Complete Word Study New Testament

Okay, so we're looking at Philippians 4, 6 through 9 here today. And of course with this complete work study of the New Testament, our tools are, they're working with King James, which sometimes is fine, in some cases a little head-scratchy. What's that? I see a book. Oh, certainly. We've got And then the dictionary. Here. Here.

And so the key there is if you're using the books as opposed to the software, if you're using the books, the key there is that the things that are in the dictionary in the back of the main New Testament book that it's in bold numbers. The definition is given in bold numbers and if it's not bolded that means you have to look it up in this separate dictionary. The definition that's given if it's bolded Strong's Numbers. The definition is given in the back of the Complete Word Study New Testament. In other words, you can look it up right in the back of that book. If you find it's not bolded, and some aren't, the Strong's Number is not bolded, then it will be something you'll have to look up in the larger, separate, complete word study dictionary. It's like most of them are bolded, right? Many of them are. Many of them are. And they've done that on purpose in order to give you something small and concise.

I tend to like the separate book myself. Separate dictionary. Yeah, and it's also larger print. Yeah. So my older eyes like that better. So in other words, when you see something in the, what's it called? in this part, the lexicon part, whatever it is, you can look it up either in the back of this Or you can go straight to the dictionary. So that's the reason why some are bolded and some are not. Just to let you know. So you're not looking in the back of the dictionary only to find out that it's not there. So this is a what's your preference kind of thing.

A lot of people for use at church in order to keep from carrying two books around will simply stay with this. to be able to look things up quickly and figure something else I can look up later or something. But it gives you kind of the most for the amount that you're carrying because they are two large books. Donna, who tuck her head in here just briefly to make a copy. She's been using this for the last 15 years since we first taught it, because she can carry around this New Testament and use it as a study tool while she's, you know, without having learned Greek, you've got quite a bit of information there.

So anyway, so this is a key. So what I recommended last week, and I'll recommend again because we've got some different folks here. In the back of the New Testament, What I recommend to you is that you use these sticky tabs that you can get at an office place. Use the sticky tabs to find the thing quickly. Because it's not, otherwise you're sitting there trying to find the beginning of it and the end of it. And you can put in sticky tabs, you can put in labels, you know, as to what's what.

And it makes it a much more efficient, usable kind of thing. And so anyway, I'd recommend that. You just buy them in a package? Yeah, they're cheap, they're easily available, you go to Office Depot, Office Max, you might even find them at Walmart. But those little plastic tabs are real handy, and then you find, you know, you get used to it, then you can use this thing real efficiently. You can say, oh it's bolded, I don't have this thing with me, or it's bolded and I have, you know, this with me, so I can look it up in the back and I can find it real quick. And so you can get, so you can look things up pretty quickly. So anyway, that's another step that I would recommend. So you can go and look things up, and again, it's helpful to be looking at, say, the numbers and ask some good questions.

In verse 7, for example, it says, and the peace of God, right? And then in the end of verse 9, it says, and then the God of peace. Is it the same word for God and is it the same word for peace? Between those two locations. Is peace of God the same combination of words as God of peace?

The same numbers. It's the same numbers, right? So that tells you it's the same word. So look for patterns like that, because we also saw places in previous weeks where you get the same word and it's different. Same word in English, but it's a different word. So those are things to observe. And even without, you just look at the number, you can tell, have I got the same thing or something different?

And it turns out this word for peace is where we get our English woman's name, Irene. So it's the source of the name. And the word God is the same. And something that's interesting is that the peace of God, is it the peace of God in no article or is there an article there in verse 7? There is an article there.

So it's actually the peace of the God. And, if you look down at the bottom, the God of Peace, is there an article there? Not in front of God, but in front of Peace. Well, but what you see is there is an English The God, and then ART over the top. So there is an article in the Greek. And then Peace, what do you see? There's ART in front of it, even though the English doesn't show it.

So the fact is that both places have THE peace of THE God or THE God of THE peace. So he's real specific about that which doesn't come across in English. I wonder why they put THE peace and THE God but they didn't put THE God. I wonder why they put the article in front of one.

