Colossus near Ephesus, a little bit east of Ephesus by the way. You know where Ephesus is. A little close to Greece, across the Aegean Sea. Colossus was an important city of Phrygia in Asia Minor situated east of Ephesus. It is not definitely known that Paul visited this place, but it is possible that he did so on his third missionary journey. Most probably this epistle was written by Paul while he was a prisoner in Rome, A.D. 62, and delivered by Tacitus in 4, 7, and 8. Colossians is the sister epistle to Ephesians. Even as Romans is to Galatians, it was written almost simultaneously and sent by the same messenger. The central theme of Colossians is Christ, while that of Ephesians is the Church. The book of Ephesians is a masterful church letter, by the way. It talks about the churches of the Lord Jesus Christ, how the church was in the mind of God in eternity past, and so on and so forth, and all the way through time, and the church will be special to him throughout eternity in the future. Now, Colossians Not only, I mean every letter that we have in the New Testament basically is a church letter. It is a church letter, how to behave yourself in the house of God, doctrinally, how to be doctrinally sound, and all of this. Well, the book of Colossians not only tells you how to behave, but it tells you about the God that you worship. It is a God letter. It tells you about Jesus. It tells you about the deity of it. The central theme of Colossians is Christ, while that of Ephesians is the church. The Colossian heresy combines philosophical speculations, astral powers, reverence to angelic intermediaries, food taboos, aesthetic practices, and borrowed Judaism. Colossians 2, 8-23. Paul does not confront the heresies that existed in Colossus point by point, but he presents but he presents related truth in a positive manner. From the subjects he touches upon, we conclude the following. Inordinate, number one, inordinate attention was given to the powers of the spirit world to the detriment of the place given to Christ in 2.18. He speaks of worship of angels and other references to the relation of the spiritual creation to Christ, 1.16, 20, and 2.15. Undue attention, number two, undue attention was given to outward observances such as peace and fast and new moons and status. to sixteen, and probably also circumcision in two and eleven. They were presented as the true way of self-discipline and subjection of the flesh, two and twenty. They were also definitely influenced by Gnosticism, a heresy that plagued the early churches in the first two hundred years of existence. The word is derived from the Greek word gnosis, or gnosko, meaning knowledge. This heresy is refuted not only by the writers of the New Testament epistles but also by the Church Fathers or the writers in the early Churches who lived in the period after the early Church Age. It is from them that we acquire the knowledge of Gnosticism general tenets. Gnostics separated matter from thought. They considered matter as evil and thought or knowledge as the ultimate for salvation. This is why they did not want to attribute humanity to Jesus Christ. Now we have some people like this today. The Christian scientists. They are not Christians and they are not scientists. The Christian science does the same thing. Unitarian Universalism. That's all. Unity churches. Unitarian churches. All that do away with the deity of Christ. They are Gnostics. Since humanity being material to them was evil, from this we have the don't take heresy which believe that the body of Christ was only something that appeared material and of course we have the Jehovah Witnesses to say that the body of Christ was never raised from the dead, that it was not material. And the book of Colossians refutes that also. But in reality it was not. Such a belief led to an immoral lie for since the spirit was entirely separate they were not responsible for the acts of the body. This is the reason why Paul in 2.9 stressed that Jesus As he appeared on earth, dwelt in all the fullness of Godhead bodily, he was truly God in the flesh. As a result of the philosophical concept of evil embodied in us, he ignored or diminished the significance of the historic facts of the ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ." And there we have so many religions today, as not being real, but simply apparent. To them, all the secrets of God were in the mind, an immaterial identity. The result developed in two divergent directions, one being completely denial of sexual and other bodily appetites and virtually skepticism stemming from the same premises of the practice of the unrestrained indulgence of the body. We have two extremes here. We've got people that are becoming monks and people that are becoming totally licentious. And both of them stem from the same thing. Paul in this epistle counters the teaching that