There's going to be a payday someday. For the good and the bad. For the good and the bad. Payday someday. Let's go back and read in verse number 416. Now, onward for a little way. For even in Thessalonica you sent a gift more than once for my needs. Not that I seek a gift itself, but I do seek the profit which it increases to your heavenly account, the blessing which is accumulating for you. But I have received everything, and full and more, I am amply supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts that you sent me. They are a fragrant aroma of an offering, an acceptable sacrifice which God welcomes and in which he delights. And my God will liberally supply and fill every deed according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. To our God and Father be the glory forever and ever. Amen. Remember me and every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you. All of God's people wish to be remembered to you, especially those of Caesar's household. Grace and the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Now let's go back and look at it and see how far we go in this message. Now we have a church sending support for missionaries, which we have. There are associations and conventions how the churches meet together and they gather funds and they send to missionaries all over the world. and even in places. I remember in America, the Baptist Associations in America, they looked upon dealing with American Indians here as a foreign ground. One thing that was so bad about that at that time is that they had Indian schools, which were basically Indian prisons, and some of my family were in them. And they were torture places, it was like concentration camps. And they had so soured the Indians on the preachers, the priests, and the Catholic Church, the Presbyterians, and all of the Methodists, all of these people that had run these schools. The Baptists never ran any of them, by the way, they never did this. but they preached and were missionaries among them, but it was very hard to deal with them because they had looked at the white man as such a wonderful message, but a terrible messenger. So it made it more difficult. I remember Brother Hubbard told me one time, I wrote a book, Introduction to the Thostom Customs of the American Indian, Volume 1 and 2, and he read that book. He said he understood just a little bit more of what his father told him. His father was a missionary among the Indian people, the Creek Nation. And his father came home one day and said he was going to quit. He said, we've done more harm to these people than we ever will do any good. He said, we've done so much damage that I don't know whether we can ever recover from it. Of course, we have some missions in Winter Rock, Arizona, Brother Hawthorne. among the Navajo people, different ones in different places, that come back and really have done some good work. But it was very difficult in the early times. But this gives you an example here of mission work. When Brother Jacob Busa, Sir Jacob Busa, when he, after World War II, he wanted Neal Morley to go down there and establish churches in the missionary Baptist churches in the Solomon Islands. And he did that. And there's still a lot of people down there in those areas that would have never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ had it not been for Jacob Busa and Neal Morley. In the Solomon Islands, Gary Max, not the Solomon Islands, but in New Zealand, Gary Max down there that I went to school with, a good friend of mine, and many others down in the Philippines and the Solomon Islands all over, mission work. And this is where it comes from. It's a scriptural thing. Here we have a biblical example of mission work. Because, indeed, here we have a particle of affirmation. with the same chi, word chi, in page 208. You can look at it, it's quite a column there, how different ways it's used. Because, and we have the conjunction here, and chi is usually a conjunction, or many times a conjunction, but here it's a particle of affirmation, like yes, indeed, because yes, indeed, in Thessalonica, both, here now, this is not a conjunction, again, this accumulative part, both, once, Hapox, now that, once for all, a little adverb. Once for all, Jude 5 and 36 and different places in the Bible you'll say, Jesus Christ died once for all. Not to be offered as a, in communion in the Catholic Church and crucified over and over and over again, but he was offered one time. Hapox. Both once and twice. Hapox kaides, des, means division, or twice. Twice again. unto the need of me. That ace there, extension of the limitation of the thought of verbal action, page 119. Because the need of me. In Acts 2.38 it says you're baptized for the remission of sins. That's what it says in translation, but it says here, this is because of. And there it should be because of, in Acts 2.38 also, you're baptized because of the remission of sins, not for the remission of sins. Because of. The need of me, because of the need of me, ye sent. Second person plural, first arias in digne vacu, from pimpo, that word there, epopse. Verse number 17 now, uc hote epizeto. To doma ola epizeto ton carpon ton plionazonta eis the goal, him own. Remember I told you the title of this