The book of Ephesians, even though it's not the book of Ephesians, it's a circular letter. Let's read it here, and we'll start in on the fourth or the fifth verse. But we read all the way one through about nine or so. For this reason, because I preached that you, believing Jews, are joint heirs, I, Paul, am the prisoner of Jesus Christ on behalf of you Gentiles, assuming that you, have heard of the stewardship of God's grace, that was entrusted to me to share with you for your benefit, and that by divine revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I have already written and briefed, in Ephesians 1 and 9 actually, by referring to this. When you read it, you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, the secret of which in other generations will not disclose to mankind, as it is now has been revealed to its holy apostles, prophets, by the Holy Spirit. It is this that the Gentiles are now joint heirs with the Jews, members of the same body, joint partakers sharing in the same divine promise in Christ Jesus through their faith in the good news of salvation. Of this gospel, I was made a minister by the gift of God's grace given to me through the working of His power. To me, though I am a very least of all the saints of the people, This grace, which is undeserved, was graciously given to proclaim to the Gentiles the good news and the incomprehensible riches of Christ, that spiritual wealth which no one can fully understand, and to make plain to everyone that the plan of the mystery regarding the uniting of the believing Jews and the Gentiles into one body, which until now was kept secret, through the ages in the mind of God who created all things. So now to the church, the multi-faceted wisdom of God in all its countless aspects. Remember the third chapter is the church chapter. Countless acts that might be made known, revealing the mystery to the angelic rulers and authorities in heavenly places. This is in accordance with the terms of the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord. Verse number 11. One of my teachers was a man that wrote God's eternal purpose. And he wrote a whole book on 3 and 11. A whole book. He wrote a whole book on that. verse right there. Now let's go back from the original language now. I am surprised sometimes at people's ignorance of history. I see a lot of these King James only Baptists And I don't know, well I do know how that got started in Missionary Baptist Works, but it was, they went away from the original languages. That's a problem. And I remember a guy by the name of Phillips came to the seminary and preached down there at Bellflower. And I asked Brother Hubbard what he thought about him. He said he doesn't know up from down. King James Olin. 1611 King James Olin. The King James Bible was written for the Church of England. That's why it's called King James Bible. Okay? King James killed Baptists. The King James version of the Bible was written, translated for one reason. To keep people from going into Baptist ranks and to keep people from going back into the Church of Rome. The Catholic Church. The Catholic Church split with the Church of England over Henry VIII. Henry VIII wanted to get married to Anne Boleyn and the Pope wouldn't let him do it. So he divided himself from the Catholic Church and originated the Church of England, what we call the Anglican Church. And if you read the preface to the King James Bible, it will denounce the Baptists. and it will denounce the Catholics. So why are you holding on to the King James? Why? The Bible denounces you. Now, there are some heresies in the King James Bible. One of them is baptismal regeneration on purpose, Acts 2.38 and other places. And the word church. The church should be translated assembly. The assembly has the idea of the people, not a building. The Church of England and the Church of Rome both have a head someplace, someplace else besides Christ. But the churches of the Lord Jesus Christ only have one head, that is Jesus Christ. They only have one authority, which is the Word of God. There were several other translations before the King James Bible that were in the English. The White Book Bible. And, let's see where the other one is here. The Geneva Bible, 1559. Both of these are before King James. But, the Holy Scriptures are in the Greek language and in the Hebrew language. The Greek language is extremely important. I believe God inspired that language because it is so perfect. Every tense, mode, and voice is in it. It can tell what happens. You can tell who it is. Even the definite article of the will tell you what case it's in. So you'll know whether it's a nominative, genitive, objective, locative, incimental, dative, accusative, or provocative. Now let's go into this Bible. And I just thought I'd make that little explanation there. Study history, people. Study history. Study the Bible. Dr. John A. Broaddus, A.T. Robertson's father-in-law. By the way, a lot of A.T. Robertson's work was John A. Broaddus's work. He said a preacher was not worthy to stand in the pulpit that would not study the language of the Bible. and know, when he got up and preached the Word of God, that it was actually there and what it actually said. Because the Greek, making old bones about it, tells you what it says. All right. 