WEBVTT 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:05.200 What's going on, my beloved brethren and sisters in Christ? 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:06.959 Today we are back. 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:10.320 We covered a whole chapter of John 1. 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:14.160 And we talked about how Jesus was the Word. 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:18.079 Not only was He the Word, He was God Himself. 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:22.879 I know a lot of people get their feathers ruffled when we mention that. 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:26.480 But the truth is, this is what the Bible teaches us. 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:30.480 And so we want to make sure that we stay accurate on what the Bible teaches. 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:42.240 And as body of Christ members, it is important that we're all on the same page, especially when others try to come against the true doctrines of Jesus Christ. 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:45.039 Especially given to the Apostle Paul. 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:48.479 We have to make sure that we stay in these epistles of the apostle. 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:58.960 And I tell you, this is one of the biggest secrets to Bible studying, is to study these epistles of the apostle, all the way from Romans to the book of Philemon. 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:07.200 And I do, of course, subscribe to him being the writer and author of the book of Hebrews as well. 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:13.680 Now I notice that it doesn't specifically say who the author is of that book. 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:22.480 I subscribe to the fact that it was the Apostle Paul. 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:32.159 One of the reasons I subscribe to that is because something that was mentioned in Hebrews chapter 13, which is the last chapter, he spoke about Timothy being released from prison. 00:01:32.239 --> 00:02:02.000 And if anybody knows about Timothy, Timothy was an uh a someone who was mentored by the apostle for many years before he was finally set in his own church, which is why we have these letters, two letters that were written from the apostle Paul to Timothy, telling him how to lead a church, how to deal with people in the church, how to combat people who were erring in the scripture. 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:09.120 Now that did not mean that he was going everywhere and opposing people in the scripture. 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:25.120 That meant those that were in his vicinity that were erring in the scriptures in front of his face, he had an obligation to deal with that to show them that they were erring in the scriptures. 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:27.520 Okay, so I just want to make that known. 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:03.680 These people definitely embody that. 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:09.360 Now I'm going to say something that is probably going to make a few people mad. 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:12.159 These people weren't rich. 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:27.120 I know you have a lot of prosperity preaching out there about God doesn't mean for you to be poor and uh He wants you to have money, but the truth is, ladies and gentlemen, what God is most concerned about is your spiritual maturity. 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:35.919 Okay, and the other thing that God enjoys is people who walk around in spiritual wealth versus physical wealth. 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:38.000 There's nothing wrong with having money. 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:38.879 Don't get me wrong. 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:40.479 The apostle Paul addresses that. 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:57.439 He says, matter of fact, those that do have admonish them to know that they need to help those that don't have, especially those who are in the body of Christ that may not have money, that may be struggling with their finances, finances right now. 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:13.039 Okay, and so if you have money, God has blessed you with an abundance of riches that you need to be helping not only those who struggle to help themselves financially, but also look out for those in the missionary. 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:23.040 Now we're gonna see how these people, even though they didn't have a lot of money, and it's gonna show this when we get to 2 Corinthians chapter 8 about these people. 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:37.519 Okay, they didn't have a lot of money, but they were eager to give whatever they had to help whomever they needed to help without any hesitation, and this is what God is looking for. 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:38.720 What does the Bible say? 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:45.439 He loves a cheerful giver, and it is those that will experience no lack. 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:51.759 Does that mean he's gonna all of a sudden bless you with a hundred thousand dollars in your bank account because you're helping people? 00:04:52.000 --> 00:05:04.240 No, it does not, but what it does mean is that when you're especially helping those who are ministering the word, now I I do want to say this me saying this does not mean I need anybody sending me any money. 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:08.800 Me saying this does not mean that I am burdening anyone to send me money. 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:18.160 I work a job currently right now, and I prefer to do that because one of the things the apostle Paul did was so that he wouldn't be a burden to people. 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:21.600 He had his own company, he was a tent maker. 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:32.319 Not only was he a tent maker, he was able to support himself, but he was able to employ people that were ministering the word with him so that they did not have to be a burden. 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:37.920 This is what he told to the churches in Thessalonica that we did not want to be a burden to you all. 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:42.160 This is why I had my own company, so I don't have to be a burden. 