didn't they? Right there in church. Well, they sure had some arguments, didn't they? Their name was Novation and Cornelius. 251 A.D. They had an argument. And the argument was, how to practice church discipline in the churches, because some of them had left the churches, and they wanted to come back, and Novation and Cornelius, Novation says if they come back, then they're going to have to put Christ on openly, be baptized again, and make a public profession of faith, because when they denied their faith, Maybe the guy gave 10 or 15 names to the judge that was trying him, and they went out and killed all the rest of them, or tortured their children to death or something. So they didn't want them just to be taken back into the church. It's real easy. They wanted a profession of faith, so they'd be the first one to hang. The next time, all right. Well, Cornelius didn't believe in that, and so they went a little liberal, and Novation churches went conservative. The Novations became what is known as the Anabaptists, and Cornelius' group became what is known as the Church of Rome. All right, that's where that began. That's where that division took place right there. Seven churches are right. So the seven messengers write these things, he says, the one holding the seven stars in the right hand of him. And I am thank God that he holds his teachers in his hands." That's what it's talking about there, the messengers he holds in his hands. I have a picture at home, and I think, did we make that picture of our postcard, was that a picture of a picture of Jesus in his hands like that with the Indians on a horse in his hands? And it's called the picture of my friend and back in the Midwest through this picture. He's a Indian. He drew a picture of Jesus. Just absolutely encompassing the whole universe. And his hands coming down here like this. And this Indian is standing on his painted horse with his four bonnet on. And his hand like this. And by the way, that means empty hands, no weapons. That's how the Indians used to greet each other. You see them like that, they hold their hands up like that. That means I have no weapons, I come and see. I'm not hiding a gun or a knife. And his hands were up like this, and saying, I have no hands. It's called in his hands. And that's the way God is. We're in his hands. His children are. You teach, you teach truthfully God's Word, and you are in his hands. He holds you in his hands. He protects you. And the one walking around, the word walking there, whole peripation. That's a nomine singular masculine present participle active kind of a verb noun thing. And walking means to spread yourself around. When you walk around, you travel. And you spread yourself around. That's what it means. That's what walking means. To walk about or to walk around. When Crocodile Dundee came out, that movie, He was going on a walkabout all the time. He was traveling out exploring. Well, Jesus says when you're exploring, when you're walking about, when you go on a walkabout, take Jesus with you. And Jesus will hold you in His hands. The one walking in the middle of the seven lampstands, the golden, alright? Jesus walked in the garden, didn't He? Did not? Jesus used to walk with Adam in the garden. Jesus walks among His churches today. As we walk about in the world, Jesus walks about among us. Walking about, looking at us, inspecting us to see if we're faithful to Him as churches. Faithful to His truths, faithful to His Word. I can put up with these little kids playing down there a lot better than I can with all that noise. That sounds a lot better, doesn't it? In the middle of the seventh line stands the golden lap stands. And then, Revelation 2, verse 2, oida, ta, erga, su, kai, ton, kopon, kai, tein, Hippomonene, su, kai, koti, bu, dine, bastase, kakus, kai, epairasas, tus, lagotas, hiatus, Kai, Uk, Asen, Kai, Keres, Autus, Sudes. Oh, there's a lot in this verse here. A whole lot to teach. Jesus said, I know. That word, oida, that's the person's singular perfect and dignity values. Or maybe, or whatever. And then it's active voice. He says, I have known. Look at that. I have known. What you do is no secret to Christ. Did you know that? What you do is no secret to Him because He already knows it. He knew it a thousand years ago. However that was. Did you know that Jesus knew you in the eternal past? What you'd do, what you were going to do with your life, how you would die, how you would live, where you were going to be born, all of that? Did you know that? He did. He said, I have known the works of you. What is a work? That word is ergo there, and that means a product of employment. Somebody says, what do you do for a living? That's what this is. What do you do for a living? What do you spend your time doing? I know what you spend your time doing, is what he says here. I know it. I have known it. I always knew how you spent your time. And the labor, the works, now the word labor there. This work is a, we see how you spend your time and the labor, this work means its place. And how many of you have ever done artwork? That's art work. How many of you have painted a picture? All right. You painstakingly put every little mark and every little brush stroke in there. An art. This watch I have here, I got to look at it. My wife bought that for me for our anniversary. And I took it down to the watchmaker and they opened it up and they said this is the most beautiful watch that was ever made. It's 37 jewels. It is the masked and marked, I wish I had a color photograph of it. It is a piece of art. The maker of that wash made, and it's handmade, by Paddy Philippe