Welcome to another class from the book of Ephesians. The book of Ephesians, we're studying the subjects as we go through. I'm teaching it from Greek, actually, and English, with all the theology that's in there. I did a message the other day, where are the dead? And basically, that's almost what we're going to talk about tonight, where the dead are. Because that's the subject that's going to be brought up here in the fourth chapter of the book of Ephesians. when we look at here in just a few moments. Let's go to the sixth verse. I want you to go there with me. We'll read this in Greek. I'm not going to read it from the Amplified Bible. Well, I guess I should. First, so you don't get confused, the Amplified Bible one God and Father of us all, who is sovereign over all, and working through all, and living in all. Yet grace, God's undeserved favor, was given to each one of us, not indiscriminately, but in different ways, in proportion to the measure of Christ's rich and abundant gift. Therefore, it says, when he descended on a high, He led captivity captive. And he bestowed gifts upon men. Psalm 68 and verse 18. That's a quotation from the Old Testament, but he did this in the New. Verse number 9 now. Now this expression, he ascended, what does it mean? Except that he also previously descended from the heights of heaven into the lower parts of the earth. or the universe. He who descended is the very same he who also ascended high above all heaven that he himself or he his presence might fill all things that is in the whole universe. And that's what we're going to stop right there and we'll see how far we can get from there in Greek as we look at it from the original text. Let me tell you a little bit about Greek and the Bible. So many people today are very hung up on different translations of the Bible. I want to tell you this straight out, that the Bible was not written in English. There were no verses in it, no chapters. It's just all one flowing statement. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, all the way through the book of Revelation. Every writer had his own words and vocabulary as we study it. And the Bible was written in Koine Greek. It was not written in English. There were many translations of the Bible. It went into different languages, different people. Syriac and whatever, wherever it went. and throughout all of them, what we called the civilized world at that time. And nearly all the civilized world spoke Greek. That's why God put his Bible, New Testament, in Greek. Now, the Greek language is probably the most perfect language that's ever been created by man. I believe it was even somewhat inspired, that language is. It went from stages. If you have my Greek grammar, if you want it, you can email me and I'll email it to you in PDF form. If you have that, you'll see the history of the Greek language. The Greek language started out in times unknown. The different, the Iconian, Hellenistic, different what we might call dialects of it, into the beautiful classical Greek and Koine. There's eight cases in it. The grammar is perfection. Every definite article you know what part of speech it is, if it's a nominative, genitive, optive, blockative, instrumental, dative, accusative, evocative. That's the eight cases. And you'll know what part it's playing in that sentence. When the Different Bibles were translated. Many times people translated Bibles according to their, what we might call, theological beliefs. And the King James Version is very much one of those. The King James Version, I always have 1611 King James. 1611 King James, people, was written against Baptists, if you're a Baptist. It was denouncing you. Denouncing what you believe. It is very much for universal church. That's why it's church instead of assembly. The Catholic Church believed in baptismal regeneration, or salvation by baptism, and so did the Church of England. So you're baptized for the remission of sins, not because of them, Acts 2.38. So we see these different things in there, and it really, they believe in losing their salvation, so it has that in there also. All the doctrines that Baptists believe in as fundamental and absolute necessary were brought down by that translation. Now I can preach from King James and I have many a times in my life and I will change it to what it says in the Greek but I can preach the gospel from it and I have many times. I usually use an American Standard because it's made from much better manuscripts The Textus Receptus was Stephen's text. Textus Receptus means the received text. That was an advertising gimmick. When they did the Textus Receptus, they just took a whole bunch of manuscripts and threw them together. They didn't try to figure out what was there and what wasn't there in the original language. And then later on we have Westcott and Hort and Nessel Allen, some of these biblical scholars that studied the manuscripts. And what we have today in the Nestle Island Manuscripts basically is exactly what Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John signed. It'll tell you if there's any difference in any parts of speech, even a preposition, or a definite article, or a verb, or a phrase that's in there that wasn't in this family of manuscripts. It'll tell you it's not in the old manuscripts. If you get a study Bible today, And you look in the columns, if you've got a good study Bible, it'll say something like when you go Matthew the 18th chapter or Mark the 16th chapter, where it'll say it's not found in the oldest manuscripts. It's not. You see