stresses that the way of holiness is an asceticism that promotes only spiritual selfishness. He stresses that spirituality is not achieved by self-centered efforts to control the passions, but by putting on Christ, setting one's affections on him, and so stripping off all that is contrary to his will. He stresses, furthermore, that as far as immaterial knowledge is concerned, true wisdom is not man-made philosophy, but the mystery revealed secret of God in Christ, who dwells who indwells all who receive him, without distinction of persons. The occasions of writing and sending this epistle was that Paul was sending a messenger to Philemon in Colossae in connection with his runaway, but now a converted slave on Lysimus. Furthermore, Hippocrates, who had brought Paul and reported the church in Colossae, which included many encouraging things, but also disturbing news, of the false teaching that threatened to lead its members away from the truth in Christ. Heresies that prevailed in philosophy as well as in other contemporary churches was Gnosticism and the Heretic of Knowledge countered the Heretic and he tried to counter this heresy in ways and you'll see it in Greek as we go there and we study. Now let's go to our book and take a look at The book of Colossians. Paulus Apostolos. Everybody. Paulus Apostolos. Resu. Esu. Via. De Lamatos. Theu. Thy. Themopheus. Tol. Adelphos. There's not a word in there that's real hard, is there? There's not a word that's hard. Paulus, of course, Paulus. That's where we get our word Paul. Okay? By the way, Paul means small person. That's what it means. Now Paul had another name before God changed his name to Paul. What was it brother? Saul. Alright. Now Saul comes from the phrase, it's Hebrew. Paul is. Alright. Saul is Hebrew. Now, in Hebrew, Saul comes from the same root that Sheol does. What is Sheol? Hades. What does Sheol mean in Hebrew? Grave. Well, not grave. We were at a grave. Sheol, as one writer says, you can dig a grave, but you can't dig a Sheol. All right? Sheol is the place of departed spirits. But Sheol means something in Hebrew. It means the place asked about. All right? The place asked about. Now when Israel wanted a king like all the rest of the nations around them, what did they do? They asked for a king. They begged for a king. They asked for a king. So God gave them a man called Askor. Asked for, that's what his name meant, asked for. They asked for him and they got him. And he said you're not going to like him once you get him. Saul was a pain in the neck wasn't he? After they got him. Alright, well now Paul's name was Saul but now his name is, he was asked for at first and he was a very proud Jew wasn't he? He was a very proud Pharisee. As a matter of fact he was an elite group of the Pharisees called the Pharisees of the Pharisees. And many, most of the Hebrews at that period of time did not speak Hebrew but in Paul's home they spoke Hebrew which was very rare. Very rare. He was a Hebrew speaking. He was a Pharisee of Pharisees and a Hebrew of Hebrews as he said. Very special. Very proud man. But God made him little and he called him little after that. And Paul was big before as a Pharisee and now he's little as an Apostle. But boy how great he was. God makes you little and then he can use you. You know that? Paulos Apostolos. Apostolos. What's that word? Comes from apo and stelo. Two Greek words. Apo, from and stelo, sin. Apo, stelo. Alright? Alright. Apo, and stello. All right, stello. Apostello. To send out. Now this word, apostle, it carries some weight with it. It means send out with authority. Send out with authority. Paul, the apostle, and then Christus. Paulos, Apostolos, that's nomine singular masculine, both of them are. Alright? Paul is the name, and Apostle is his title, or something describing what he was. Alright, now we have Christus. A priest too. Now see that omicron, epsilon on the end? That O-U looking thing on the end of that? That is Ganymede. singular, and it's masculine. Alright? In Greek, every word is inflected. It tells you what part of the sentence that it plays. Now, when I... I know Greek a whole lot better than I do English. You will never learn English until you learn another language. Because then you learn English, then you learn grammar. Okay, now that's one thing you gotta learn. When I want to figure out English, I have to think Greek. Alright? Now, this is a case of possession. It's a genitive case. It's a case of possession. Alright? Paulus Apostolos Christou, he sued. Alright? Christou is what? What does that word mean? Christ! Alright? But what does it really mean? It comes from Kareol, and it means, in Hebrew, it's Messiah, Yeshua. Alright? What does that mean? What does it mean? Anointed One. Anointed One. Alright? There would be one anointed of God. Now, when Jesus was baptized, He was dipped in the river Jordan by John the