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The church here at Phillipi as Paul is teaching and sharing with these churches.

The Church of Philip I was founded on his second missionary journey.

It was a source of real joy to him this church, why?

Because he saw what was going on, he saw the the right things that were happening in the church.

Hearing that Paul was a prisoner in Rome, the Church of Philippi, the Believers sent Special Love offerings to him.

Could have been food, could have been money, whatever it was, they were taking care of him.

In this letter he's thanking them for that.

He's writing to express his thanks and how he remembers them not just because they're sending stuff to him but Daly and his prayers.

He also wrote to share with them that their friend epaphroditus was going to be delayed and he was encouraging them to work together to bring unity in the church.

Because things were going on to church was being torn apart outside forces was trying to dig in and remove things and keep things from happening the way.

God wanted that, wanted it to happen.

That always happens.

The outside forces are striving even today to keep the church as we know it together to keep the church ministering to keep us going for.

Why?

Because we've heard it throughout history week, we heard it even recently in our own history and our own lives that yo ass Christians aren't needed anymore.

Play some states.

Don't even think we ought to be around, you know, that might been exact not the exact words, but that's what they're saying.

We don't need this Chrissy and we don't need this direction.

We want to go our own ways and live, our own lives and do our own things.

We don't need God.

God was trying to be kicked out of Philippine and all the other churches ever since in the back, Paul, the Apostle who was Saul of Tarsus who was once, persecuting Christians persecuting charges for that reason.

The people of the way, we don't need them, we don't want them sharing their faith or their belief systems, or their religion.

What does get rid of them?

So we can live, however, we want Saul of Tarsus on that Damascus Road.

Was blinded by God.

And on that road.

And because of the ministry of those that he had watch be persecuted Stone to death, they're praising their honor of God, in the midst of their trials and tribulations upon that road.

When he was blinded by God to the Lord, he knew who did it.

What would you have me to do?

And goddesses.

Here's what I have for you.

Saul of Tarsus.

You will have to suffer many things for my namesake, see God never promised us an easy path of Christian.

He never promises that this life is going to be a piece of cake.

He loves said, there's going to be trials.

He does say there's going to be tribulations, he does say there's going to be heartaches and hardships, but he tells us be of good cheer.

I have overcome the world.

Amen.

That's the God I serve.

Yes is heartaches?

Yes it is.

Hard to guess there's trials and tribulations but that's not it's because there's more to come.

You've heard that story.

The illustration of the lady who wanted to be buried with a fork in her hand.

You heard that one, right?

She wanted to be buried with a fork in her head.

Why?

Because the best is yet to come, Like, sitting down to dinner, you get rid of your fork, you might be in trouble because the pie the desert, The Best Is Yet To Come A man. Keep that for Keith that utensil, The Best Is Yet To Come, no matter what happens to us.

He never lets go of us.

Amen.

If you hear this morning you're a child of God, you can say that he doesn't let go of me.

I may want to let go of him and do my own thing.

That's when we get in trouble, a man.

Paula.

Seling hear you saying?

Listen to church, listen to people at Phillipi.

Here's what I want you to know the overriding theme of this letter is Jesus Christ in the ministry of the Gospel.

That's what Paul is Sherry, that's what he's teaching Jesus Christ, the ministry of the Gospel.

There's a lot of churches today who Jesus Christ is not even mentioned.

The gospel is not even shared it becomes a social thing.

It's, it's, it's the that signs of the times and where we are to talk about the issues that are out there.

You know, how that we all should should be able to to get our debts paid off college loans and debts paid off a man.

Yeah.

Not exactly.

But who's going to pay for that?

We all know, right?

It's good.

I mean I, hey, I got kids who have college loans a mess, but there's a price to be paid on the other end of all of this, right?

There's a price.

It has to be taken care of that.

Money is just not there.

Somebody had to put it there.

I guarantee you.

What is just like your own bank account.

You're looking at it.

When it's getting low, get low get low.

What do you want to do?

You want to build a man who you might want to do something someday?

If I don't have enough money to do it, going to accomplish it, that's a whole nother.

So that's where the world is not the gospel.

Not Jesus Christ policy.

Hey, the theme of this letter is Jesus Christ.

The ministry of the Gospel Christ is the message of the ministry.

That's what he tells us in 1:21.

What does he say for me to live is Christ to die is gain.

Can you say that this morning for me to live is Christ?

I'm going to do what Christ wants me to do.

That's my life.

And if I die I gain.

How about you this morning is for me to live family?

Not saying family is not important, family is important but it is for you to live family.

It is for you to live finances.

It is you for you to live to have fun and and happiness all your life.

Well, when all that's done, what do you have?

For me to live is Christ.

The die is gain will talk about that.

A little further in the message this morning and chapter 2, we see that Paul is sharing that not only is the price of message in chapter 1 chapter 2.

He tells us that Christ is the model in chapter 3 talks about Christ being the motive and chapter 40 talks about Christ being the means, The means the theme that we find that overrides, this whole writing of Paul is joy.

The joy of the Lord is my strength.

A man, can you say that this morning, Nehemiah said that Nehemiah 8:10 is just go your way, do whatever you want to do, but the joy of the Lord is my strength.