these different things like that. Now, I'm bringing to you the Word of God from the original language. It is perfection. on it, because you will. Not salvation by works, it's salvation by grace. It's not salvation by what we might call the vehicle to grace, the Lord's Supper. Even in the Catholic Church, even marriage is a vehicle of grace. Baptism is a vehicle of grace. The Lord's Supper or the Eucharist is a vehicle of grace. All these things get you to heaven. or help you get to heaven. The only one that's ever going to get you to heaven is Jesus Christ and Him alone. Now let's go into these verses and look at them. Eseos kaipeter ponton ho epi ponton kai dia ponton kai en posa. Now there's three prepositions in here. In this. One God. It says here one God. Ace, that's a numeral. How many singular masculine? And that numeral also agrees in number, gender, and case. It's nominative, singular, masculine. Theos. O-s-u-u-o-o-o-o-n-a is singular in the second declension here that we're talking about. And so we know there is one God and that's the subject. And then we have the word chi here, a conjunction. One God and a father. You can say here this conjunction even is a, it might mean even. if you really get down to it. Page 208 in your Analytical Reflexes if you want to look that one up. One God and Father, or even the Father of all. Now the word Chi there can be, it's a cumulative particle, it can be one God, even the Father, or yes the Father, of all, genitive, plural, of all, the one, the ones, this here is a whole there, that's an ominous thing in a masculine definite article, the one, upon, a little preposition here, upon and over, upon means over, of all, even, or through or and, through all and in all. God is the Father of all men. All men were made in His image. But the fallen nature of mankind came into each and every one of us at the point of conception through the blood of the Father, which is contaminated with sin. We're all under one blood. We have the first Adam that condemns us. We have the second Adam that gives us freedom and salvation of all and in all. And then we have verse number 7. Moreover, we could verse in Conjunctive Prodigal Page AD 5, and I haven't written that down. Moreover, to one and each. Ekoston there means each one. It's dative singular. Of us, that's a second person genitive plural, second person pronoun, or first person pronoun that is. It was given. Edosei, that comes from denomine. And then it was given third person singular, first hours, indicative, passive, voice. First hour is punctiliar action, knife blade action. Each one of us, it was given the grapes, hay, caris. Now the word hay there is not in the original language. It's a definite article, but it's understood as if it's there. But in the Greek, you don't need it. But in the later manuscripts, it has hay in there, which is the nominative singular, feminine, definite article. And more, Clarice is, of course, nominee, singular, feminine. Gift. Clarice. Gift. According to Carta, page 213, a little preposition there, according to the metron, the measure, a share, of the Dorias, Dorias. The woman's name, Dora, comes from this name right here, this Doras, Dorias. Of the gift, from and belonging to Christ. It's oblative and genitive together. Oblative means it's going out from the source of and genitive means it belongs to you in case of possession. The gift belonging to Christ but coming from Christ and into you all. Alright? Unbounding measure of faith that God has given us through Christ. What it's talking about. 4 and verse 8. This is basically a messianic song of victory here. Jesus crushed the head of the serpent from Genesis 3.15. Deo lege anabas, eis hypsos, e ma lo te sinnes. Eich ma lo sion, kai edokin. Damata, Tois, Antropois. Now this is quite a verse. Wherefore, because of this, this is a theo and ho, he says, third person singular, present indicative active from lego, leges, legay, legomen, legetic, legus, legay, that's conjugated, this verb here, and it's legay here, and it's he says, I you, she, he, or it. He says, having ascended on a bus. That's a nominee singular Braskin, second heiress participle, having ascended, having gone up. Ace, an ace is a preposition, page 119, and that one means the extension or limitation of the thought or verbal action. Unto the Hyatts, Hypsos, Hypsos. He led, third person singular, first person singular, indicative, active. He led captives. Captivity. And, iso, captivity, captivity, and he gave freely, edokin, third person singular, first person singular, indicative, active, gifts, domata. Damata. Again from Dora. Damata. Tois entrepois. I have all kinds of quotations all over this and captions. Captive. Now let's go back and talk about what he's talking about. He left captivity on high or up in the heavens. Let's get a little He led Hades, let's try it out, and Sheol. Here's the earth. Now, it talks about Jesus led from the earth. Okay? He led captivity on high. Here, Muslims believe there are seven heavens. The Bible talks about three heavens. Here's the Earth. The first heaven is the atmosphere. Atmosphere. That's where the birds fly, where the oxygen is, where the clouds are and everything. Then up above that is where the stars are. And the stars are all 360 degrees around the Earth. And then above that, in the third heaven, is the abode of God. Now we have the first heaven, second heaven, third heaven, the abode of God. And then down here under the earth, down below the earth, Kara, Kara, down below it, out here into the third heaven again, is