Baptist. He was dipped. And when he came up out of the water, God the Father spoke from heaven, the Holy Spirit, not like a dove, but something that looked like a dove came down. So we know that the whole Trinity is in this one. He is the anointed one of God. That's what it's telling us in the word Christos. All right? And nobody's thinking or imagining it would be Christos. Christos. All right? It would be just as hell. Paulos here. See Paulos there? That's nobody's thinking or imagining. Omicron Sigma. OS on the end of it. But this end is an Omicron Epsilon. OU on the end of it. Okay? So that tells us genitive case. Who does Paul belong to? Who owns him? Christ. Paul Apostles belonging to Christ. That's what that genitive case means. The case of possession. Alright? Christ Jesus. What does the name Jesus mean? Jehovah saves. Jesus really is a misnomer. It should be Joshua. Alright? Or Joshua. Joshua in the Old Testament and Jesus in the New Testament, the name is exactly the same. The New Testament name of Jesus should be Joshua. Alright? And it means Jehovah saves. Alright? Jehovah saves. That's what his name means. And Joshua in the Old Testament was a type of Christ also. Belonging to Christ Jesus, Dea Thelematos. Dea. means through or by the agency of. Alright? Through or by the agency of. In Greek, one word means a whole lot of things. You've got a whole thought. You have this little preposition here and it means through or by the agency of thelematos. Thelematos comes from fellow. Fellow means I wish or I want. But thelematos In this sense, here, means the spiritual activating force of God. Paul, in his letter to Ephesians, in his Ephesian letter, remember? Ephesian letter and this letter are what? They're like sister letters. Now let me, uh, that's in the New Testament, isn't it? Ephesians? Paulus Apostolus Christus Isus Deo Theolomatos, same thing, almost exactly. Paulus Apostolus Christus Isus Deo Theolomatos Theotois, Hagios Theotois, Husten Ineptus Theokitis Theotois in Christus Isus. All right, that's how Ephesians starts. Now look and see how this starts. Paulus Apostolus Christus Isus Deo Theolomatos, by the spiritual activating force of God. What makes God do what he does? What makes God tick? John the Apostle told us about it. God is love. That's a predicate nominee by the way. Love is God. God is love. John 3.16 says, For God so loved the world. Loved! Loved! That's very important. God is love. But God is justice too. I want you to understand that. God is justice. I was talking to my brother Lee Kooster the other day. He called me on the phone. He calls me about once or twice a week. He'd be reading a lot of books and things. What do you think about this, Brother Jim? Where are these writers going? What's going on here? Where are they leading to? He said, I've read a story in here that says that hell glorifies God. Well, hell is very important. It's very necessary because of the justice of God. God is love, but God is just all the same time. He is just. That wouldn't be just for God just to throw everybody in heaven, would it? Those that are going contrary in the wrong way, they have made their way. They have prepared their way. They have paved their eternity. By the spiritual activating force, Theou, of God. That's the Greek word for God, Theos. Okay? Kai Timotheus. Now look at that word colloquial. What kind of an English word do you think came out of that English name, actually? Timothy. What does Timothy mean? Honorable and worthy. Trustworthy. Honest. Not a used car salesman. But that's what this is. This means trustworthy, honest. The brother. Ho Adelphos. Alright, now do you see that omicron signal in the Timotheus' name? What it means there is Paul and Timothy are sending this letter to this church. See, because both of them are nominees, that's the case of the subject. They're the ones speaking. And then we have one and two. Alright? Tois. In. Isn't that a good one, in? That's real easy because it sounds just like that in English. Colosseus. Hagios. Hagios. Hagios. Kai. Kai. Tisiois. Tisiois. Adelphois. Adelphois. M. M. Kharistou. Kharistou. Kharis. Kharis. Hemen. Hemen. Kai. Kai. Hareni. Hareni. Apo. Apo. Theou. Theou. Patros. Patros. Hemon. Hemon. Now, you're reading Greek whether you know it or not. If you read Greek enough, you know what? You're going to learn it. That's what this class is, is by induction, by practicing. I mean, if you didn't, you know what, you wouldn't even know your name if your mom and daddy didn't tell you. And all of us learned how to eat one time or another. Yeah, but Jim, some of us learned it from someone else. Well, I know that. My wife keeps telling me that I'm uncivilized savage. And I agree with her. All the time. I don't eat like other people do. But we all learn. We learn by doing, don't we? Mainly. We learn the way you talk. You can tell to a certain