00:05:42.399 --> 00:06:18.480 The apostle Paul chose not to receive contribution, one, because he did work, and number two, he didn't want to be one who uh was accused of receiving money like many that were doing so and still do so today for their own financial gain, which is why they err in the scripture in heresy and misleading you, but they're making a lot of money off of you, putting a burden on you to give tithes and offerings so that they can be rich in the church and you're still poor out there watching them preach every day. 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:25.600 Okay, uh, but as we get into this book of Philippians, we're gonna learn a lot about these people. 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:41.360 One of the things about these people, and that I want to express, is that this is the only letter out of all the letters the apostle Paul wrote to many other churches, church churches in Ephesus, uh, church in Galatea. 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:50.720 This is the only church, uh these people that he did not have to address the issue of sexual immorality. 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:56.720 You had people whose whole families were getting saved, ladies and gentlemen. 00:06:56.800 --> 00:06:58.560 This is what we're missing today. 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:01.839 But you had people whose whole families were getting saved. 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:23.519 You can go back to Acts chapter 16, okay, where we find that the apostle Paul uh was trying to go to other places, and the Holy Spirit would not allow him to go to those other places, and all of a sudden he sees a vision of a man in Macedonia, uh, which was the leading factor of him going to these people in Philippi in the first place. 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:36.959 Now, I don't remember he ever found that man, but I do believe that the Holy Spirit directed him there because the Holy Spirit knew that that was the place where the ground was fertile, and it most certainly was. 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:43.040 Okay, and Acts chapter 16 is the introductory to that when he meets a lady called Lydia. 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:56.319 Now she did have money, she had her own business too, as well, and she asked and tried and wanted to get the apostle Paul to come and stay with her for a few days and and minister to her household. 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:59.360 Her whole household got saved, including her. 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:20.079 Now, there was a little small detour that it tells us uh because of he was as he was on his way, there was this young lady who was overtaken by the spirit, uh, and she was able to fortune tell and was making these guys a lot of money. 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:48.879 And for about several days, she was getting on the apostle Paul's nerve, and finally, on about the seventh day, the Apostle Paul said, Look, I'm tired of this, and he cast that demon out of her, and she lost her ability to foretell the future, and it upset these guys because they lost money, and he ended up going to prison, him and Salah, and they ended up uh praising and worshiping and praying to the Lord. 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:53.600 Around about midnight, the Bible says all the jail cells broke open. 00:08:54.399 --> 00:09:05.519 Okay, they all broke open, and the jailer there was so scared about the situation and that he failed in his mission because he was asleep on the job. 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:07.840 I mean, let's just go ahead and call it what it was. 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:22.879 He wakes up and sees all this happening, but he didn't realize in all his panic that no one, despite the the prison jail cells being slung open, nobody ran out and escaped. 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:29.919 And the Apostle Paul and Silas had to let him know hey, calm down, nobody's left because he was gonna kill himself. 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:40.320 And so not only did the jailer not kill himself, but he invites the apostle Paul them over to come and stay with him for a little while. 00:09:40.799 --> 00:09:43.200 They they do go, and guess what? 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:47.679 His whole household, including himself, got saved. 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:57.200 And I always say this now that the body of Christ is only as strong as the families that are planted within them. 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:17.440 The devil has done a great job at mixing and matching a lot of unequally yoked marriages, and so this is why the body of Christ is as twisted and their way is crooked, and they need a straightening, and Jesus is the only one to straighten. 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:28.799 And if we don't have the accurate word of God starting with these apostles of the uh these epistles of the apostle Paul, then everything else is going to be out of line. 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:39.759 It brings me back to the story of the the woman who uh had an infirmity, the spirit of infirmity on her, and she walked bent over. 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:46.080 Jesus called that spirit of infirmity out, and she is now straightened up. 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:52.000 For 18 years she walked like this, and finally she comes to Jesus. 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:52.960 Now, who is Jesus? 00:10:53.120 --> 00:11:08.879 Jesus is our head today, but yet we are walking bent over, and we need a straightening, a healing from Jesus, and we got to get back to this place of correct, accurate, sound doctrine. 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:12.799 Stop avoiding these epistles of the apostle Paul. 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:37.039 Anything we need to know, ladies and gentlemen, that we have to know as far as the Old Testament, Revelation, the Apostle Paul will cover it for us to help us to be able to understand between the connection of the Old Testament and the epistles that were given to him by Jesus Christ. 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:42.159 And as you guys hang out with me, you're going to begin to find that out more and more. 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:45.600 That a lot of things he got from the Old Testament. 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:51.039 It's just that when you don't know how to study it, you're not going to know he got a lot of these things from there. 