And that's one thing to look for, because the English translators are going to do what? They're going to smooth it out, make for smooth English, but you lose the sense of the Greek, and there are places I've seen where the Apostle Paul starts putting articles in front of everything, you know, and he's being emphatic. There is about this specific thing. So, it's something you can easily look for using this complete word study of the New Testament. And you can find out, okay, is there an article there and they dropped it out?

As we mentioned previously, the book of Ephesians has THE Christ, which means THE Messiah, 23 times. And I have yet to find a major translation that brings it out. So we'll be taking a closer look at the book of Ephesians, because there are some fascinating patterns in it. But THE Messiah goes all the way from chapter 1, verse 10, into the middle of chapter 6. 23 times in Ephesians, and you never see it in a major translation. But it's THE Christ, it's THE Messiah. It raises the question about why there is so much emphasis on the Messiah in Ephesians. I know, but we will go through that and we will see why. Because there are multiple definite reasons why it is there.

So let's take a look here. How about this in the King James, it says, be careful for nothing. Does that mean you have a command to be careless? Oh, I can be careless now. Or what does that convey? In the New American Standards, we see above, it says, anxious for nothing.

So how would you go about looking that up? How would you go about, would you look at 3309, would you look it up in the back of your smaller dictionary there? You go to the larger one because it's not bolded, right? So you go to the larger one, which you could do. You have dictionaries to look at. So look up 3309 in your dictionary. One of the advantages of having a smaller number in a group. So you look it up, 3309.

So what you have there, if you look 3309, what do you see is the definition that's right in front of where it says Philippians 4.6? No, it's the definition right before that. It's right before where it's listed, so it's Philippians 4, but he's in absolute sense, just totally locked in on being anxious. So it's a fairly intense word, right? Does Paul say, you know, don't be anxious very often, don't be anxious for these things, but you can be anxious about this other list of things.

How does he qualify that? Be anxious for nothing? Absolutely nothing. So he's saying no allowance for anxiety. Wow, that's pretty strong. So you have nothing, which is an extreme statement, isn't it? It's not shades of grey, or percentages, or he doesn't give a list of things you can you know, stop worrying about, but in everything. So now you have another extreme statement. He ages for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. You see that? So he's actually speaking in extremes about this.

You go to the dictionary and you look for the passage or the verse You look for the passage and what are... That's the one you read, that's the definition. Yes, and the definition ahead of it. It's the one ahead of it, not the one behind it. Yeah. Right? It's the one in front of the comma. So basically, both nothing and everything are all inclusive. Yeah, they're completely extreme. Right?

He doesn't say, you know, don't be anxious very often. Or don't be anxious for very much. You know, try not to be anxious. He makes an absolute statement. Anxious for nothing and everything. So he makes two absolute statements. Anxious for absolutely nothing and in everything. And then how does he say to handle it?

Prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. And of course you could look those up as well, right? So then on prayer it says answer. It says article, so by the prayer and the supplication. And how about Thanksgiving? Oh, no article. None. So his focus is on specifically the prayer, the supplication with Thanksgiving. And then he says the request. Yeah, isn't that something? Yeah, let the requests of you. It's awkward English, but let the requests of you is really what the Greek is saying. Be made known unto. Be made known unto thee God.

So isn't that interesting? So when you start looking at this, this very quickly starts telling you some things about what he's emphasizing that the English just drops out. In order to make it smooth, right? And so when I was going through Greek translation, that's one of the things I aimed at. I said, I want understanding. I don't care about smooth. Yeah. That's why I like when you teach, you say, sometimes you say, this is the Greek, this is the way that I translate it. And you're using all of them.

So what is the difference between prayer and supplication and THE prayer? Now that's very, and why does he have THE prayer and THE supplication and not Thanksgiving? So when you lit, and what's the difference between prayer and supplication? Could you look that up? You could and it's bolded in both cases, and Thanksgiving is bolded. And so let's take a look at prayer, 4335.

And next week is our last time in this room and we're going back with the other group. That's when we'll start on the Greek Old Testament. Okay, so this is a word here that is actually used pretty commonly in the New Testament, and even some in the Old Testament. They'll have it, this S-E-P-T period is Septuagint, that's the Greek Old Testament, so actually give references to the Greek Old Testament in this dictionary as well.

But this particular one, Philippians 4.6, Generally and in an absolute sense. So generally and in an absolute sense.