or was this place called Sheol or Hades. That Sheol in in Hebrew, Sheol, there, and it's Hades in Greek. Hades means the place not seen. And Sheol means the place to ask about. Saul's name comes from, he was the one asked for. Israel asked for a king and God gave him the guy named Asphor. So he took Sheol. Now down here, before the cross of Jesus Christ, You can take this down, just drop it down here a little bit, that's the church history chart. Before the cross of Jesus Christ, before he died on the cross of Calvary, now there was a promise all the way from here, all the way over to here, that when you died, that you would be resurrected. The Job, the oldest book in the Bible, Job believed someday that he would be resurrected and stand on his own feet, would hear with his own ears, and see with his own eyes, and speak with his own lips, and praise God, and he would stand in the Anastasia, the resurrection. Now, even though the promise Jesus Christ stood as a lamb slain before the foundation of the earth, but, strong adversive conjunctive, but, It was not efficacious or applied, only promised, until Jesus Christ came and was born of Mary, the Virgin Mary, and that He lived on this earth, that He lived that perfect life that it would take to redeem us because we can't, and that He died on the cross, that He went down into Hades, which he's going to tell us a little bit later. And he preached unto them, as Peter says, in different places in the Bible, that he preached unto them that I have overcome, I have died, I am buried, and when I raise, I'm going to take you up into the third heaven. Now whether all of them are resurrected or not, but they are souls. And in Luke the 16th chapter, we can see how they communed at that time and how they lived. Hades had a place of torment at a place called Paradise, or Abraham's bosom. Now he took everybody from Abraham's bosom up to the third heaven with him. He led them up, up, up and away. But those others, it says, hell enlarged itself. Hades enlarged itself. And now, all of those that were there in Hades, and it says Hades is not purgatory. Purgatory was invented in church history, right here, in that period of time, between 600 and 700 AD, right there. This is not purgatory, this is a place, a holding place of the wicked and those that are not redeemed. Now, we know that at least here at the end of the church age that all of those that are dead in Christ, all the way from here, all the way to the church age, will be resurrected to Anastasia. I believe in the pre-tribulation rapture. That's what I believe the Bible teaches. There's seven years of tribulation on the earth. The draughter takes place before. In heaven, there's a week of years up there and a wedding feast with the Lord and his bride and all the guests. Now all of these people will be resurrected. Their bodies, a man is triune in person. We are triune today. As I stand here before you, I have a body, a body, soma or basar in Hebrew. I have spirit, rua, a luma, and I have a soul, psyche, and nefesh in the Bible. Let's go back there. Donald, I'm going to teach this to you also here, I think, if I can find it, in Genesis. I don't have my Hebrew Bible here. Let's see if I can find it. Body made us, God made us, body, spirit and soul. Genesis 1.26 is pretty easy. Then God said let us make man in our in our shadow-casting likeness. That's our image, our shadow-casting likeness, what it says in Hebrew. That's our spirit. And in our blood-flowing likeness, we're made in the likeness of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit, Ruach. And we're made in the likeness of His Son, and that word there is Dom. The word Dom is in there, and it means blood. In our blood-flowing likeness, And then in our sovereign likeness of God, which is the Father. So we are made in the image of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Now, let's go back up a little bit further. I wish I had my other Bible here from the Hebrew. Verse number 20. And God said, let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures. Let the birds fly above the earth in the open breathing space. And God created great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, which the waters formed after their kind, the winged bird after its kind, and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them and said, be fruitful and multiply. the waters be filled with the birds and multiple life on the earth. And there became evening. Now there's no was in Hebrew by the way. It's a change of one state to the other. It said, and then became. It doesn't, forget the word was. Then became evening and became morning, a fifth day. Then God said, let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, and cattle creeping things, and the beast of the earth after their kind, and it became so. It became so. And God made the beast of the earth after their kind, and cattle after their kind, and every living creep that creeps upon the ground after its kind, and God saw that it was told good. And God said let us make man in our image. Now in the Hebrew it says that in each one of these there was soul, spirit, and flesh. Every animal has a soul, has a spirit, and has flesh, has soul, soul, nephesh, spirit, ruach, and basar, flesh. And God said, I have given every plant seed from beyond the surface of the earth, and every tree which has fruit, yielding its, shall be food for you. And every beast and earth and every bird of the sky and everything that moves upon the earth which has life. And I've given the green plant for you