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:53.279 Now, there are some things that are more obvious. 00:11:53.440 --> 00:12:01.279 Like I told you, a lot of times when a lot of these words are in capital letters in the New Testament, they are quoting from the Old Testament. 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:02.000 Okay? 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:23.360 And the Apostle Paul does that at times, but there are times where the Holy Spirit has slickly put stuff in there that if you don't know the Old Testament enough, you won't know they came from the Old Testament that He is using from a spirit, a physical sense now, and converting that into a spiritual sense. 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:25.840 And the Apostle Paul does this quite often. 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:29.039 Now, I'm I'm sorry, but not sorry. 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:38.480 This was a mint introduction tangent that I needed to get off on so that we can properly get into the book of Philippians. 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:41.039 So we are going to start in Philippians chapter 1. 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:45.440 And I do want to state that I am using an amplified Bible. 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:47.360 This is what I use to work with. 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:57.440 I'm trying to get out of the practice of admonishing you to get an amplified Bible, or you know, you can go to Bible Gateway, of course, they have a free version there. 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:04.559 Because I know many of you have your own Bibles that you use and that you're comfortable with right now, and that's okay. 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:26.559 Uh, it would be nice if you got an amplified Bible because I do think the amplified Bible already does a good job between helping us to translate the words that were in Hebrew, especially when you looking in the King James Bible, and you have to go always relying on um looking up the Hebrew and the Aramic for the Old Testament versus the Greek in the New Testament. 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:32.000 It helps us already be able to get a better understanding without the headaches of that. 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:48.159 Because I can tell you right now, many people, if you have not gone to school and learned all of this, and I'm not one of them, I'm just gonna tell you that is a professed professional when it comes to being a scholar in Hebrew, Aramic, and Greek. 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:57.279 Okay, but I've been studying this Bible for a long time, and I that's why I'm pretty comfortable with the Amplified Bible, such as I am. 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:00.480 So that's what I read, and that's what I study from. 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:11.360 Uh, you want to be on the same page with me, I would suggest you do, but if you don't, I'm not going to uh force any pressure on you to get an amplified Bible. 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:17.360 With that being said, let's go ahead and start in the book of Philippians. 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:23.600 Take notes because we are going to go deep sea fishing. 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:30.159 You start dealing with me, I'm not just a surface study of the word. 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:40.080 I do uh use other scripture where it is appropriate with what we're studying, and we're going to be looking at a lot of things. 00:14:40.559 --> 00:15:00.559 Uh, many of you that have questions about certain things in this Bible are probably gonna get most of your answers, most of your questions answered within this first chapter, because we are going we are going to go on a journey with the Lord, okay, especially with this mature group that the apostle Paul wrote to. 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:04.159 Okay, so let's go ahead and get started into it. 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:06.720 Philippians chapter 1. 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:17.600 Uh, I was trying to shorten my videos up, and uh, every now and then I will do that, but I think I'm gonna have to go an hour on these videos, man. 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:24.879 If you guys get tired, uh, you know, just pause it, come back to it, and go from there. 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:42.639 But I it I feel like right now it's important for me to go at least an hour because there's so much we need to cover, but take notes, man, because I'm telling you, you're gonna want to have these notes, these are gonna be very valuable for your spiritual wealth building that you are going to receive. 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:48.639 And the Bible tells us itself that we cannot exhaust all the spiritual riches that are in this word. 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:57.120 That means I could possibly die out of here and still don't get everything until we get to Jesus Christ. 00:15:57.279 --> 00:16:02.320 The Bible says we know in part right now, but we will know in full when we get with Jesus. 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:11.519 We will know full knowledge, full truth of everything, and it's probably gonna make us slap ourselves that thing why we couldn't have got that while we was on the earth, you know. 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:14.159 But hey, let's go. 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:19.279 Alright, Philippians chapter 1, and it says, Paul and Timothy. 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:32.240 Now remember I told you guys about Timothy, the two letters that were written to him, and now he's getting ready to take on his own ministry, and that's why the apostle Paul wrote two letters, first and second Timothy, to him. 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:46.799 Okay, now Timothy, bond servants of Christ Jesus the Messiah, the anointed, to all the saints, God's people, and Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, including the overseers and deacons. 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:48.879 We're gonna come back to that in a minute. 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:58.639 Verse 2 Grace to you and peace, inner calm, and spiritual well-being from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:16:58.720 --> 00:16:59.919 Now I want to start right there. 