So prayer is meant either generally or in an absolute sense. I've always heard there's a difference between prayer and supplication and what you're praying for. Okay, well this is literally prayer of God and let's ask for supplication because it's 1162 and we'll see if there is a difference. They don't just say prayer and prayer, right? No. 1162. 1162. Alright, so prayer is a general term, right? It's a general term. for anything said to God, right?

And supplication, how is that different or more specific? It's more specific like in, say you're going in for a surgical procedure or something like that, but it's specifically for that particular time or person or incident or occurrence. So there's that part because it's desupplication, right?

But it's also a specific request. Lord, we pray that this would be a successful surgery. Lord, we pray that you would give the doctor's wisdom. So you're making specific requests with supplication. Prayer might be a general thing. Maybe even tell the Lord how you feel about something. Lord, I'm really concerned about this, or I'm really joyous about this, or whatever it is, right? But then the supplication is specific requests.

So you have prayer and supplication, and then he says, with thanksgiving. So you have the general statement of prayer, you have specific requests, and then you have thanksgiving. Now, why is thanksgiving important in the midst of dealing with anxiety? You have general prayer, you've told God, I would like this outcome, I would like this result, and why is thanksgiving important for dealing with anxiety as an alternative to anxiety.

Does it sort of punctuate the way that you believe? Right. So when I have Thanksgiving, what am I doing? You're usually joyful. Okay. And you're thanking God for what he did. For what he did, what you have. And the outcome and things. always talk out loud when you say your prayers, but it's verbalizing to God and taking that out of your worry. Okay.

Worry section. Now let's think about worry, because what happens with worry? What percentage of things that we worry about actually happen? A small percentage. A small percentage actually happens. Some people will say jokingly that, see it works. Right?

I worry about it, but usually it doesn't happen. So the tendency is to look at risks and deficiencies with anxiety, you know? And so you're looking at risks, you're looking at deficiencies with anxiety. With thanksgiving, you're looking for what he's already done and for what you already have. Right?

So it's a different focus. Instead of focusing on the risk and the deficiency, I'm focusing on what God has done and what I already have. So you go back to things that you know about in scripture about God and you don't, okay, so you don't focus on this thing that you're worried about. Instead you're saying, okay now, I'm not going to thank you for anything that has to do with that. I'm going to thank you for your faithfulness and your omnipotence and whatever.

Let's say a medical situation. Lord, thank you that we're able to get him to the hospital. Thank you that we've got doctors here. Thank you that we can bring this thing before you. Thank you that it wasn't just fatal. That's kind of the idea. You're looking at thanking the Lord for what he's done, and for what you have, and the mercies he's already shown, and the grace he's already shown. And then you can move the next step and say, specifically, We're here, God is here, and then specifically give the doctors wisdom as they decide to do this or that. That's right. So you've got steps to that.

I learned an acronym a long time ago. ACTS. Acknowledge, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication. Right, and that's a good acronym just to think of the different spectrums of prayer. I don't think you have to pray in any order, it's just that in that order you've got a little acronym. And to think of it, if I'm anxious, then I'm not focused on the things for which I should be thankful. I'm focused on the things that are risks that are out there, at least perceived risks that are out there, and I'm focused on deficiencies.

Well, I focus on that a lot. So this Thanksgiving focuses instead, in what ways has God already shown grace and mercy? In what ways has He already acted? And in what ways can we thank Him for what we already have? So instead of focusing on risks and deficiencies, you're focusing on the ways that God has already been gracious. I look back over my life and I should have been dead several times over. So the Lord has been very merciful and gracious to me.

So we see in here, be careful for nothing, is that advice or is it given as an imperative? When you see the I am in the grammar code, it's an imperative. So you must be careful. Now, is that a law so that if you break it, it's time to pick up the rocks? Uh oh, I was anxious. My wife's got to kill me now.

So what does that imperative mean? For Christian believers, what motivates an imperative? I'm talking about the very first grammar code over careful. The very first grammar code is a present imperative. Careful always throws me off. I like anxious. Do you get anxious about hearing that word careful? I do. It doesn't fit in the spot. What was your question?