3 and verse 5 now. ὁ ἐθέρες γενέας οὐκ ἐγνωρίσθαι τῷ ἐσφίλους τῶν ἀνθρωποῦν, ὁ νῦν ἀπακαλύψαι, tois, hagiois, apostolois, altou, kai, prophetes in numate. Paul claims that the uncovery of his mystery to himself in verse number three, and now he claims it for all the other apostles and the prophets of God. Now it says here which, this is a little relative pronoun, ha, ateros. Ateros there means in different places, a total different kind. Now in different generations, geneios, in different generations. In the 34th chapter of the book of We'elei Shemot, the book of Exodus, it tells us that some of the curses that were there until the different generations, up until the fourth generation, it said there in verse number seven, I think it is. And the word here is generations. The Hebrew word It comes back to the idea of the fathers, the Abba, Abba, the fathers. It also has a word there, Meshpatah, Meshpatah. Meshpatah means the generations of the father. The Latin is pater familia, the father of the families. All down through here, we come back over here, eternity passed. Paul keeps referring to eternity past here, and he tells us that in eternity past, before he ever created anything, in the mind of God was the secrets, the mysteries of his kingdom. The Lord said, through his word, that in eternity past, before he ever created one thing, he wrote our names down in the Lamb's Book of Life. He knew us before we ever became. He knew us before we ever became. He knew everything about us. And He created the heavens and the earth. The eternity passed. The earth became formless and void. It wasn't created that way. God doesn't create imperfect things. When God created Adam, he was perfect. When He created Lucifer, he was perfect. But we have the ability to fall. We have the ability to fall. If you study Calvinism, and Baptists are called Calvinists, even though Baptists were Calvinists before Calvin ever began, and you study superlapsarian, infolapsarian, sublapsarianism, and some of the other forms of Arminianism, whatever, you'll find that God created man perfect, but he created him with the ability to fall, to fall away. And He did. And each and every one of us, we have the ability to come to God by the agency of the Spirit. We can do that. God gives us that volition. In Genesis 1-26 it says God created man in His blood flowing likeness, Dom. The word Dom is there. The word Adam. Dom is in the word Em. It means red. It means blood. And then He created us in His shadow casting likeness, the spiritual likeness, and he created us in his sovereign likeness. We are sovereign. A lot of people don't like to say the sovereignty of God. This does away with the sovereignty of man and everything, but God created man sovereign. If God didn't create man sovereign, how in the world did he even fall? Even though he went the wrong way, how did he fall if he wasn't sovereign? Created him in a sovereign image. He cut him over, the sovereignty over all the earth. Lucifer had been over all the earth until he fell and went away from God and then God replaced him with Adam after he reconstructed the earth. He put man on the earth. Well, we have generations, it says here, generations past. In different generations, God created man, put him in the garden, he was sovereign, he fell. The curse of death. So man, this was an age right here and generation right here. Here's another generation over here. Except that several generations within this age of conscience responsibly do good and offer blood sacrifice. They were wicked. And then God brought the flood on the earth. And then killed all of the animals, all the mammals except for the whales and stuff. And everything that was on the earth was destroyed except for what was put into the ark. Then he established human government, which we're still having floundering around with that today, aren't we? Still floundering around with human government. We lived in chaos for the last several years. And now we're trying to get law and order back in place. Law and order must be established. Human government. They were supposed to scatter and multiply. And one thing they were supposed to do was protect people from each other. with a death penalty. The death penalty is an absolute necessity. I was watching a deal about a man being executed the other day back east and he was quoting the Bible telling about how wrong they were about the death penalty. The death penalty is set by God. It's set by Him, not anybody else. It's set by him. Why do you think Paul wrote that in Romans the 13th chapter? The sword. That is the ability of capital punishment. If you do wrong, if you kill somebody, you will die. That's the Old Testament and New Testament. That's the government. If government is to be legitimate, you have to have law and order. You cannot have chaos. And then in this, that was an age. This is an age, this is an age, this is an age. And then we have the division of the languages. They did not scatter and multiply. And God brought the confusion of the languages and the division of the earth. How did the American Indian get over here? They were here all the time. That's how they got over here. This ground that you walk on in America is as old as any place else in the world because it was all one piece of ground at one time and then it was divided. When you see all the oceans that were in different times, that is the chaos. That was an eternity past. That's how all the water was, all the oceans and everything and all the different petrified wood that we have and things. So human government failed. They confused the languages. and divided the earth. And then we have the