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:06.960 You notice that he addresses not one overseer or bishop, it's another word, overseer is another word for bishop. 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:12.160 He addresses overseers, plural, and deacons. 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:19.039 The reason why, ladies and gentlemen, is because, and we're gonna go look at that right now, we're gonna go to Romans chapter 16, verse first. 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:32.480 When the apostle Paul established many of these churches, they weren't megachurches like we know today, they want churches like you see on every block today. 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:43.200 These churches were established in people's homes, and many of these people's homes had men who were the head of the households. 00:17:43.519 --> 00:18:07.119 Okay, and so this is why the apostle Paul is addressing the people in Philippi this way, because of the people that became ordained overseers or bishops in their households, the people who had deacons, who became deacons in those households, in that community, in that neighborhood, and this is why he's addressing it this way. 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:17.680 One of the things you heard me mention earlier is that whole households were getting saved, and this is where the strength came from, is from these families. 00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:34.240 Okay, this is why the spirit of the Lord was so strong there, and this is why the spiritual maturity grew there because of the close bond that these people developed in the Lord, despite the fact that they were coming under heavy persecution. 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:48.160 Now, many of us are fortunate today because we don't receive the heavy persecution, such as a lot of these people, especially the ones, the Gentile believers that the apostle Paul went to and helped to establish the churches and their homes. 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:55.680 So many of us are fortunate, but there are some that are out here today that are dying for the belief in Jesus Christ. 00:18:55.839 --> 00:19:03.680 There are some that are getting beheaded for their belief in Jesus Christ, there are some that are getting beaten for their belief in Jesus Christ. 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:18.000 And so we have to be feeling very privileged today that we live in a country in America, although we may get persecuted by those of darkness, and we're going to address that here, uh, that come against the light. 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:32.079 Because, like I told you before, the darkness does not like the light, nor is it responsive or receptive to the light, because it does not want his evil deeds exposed, especially those things that they do in secret. 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:35.759 Okay, and so that's why they oppose the light. 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:42.720 All right, but a lot of these people, their churches were established in their homes, and we're going to see that right here. 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:48.240 Let's go to Romans chapter 16, look at verses 3 through 5. 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:49.759 Watch what it says here. 00:19:50.079 --> 00:20:04.720 It said, Greet Presca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who risk their own necks, endangering their very lives for my life. 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:11.759 To them, not only do I give thanks, but I but also all the churches of the Gentiles. 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:20.240 Now, this is very important because the apostle Paul was chosen to go to the Gentile nations. 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:20.799 Okay? 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:24.240 So that's why you're going to continue to see this stress. 00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:28.880 And the Apostle Paul calls himself the apostle of the Gentiles. 00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:31.200 Romans chapter 11, verse 13. 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:32.000 Alright. 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:37.599 Although he was a Jew, he was called by Jesus to go to the Gentile nation. 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:38.960 Now, let's keep going. 00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:40.319 Verse 5. 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:48.079 Also greet the church that meets, look at this, in their house. 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:49.119 See that? 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:59.599 Greet my beloved Aponentus, who is the first convert to Christ from the West Coast province of Asia Minor. 00:20:59.920 --> 00:21:13.279 Now let's go one more place so you can really kind of get an understanding of some of these places that the apostle went to was in these people's homes that he helped to establish the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:16.319 Let's go to Colossians chapter 4, verse 15. 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:19.279 Watch what it says here. 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:33.440 It says, Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters at Lodicea and to Nephah, this is her home, and the church that meets in her house. 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:46.960 So I just wanted you to get an idea of this so that you understand why the Apostle Paul is addressing people in the letter this way, addressing overseers, plural, and deacons. 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:48.319 So let's keep going. 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:52.559 Now you will notice the Apostle Paul always addresses most of the time. 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:59.759 He starts his letters off this way, and letting people know that he was a chosen personal messenger by Christ. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:00.960 Jesus Christ. 00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:06.000 A lot of people try to refute that because he didn't walk with Jesus while Jesus was on the earth. 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:09.680 But ladies and gentlemen, tonight our position is heaven. 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:22.000 While there were great things that Jesus did on this earth that he wants us to take out of these four gospels and learn from, our heavenly position is heaven tonight, ladies and gentlemen. 