What is to motivate a Christian believer's imperatives? God's faithfulness? Knowing God? Think about it. If I'm a legal kind of Christian, I'm going to start condemning myself because I got anxious. Is that what God wants? No. Paul writes to the believers at Ephesus and writes to them for four and a half chapters before he gives them anything to do. Why? He's talking about all the things that Christ has done for us and given us. Yeah, blessings in Christ are just, you know, here's what he has done, here's what he is doing. All those things are the focus first and then he tells them what to do.

Here's an example in Ephesians 4.32.

It says, Forgive one another, imperative, as God in Christ has forgiven you. So, I forgive not in order to be forgiven. That's a law-driven imperative. I forgive because I'm forgiving. That's a grace-motivated imperative. You can put in parenthesis, refer back to chapters 1-3. So if you look at it, it's a grace-motivated imperative, and he's talked a lot about grace, the overthrown, the surpassing riches of his grace.

But it's like, He knows there are times that you're going to be anxious because we're human and we're not dead. But this is what you do with it. You have anxiety. This is how you take care of it. Acknowledge him but move him over. A very important distinction because is it possible that we say, oh, I'm anxious, and then we beat ourselves up.

No, no. I mean, yes, we could. It could. Is he encouraging that? No. No, he's not at all. As a matter of fact, if you're anxious, does he say, well, you've got about a 60 minute waiting period until you can start praying? Oh, I've been bad, and so I've got to pay for it and do penance, and then I can... Is that the way it's got to work? Carry it over. Yeah.

Immediately, at any moment, because notice these are present tenses, at any moment we can say, oh, I'm anxious, instead of going, oh, I'm anxious, bad, bad, bad, bad, burden, right? Instead, at any moment, because these are present tenses, I can go, oh, I'm anxious, that's the signal to start praying. And to take this to the Lord and let God handle it, and go to prayer instead of anxiety, and go to specific requests that you have, along with thanksgiving, which recognizes what God's already done, how He's already been merciful and gracious, and having that perspective occupy me instead of, oh, I'm worried about the risks and the deficiencies. One of the things that I learned is not only that, but one of the first things that comes into my mind sometimes now is, you don't have to be anxious. You're actually free from this. You don't have to do this.

You have another alternative. Which, if I didn't have scripture, I wouldn't even know that. First of all, I have another alternative. Do you see what I'm saying? Yes. I don't know, there's something about my personality that says, this is the right thing to do, be anxious. Yeah, and it's easy for people to fall into that. So it's important to see that anxiety is not the time for me to just continue in it. Anxiety is not the place for me to turn around, oh, I'm bad, I did it, and condemnation.

Anxiety should be the signal, oh, I need to go to the Lord in prayer about this, with specific requests, and Thanksgiving. And so this gives us a rounded prayer diet, if you will. So that we're not just, okay, I'm always just making requests and making requests and making requests and making requests, right? That, as she used the acronym, which is a good place to start, it's not just S. You know, it's acts, not just S, right? So this is key. So let your requests, which goes along with supplications, specific requests, right? be made known to God.

The way that in 3309 it defines it, and then it refers you back to 3308 where it says from So it kind of refers down the line there in the book. Okay, which number are you looking at? I'm looking at 3309. Okay, the first one. For anxiety. Right? Right. So it backtracks you through the process there. Okay.

In the peace of God which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Now this word translated keep, let's look that up and that's in the larger dictionary. Let's look up that word keep. 5 4 3 2 Keep 5 4 3 2. Do guard keep with a military guard? Isn't that interesting?

So in a literal sense, it's setting a military guard over your hearts and minds. So he actually uses a military term here for setting a military guard over your hearts and minds. And by the way, why would he use a military term? Philippians was written to Philippi which was a Roman colony and had a very high percentage of Roman soldiers either active or retired.

And Paul had a lot of contact with them. Yes. This was also one of the more mature churches. They have been the first one established about 11 years after the church was established. So the believers there have been around and at the very beginning they had elders and deacons. It actually addresses them, which he actually rarely does. So what you see here is Paul is speaking in terms that they would understand.

So using this military term, a guard over your hearts and minds. Why does your heart and why does your mind need a guard? Yeah, and in this particular case, anxiety is an invasion, right? It's a spiritual invasion. That's why you need a guard. Anxiety is pictured then as a spiritual invasion into what ought to be the case.