message is Payday Someday. That's what it's talking about. That two last verses, they gave. When that church gave, God put to their account their rewards. When you give to God, you get rewarded for it. When you give to God in labor or whatever you do, you get rewarded for it. Maybe not here, Now, the prosperity gospel is, you go down, if you give me $5 today, God's gonna give you $500 tomorrow. That's not the gospel. If you give God $5 today, in eternity, you will receive a reward for it. Brother Madden told me, one of my barely, barely, barely, deeply beloved brethren, like my father in the faith. He pastored a church in Anaheim, California for years. He taught at California Missionary Baptist Institute, CMBI, also. And I was one of his students, and I went all over the world with that man. We went all over the Middle East and Europe together and then back. And he told me about a little lady there. Her husband was an alcoholic, but she was a very faithful church member. And she did all kinds of stuff to make a little extra money. And she gave money to Brother Madden. Every time he was going to go down in South America, he had missionaries down in Columbia and different places in South America. She'd always come up there after church and she'd hand him three or four dollars. He said, Brother Madden, this is for you, to take for you, to help you on this trip. He said, that was the biggest offering I got. That's the biggest offering I got. Other people gave, but that was the biggest offering because that woman was giving a lot. It may have been only a few dollars, but it was a lot. And it was added to her account, what we might call her investments. The investments you won't even receive in this life many times, but she will receive it for all eternity. Uc hote epizeto. Not that, the adverb of indigation there, uc, hote conjunction. Not that I seek, jealously seek. This means jealously seek. I am seeking. First person singular, present indicative, active. This means constantly. Now, a lot of your televisitors out there, tele-evangelists or whatever you want to call them, You'll never hear them preach that they don't ask you for money. I can use it. You can send it. But I don't ask you for that very often. Especially at the end of the year like this. He said, I'm not seeking to take from you jealousy wanting your money. I've seen people come in and look at something. Boy, I want that. And boy, they'll try to figure out how to get it. You know, I want to figure out how I'm going to get that. A car or whatever, you know. Not that I am zealously, jealously seeking the gift. Strong adversity of conjunction, page 15, that Allah. But I seek jealously. I do seek jealously. First person singular, present indicative. And that's epizatio. at the owner, strengthens that word. I very jealously seek the fruit. Fruit, carphone. The fruit. You know, when you're born again and saved, some people are real good evangelists. You know, I am amazed at Maryland sometimes. She will really talk to people about her Savior and her Lord. She does. We'll go someplace and she'll talk to them about the Lord. She'll talk to them about God. And that's good. She's got a little gift to do that. And I don't say much about it, but I really am amazed every time she does some little thing like that. That is being an evangelist because she wants them to know the same Savior she says. That is the fruit of your salvation. You are bearing fruit for the Lord when you do that. When you give to somebody, I mean, I used to go to Valley Baptist Church in Beggarsville, California, and it's a very big church. There's 10,000 people in that church, a lot of people. And I went there when it was not so large, and then I saw it grow. And I saw this one old farmer boy there. He was sat there. He had his red over... He had his pants, and he had these red suspenders on all the time. Very quiet, never said anything. But that man was there every service. And I know that he gave. I saw him giving. I saw him giving, giving, giving, giving, giving, giving. That man will have a great reward in heaven. The least shall be first, many times. The least shall be first, and the first shall be last. And that is what we're talking about in this bank account, this payday someday. Payday someday. The fruit of the increasing, accuses singular masculine and present participle like this, constantly increasing, pleonasal. Pleonasal. That means to sail around. It means to sail around and to grab. increasing the count of you. All of these little things the church did, one of these days, we'll see it ourselves. There's a bookkeeper up there in heaven. And we're all, what we do, we're going to get, we will get an account for it, good or bad. But nothing you do for the Lord is going to be unrewarded. It's going to be rewarded. We don't do it to get to heaven. We do it because we're going to heaven. And that is an account. It's a written ledger, this book of books, book of works, like the books in Revelation, the different books. We have a book of the Lamb's Book of Life, but we also have the book of works, what we do. And nothing that we do is for no good. I mean, it's not going to disappear. You're going to get it. Not so much this life. Sometimes you do. I hear a lot