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Philippians chapter one, let us pray.
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Oh Heavenly Father, our Lord and our God, our King, our
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everything, Father, we love you. Father we come in.
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Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ today.
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Lord, I plead the blood today. God, I placed the blood upon the
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lentil of the door today. God Almighty, we thank you for
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salvation. We thank you that you passed
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over us. God, we thank you that you have
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taken us from death into life. We thank you, God, that you have
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opened our eyes and our ears and give us the mind of Christ and
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we have awoken to the spiritual realm all around us.
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God, the angels all around us. Father, we pray in the name of
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Jesus for a hedge of protection, God Almighty.
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We pray for the shield and the sword, God.
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We pray for the helmet and the shoes, God, We pray for the belt
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in the breastplate. God, in the name of Jesus, I
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pray that we'll go out today in the boldness of Christ.
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God, in the victory of Christ, God, we thank you, Lord, that we
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are yours and we are called by your name.
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Father, we thank you, Lord, that you're fighting our battles for
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us. God, we thank you that we are
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fighting from victory and not for victory.
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God, we know that you win. God, we know that you have one.
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We know, Father, that you hold the keys to our eternal
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salvation. Lord, we thank you, God, for the
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forgiveness of sins. We thank you, God, that we could
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be made right with you and that one with you.
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God Almighty, we thank you that we can be holy because you are
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holy. We thank you for the
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righteousness that we're clothed with.
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Father, we thank you, God, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
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We thank you for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, Father,
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filling us from the bottom of our feet to the tops of our
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heads. Lord Almighty Jesus, this
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Christ, Holy Spirit, come and get your glory.
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Father, we lay down. Father, at your feet.
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We worship you in spirit and truth.
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God, we give you all honor and all glory.
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God, we give you all of our lives, every single moment of
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every single day. Sold out lay down lovers of
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Yahweh Yeshua, we love you with all of our heart, with all of
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our mind, with all of our strength.
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God help us to love our neighbors as ourselves.
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God, help us to forgive those who have wronged us and
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trespassed against us and sinned against us.
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God, in the mighty name of Jesus, keep us from the accuser
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of the brethren. Father, I pray you'll deliver us
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from our adversary. Father, I pray for daily bread
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today. God, give us manna.
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Give us water from the rock. God, let us eat and feast
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sumptuously upon the flesh of Christ.
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God let us drink the blood of Christ today as we remember what
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He did for us 2000 years ago, Father.
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We remember the sacrifice of Christ.
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We remember what He did, God, as He was beaten and stricken and
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bruised and crushed for our salvation, for our saving, for
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our being marked by the Holy Spirit being indwelled and as a
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down payment. Father, we pray in the name of
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Jesus today that we can come into the holiest of holy places,
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God, and we can see you today, face to face.
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Christ, eyes like fire and hair like wool, the voice of the many
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multitudes. God, we love you.
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We love you with everything in US.
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God, come and fill us and come and teach us.
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Holy Spirit, I decrease as you increase.
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It's all about King Jesus. We love you.
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He is the Savior of the world. He's the King of kings and the
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Lord of Lords. He is the bread of life.
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He is holy and righteous. He is our everything.
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So Lord Father, God Almighty, Holy Spirit, Yeshua Messiah,
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come and get your glory today. Let us be marked with your
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goodness and grace and joy and love and mercy as we go out into
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the highways and the hedges, as we go out into the byways, as we
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go out into the streets, into the cities, as we go out into
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the villages. Father, I pray that you'll go
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with us. You'll be our rear guard, You'll
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be our right guard. You'll be our front guard and
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our left guard. God encompass us with your
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glory, for you are righteous, You're a holy, You are pure, you
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are good. We get out of our own way today.
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We give you center stage. Hide me, hide my words and hide
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my thoughts. And God you say whatever it is
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that you want to say. Worthy is the Lamb there was
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slain. There was only one found.
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Worthy to open the scroll. Yeshua, we love you, Father,
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this in Jesus Christ, holy and precious name that we pray,
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Amen. Let's start in verse one, Paul
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and Timothy, the servants of Jesus Christ to all the Saints
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in Christ Jesus, which are at Philippi with the bishops and
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deacons. So here Paul is wanting us to
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know that the church in Philippi is thriving.