And so as you pray and give God-specific requests along with thanksgiving, The peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Why does he mention, which surpasses all comprehension? Passeth all understanding in the King James. Why does he say that?

In other words, under the circumstances, anybody else would be frantic, freaked out. I remember one time I was taking a business trip. I was coming back from a conference. I was going from Palm Springs in Southern California to San Francisco. It was during a very stormy night and it was a an airline plane but small one, propellers. And the storm was ferocious. It was extremely windy. We were bouncing all over the place and just about everybody in the plane was screaming. It was that turbulent. People were really fearful.

And the gal sitting to my right, whom I had just been talking to, because she was also at the same conference, She looked around and everybody's screaming and I'm just calm as can be. And she says, why aren't you screaming? And then I had a chance to tell her, you know, about the Lord. I said, you know, all my screaming doesn't do anything to make this a safer or, you know, more damaging flight. It doesn't impact anything.

And so, you know, the Lord knows what He's doing. And probably if something bad happens, it's going to be fatal. And so I'm either going to be safe or I'm going home tonight. You know? So, you know, I'm good. I'm missing something here somehow. On the word keep that we just looked at, it says 5432, which is in the back here. So what triggered us to go over to this book? Okay, it's in the back in this one. I don't recommend using this. You need to go to here. But it's not in there and that's where you need to go to here. So it's better to go straight to the dictionary? Yeah.

So she only had one book in the dictionary for me to learn to have. Well, you need the numbers, though. Well, you need to start with that, and then if you have one other book, the dictionary. I just wanted to tell you what the number is. Yeah, you have to have that tell you what the number is. Oh, I see. You already have it. If you go straight to this with the number, this is the dictionary with the bigger print. It's got all of them.

And that's what I typically do if I have it. Actually, I keep giving these things away to somebody and then don't have one. Because I have other references that I use. But for this one, that dictionary that's in the back that you were looking at is more general. And it's a bunch of small print. Whereas this one here that I'm suggesting you use, It has a larger print and it gives more specific to the context definitions. So then...

Now what's the difference between the hearts and the minds? I've always had that question, so I've always started looking at that. And it's the hearts of you and the minds of you. You see that? And in the English they've got both definite articles out, but in the Greek they are there. The hearts and the minds of you. I don't stand very well, so where's Philippians? Do you see it? Well, it does say that the heart is the seat and center of human life. I can't find Philippians. You have to scan all these references. Yeah, and once in a while you'll find that there are so many that they don't include them all and may not include your context. And for those you may have to do a little more digging.

But is that a good definition? Yeah, and let's think about the minds, let's look at that word, 3540, and it is both in the larger dictionary as well as the back of your book, the main New Testament book. How about minds, what is that? 3540. So it's shall guard, shall set a guard over the hearts and the minds of you through Christ Jesus.

So there is a distinction in that the heart includes more things than specifically the mind that has to do with thinking and understanding. So how would you, would you say the heart has more of a general? The heart includes other things. For example, we talk about the heart having mind, emotions, and willing, right?

So, because, let's ask this question. Is anxiety something of a willing? Does it take a willingness to have anxiety? Does it take an act of will? I don't have to think about it, it just happens. Well yeah, a lot of times we may not be conscious of it, but the reason he puts these things at odds with one another is because, don't do this but do this, is that it is an act of will, whether we're conscious of the decision or not. But that means you can use your will to make it go away.

That's right, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, that is an act of will. And so, if I'm anxious, what am I going to do? I'm going to deliberately, as an act of will, switch over to prayer mode, where I'm talking to the Lord about it, making specific requests, thanking Him for what He's already done, for the grace and mercy He's already shown, and put my requests before God, instead of constantly mulling over the risks and deficiencies.

Oh, yeah, the loop, the anxiety loop, and that, whoop, wait a minute, I'm in this anxiety loop, it's time to go to prayer, which is a decision. And you sometimes have to, if it's okay for a while, then sometimes you have to repeat it. Yeah, repeat rinse, right? So it is something you may have to go back to a number of times on an issue. gravitating, if I'm not conscious of it, I keep gravitating towards this anxiety thing.