extent where somebody's from or at least what they've been exposed to by the way they talk. It's learned. Well if you study, if you learn, if you spend time thrashing around in this language, it's going to rub off on you. I guarantee you. And the last few classes that you've been in, I can guarantee you that you've learned something about Greek. How many of you knew that Greek was an inflected language before you came into this class? How many of you didn't know it? How many of you didn't know what inflection meant? Alright? So now you're learning it. Toys in Colossus. Alright? Toys. That's above. Okay? Is that Colossus? Colossus. Yes. Colossus. That is Colossus. Alright? That's in our language. Now, What is real funny about English and Greek? Greek is literal. When it tells you something, it tells you something literally and exactly. Choice is plural. All right? To the ones in all areas of Colossae. Because the church is made up of people, isn't it? The church is not a building. The church, churches are people. Alright? And when Valley Baptist Church dismisses, where does it go? Where do you live brother? I go all the way. Where do you go brother? What part of town? Salt Gale Highway. Salt Gale Highway. We go all the way out to Bear Mountain. Where do you live brother? All is dry. All is dry. How about you brother? All is dry. All is dry. Well I can tell you that Valley Baptist Church, the members of Valley Baptist Church are from one end of Bakersfield to the other end even up in the mountains. And that's exactly what the letter says right here. Every area of Colossus. The whole city. That's what it means. It's plural. Each and every one. Because it's addressing the members of the church in philos. But we lose it in English because it's singular in English but it's plural in Greek. Because it's talking about the whole area. Every place. And then hagiois. Hagiois. What in the world does that mean? Remember what hagios is? It comes from two Greek words. This is very important. You'll carry this the rest of your life and you'll understand what it means. It comes from two Greek words. Alpha and gay. Alpha is a negative. Alright? And what does the word gay mean? We're not talking about the situation today. Gay. Gay. Alright? Earth. This means law of earth. When you're born again, the first time you're born, you're born of earth, aren't you? You're born to die. You're born to be buried. In the book of Genesis, I teach you Hebrew and Greek at the same time, that way you get two languages at once. I'm trying to sound here, but I'm just trying to explain to you. When God created Adam, and I'm talking about Adam, the father of the human race. He created Adam. made him from the same element as the dust of the ground. He didn't come from dirt. I know so many commentators, because they don't know Hebrew, they say that he made him from dirt. He made him from the same element that he created dirt from. He's the primary creation of God. Man came right straight from God, and the material that he made man out of came from God. It didn't come from the ground. Now, it was a prophecy. He created him as he created the dust of the earth to become dust. Because that was a prophecy. He knew that he would sin and his body would go to the ground. So it's prophetic. And many people got that mixed up. But he created man and he breathed into him the breathings of lives. He created every human being that ever would be born and he breathed into Adam. And then when he Adam walked around the earth, he was alone, he did not have a wife. Ish and Ishah. Ish was man, Ishah was woman. Woman means outer man. And then he said he put Alam to sleep and he took from his sides, not from his rib, but from his sides. Plural. He took from Adam's sides and he made woman and then he gave woman back to him. Well, from that relationship that they had there, after they sinned, they cursed their children to the dirt. Every one of their children, after they sinned, died. They were all related to the dirt. They were made from the same elements that the dirt was made and they would become dirt. They would all die. But God gives man a choice in life, a volition. If you will repent of your sins and change your mind, that's what it means. Completely repenting of your sins really changes you. It does change you. It's a metamorphosis. You turn from a worm like a butterfly does from a caterpillar to a beautiful butterfly. Because you're changed after you're saved. God changes you. Okay? And when you're born again, Paul said, you're not of earth. John, the apostle, says that you're born from above. That you're born again from above. You're birthed from above. You're birthed into a heavenly family when you're born again. When you repent, when you call upon God, when you beg Him for forgiveness, then you're not born of earth anymore. You're born, you become an Adele for