of those prosperity gospel people out there, God wants you to be wealthy. He wants you to be happy. God wants you to be happy. And you know what, if you work real hard and things, you may become wealthy, but this is your prescription now to become rich, they say. You do this, you do this, you do this, and you're going to become rich. There's a lot of these people that They have these real estate people on there and they'll get up there and they'll say, well, I became a millionaire in six months or a year or whatever. I never had to cut out a dime and I had to do this and do this and now I own all this property and things. And that's kind of like the prosperity gospel. Promising you things that may not happen. Look at all the people down in Los Angeles right now that lost everything they had and a lot of them didn't have any insurance on the homes because California is so terrible shape. Politically, they are an absolute chaos. And it's hard to get insurance on home down there. I mean, we fought to keep insurance on the farm down there. We lost it two or three times, then they'd reinstate us. It's scary when you have thousands of dollars in something, and you don't have any insurance on it, and somebody decides to go burn it up, and they do it every day. You never know. They go in there, and there's totally empty homes out there. Break into them, and empty homes, and they'll set them on fire. Burn them down. Destroy all evidence. That happens every day. 418. aperco de ponta cae padricio pep pleromae dex ominos para epatroditu ta par hymon osmene iodias thesion dectane eon reston tutheus Paul uses this market metaphor. I have and continue to have, first person singular, present indicative, active, from apo and echo. But I, or moreover, I continue to have all things. Panta, that means everything. in much abundance, more than abundance, continue in abundance, continue to overflow, first person singular, present indicative, active, primary ratio. I continually have all things and more than I need. And I have been caused to be filled and overflowing. First person singular, perfect indicative, passive, from below radio. I have been caused to be overflowing, more than abound, more than bountiful, having received, ex hominos, nomine singulare, mascan, first aries, participle, middle voice, having received for myself from Apophroditus, he was a missionary treasurer, Apophroditus was, from Apophroditus, the things from beside you all, para, from or beside you all, osmein, an odor of fragrance. Now he's going back from this ozo, this word ozo, it means to smell perfume. It's a Hebraism from the Old Testament. It's used two times in the New Testament. Osmein, an odor of fragrance, and this is what God used to, they had this perfume, they had this very odorous incense in the tabernacle, in the temple area, and it was a very sacred smell. And Paul is saying that your giving to me is like a sacred fragrance to God. This oso here. Of sweet smell, you odious. Good smell, you good odious. Good odor, we got a word odor right out of that. It's an adjective and genitive of quality. A sacrifice. An offering of a sacrifice. Romans 12 and 1. And back in Old Bay, book in the book of Exodus, where they made sacrifices to the Lord. And all these sacrifices were a sweet smell to God because they were giving to Him something that they had. What we have when we give something to God, it is very... He is a happy receiver. We ought to be happy givers. Paul said he loved the people that were hilarious givers. Happy. Happy to give. You know, Moses, when he got out there in the wilderness, and the Israelites at one point, they really changed their mind like they changed their clothes, but that didn't happen. Anyway, they changed their mind. Every day they were different people, it seemed like. But they got out there, and he told them to give articles of their clothing, different precious-type weavings, and gold and silver and bronze and all of this. He asked them to give for the building of the tavern, I thought. And they gave so much that he said, hey, you're giving too much. It would be nice if a preacher could say to his church, you guys are giving too much. You're giving too much. Really, are we? If we give everything we have, we're not giving too much. A sacrifice acceptable, theseon, dectane. That means, that is, that, dectane, it comes from the word hand, basically. And it means that we can put in somebody's hand, acceptable, well-pleasing, eurasteon, good-pleasing, God's pleasure, a spiritual reward, one of these days is going to spring up in heaven when we're there like a great field. You know, talk about the sower went out to sow and some came up in tenfold, twentyfold, a hundredfold, sometimes manyfold, a thousandfold. And that's the way people are. Some give a little, some give a lot. Some sacrificially give because what they give literally is a great sacrifice to them because they don't have enough to live on. And the last four or five years in America, we've had some really devastated people that lost everything they had. They had to basically cash in all their savings to just live, and now they have nothing. A spiritual reward in heaven is laid up for us one of these days, a payday someday. 