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:22.559 Okay? 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:47.599 And so therefore we have to make sure we stay in these heavenly epistles that Jesus, the resurrected Jesus, who was seated at the right hand, who is seated at the right hand of the Father, as he introduced himself to the apostle Paul, who was named Saul at first, knocked him off of his horse because of his great glorious light, that the apostle came and encountered on the road to Damascus. 00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:48.160 Okay. 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:58.319 The apostle Paul for three years, the Bible tells us, was given all these revelations from the ascendant Lord Jesus Christ while being in his wilderness season. 00:22:58.559 --> 00:22:58.880 Okay. 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:00.960 Now, so let's keep going. 00:23:01.119 --> 00:23:01.839 Verse 3. 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:03.519 Philippians chapter 3. 00:23:03.759 --> 00:23:05.039 Verse 3, I mean. 00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:16.720 I thank my God in every remembrance of you, always offering every prayer of mine with joy and with specific request for all of you. 00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:19.039 Let me see how far I want to keep going. 00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:21.839 So I want to stop right there. 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:25.759 I want to stop right there. 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:36.960 The apostle Paul was always, always compassionate for praying for the saints in the body of Christ. 00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:47.920 If there's ever one way you want to please God, and we'll see that in a minute, intercessory prayer will have God's ear. 00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:49.680 Guaranteed. 00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:53.920 If nothing else you get up to God gets there. 00:23:54.319 --> 00:24:05.759 When you are praying on the behalf of those in the body of Christ, even those that you desire to come into the body of Christ, God's ear is tuned wide open. 00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:07.440 24 7. 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:08.400 Okay? 00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:20.480 And we're going to go there right now because the apostle Paul, in most of his letters, he said this that I have joy making mention of you in my prayers. 00:24:20.799 --> 00:24:27.039 He covered those whom he helped establish in the gospel. 00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:29.839 We don't get that a lot today. 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:42.000 A lot of these pastors are more concerned about how many people are going to show up to watch them on a daily basis behind the pulpit and get sad when the numbers don't look like the numbers they're used to. 00:24:43.200 --> 00:24:51.440 While the apostle Paul, hey, if he only had two people, he was going to make sure that he was going to intercede on those people's behalf. 00:24:51.519 --> 00:24:56.640 That's the reason why I tell y'all, you got things specifically that you want me to pray on. 00:24:56.880 --> 00:24:58.960 We'll come in agreement together on it. 00:24:59.119 --> 00:25:02.720 If it's according to God's will, we'll come into agreement with it. 00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:07.039 And we're going to seek the Lord until he answers it. 00:25:07.519 --> 00:25:07.839 Okay? 00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:11.519 As long as it's according to his will, you best believe he will. 00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:15.200 Now that may be an appointed time when that answer comes. 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:19.279 God says, In my appointed time, I will make it happen. 00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:20.000 Okay. 00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:28.319 But nonetheless, the apostle Paul had compassion for praying for the people that he preached and taught. 00:25:29.839 --> 00:25:39.519 And he had a concern to make sure that the sheep that he was entrusted with by Jesus Christ got to Jesus. 00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:40.079 Okay. 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:42.319 Alright now. 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:46.240 So let's go over here to 1 Timothy. 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:51.039 One of these letters I was telling you about. 00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:53.599 Go over here to 1 Timothy. 00:25:54.960 --> 00:25:56.240 We're going to look at chapter 2. 00:25:56.319 --> 00:26:01.680 We're going to look at the first three verses when it comes to intercessory prayer. 00:26:05.039 --> 00:26:06.480 So you can see it for yourself. 00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:13.680 The Apostle Paul tells us how pleasing it was and is to God when we intercede on other people's behalf. 00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:14.400 Alright? 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:15.599 So let's go. 00:26:19.599 --> 00:26:20.559 Alright. 00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:23.920 1 Timothy chapter 2. 00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:25.920 Start in the first verse. 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:27.200 Watch it here. 00:26:27.440 --> 00:26:34.880 First of all, now you notice in the Amplified Bible, first and of, it's capitalized. 00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:37.599 So there's a heavy emphasis on this. 00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:49.039 It's like people get upset because that's poor typing etiquacy to type in caps because it means you're screaming at somebody. 00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:55.200 But it's intended right here in the Amplified Bible how important intertestary prayer is. 00:26:55.440 --> 00:26:57.839 And it's capitalized the first two words. 00:26:58.079 --> 00:27:02.319 First of all, then watch this. 00:27:02.799 --> 00:27:06.160 I urge that petitions, specific requests. 00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:07.279 There goes that. 00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:09.920 Those words, specific requests again. 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:14.880 Prayers, intercessions, prayers for who? 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:15.839 Others. 00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:20.799 And thanksgiving be offered on behalf of a few people. 