But as a definite act of will, I now understand, oh, I can go to prayer with the Lord about this, I can make specific requests, I can be thankful for what the Lord's already done, and the mercy and grace He's already shown, and be thankful for the things that I already have. You can do things from the mind, like say, forgive somebody, I forgive you for this, but in your heart, you know that it came out of your mouth, but it didn't come from your heart. I know that this is what I should do, so I will, but I don't have that feeling in my heart, so you have to get through that, because they are separate. You can have it out of your mouth, but not out of your heart.

Let's take a look at verse 8. Finally brethren, whatsoever things are true, Whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, If there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things. Now, let's read the New American Standard and notice some of the differences. Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence or anything, if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. So let's ask a few questions.

Is it are plural for the complete Word of the Son of the New Testament, King James, or is it singular? Whatever is true, whatever is, is it singular or plural? Do we know? It seems like it should be plural because the word before it is plural. Yeah, so one of the things we determine here is that the King James is actually more accurate as the plurals and singulars on this verse.

So the whatsoever things is actually a better rendering in this instance than the singular of the New American Standard. Okay, so there's one thing to look at. And then another thing to look at, what do you notice in the Complete Word Study New Testament about the R's? A-R-E.

They're in what kind of font? Italics. Italics, which means that... It's inserted. It's not there. It's inserted. And so as you inspect this thing, the first R, what sort of things aren't true, is present, and the rest of them are absent. Absent. Okay? So here's the way it comes across in the Greek. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever honorable, whatsoever right, whatsoever pure.

And so what you see there is he's got an intentional pause. So it's getting you ready to listen to the next thing. And so he's using what's called ellipsis, where you drop out a word in order to make a dramatic pause so you'll pay attention to the next one.

How come things isn't in italics? Because it's one word in the Greek. Things are is one word. Whatsoever things, and then are is only there in the first case. Right? So, but whatsoever things is one word in the Greek. Oh, whatsoever things is one word. Yes, whatsoever things is one word. And so, finally brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever honorable, whatsoever right, whatsoever pure, and whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good repute, if there is any excellence or anything worthy of praise, figure upon these things and draw a logical conclusion.

Now, you may have heard For example, Romans 611. That's the one translated reckon or consider. Same word here. It's translated think. It's an accounting term. It's an accounting term and it means to calculate it out and add it up. Figure it out. And so this is not, as the numeric standard says, dwell on these things. That's not what it means. What it means is draw a logical conclusion. Figure it out. What do these things mean?

So figure it out, not just sit there and mull it and mull it and mull it and mull it over your head. Draw a logical conclusion from it. That's the one thing about the scripture that I also learned from listening to Cliff is he talks about how everything is logical. It's laid out. It's given to you so you can think about it. And you can think about it logically, very fast. I never read anybody present the Bibles like that. People teach it as a... I don't know, they use a Gnostic or the... I don't know.

And that really made me kind of go... And then you see it. Yeah, it's everywhere. Scripture makes sense and there's a system to it and there's reasons why things are the way they are. We're going to be discovering more and more things about how to logically put things together as we go through this elective. We've got one more week in here and then we're two weeks from now back in the other room, and we'll be going over three weeks the Greek Old Testament, giving examples of how you can look things up in the Greek Old Testament and draw some astounding conclusions from it. So, anyway, I do it often, and often find that, hey, this is amazing. This is great. Great stuff.

Paul starts off Blessed be the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ in Ephesians 1-3. Blessed be the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the Greek words that he uses right there, blessed be the God, right out of Genesis. It's the exact same Greek words in the Greek Old Testament.

And so you look at that, and then you look at the rest of chapter one, it's got a whole bunch of words right out of Daniel chapter 2. And there are reasons why Paul is choosing the specific words and word pictures that he is. And why he is using the Messiah and why he starts with verse 10. Ephesians 1 10.

And we'll take a look at that. We'll be looking at that as we go farther down the road here. This is really Wonderful stuff. So, we've run out of time, and there's still more good stuff in here, but we'll call that good enough for now. Next week we'll go to one more practice passage. The prior weeks are stacked up here. This is last week. We also have previous weeks if you want to grab any of those.

And so I'll pray and we'll call it a day. Lord, thank you for your word. Thank you for the wonderful, rich things that are there. We just give you thanks for that. And we pray, Lord, as we go forth from here, we just pray that your word might do its work in our hearts and minds. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.