419 now, Ho Dei Theos, Mu Plaerose, Fason, Carain, Himon, Cata, To, Plutos, Auto, and Doxe, in Christu Isu. Mo over the God of me, he shall fill up, third person singular future indicative from Plaero, he shall fill up all your need, all the need of you. Creon, the need of you. Little accusive singular from Creomai. According to Kata, page 213, according to the abundance, the treasure house overflowing is what it says there. The word abundance there means the treasure house is overflowing of him in glory, in Christ Jesus. God's glorious treasure house is full and not able to be pillaged. How many people invested out there in a a business or a what we might call real estate or even some type of mutual fund and it was all gone up one day and it's gone the next. 9-11 really just wiped out so many people's lifetime savings and some of them were very old people in their 70s. It wiped out. We lost a lot in that 9-11 deal. A lot of bad investments, bad people. Whatever you invest in God's work will never be lost. It's there forever. It's eternal investment. Our rewards are secure. Our investments are secure. 4 and 20 now. To-de-the-o-cai-pa-tri-him-on-he-do-xa-es-tus-a-ya-nas-ton-ya-non-a-man. And to God, and to the God, and the Father of us, the glory, the doxa, the glory unto the ages of the ages. The ages of the ages. In the Septuagint, it's translated from the Hebrew Olam. And that means a time that you cannot see the end of. Olam. You just go back and you just imagine how far you can see something. And you can imagine, like, you can sit here in Fish Lake Valley, you can go up on White Mountain, and some days you can see all the way to Utah. And that's right on the California side. California is right there, and here's Boundary Peak. Look over there all the way to Utah. Look as far as you can look. Look with a telescope out there in space as far as you can look. And that's where it begins. Not where it ends, it's where it begins. Now our investments in the Lord are greater than we can ever imagine. This Olam, Iona in the Septuagint, that's the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament, it means to reach the absolute extremity of your understanding And that's where it just begins. The Father rest glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen. Amen from the Hebrew amen, from the Persian amen, from the Greek amen, from the English amen. Comes through all those languages. It means it's firm and faithful and unstoppable and just, it will not dissolve. Aspazaste, Panta, Hageon, and Christu Isu, Aspazontai, Hemos, Hoi, Sin, Emoe, Adelphoi. Ye greet all the holy ones, all the saints, and by the way, the saints are not what the Catholic Church calls saint. You are a saint. All of you are saints. You're not of this earth. When you're born of God, you're born not of this earth. That's the saint. And we're all saints, we're all holy, not of earth, in Christ Jesus. They greet you, third person plural, present indicative, middle voice. They greet you for themselves. And the ones with me, brothers. My book's falling apart here. And it's got two more verses. Maybe I can make out what it says. And ye greet for yourselves, third person plural future, or present indicative middle voice, ye greet for yourselves all the ones holy, all the saints, especially, most especially, That's a superlative here of Mala. Very great and much, but the ones out of Caesar's house. Now, Paul was put in prison. And as he was in prison, he preached to some of the people that were actually from the family and some of the workers from Caesar's own house. And they got saved. They'd never been saved if Paul hadn't been in prison. For God is able to use all things to work together those that are called to his purpose. was a good. Then it says, He caris tu curio esu Christu meta tu numatos himon. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ with you all in the spirit, in your spirit. Now it wouldn't be very long now after this letter was written that Nero will commit suicide, but he will also persecute. He's going to have the Apostle Paul beheaded. He's going to have Peter crucified upside down. And yet all the bad things that Nero did, he will answer for. He's going to have a payday some day. But Paul will have a payday someday. I don't know whether he's received all rewards yet for what he gets. We all shall have a payday someday. All of us will have a payday someday. Some the good, and some the bad. Either at the judgment of all the saints, which all will be good, or at the Great White Throne Judgment where people are judged of what degree in hell they're going to spend. But your investments are secure in Christ Jesus, and there will be a payday someday. Our Father, we send this message out for your honor and glory as we finish the book of Philippians. Father, please use it wherever it goes. Honor yourself with it. Just I tried to lift up your son and the sacrifice he made every time and every verse and every message. Please use it wherever it goes. Pray that you call the loss to yourself and to the save that you will just encourage them with your word and to give them the tools that they need in this world to be happy. and to work for you. In Jesus name I pray and please forgive me where I fail you. Amen.