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This was the same place where Paul and Silas were thrown into
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jail for casting out the demon from the little slave girl.
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And the masters were upset because they had lost their
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financial gain from what this little girl was prophesying.
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And she realized and was telling everyone who Paul represented
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which was Christ. And it annoyed Paul to the point
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where he told the demonic spirit to leave.
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And then the little girl lost her power to foretell.
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And so all the people who were getting their financial gain off
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of this, which they were upset and threw them into jail.
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And then it was through a divine encounter that the earthquake
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came, and Paul had his shackles and bonds fallen off of him, him
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and Silas. And they were singing at
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midnight. And the jailer went to kill
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himself. And they said, no, we are all
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here. And he said, what must I do to
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be saved? And him and his family, him and
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his household were saved that very night.
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And then the magistrates were afraid because they found out
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Paul was a Roman citizen and they had imprisoned him, they
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had put him and arrested him without finding that out prior.
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And he had special privileges as a Roman citizen that they had
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violated and legally they were accountable for.
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And Paul in his boldness said, no, you must come, don't just
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send me word to leave. You must come and do it
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yourself. And he was free before he left
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that place to go and encourage this early church as he got it
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established. And Lydia was there, the seller
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of the purple, and it was all a beautiful, wonderful outworking
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of God Almighty upon that land. And here you can see as God
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established that church using Paul, you can see that it is
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thriving. And you're going to go through
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the entire book of the Philippians and you're not going
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to see the word sin appear one time, not even once.
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The sin appear as something that Paul has to doctrinally try to
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talk about and remove from them. They were thriving in this land
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at this time and you can see it all working out here and Paul is
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wanting to encourage this church that is thriving here in
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Philippi. Let's see how it goes.
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And you can see also that the deacons and the bishops have
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been established, and Christ said we're two or more gathered.
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There He is also. So you can see that they are
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established and they are thriving.
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Verse 2, Grace be unto you, and peace from God our Father and
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from the Lord Jesus Christ. So you can see this grace and
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this joy and it is springing up and you're going to see it
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recurring over and over and over.
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And it has been well said that the book of Philippians is a
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cure to depression. If you're suffering from
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depression, read a section of Philippians a Day until it
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leaves you it. This is the encouraging book of
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the Bible. You can see that as you get into
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it. It's nothing but encouragement
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from God Almighty to the believer for today.
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This is relevant for us today. Read a section of it and you
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will be encouraged. Grace you see it and peace you
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see it all throughout this letter.
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Three, I thank my God upon every remembrance of you for always in
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every prayer of mine, for you all making requests with joy. 5
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for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until
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now. So look at how this thankfulness
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and this prayerfulness, these requestings, this joy, this
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fellowship for the good news and being confident.
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Verse 6 of this very thing that he which began a good work in
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you will perform it until the day of Christ Jesus.
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So we will be perfected when we receive our immortal bodies.
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Friends, when we finally give up the ghost, or until we are
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called into the clouds to meet Him in the air, we will receive
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an immortal body. And we will not just be spirits.
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Friends, we will have a physical body that will be immortal, and
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it will be as Christ was when he was resurrected.
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Friends and humanity entered into heaven, and he is waiting
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for the perfect time for the last number of the Saints to
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come into the fold. And He knows exactly how many
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will be there, and He knows the perfect timing.
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And we must trust His ways. His ways are not our ways, and
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His thoughts are not our thoughts.
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They're much higher than ours, just as the clouds are above us,
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friends. And we do not need to try to
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plague God. We do not need to try to pretend
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as if we can know everything. All we need to know is Christ
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and Christ crucified, and that is sufficient for the day.
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You need to know that you are blood bought and born again and
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that you're going to bust heaven wide open with your blessings,
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assurance because of what Christ did and nothing that we do.
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All that we have ever done that is profitable is put our
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complete faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And that is how we can know where we're going to spend
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eternity. And we can know that we're
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indwelled with the Holy Spirit. And we can know that when we
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breathe our last or whenever the trumpet sounds, there we will be
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with Him in paradise forevermore.