00:27:21.279 --> 00:27:22.480 The people alike? 00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:23.359 No. 00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:24.319 All people. 00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:26.240 All people. 00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:28.240 Not just the body of Christ. 00:27:28.319 --> 00:27:31.759 We're about to see who he means when he says all people. 00:27:31.839 --> 00:27:32.720 Watch this. 00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:39.119 For Kings verse 2, and all who are in positions of high authority. 00:27:39.359 --> 00:27:40.160 See this? 00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:41.759 What is the reason for this? 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:47.519 So that we may live a peaceful and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. 00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:48.559 Verse 3. 00:27:48.880 --> 00:28:02.319 This kind of praying is good and acceptable, watch this, and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior. 00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:05.200 Now, why does he say God our Savior? 00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:18.880 If you studied my last video when I talked about Jesus being God our Savior, we went over there to the book of Titus and we saw in three places where God our Savior is Jesus Christ. 00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:22.960 And the apostle Paul is saying that right here, right now. 00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:28.960 Now, although he doesn't mention Jesus' name, and see, this is why you have to study your Bible. 00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:38.160 Because just because he don't mention it here, see, when you're rocking with me, you're going to know the other side to this thing so that you can be able to see, okay, boom. 00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:45.119 I remember he mentioned God our Savior and Jesus Christ in Titus. 00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:46.559 You see that? 00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:55.279 But intercessory prayer, ladies and gentlemen, it is pleasing and acceptable in the sight of the Lord. 00:28:56.400 --> 00:28:58.000 He demands it. 00:28:58.559 --> 00:29:02.240 He wants us to be able to go in there with specific requests. 00:29:02.400 --> 00:29:04.480 So that means don't come with broad stuff. 00:29:04.559 --> 00:29:07.200 You got to go boldly with specific requests. 00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:09.200 Will he answer everything that's prayed? 00:29:09.359 --> 00:29:10.000 No, he won't. 00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:12.240 Especially if it doesn't line up with his word. 00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:15.519 Especially if that's not what the Holy Spirit is telling you to pray. 00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:19.359 Now that's a whole nother teaching we'll have to talk about later. 00:29:20.400 --> 00:29:22.400 Praying in the Holy Spirit. 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:25.599 There's a lot of confusion centered around that. 00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:32.960 But however the case, we need to be able to pray on everyone's behalf. 00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:35.839 Those who are in high authority, that means government officials. 00:29:35.920 --> 00:29:37.920 That means the president of the United States. 00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:42.400 That means kings around the world, so that we may live a peaceable life. 00:29:42.559 --> 00:29:49.839 Now, unfortunately, because the world that we live in, there's not always going to be any kind of worldly peace. 00:29:50.160 --> 00:29:53.519 There'll be people delusionally thinking that, but it won't be. 00:29:54.720 --> 00:30:05.359 But we are to pray for that purpose so that we can live these lives where we're still fortunate to be able to minister God's word without the heavy persecution that comes with it. 00:30:05.920 --> 00:30:06.240 Okay? 00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:10.160 And right now, as of tonight, we are able to do that. 00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:11.440 So let's keep going. 00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:14.319 So we see the intercessory prayer. 00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:19.279 The apostle Paul tells us about this all the time that he prayed on the behalf of all the people. 00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:20.079 Alright. 00:30:20.319 --> 00:30:23.039 So now let's get on back over here to Philippians. 00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:25.920 Let's get on over here back to Philippians. 00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:29.759 Start in verse 5. 00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:58.160 It says now, as he's making these specific requests for all the people, especially uh the body of Christ members, verse 5, thanking God, look at this, for your participation and partnership, both your comforting fellowship and gracious contributions in advancing the good news regarding salvation from the first day you heard it until now. 00:30:58.480 --> 00:31:08.400 So from that moment, the Holy Spirit led him to Macedonia to talk to these people in Philippi. 00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:18.559 The ground was fertile there, and he's telling us how they not only received the word, but they contributed financially to helping the word of God spread. 00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:23.359 Now, like I said, in no way am I putting any pressure on anybody to send me anything. 00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:30.559 I don't need anything but the Lord and who he sends, because he is my resource at the end of the day. 00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:39.920 But what I am saying is that these people, despite the little money that they had, they were abundant in generous giving. 00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:40.480 Okay? 00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:46.799 And this is why the apostle Paul says how they have joined in partnership and fellowship with him. 00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:55.759 As he's writing this letter, this is one of his prison epistles, and we're going to see that he is definitely in prison at the time he has written this letter. 