us. That's what Paul said Timothy was our brother. Our brother Timothy. Born from the same womb. Born from above. Born from heaven. To the ones in Colossians, faiths, holy ones, ones not of earth. And then it says chi, that's conjunction. And then it says pistois. All of this is plural by the way. All of these Colossians are plural. Faithful ones. Trustworthy ones. Alright? Brethren. Adelphoi, brethren, plural, again, once born from the same womb, when we're born from above, we have a heavenly birth now. We're not of earth any longer, but we're from heaven. In Christ too. In Christ. We're sealed in Christ, aren't we? Pastor Roger talked Sunday about being born again, and when we're saved, we're eternally saved. were saved and were kept in Christ. Alright? In Christ. Then it says, Grace! Grace, that's a beautiful word. For by grace were you saved, isn't it? Grace. Grace. You ought to just memorize that word, Grace. Because that one's a beautiful one. It comes from the idea, maybe you've heard me say this before, but it draws the idea. Remember, at this period of time, rulers are very powerful. And when a man was taken before a ruler, and if he got out of the presence of a ruler alive, he was lucky. Because that ruler had the sentence of life or death in him. And this word grave here, that was the one that got away. That was the one that got away, but not only got away with his life, but got away with a gift from the ruler. When you went before a ruler at that time, he could just look at you wrong, and I mean, they'd take you out and behead you, chop you up into little bitty pieces, throw you for the four winds, take you out there, what they call, what's that word for cutting you? I mean, cutting you to pieces, but they tied four horses to four different limbs and just pulled you asunder. That's what you call corduring. They could do all that. But if you got out of there and he gave you a great big gift, A chest full of gold or something, that was called Khariz. That gift, a grace. The disfaithful wants the saints, the brethren in Christ. Grace to you, flying grace to you. Because we live in grace some way. We are immersed in grace. The grace of God, the gift of God. We live in Christ. The rest of the world is dying and going to hell, we are alive in Christ. The rest of the world is completely controlled by the lusts. and by their sin. And we are set free from it. That's part of the gift of God. Setting free. In us we have the sentence of death as we are born into this world. But when we are born again we have the sentence of life. We have the gift of life. Great to ye and Arrheni. Now Arrheni is the Greek word. Shalom is the Hebrew word. And if you see a Hebrew over in Palestine, when they greet each other, they say what? Shalom! Peace! Shalom! Shalom! Peace! On page 575 in Bollinger's Analytical Greek and Hebrew Lexicon, I had a... my Greek and Hebrew teacher was H.T. Hubbard, Dr. H.T. Hubbard. We almost lived in the same house for many years. He was at my house and I was at his house and we were back and forth for years and years and years for twenty something years. And we saw each other a lot and everything and he was a great Hebrew and Greek teacher. Very simple man, very quiet, very humble, very quiet. Didn't ever want a lot in life. Didn't ever want a lot of recognition. They recognized him and go hide. That's the way he was. He didn't care. All he wanted to do was do what God wanted him to do. That was his whole lot in life. And he loved God. Well as he got up into his eighties, he started losing his mind. And he became very senile and maybe with Alzheimer's or something. I don't know what happened to him. I tried to get a hold of him, talk to him and everything and if we tried to meet then he'd be the other direction. We never could make where we were going to meet. And finally his daughter, he'd had so many wrecks that his daughter came and picked him up and hauled him off to Shawnee, Oklahoma. And took care of him until he died. When he was still here in California, he lived in Lancaster and he taught in a seminary in Fresno, California and he was driving back and forth in that kind of mental condition. When he'd get up to the school in Fresno, they'd have to lead him from one classroom to the next. But once he set out, he'd just open up the Bible and he could teach Greek and Hebrew wonderfully. But he didn't know where he was. And he was so confused. I talked to him one time. I called him. I said, Brother Hubbard, how are you doing? Oh, he said, Hi, Brother James. How are you doing? He said, I'm wore out. He said, John Wayne and I moved cattle, 3,000 head of cattle from Oklahoma into Texas today. And he made it. Didn't know where he was. And his daughter, when he died, they came and buried him out here, up by Modesto, in the graveyard up there. And she said, you were the only son he ever had. She's talking