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And there are a lot of things that he leaves out on purpose.
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He doesn't spell it out to the last letter, and he does that on
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purpose, because if he did, there would not be a single
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human being on planet earth who would not come to Him and be.
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But he does not want the false allegiance.
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God wants those who choose Him willfully out of their freedom,
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out of their free will. Friends, you need to know that
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about God. He could cause every man, woman
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and child today to fall down, and He will when he rinse the
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heavens and his face looks upon the earth and people try to hide
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because of the glory of God. But for us who are regenerated,
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who have been born again, and for those who are predestined
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and called and chosen before the foundations of the earth, it is
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nothing but glory. It is nothing but joy.
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It is nothing but a complete fullness.
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And we wait longingly. We know that we were created to
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live forever. We know that we were created for
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Him and through Him and by Him and to Him.
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And we wait expectantly. We wait patiently, but God help
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us to wait well in the middle. 7 even as it is meat for me to
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think this of you all, because I have you in my heart in as much
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as both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the
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gospel, that you are partakers of my grace.
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So the same grace that was extended to Paul is extended to
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us. And Paul was making prayers and
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supplications and remembrance of all of the Christians there in
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Philippi. And I want you to know, friends,
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that the gates of hell will not prevail against the church.
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The Church will stand the test of time from now until the
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glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ. 8 For God is my
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record. How greatly I long after you all
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in the bowels of Jesus Christ. Are you in Christ today?
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It is not enough just to know Him, but you must be known by
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Him. Just as Noah had to get into the
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boat, we must get into Christ, friends, and that is how we get
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covered in the blood of Jesus Christ.
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And we will be passed over when the destruction and the Angel of
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death comes, Friends 9 And this I pray that your love may abound
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yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment.
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Whenever we have the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, we can give
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sound judgment. Friends, we are able to have the
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mind of Christ, and it is the love that covers the multitude
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of sins. 10 that you may approve things that are excellent, that
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you may be sincere and without offense until the day of Christ.
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We do not need to be offended. We need to develop an
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unoffendable spirit, friends, and we can approve the things
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which are excellent. We need to set our minds on
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things that are above. We need to set our minds that
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are pure and holy and that are righteous and true and pure.
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We don't need to be degraded and to be debased into thinking
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about all of the sinful behavior of the world.
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Lost people are going to do what lost people do.
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Friends 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which
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are by Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God.
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We need to have the fruits of the Spirit, friends, love and
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joy and peace and patience and self-control, goodness and
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gentleness, kindness and faithfulness.
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We need to have these fruits of the Spirit, friends, and that is
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a marker of who belongs to Him. We can see it being brought out
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in the hard times, in the days of persecution.
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We can see it, friends, whenever we have money or we don't have
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money, whether we have health or we don't have health.
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You can have the fruits of the Spirit no matter your class,
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creed, no matter your status or wealth, no matter who you are or
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what background you come from, friends, you can have this
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abounding fruits of the Spirit. 12 But I would you should
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understand, brothers, that the things which happened unto me
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have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel.
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Paul could see that his imprisonment was for their good.
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He could see that he actually had time that God had sat him
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down and said write some letters.
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And those letters were divinely inspired.
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And we are eternally blessed by the Spirit of God working
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through the pen of Paul during these prison letters that he
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wrote. And now we can be encouraged for
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all time's sake and in heaven and earth shall pass away.
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But not one of his words, friends.
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And how amazing is it to be a conduit of the Holy Spirit, as
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He is divinely inspiring these eternal words, friends, the
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breath of God, for us to have, and to house, and to hold and to
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hide, and our hearts. 13 so that my bonds in Christ are manifest
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in all the palace and in all other places.
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So Paul understood that these guards that were chained to him,
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they were a. They were a captured audience,
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friends, and Paul could sit and minister to them and to all
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those in the palace garden, all those in the jails.
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And Paul understood that this was the plan of God.
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And how amazing is it when we can give up our lives, our
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passions, our desires, our hobbies, our wants for Christ
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Jesus and say, Lord, I'll go anywhere, I'll do anything, I'll
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be a fool for you, Christ, anywhere you lead me, you tell
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me where to go and I can drop everything and go.