age of promise with Abraham. That's another one. Abraham was a paterfamilia of all of the Jewish people. And basically even the Arab people also. But the Jewish people were the paterfamilia. They were the ones that was the promised ones. Paul says that in Galatians and he says it in Romans also. Then we have the promise with Abraham. And the promise of Abraham and they failed and they had the Egyptian bondage. God called out Moses, Moshe, the one who rescues, the one who's abandoned also. Abandoned and then rescued. And then we have where Moses was given the law. And the law pointed up unto Christ. Which, different, completely different generations. Which, in different generations, in different Mesopotamia, in different Pater Familia, in different times where the patriarchs were, things happened. But now, all of this stuff that we see back here, all pertain to different people. They were patriarchs. And they have, if you study the first ten names in the Bible, from Adam to Noah, you'll see a whole prophecy of God, what was going to happen from the creation to the coming of Christ. It was made known, look at this, in different generations, all lockety blockety, then the adverb of negation there. It was not known. It was not made known. Third person singular, first heiress, indicative of a passive voice. It was not made known in any of these generations. It wasn't made known that the Gentiles, that the outsiders, that the dogs could become fellow heirs with the promised patriarchs. I am a son of Abraham. I even have some of that blood in me. Mostly Indian, but somehow that blood came in me from the land of Canaan. It was made known, not it was made known to the heirs. It was made known to the heirs. Look at the word we use there. We always, that's deity, plural, masculine, definite article. Deity, plural, masculine, we always, that's heirs. These are the Sons of the Fathers, the Sons, the Chabanei, Chabaneim of the Meshpothah, of the Fathers, the Sons of the Mankind, all Mankind. Paul told us in the book of Galatians, in the book of Romans, in the book of Ephesians, that we were without hope. The Gentiles were without hope. They didn't even have a God. The only way the Gentiles would know anything about God, if they came to Israel. And they had to be born again. that they wouldn't know anything about God at all. They didn't have any promises outside of the nation of Israel. They had to come to Israel. And Israel was supposed to be the administrator of the kingdom right here. Wasn't it? All the way through here, the administrator of God's kingdom. They were supposed to be making known to all mankind the promises of God. The promises of God. But they didn't, did they? not fully like she should have. They always looked down their long noses right down upon the other people and they were dogs. They were never really able to totally become a Jew in all reality. They were all still Gentiles. They were proselytes. But a proselyte had to come and he had to make it known to a synagogue that he was interested in becoming a son of Israel, an apostle. And then he had to read and study the law, had to study the books of Moses, Moshe, the Pentateuch, the five books. And he had to renounce his old birth. He had to renounce his old birth. And he had to be baptized. He died. He was baptized. He was dipped. He was dipping. Baptism is only dipping people. Forget this sprinkling and pouring business. It's no romtizo sprinkling. It's no nepto pouring. It is baptizo dipping. The word mergueo in Latin. We got our word immerse in English from mergueo. And that comes out of baptizo or bapto. They were immersed. They had all their hair shaved off like a little baby come out bald. and fingernails all clipped back closed, and they died through the old people. And that's what they called being born again into a son of Israel. And that was quite a thing, because now they're sons of the promise. But now Paul said, I'm going to show you something even better than that. Sons of the promise, where all can be the same. It was made known to the sons of the mankind, all mankind, anthropomed there, We got the word anthropology from that word. Anthropon. To the sons of the promise. Genitive singular masculine, definite article, genitive singular masculine. The sons of mankind. Now we have this little correlative here. Adverb, particle thing, it's a little bit of everything. Page 444 in the Analytical Greek Lexicon. As, now. Now is a little adverb of time, page 280. But now, it is unveiled. It is revealed. It is uncovered. Third person singular, first person, dignity passive. When Jesus Christ died on that cross, was buried and rose again, That was a pup-chiller in action. It happened. That is the point of salvation for every man, all the way from here, all the way here, and all the way from there on. Jesus Christ is the one that shall bring all mankind back to Himself. The reason why Jesus Christ came into this world, the reason why the woman, the Genesis 3.15 promise to the woman, is that through mankind, through a male man, human, that the infection of sin comes through his blood into the child, into the mother's womb. The womb of the woman gives the child form. He's related to mankind, but he's not related to the deadly infection of the blood of mankind, because his blood came from God. God Studied the Chemistry of Blood by M. R. Daham. I'll tell you all about that. As now, it has been uncovered, unrevealed. This word Apocalypse they say, third person speaking, first person indicative, passive. Now in the book of Revelation, the word Revelation there is the Apocalypse. The book of the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ, the unveiling of Jesus Christ. Paul's unveiling Jesus Christ here, John unveiled Jesus Christ, and the coming of Jesus Christ, and the whole history of mankind there in the book of Revelation. But from Revelation the fourth chapter on, it tells you it's metatate. After these sayings, and then he began to talk about the tribulation period. He even talked about the millennium. He talks about the great white throne judgment. He talks about the eternal ages to come. It was not unveiled or revealed to the holy apostles. Now, it is unveiled to the holy apostles, but the prophets of old did not know what we know today. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Noah, none of these people knew what we know today. Because we have the New Testament, Hakai and Ideath, the New Covenant. unveiled to the holy apostles, belonging to him, Altuv, that's deity plural, Tois, deity plural, Madison, Devon, Nardico, Hagios there. Hagios means holy or saints. Holy means not of earth. When you've been born of the earth, you're born of mankind, but when you're born again, you're born anew. You have a different mind, you have a different heart. You're a different creation. That spirit in you that's in you from there on guides you in this world. It convicts you of sin, righteousness, and the judgment of God all the time. It ought to remind you that you ought to appreciate the salvation by grace of God every day. Unveiled to the holy apostles, the ones sent out with authority. You know the first gift placed in the church was apostles. And that big gift was placed in the church before the day of Pentecost people. The church was already there before the day of Pentecost. It wasn't born on the day of Pentecost. And Peter isn't the rock that the church was founded on either. The church was founded on Jesus, not on Peter. Peter tells you that in his writings. People get so mixed up. You are Peter, a little stone, but upon this gigantic rock, Matthew 16, 18, I shall be building my church, and the gates of hell shall not be able to wrestle her down. That's what it says from the original language. The holy apostles belonging to him, altu, genitive singular, masculine, third person pronoun, the apostles belonging to him, and The Prophets in Spirit. The Prophets by inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Inspiring. In Pneuma. The word Pneuma in the Great New Testament means wind. It means wind. Rua in the Old Testament means wind. The Jewish Publications Society, I'll see, where is that book? Right over there. They, this is pretty ridiculous. The Bible says, in the book of Genesis, In one of the beginnings, in one of the beginnings, Bar Ashith, Beit, page 88, preposition, Rosh, page 912, and then Bar Ashith, that old Hebrew plural, it is not a feminine, it is a, in one of the beginnings, in one of the beginnings, it is a feminine, but it is not a plural. I mean, not a, in one of the beginnings, it's not singular, it's plural. In one of the beginnings, he had created Baal-Ra, third person. Masculine, singular, cow-perfect, he had created. He created the universe. It says heavens, but what it actually means is that the heavens are everything above the earth. And then it says, God created everything above the earth, that's the cosmos, the universe, the heavens, and then we, and, conjunction, page 253, ha, definite article, page 206, and then eris, earth, page 76. All in Brown, Driver, and Briggs. Then it says, we ha-aris, and the earth, ha-ya, to-hu-wa-fo-hu, hu-ho-sho-ke-ep, and they, And it says, And the earth she had become formless and void, and Spirit God, Spirit God mourned over the faces of the deep. Now, in the Jewish Publications Society it says, A wind from God blew over thee. the surface of the earth, the earth above the waters. But it says there, she mourned over, that's feminine, Spirit God mourned over the faces of the people. God mourned over what had been done to his earth, to his creation by Lucifer. Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah 14 tells you that. All in this one verse here, you can take one verse here and you can just preach the whole Bible from it. As now, unveiled to the holy apostles and to the prophets by the Spirit, are in the Spirit. In there, page 137. In Spirit. By the inspiration of the Bible, as Peter says. Men of old were moved by the Spirit of God. 3 verse number 6 now, Enei ta ethnei sena klevronoma, kai si nesuma, kai sim meth toka, tei etong glias en Christu isu, dietu uongliu. To be, present infinitive active from meaning, to be the nations, to be ta ethne. We get a word ethnic from this word. All the other ethnic groups is what it's talking about. To be the ethnic groups, together heirs, sine clero no mia, is what that comes from. Legal, joint, lawful, heirs by law. that the Gentiles, in other words, me as a Gentile, I am an heir of God just as valid as any Jew upon the earth and even more so if they don't believe that Jesus Christ came already. I'm more a son of God than they are. I'm more an heir of God than they are if they don't believe. If they are unbelievers, they're outside. They're the dogs. Paul calls them the mutilators and calls them the dogs, because they will not believe. To be the nations together heirs and seen summa. Seen is a little preposition