and it became so. And God saw all that he made and behold it became very good. And there became evening and there became morning the sixth day. And I wish I could see in Hebrew it will tell you that. We went back there anyway. There was flesh. That's why the blood of every animal, if you killed an animal, it was a death penalty. If you shed an animal's blood, it was a death penalty, because the life was in the blood. And every one of them, the life, the blood, they have spirit, that's the breath of life. They have basar, they have flesh of life. and they have the blood of life wherein it makes the soul, the nephesh, live. The nephesh live. Now let's go a little bit further now. Verse number nine. To de anabe, ti esten hote kai kadebe, eis tota katera meriteis geis. Now, A.T. Robertson and Thayer said the earth here basically means the universe. The universe. Now, in Genesis 1 and 1, it says, Barashith, Barah, Elohim, et Hashemayim, v'et ha'aretz. It says, Barashith, in Beth, preposition, Rosh there is head or beginning, page 912, Brown, Driver, Briggs. In beginnings, plural, that tau on the end of that Hebrew there is an old Hebrew plural. In beginnings, or in one of the beginnings, and then it says bara, third person, masculine singular, cal, perfect. He had created, the earth was created. I mean, in beginnings he had created Elohim. Elohim, that's a triune God. And then it says et. HaShemayim. Hep, the sign of the direct object again. And then HaShemayim. Ha, Shemayim, the uplifted waters, or the universe. And there, the universe, the word heavens means the universe. Everything above the earth. And then it says we, conjunction. We, Ha'aretz. And when he had created the whole universe, then he placed the earth in exactly the right place. And it says here, moreover, the one having ascended, third person, singular, second, aristotelic, indicative, active, what is it that also this person, also this Chi here now is a cumulative particle here, page 208, that or because also he descended, he went down, third person, singular, second, aristotelic, indicative, active. unto the karakato terra, unto the parts of the earth, of the universe. So Jesus died on the earth, and when his spirit and soul went down, his body stayed on the earth. His spirit and soul went down to the heaven of the atmosphere, down where the stars are, and down under the earth, in the midst of the universe out onto the earth where Sheol or Hades was. Christ came all the way from heaven to the earth to put on his work clothes. Jesus came down to pre-incarnate Christ, came down from heaven down to the earth to put his work clothes on. His work clothes is human flesh. He became our Goel, that's the Hebrew for kinsman, redeemer. He came down from heaven to put his work clothes on of human flesh, kaihologosarxagenito, excuse me, kaihologosarxagenito, John 1, 14 in Greek there. The Chi conjunction, the Logos and the Word, or the Jehovah, Flesh, Sarc, He became. Third person singular, second aorist indicative, mental voice. Jehovah came from Heaven and put on the work clothes of humanity in human flesh. And He did this to overcome sin, to triumph over sin, and to redeem us and buy us back to Himself. Buy us back to Himself. These are such gigantic verses. I mean, I could do a whole message on each verse in all reality, but I don't want to completely overwhelm you with what's in there. John 1.18 says, No man has seen God in any time but the only begotten God. The one being, not only singular, masculine, present, participle, active, the one being own in the bosom of the Father. You know, Jesus Christ never ceased being God. N-r-a-k-a-h-l-o-v-e, in beginning, kept on being the Word. And the Word kept on being toward the God, inseparable from the Godhead, because the Word, Jehovah, kept on being God. Jesus never ceased being God on the earth. He was God and man. God and man and he came here to put on the work clothes of humanity and to redeem us for himself. You can't do anything to go to heaven. I know that not one, I couldn't spend one second in heaven without the grace of God. I'm a sinner. I am a sinner. But I'm a saved sinner. I've asked the Lord Jesus Christ to save my soul and forgive me of my sins. I have trusted Him to do that because I know He came into this world. The Bible says, the book of Hebrews says, before you can believe, you have to believe that God is. I believe that there is a God. I believe that He created the heavens and the earth. And I believe that he broke into that creation and became part of it to the person of Jesus Christ to redeem me back to himself. My father had the death sentence to send him through his blood and that's blood I have running in my veins and it goes all the way back to Adam. The woman gives a person form. The father gives them the nature of sin in his blood. And by the blood of God we have, we are born again. When we're born into this world, we're born from a mother and father. Both of them are sinners, but the woman doesn't pass on the sin nature, the man does. God gives us the calling back to Himself. God does not wish that any should perish, but all to come to the knowledge of the truth. Jesus Christ said, I am the truth. He said, I am the bread, I am the water of life. As the rock followed Israel through the wilderness, and that rock was Christ. Our Father, we send this message out for your honor and glory. Please use it. Please touch people's lives with it all over this world. Please forgive me where I failed you. And use your word for your honor and glory. In Jesus' name I pray.