00:31:56.079 --> 00:32:18.880 But yet the Bible is going to tell us, I believe, in this first chapter, that despite him being in prison, the gospel was still being spread, not only being spread, but those who were chained to him, the prison guards, were developing boldness and preaching and teaching the word of truth in the prison cells. 00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:26.960 Now you have to imagine the heavy persecution they could have come under if they were found out. 00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:30.960 But they didn't care because they had no fear of what can happen to them. 00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:32.240 What did Jesus tell us? 00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:40.799 Don't feel what man can do to your flesh, but feel what God can do to wipe you totally out of existence if he wanted to. 00:32:41.119 --> 00:32:46.160 So they had no fear in what could happen to them for ministering the word of God. 00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:47.359 Boy, this is exciting. 00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:50.160 Telling you, and we're gonna get down to that soon. 00:32:50.480 --> 00:33:07.519 But let's go over here to 2 Corinthians chapter 8, because I want to show you more about these people, and show you the heart of these people, why the apostle Paul was so in love with him, with them the way that he was, and we're gonna see that. 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:09.200 We're gonna see that. 00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:19.279 I think he had a special place in his heart for these people because of how well they received the word and how mature they were in the Lord, which is caused by the Holy Spirit. 00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:21.200 Now, what does the Bible say? 00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:32.079 Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom also, and I'm sure he just enjoyed himself when he got around these people because the Holy Spirit, more importantly, was there. 00:33:33.359 --> 00:33:35.039 So he felt at home. 00:33:35.359 --> 00:33:37.759 Okay, now so let's go. 00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:42.720 So uh 2 Corinthians chapter 8. 00:33:42.880 --> 00:33:48.400 We're gonna look at the first, I want to say first five verses, and we're gonna see the heart of these people. 00:33:48.640 --> 00:33:49.599 Watch this. 00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:53.039 Alright. 00:33:53.359 --> 00:34:00.240 Now, brothers, again, in the Amplified Bible, the Apostle Paul is screaming this out to the top of his lungs. 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:10.719 I know it's poor typing etiquacy, but that's what it is here, because they want to put an emphasis on this, that he's addressing the brothers in Christ. 00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:12.079 Now, watch this, brothers. 00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:26.719 Now, brothers and sisters, we want to tell you about the grace of God which has been evident in the churches of Macedonia, awakening the in them a longing to what contribute. 00:34:26.800 --> 00:34:27.760 Now we saw this. 00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:40.960 The apostle Paul was thankful for their contributions, their partnership and fellowship with him in contributing in order to advance the good news, the gospel of death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 00:34:41.199 --> 00:34:44.880 And they didn't have a lot, but what they had they were eager to give. 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:46.559 So let's go, keep going. 00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:54.559 So he he is talking to these people in Corinth because he is now challenging them. 00:34:55.199 --> 00:35:10.639 He is now challenging them as they all are assigned to help Peter and those churches in Jerusalem that were under heavy persecution, that were exiled from their homes, and they needed to be taken care of financially. 00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:23.840 And so the apostle Paul is collecting money on their behalf, and it tells us that these people in Macedonia were some of the first who were eager to help in this effort, okay, even though they didn't have a lot. 00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:28.400 And I keep stressing that because that's heavily important, okay. 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:46.400 Alright now, verse 2 for doing an ordeal of severe distress, see this their abundant joy and their deep poverty together, look at this, y'all, overflowed in the wealth of their lavish generosity. 00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:52.400 So not only were these people deeply poor, deep in poverty. 00:35:53.519 --> 00:35:58.960 Now, some will say, Well, then that means the word one working on Abraham, because the word says we're supposed to be rich. 00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:00.559 No, it doesn't. 00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:04.400 Does God want us to be financially taken care of, ladies and gentlemen? 00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:06.239 He most certainly does. 00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:08.719 But what does the Bible also say? 00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:14.159 Jesus said, You will always have the poor with you, but you won't always have me. 00:36:14.320 --> 00:36:17.119 And right now, tonight, we don't have him on this earth anymore. 00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:19.760 He is seated at the right hand of the Father. 00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:20.320 Okay? 00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:22.880 So let's make that known right now. 00:36:23.199 --> 00:36:27.599 The money is not the most important issue to God. 00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:39.519 Where you are spiritually and maturely is how you're able to help people with the gifts that he has given you spiritually is more important to God. 00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:51.760 And God says, because you do what I'm telling you to do, you are seeking the kingdom of God first, meaning his way of doing things, all those things will be added. 00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:54.639 You got clothing, you got food, you're doing good. 00:36:56.320 --> 00:37:04.320 You may not have the best living situation, but you stay in this word richly to keep you. 00:37:05.039 --> 00:37:17.360 Because at the end of the day, ladies and gentlemen, we don't let anything deter us or get us off the path from the eternal life that Jesus has given us through all that he went through to give us that. 00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:17.840 Okay? 00:37:18.320 --> 00:37:23.199 Now, so these people they went through severe, severe distress. 