to me. He loved you very much and I'm going to give you his Bible. And what little things he had left because they were all lost. All his library and everything was lost. We had to come and get him and just capture him and take him home because he had gone back and forth to Jerusalem until he died. He was in terrible shape. And that book was Shalom in Hebrew and Ereini in Greek. And on one page, this is page 575, the absence of malice, the absence of turmoil, pure tranquility in its purest form. They went on and on and on, writing on this line. And I'll never forget that. Every time I see the word Iranian, Shalom, I remember Brother Hubbard. Because that man was living in turmoil in the last of his life. But he looked and he said, Shalom, Iranian. And where does the peace come from? Apu Thiu, from Apu, from Thiu, from God. I don't care if you're in a hospital room, if you're dying of cancer, if you're dying of heart trouble, if you're just fading away. You have, in Christ, Erene, Apu, Fiu, peace from God. We have it. We have this peace from God. From God, Apu, that's Oblative, that's the source. Alright, that's Oblative. Nondegenerative, Oblative, Locative, Instrumental, Dating, Fusing, Boppy, that's eight cases in Greek. Okay? and this is the oblative case and this means the source of or from where it came from write that down, oblative, the source peace comes from God patros, we ought to figure that one out father, the father, himon alright, that's genitive plural the father, God the father belonging to us When God births us, when we're not of this earth, when we're born from above, then we belong to God and God belongs to us. Isn't that beautiful? Verse three. Eucharistumen. TO, THEO, PATRI, TU, KIRYU, PEMON, HESU, HRISU, PALANTOTE, PERI, HEMON, PROPHEUCAMINOID. This is very beautiful. We give thanks continuously, first person plural, President Dickey Vackery. First person plural is who? We. All right? We continually give thanks. The word parisse is in this. We are thankful. Tuthiou. Dating singular masculine. Definite article. Dating singular masculine. Tuthiou? Eucharistum. Eucharistum. We give thanks. The present indicative adjective, by the way, is O-A-S-A-O-M-E-N-E-T-A-U-C-E-A. That's the ending of the verbs. O-A-S-A-O-M-E-N-E-T-A-U-C-E-A. So here we have Eucaristumen. See that umen back on the end there? And by the way, this is made up of caris and u in the front of it. Epsilon, epsilon in the front of it. This E, the U looking front. That means good grace. the good gift that God has given us, all right? We give thanks to the God, the Father of the Lord, to Kivu, of us, belonging to us, Jesus Christ. How often? Pon Tote. That's a little old adverb. Pon Tote. Comes from Pos and Tote. It means always, forever more. Concerning, Harry. Alright, that means concerning or around. Concerning ye. In other words, prosuko minoi. That's nominative, plural, masculine. This is a participle when we're continuing things, okay? Present participle and middle voice, too. Alright? Ye praying for yourselves. God gives us a great gift. The gift of communication. You can communicate with each other. You've been so busy around the church house here, I'm sure, that you haven't had much time to communicate lately, have you? No, he's working here all the time. But you can communicate with him. Now and then you communicate. You can call him on cell phone or something. You know something? We have got an avenue of communication between God and students. When you're going down the road, driving your car, you can say, Lord, thank you for today. Thank you for all the gifts you've given me. Thank you for this or that. And I really want to pray for somebody. Or I need help in this area. You know, as you're working, whatever you're doing, Pray all the time you're working. Paul said to pray always. I love to do mechanic work. I've been working on a 1951 Packard lately. I'm just absolutely loving it. I'm just having a ball working on an old car. In all my spare time I play with that thing. I like to do it. But I'm always coming in to things that I have problems with. You work on mechanic things or you've got problems. They pop up. And I'll always be praying, Lord help me with this one here. Help me figure this one out, whatever you know. And he does. And then I thank him for it. Every little thing. I was having trouble getting the hubs off the back of that thing. You have to do that with a puller. It's a pressed on tapered shaft in the back. You have to pull the hubs off to get back to the brakes in the thing. Boy, I banged and banged and banged and banged and twisted and everything on this thing. I said, Lord, I really need your help around here. now I've got the cutting torch heated up a little bit and it popped right off of there and I said thank you lord every little thing you do when you're working out in the yard cutting grass you cut