in Sienese, Switzerland. They made every little piece, every little piece was fitted together exactly. This wash is over 50 years old. They say the watches today, even those Patek Philippe watches only last five years and you've got to start replacing parts in them because they make the springs too strong. Everything in that mechanical masterpiece has to be exactly right. This one is right. It'll last a hundred years. and still work. Because they took the painstaking time to make every little part just exactly like it's supposed to be. The mainspring wasn't too strong and it wasn't too weak. It would last for two days or whatever. And when it winds itself up with a rotor that had enough weight, it's 22 karat gold, to swing around and wind itself with. It's different. How many of you ever did crocheting? You made every loop. Every loop. If you... How many of you ever made a dress? How many of you ever built a carnage? Or a boat? Or a piece of furniture? You can look at those pieces of furniture. My wife did all those things. And how many of you ever painted a house? Yup, you did that too. Laid a brick. Brooked. Every nail you drive. My wife gets all that. I was there on a hundred acre farm and she drove every nail and every shingle on the places about it. And painted every one of the houses out there on the inside and the outside. But she says, I remember when I did that sometimes. I remember when I did that. The works. The labor it takes to do it. The labor that it takes to do that, it takes sweat and blood and time. I used to do a lot of Indian artwork. One of the hardest things that I ever did, because I poked holes in myself constantly, was making moccasins, because it was hard. Needle, real stiff needle, on the end of a pair of pliers and stick it through this buffalo and elk hide that I was making a mount of. I don't care what, at least two or three times in a pair of moccasins, I was going to run that thing in my hands. I mean, there's holes all in my hands. There's scars where I had done that. Blood was all over them. I had to really keep getting blood on them because most of the time they were white moccasins. And so it was staying in real bad and I was having to stop the leaks up and all the time, the sweat and blood. That's what that word capone means there. The effort that it takes to work. The sweat, the blood, the tears, the pain, the labor. And you know, they say out here when these guys are training for the Olympics, no pain, no gain. You just have to just keep going further than you ever did before. And maybe some of you watched that movie Cassius Clay and where it was the greatest. And then Rocky movies, you know, where Rocky was fighting and he was pushing himself beyond the limits and everything. And that's what it's talking about right here, that labor. That's that word. Right there. And the hypo-mone. That word is such a big word. Hypo-mone. Hypo means under. All right? When you have hypo-glostemia, what do you have? Low blood sugar. When you have hyper-glostemia, you have high blood sugar. Well, that comes right out of Greek. Hypo means low or under. And mone or meno, that means to remain under. Remain under the thumb. That's what I was talking about. Pressure. Remain under the strength. When I was going to Bakersfield High School in the first half of the last century, way back when, they had some bars out there. And then we'd go out there and PE, and everybody wanted to lift weights and everything. And the guy that was out there, old Griffin, Griffin Field, you know, the guy that was named after Griffin Field, he was out there and he said, now guys, you go out there and lift those weights and everything else and see if you can get some muscles and exercise for doing that. But he said, if you want to build up your muscles stronger than anything, just go right over there to those bars. And there's a barb slid through these two vertical channel wires, and he said, just put it down there, and I want you to reach down, and I want you to pull against that thing. You're not going to lift it at all. You know, you're not Hercules. You're not going to pull the thing down to the ground. He said, lift it as hard as you can pull, and hold that strain. Remain under that strain for at least ten seconds. And do that ten times. And he said, then put the bars up high and press up with it, put it across your shoulders and shove up as hard as you can shove for ten seconds. You're not lifting anything. But you're remaining under a strain. That's what you call isometrics. Isometrics. This is the word spiritual isometrics right here. I'll tell you what, sometimes in life it doesn't seem like we're going anyplace. Just remaining under the strain. That's spiritual isometrics. I know that stay in power of you, and that not you are tolerable, not you will tolerate to bear cacus." Cacus. That's bad. Cacus. There's different words for bad in Greek, by the way. This one here is Adamic. That which you do because you are a son of Adam. Right. What are your sins in your life? What take you away from God and on your own little world? The Adamic sins. I'm not talking about practicing lying. Because we're going to get that one later. When you just slip up now, man, and you just goof, might say a bad word, or you might do something wrong to somebody, this is cacus. Okay? That's that word. That's bad. Okay? And you're in trouble. But it says you won't bear evil, not even the Adamic nature. And he said that you did try, you did try the ones saying themselves apostles. And he says, not they are. They're not apostles. And that you found them liars. Do you see