00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:28.639 And I told you, they were going on a heavy persecution, yet it did not kill their joy. 00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:39.599 Their joy continued to light up more and more, even with the persecution, and we're gonna see why that is when we get down more into chapter one. 00:37:40.320 --> 00:37:44.480 We briefly talked about this in another video that I did. 00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:45.360 Alright. 00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:47.840 Now, but watch this. 00:37:48.159 --> 00:37:57.039 So it was out of their the abundant joy and their deep poverty together, overflowed in the wealth of their lavish, look at this, generosity. 00:37:57.920 --> 00:38:06.639 Verse 3 for I testified that according to their ability, see this, and beyond their ability, they gave voluntarily. 00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:42.000 Now, the Bible tells us to give when it's in our power to give, and we give based on what we have the ability to give, and that's exactly what they did, and they gave over and beyond that because of the gospel that freed them, they understood that despite all the deep distress they were going through and their poverty, Jesus' word freed them from worrying about all the other stuff that was happening around them. 00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:43.119 So let's keep going. 00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:53.440 Verse 4, begging us insistently, see this, for the privilege of participating in the service for the support of the saints in Jerusalem. 00:38:53.599 --> 00:38:58.719 At this time, like I told you, Peter and them were exiled from their rightful place of living. 00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:08.480 Now, of course, they was on missionary, but they came to another place of poverty where they needed help. 00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:11.519 They had all kinds of opposition up against them. 00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:22.880 And the apostle Paul asked these Gentile churches, and it tells us that these people in Philippi, Macedonia, Macedonia, they were eager to help these people. 00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:25.119 Eager. 00:39:25.519 --> 00:39:25.840 Okay? 00:39:26.559 --> 00:39:29.599 Even out of them not having a lot to do it. 00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:36.079 Now, verse 5: not only did they, look at this, give materially as we had hope. 00:39:36.239 --> 00:39:42.559 But the most important thing, watch this, but first they gave themselves to the who? 00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:56.880 Lord, and to us as his representatives by the will of God, disregarding their personal interests and giving as much as they possibly could. 00:39:57.039 --> 00:40:15.519 Now, as we continue to unravel these chapters, we're gonna see that he talks about the fact that we aren't to be caught up in our own ambitions, our own interests, but to be seeking to deal with the interests of others. 00:40:16.320 --> 00:40:26.239 This was very important, and we already see that these people had a heart for not being after their own selfish interests. 00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:33.599 Okay, they had a heart for people, they had a heart for the body of Christ. 00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:49.920 Alright, and so now we find out about a little bit more about these people heavily persecuted, extreme poverty, yet none of this phase their ability to give. 00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:55.440 Not only what they had the ability to give, the Bible says they gave over and beyond that. 00:40:55.679 --> 00:40:56.639 Alright, now. 00:40:57.199 --> 00:40:59.280 So let's get on back over here. 00:41:01.199 --> 00:41:04.800 Let's get on back over here to Philippians chapter 6. 00:41:05.679 --> 00:41:08.559 Verse 6, I don't know why I keep saying chapters. 00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:10.559 I'm just so excited right now. 00:41:11.119 --> 00:41:14.400 You know, I'm getting excited because, like I told you, this is one of my favorite books. 00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:16.320 So I'm just getting very excited right now. 00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:19.119 So let's go back to verse 6 and chapter 1. 00:41:19.519 --> 00:41:30.960 And it is because of their heart forgiving and the contributions that they've made, that the apostle Paul is inspired to say this under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. 00:41:31.039 --> 00:41:31.920 Watch this. 00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:35.679 Because of the work that they're doing, watch what it says here. 00:41:36.719 --> 00:41:59.440 The Apostle Paul says, Because of this in verse 5 that you've been doing, I am convinced and and confident of this very thing that he, Christ, who has begun a good work in you, will continue to perfect and complete it until the day of Christ Jesus, the time of his return. 00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:02.079 Now, I want to stop right here. 00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:07.840 We're gonna come back and pick this up because there's a lot of places we're gonna have to go. 00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:13.840 Many people who read that will just gloss over it and keep going on to the next verse. 00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:29.039 We cannot do that because there's obviously a difference when the apostle Paul says the day of our Lord Jesus Christ versus the day of the Lord, and we're gonna see the Apostle Paul mentions the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 00:42:29.199 --> 00:42:31.199 What does he mean when he says that? 00:42:31.599 --> 00:42:36.559 What does he mean when he says the day of the Lord, which we say a lot in the Old Testament? 00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:56.960 There is a distinct difference, ladies and gentlemen, and it's important that we understand this as we're studying these epistles of the Apostle Paul, because this might clear up a lot of questions you guys have had on a subject that we're going to talk about in the next video that not many people address, but we're going to address it. 00:42:57.199 --> 00:43:00.639 Uh, in the meantime, God bless y'all, peace and blessings. 00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:02.800 I'm Evangelist Toby Doubt it. 00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:03.840 I'm out.