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And how amazing it is and how blessed it is for those that are
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Unchained, those that can go anywhere, those that have the
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ability and the freedom and the liberty to be able to go
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anywhere in the world at a moment's notice, friends.
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And here Paul understood that it was for our benefit that he was
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there being chained up so that he could sit and write these
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letters for us to have. 14 And many of the brothers in the Lord
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growing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the
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word without fear. That is our call, friends.
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And Paul understood that they could, the people there, the
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brothers, the Christians, they could look at Paul and they
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could say, well, Paul is in chains and he's speaking boldly
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and he cares not for his life to live as Christ, to die as gain.
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And Paul here is letting us know that we need to speak the truth
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in love without fear of losing our life, without fear of losing
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our livelihoods, without fear of losing our reputation, without
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fear of losing everything for Christ.
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Because if we get spilled out, if we lay down our lives, we
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will take up eternal life forevermore, which is far more
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blessed than anything we could ever have in this lifetime.
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Time, friends, we speak it boldly. 15 Some, indeed preach
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Christ even of envy and strife, and some also of goodwill. 16
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The one preaches Christ of contention, not sincerely
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supposing to add affliction to my bonds, 17 but the other out
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of love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel.
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18 What then, notwithstanding every way, whether in pretense
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or in truth, Christ is preached, and I therein do rejoice, yes,
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and will rejoice. Paul is saying, no matter how
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the gospel of Jesus Christ goes out, praise God that it's going
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out. And there are some that have the
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Hellfire and brimstone kind of preaching and it's scaring
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people into heaven instead of loving them into hell.
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And then there are those who patiently and lovingly and
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joyfully are servants and they are very humble and have
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humility. And Paul is saying no matter the
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approach, preach Christ and Christ crucified and praise be
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to God forever to be blessed, that there are people coming in
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on both sides of the coin. They are coming in because they
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are scared to go to hell. And then there are those that
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are coming in because they have the full assurance of all their
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sins being covered by the blood of Jesus Christ.
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But praise God, both are there with Him forevermore, and we
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will rejoice. 19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation
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through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus
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Christ. So Paul is saying here, keep
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praying. Don't stop praying even when we
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think that prayer is not accomplishing anything.
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Prayer unlocks things that we cannot even understand.
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Prayer dispatches the angelic host to fight on our behalf.
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As we see in Daniel chapter 10. We can see that prayer
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accomplishes much in the spiritual realm, even though it
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seems silly to us to waste our times with mutterings and
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utterings. Friends, we need to know that
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there is such a power that is unlocked through our prayer.
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We need to pray in the spirit. We need to pray at all times.
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We need to pray without ceasing. We need to make our prayers and
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supplications known unto God. And Paul here is showing us the
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power of prayer, and he's telling them that keep praying
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because it is supplying the spirit of Jesus Christ to him.
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Keep praying because it is the very prayers of these
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Philippians that will release Paul from the prison cell. 20
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According to my earnest expectation and my hope that in
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nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness as
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always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether
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it be by life or death. He's saying I will be released
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one way or the the other. And I want you to know, friend,
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whether you have a prison sentence coming, a court case
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that's coming, whether you have cancer or whether you have a
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disease that is eating and wasting away your body, you will
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be healed and delivered one way or the other.
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And that might seem like a cop out theology, friends, but it is
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true. And Paul understood it.
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To live is Christ, to die is gain.
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And we do not need to fear death, and we do not need to
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fear disease, and we do not need to fear failure, friends,
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because ultimately we belong to Jesus Christ, and the same power
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that raised him from the dead will raise us up on the last
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day, friends. 21 For to me to live as Christ and to die as
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gain. 22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my
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labor. Yet what I shall choose I know
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not. So he's saying it doesn't really
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matter to him. If he lives, he'll tell the
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whole world about Jesus Christ. But if he dies, he gets to go to
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be with Jesus Christ, which he finds to be much more superior.
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23 For I am in a straight between the two, having a desire
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to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.
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Can you say that today? St.
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Can you say that it is far better for you to leave this
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earth and to go to be with Christ?
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Or are you still trying to build your Kingdom here?