that? Sudeis there? Each and every one of them was a liar. What does a liar do? He doesn't tell a little exaggerated story now and then. A liar practices lying like somebody out jumping high jumps. A liar practices lying. They practice lying. Evil. Greek is a descriptive language. We have kakos here. Then we have soudes. These rascals. If I wrote that right. I got that epsilon in there. That's a liar. Okay? A practice liar. Then we have the word pornography. We get a word pornography from that. That means real bad. You're going to see this in the Bibles we study. These are the different Greek words. And the meaning of words are very important. This word means prostitution. This word means pornography, evil doing, whatever. What it does is you take something that's normal and you pervert it to something that's wrong. And you do it on purpose. You do it for gain. You lie. There are lawyers that lie for a living. Ponerio, okay? Liars. That's it. That's what they do for a living. They are salesmen. You go down to buy a new car. Or a used car especially. You go down and buy a used car and you're in trouble right off the bat. Because you've got a professional liar working on you. You do. A professional liar unless you know him. You better watch out. We've got two or three used car salesmen in this church. Use them because they're really good guys. You might trust them. But most of them are like lawyers. You can't trust a word that comes out of the mouth. If their lips are moving, they're lying. OK? That's the way it is. Practice evil. All right? To lie is for profit. To use normal sexuality for profit. a normal, God-given desire to marry him without gain. That's wrong. That is wrong. That is evil. OK? That's why they use that strong word for that. All right? One more verse. It's a short one. Revelation 2 and verse 3. Cai. Hippo monen. Ekes. Cai. Ibas pasas. diya, tol, onama, mu, kai, uk, aru, keka, piyakes. All right? And your spiritual isometrics, your spiritual staying power, your endurance, you have. And it says, you have born, you did bear, because of the name of Me, and not that you grow weary. You bore my name up, and you didn't grow weary doing it." I appreciate that, God said. Don't grow weary in well-doing. Whatever your calling in life, If you're a Sunday school teacher, or whatever you do, if you're a mother, if you're a father, don't go weary in well-doing. Do that. Do it always. Do it well. Do it in the name of the Lord, because that's what God expects of you. Thank you for your attention, and I hope the Word of God enlightens your hearts and your lives, and it helps you to make it through another day. Because that's what it's there for, for our admonition. And so we'll start out in 2 and verse 4 next week. Please remember us in your prayers. And read this book. And bring back your questions sometimes, too. If you have a question, yes. Not really. That might have been Peter, son of John or whatever. The word Bargesis, Bargesis, and names like that. All right, Ben-Susan. You know what that means? Remember Jack Ben-Susan? Yeah, you did. My mother worked for him, too. Ben-Susan means son of Susanne. All right, son of Susanne. That's what it meant. Now, a lot of the names were done like that. They say Bar Benjamin, son of Benjamin. And then Larson, son of Lars. Okay? A lot of the names are like that. In modern times, we have first and last names for legal reasons, basically, so they can figure you out. In the book of Revelation, we're going to find out you're going to get a number, too. If you're on this earth at the wrong time. Names came about basically in legal society, all right? And different cultures and different times. My wife was reading to me over the weekend. We were running up and down the coast. She was reading to me the history of the name Reed, because her family, she has Reeds in her family, and talked about in Denmark how the history of the names over there, that they had, almost all of them had the same name. It was like a whole country named Smith. Okay? They said, well, you have to change your names. You have to do something to change your name. It couldn't be Larson anymore, son of Lars, but it had to be some other name. And that's where you have the origin of names. And it was all for legal reasons. All right? Did that help you any? All right. Many Indians, by the way, took the names of their owners. Indians were slaves until the 1920s in this country, by the way. I don't know whether you knew that or not. They were still selling Indian slaves in Los Angeles as late as 1869. That's four years after the Civil War in California. Four years after the Civil War, they were still selling Indian slaves. There were slaves up until the 20s and 30s in Nevada and Utah to their Indian slaves living on ranches where they were using them for slaves. They took the names of their owners a lot of times. Hank Patterson up there in Fish Lake Valley was one of them. He took the name of the ranch that he worked on. Many of the slaves took the names of their masters when they turned them loose. I don't know that you knew this either, but after the Civil War, the Civil War was not fought over slavery. It was fought over states' rights. But after the Civil War, the North that won took many of the Negro slaves and put them in Indian territory and gave them Indian allotments. Gave them Indian land and called them Indians. They're still on the rolls today. There you go. That's a little history for you. And that's how their names, and many of those were called Friedman. That's how the name Friedman came about. On the Indian rolls, you'll see the name Friedman.