there, and by the way, a conjunction, page 208, Chi. They're together heirs, and it's a conjunction or also a cumulative particle here. Heirs also. also you can translate that word kai there also also joint together body and this literally means here with a body soma sarx uh sarx flesh soma basar in the old testament sarx flesh john 1 14 says And the word there should be translated Jehovah because it's referring to Jehovah, the word in the Old Testament. Or the Hashem, the name, because they couldn't say the name of Jehovah. We say that today as a misnomer because we don't know how to say it. Neither did they. They wouldn't say it. They'd say, in their translations they'll say G blank D. Hathabar, or Hashem, the Name. Hathabar, the Word, or the Name. In beginning kept on being the Word. John 1 and 1. John 1, 14. And the Word, the Jehovah Flesh, it became and dwelt among us, and we beheld the glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. And because of His ability to come into this world and save us all, because He is our Redeemer, He is our Goel, He is our Kindling Redeemer, and together body and together sharers. Look at that same metoka, as a joint possessor of a house. When a husband and wife buy a house, that wasn't this way always, but today it is, in America anyway. In other countries it isn't this way. When a man and a woman buy a house, they're joint heirs. They own that. They're joint owners of that house. If they divide, then they have to split it. They're joint heirs. It's together sharers as a joint possessor. He comes from Sin and met Tokos, a joint partaker of the promises, Teis and Pongalia. of the promises. Look at that word, of the promises, epongalia, upon message. The word angel is in there, anglos, and epi on the front of that, page 153 and 54, that little preposition on the front of that, and that means the promises, the epongalia. So promises, genitive, singular, feminine, In Christ. The promise is in Christ. In Christo. Now the word Christo there in preposition 137. In Christ. The word Christ comes from the Greek equivalent of Messiah or Hamashiah. The Messiah. Hamashiah. The Anointed One. Jesus Christ was anointed and picked out to be our Redeemer from the eternity past. The Christ Jesus. The word Jesus is the same word as Joshua. It means Jehovah saves. Jesus, Christ Jesus, the anointed one, Jesus, Jehovah saves. And then we have the word DIA there, a little preposition, means by the agency of the Gospel. And what is the gospel? 1 Corinthians 15 verses 1. I preached in the church one time. And I told them, I said, I want you to explain to me what the gospel is. They said, it's this book. This is the good news. The gospel is the good news. I said, no. I said, I want you to tell me what the gospel is. They said, that's it. I said, no, that's not it. I said, the gospel's in there, but that's not the gospel. I said, tell me what the gospel is. And Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 chapter tells us. He said, I tell unto you what the gospel is. 1 Corinthians 15 verse number 1. Go here for just a moment. Read this to you. If I can find it in this old worn out Bible. It says, no rezo di hymen adelphoi to juangalion ha jualla juangalissama hymen. Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel, which I preach unto you, which also ye receive, and wherein ye stand, by which also ye are saved. If you keep the memory of what I preached unto you, unless you believe in vain, now he's going to tell them again what the gospel was. The gospel isn't the slaughter of lambs on the day of Yom Kippur, the day of Atonement. For I delivered them to you, first of all, that which I also received, which that how Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures. He didn't just do it, He did it according to the Scriptures. He was born of the right family, was born in the right place, raised in the right place, died in the right place, raised in the right place at the right time. And that He was buried and that He rose again the third day and ascended, rose according to the Scriptures. That He was seen by Cephas and then of the twelve and men above 500 people. In other words, it was verified. The promise of the gospel. The gospel is the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. A lot of people want to look at Jesus Christ. A lot of religions look at Jesus Christ as a prophet. Muslims do. But he didn't die on a cross, according to them. that he wasn't resurrected according to them. Without the death, burial, resurrection, there is no gospel and there is no Jesus either. This assembly, this assembly, this church, made up of true believers, coming together to carry out the gospel. Just verse number 5 and 6 that we've studied so far. Verse 5 and 6. This word here, syn-cle-ronomia, is a very rare word. It's used in Romans 8 and 17. Philo used this word. He was a philosopher, of old, a Greek. Together, law, law. Together, fellow heirs. In this church, and even in the family of God, we have what we call an irrevocable covenant with God. In that irrevocable covenant with God, we have a promise that we are saved, and that He will redeem us triunely, body, soul, and spirit, one day. Our Father, we send this message out. I pray that in it they hear the Gospel, that they use it all over the world, that their eyes are opened, and Your Word is this glorified under a great bright light. Father, please forgive me for I fail You. Use Your Word wherever it goes.