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Do you just want enough of Christ where you don't have to
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go to hell? Or is Christ your everything,
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and you yearn and your and you long to be in His presence?
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And is it not enough just to see Him in part, but you want to see
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Him in the full? Do not be afraid of passing over
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from this one, from this life to the next.
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Do not be afraid of those that can kill the body. 24
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Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
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So Paul is saying, for your sakes, I'll stick around. 25 And
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having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue
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with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith.
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So Paul understood that his being left on this earth was for
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the benefit of others. He had already figured it out.
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And I pray that that's your story.
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I pray that you know that you know that you know that you know
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that when you die, you're going to be there with him forever
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more. And once you have that eternal
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security, when you have that assurance of faith, friends, you
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are ready to go. You are ready to leave.
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You are ready to go ahead and go home.
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But then you look around and you see a lost and dying world.
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You see a perverse and wicked generation and you know that you
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have much work to do, do. And God leaves us here on this
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earth after salvation on purpose.
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And it is to continue to tell every single man, woman, child
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about what God has done for us and about their need for Him and
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their need for a Savior and their need for Jesus Christ, to
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cover them with His innocent, perfect, holy and pure blood, so
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that they can stand before Almighty God one day.
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And God will not see any of the sins that they've ever
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committed, but they will only see the righteousness of Christ
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placed upon them. 26 That you're rejoicing may be more abundant
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in Christ Jesus for me by my coming to you again.
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So he's saying, get into Jesus Christ, don't just stand at the
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door, don't just look upon him, but get in him and be covered by
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him, friends. So when the destroying Angel
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comes, it will pass over you. 27 Only let your conversation be as
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it becomes of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and
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see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that
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you stand fast in one spirit with one mind striving together
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for the faith of the gospel. It is one Spirit, friends, is
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the Holy Spirit, and where the Spirit is there is freedom.
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And he's telling them, do not let any unwholesome talk, any
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Vainglory, any strife, any argumentation happened among you
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that is not becoming of the Saints of God Almighty.
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When you're truly sold out to the Lord, when you, when you're
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truly marked by his goodness and grace and love and mercy, the
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fruits of the Spirit will come out.
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They will be part of the congregation.
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And you show me a congregation that has gossip and murmurings
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and you show me a congregation that has envy and strife.
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And I'll show you a congregation that has grieved the Spirit and
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seared their conscience. Friends 28 ended nothing
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terrified by your adversaries, which is to them an evident
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token of perdition, but to you of salvation and that of God.
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So when we are being persecuted, we need not be afraid.
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Don't give in to the fear mongering.
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Don't give in to all of the propaganda of evil Friends.
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When you are executed. Sing as Paul did in the jail in
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Philippi. Sing while you are in the stocks
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and the bonds. And that will be convicting to
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those who are persecuting you. And there are some of the
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soldiers and some of the officers and some of the jailers
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who are there because that is how they feed their family.
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But they don't truly believe in the agenda of the evil tyrants
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that they are employed by. And they are forced into having
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those positions. And you need to know that God
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has called every single camp, every single nationality, every
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single people group to represent Him in heaven.
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And that is what you need to know, that all languages, all
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tongues, all people groups and all nationalities will be
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represented in heaven. And God knows who belongs to
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Him. And we need not be fearful in
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the face of all of the persecution that we will go
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through. It will be to them.
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It will be very convicting to see a person who is not afraid
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of death. 29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ,
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not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for His sake.
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We need not fear those that can kill the body. 30 having the
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same conflict which you saw in me and now here to be in me.
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Paul had it figured out. Paul saw that his imprisonment
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was not only good for the Saints, but it was good for the
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unbelievers who would become believers because they saw the
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confidence that he had in Jesus Christ.
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We need to have that same confidence that he who began a
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good work in you will bring it into completion.
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I pray that you've been blessed by this chapter.
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I know I sure have. What an amazing book in the
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Bible. Paul gives us encouragement
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after encouragement after encouragement through this
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little epistle of his Holy Spirit.
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Breathed it for our edification. I'm praying for you.
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I love you. So does Christ be filled today
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with the Holy Ghost. God bless you.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.