your grass and you look back and say thank you lord that looks so beautiful it would be brown and dead if it wasn't for you because you give life to all the trees the trees are going to go sleep pretty soon and then when they wake up in the spring If things come to life, that's a type of a resurrection. You know, we're fading away with our old bodies. Some of you are younger. But as you get older, your bodies fade a little faster or something. I don't know if it's a downhill slide. But after you watch every spring, and you watch the leaves come forth out of the trees that have been dead and sleep, that's what's going to happen to you one of these days, if you know the Lord. You're going to wake up in eternity with a brand new body that never hurts again. I paid some thanks to Dr. Minsky while I was going. I was walking over here. And he said, you're limping brother Jim. And I said, yeah, I'm limping. My hips tore up. Radiation burns it up. It won't stay in place. I had to hold it in place. One of these days I'm going to get a brand new one. They won't have to operate on me either. It's the Lord's going to fix it. I'll get a brand new one that won't ever hurt again. My mind won't fade away. I get up here and I don't know what I'm saying. I find it more my brain is going away. You know, I was smart at one time. I really had her together. But just like your joints go out, your brains go out too. Quips. Romans 1 and 8, Romans 15 and 6, 2 Corinthians 1 and 3. These are all passages that relate to these verses or this verse. 2 Corinthians 1 and 3. We'll touch this verse here, and then I'll turn you loose. Acusantes. Pain. Easton. Sounds like piston, doesn't it? Himon. In. Cresu. Esu. Chi. Pain. Agapain. Hain. Acathe. Hace. Ponte. Pous. Agus. Alright, having heard. Now, we have got nomine plural masculine. Paul is talking here and there's two of them that's talking. Who's talking here in this epistle? Paul and Timothy. Alright, so we've got the plural. So Greek is going to make it straight. So we have plural. We've got nomine plural. Having heard. It comes from akul. Our word acoustics in English comes right straight out of this Greek word acoustics. Now what does acoustics mean? It has something to do with sound or hearing. When you build a building, acoustics is very important in that building. If you walk out here you'll see all these sound boards all the way in the second story of this building here. Those are there for a reason. They're for acoustics. So this, remember, akuo, acoustic, that means sound. Alright? And it means here, having heard. It's nomine plural masculine, participle, first aorist, and active. Alright, the participle is one of them Canadian things, but it's an aorist tense, and an aorist tense tells you what? That's a punctiliar thing. And first aorist means it's real punctiliar, point in time. All right, at one time, we heard, we are having heard, we heard several reports concerning me in Christ Jesus. All right? In Christ Jesus, Chi, Tane, Aga, Tane. And the love, Chi, Tane. Now look at that definite article there, that love, the Tane, that's a the. All right? The love. They heard of the faith. The word faith there, and I said the word piston, just think about the word piston. When a piston gets loose and wears out and starts rattling around in a cylinder, what happens? You lose compression and you lose power. A piston to work right has to be close tolerated. And for us to come to God, we have to cling on to Him. By faith we come to God. by faith, and that faith is from God too. Cleaning. We've heard of the faith of ye in Christ Jesus and the Lord. And then we have the word Hain. That's not aim, but Hain. It's like Hen. Alright? It's got an H on it. That H is that rough breather in front of it. See that? You have an Eta and a Nu. It's like an E and an N. Hen. Hen. Which is what it is, which. This faith and this love, which. And then it says, akethi, that second person plural, present indicative active, comes from echo. All right? Ye have, continually. We're heard about the love and the faith that you have continually. Unto, ace. That word ace there, that's a preposition that means extension or limitation of thought or verbal action. It's a whole idea in that little preposition. unto all the ones palm taste is all and then totus that's a the that's a the plural the the's alright the ones the word ones there you'd have to put in there because it's understood that's what you call a practical substantive that's something that stands there because it is there whether you see it or not the ones hagius what does hagius mean? The ones not of earth. Those ones that you're born again with. That's your family. That's your spiritual family. Not your earthly family. But this is your eternal family. Isn't that beautiful? As you study Greek, are you understanding God just a little better? Are you understanding the Word of God a little better? Did you ever see these things before? Well, they're there in Greek. It just tells you all about it. And as we studied and we began in the book, in the Colossians, the Colossians, the ones that go throughout the whole city, the ones that are part of the whole city and every avenue and every corner on every street and every block, those ones that are born again in Colossi. That's who Paul and Timothy are speaking to. Do you have any questions? I'm going to turn you loose here in just a minute. Do you have any questions? Any questions about anything? Any words? No, I don't know how to say the first word. Acousantes. Acous, acoustics, santes. Alright? That word, that last part of the word tells you, it's inflected and it tells you what it is. That is a participle. Alright? Another, John. The word came? What? Came? That's which, that's a relative pronoun, that's accusative singular. Relative pronoun by the way. And it's, that relative pronoun is talking about peace-ness and occupying, the faith and the love. Which faith and love, which he has. Alright? A little relative pronoun, accusative singular. Relative pronoun. Anything else? Anything else you want to see there that you didn't understand in any of these verses? All right. Can you tell me what ace means? Ace? Extension or limitation of thought or verbal action. It is a preposition, but it takes a whole idea with it. Sometimes it means because of. You'll see this word ace. You're baptized ace. It's what Acts 2.38 says, because of the sending away of your sins. You're baptized because you have been saved, because you have been forgiven. That's why you're baptized. The extension or limitation of thought or verbal action. Sometimes it means because of, sometimes it can mean because of something, for something, or to get to something. All right. If this word, this idea is translated according to the syntax of the sentence. All right. And it brings about the idea. It gives you a word picture of the action in each and every verse. All right. Acts 2.38, the word Acer says you're baptized because of the forgiveness of sins. In the Great Commission, in Matthew 28, 19, 20, it says, as you're, I'm telling you this from Greek now, it doesn't say this in King James or New American Standard or anything else. It says, as you have been kicked out into the world, What are you supposed to do? What's the command there? Not go ye therefore, but make disciples. Make disciples. When you make disciples, when you make my faithies habitual learners, what do you do with them? You baptize them. All right? Baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and telling them to keep, and that word keep is to reign there, and that means to guard with your life all those things which we have given you. And behold, I'll be with you until the end of the church age. Paul said, and here in this verse, he's talking to a church. When Jesus was talking there in Matthew 28, he was talking to his little church. And that church would be spread throughout all of Asia Minor and all over Europe. And it would go into Africa and just everywhere, India. It just scattered everywhere. It scattered because of persecution. But the Lord went with all those churches. Wherever they scattered and every one of them had the promise that God would not forsake them. That he would be with them until the end of the church age. And we have proof in the pudding today because we are here today. And all the way through the dark ages, even when Catholicism became such a great monster in the dark ages, the Lord's churches were still there. They were there all the time. Preaching and teaching. We wouldn't have the Word of God if it wasn't for those that stood for the Word. And they didn't stand for the Word alone, but they stood for the Word because Jesus said in Matthew 16, 18, as he was talking to his little church, he said, You know Peter, a little stone, but upon this great big foundation rock I shall be building my church and the gates of hell shall not be able to wrestle her down. It will exist, it will be here, till I come back again. And as we're reading these church aches, he's going to come back and get us one of these days. That's a promise. Thank you so much for your attention today. God bless you. Let's be dismissed in prayer and I'll turn you loose. Father, thank you for your word today. Thank you for the blessings in it and the clear guidance of what we're supposed to do with our lives. And I pray that you open our minds as we study it and that it glorifies you and that we glorify you with the things that we do in this world. Help us to serve you. Convict our hearts of sin, righteousness, and judgment to come. Help us to be good witnesses and good disciple makers as we go out from here tonight in all different areas of Bickersfield. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.