096: Joseph Palmer – Philippians 4

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This week’s talk is the fifth
talk in a series that Brother.

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Joseph Palmer gave at the Texas
Bible School in 2013.

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It is the final talk on his
study in Philippians.

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I found this to be really
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A verse by verse Exposition, and
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kind of all the lessons up to
the point and then wraps up the

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talk with kind of some of the
overall lessons of Philippians

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Brother.
Joseph is an excellent student

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and This talk is really easy to
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here is Joseph.
Palmer’s class on Philippians

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Philippians chapter 4, So let’s
have a little review then about

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what we’ve been looking at.
So Acts chapter 16 is where we

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started with the Philippian
Ecclesia being developed.

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First of all, all goes into
Europe into the feet of iron and

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clay and produces the gospel
message to particularly Lydia.

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We thought of the seller of
purple whose heart the Lord

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opened and then we come to
Philippians chapter 1 We’re from

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the very first day.
Paul remembers this beautiful

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group together.
Doesn’t seem to be any real

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problems in this Ecclesia.
So Paul exhorts them and

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encourage them, not just to
leave off where they started,

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but to move on and on and become
fruitful as the Lord.

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God loves fruitfulness and so
they do got a good start, but

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perhaps there was a Macedonian
trait of making a good start and

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being one and done.
So he encourages them not to

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leave it where they got to there
was already a fantastic.

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Spirit there, but to move on and
grow that and become fruitful in

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it.
And then we thought about the

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choices that was set before,
Paul and Silas whether to appeal

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to Caesar or not in chapter 16,
he chooses not to whether to

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appeal to Caesar or not in
Philippians 1 at scenes and he

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appealed to.
And so he had this conflict in

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his mind as to what to do, and
we can bear that for ourselves

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and the choices that we have and
we can look around us.

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We look at our community, we
look at those others in the The

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Phalanx in the unit and we can
see others who’ve chosen to do

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things or not to do things.
They had a right to and they’ve

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chosen it for the right reasons.
So you look around and you see

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that and you take encouragement
from it and so we came then to

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understand in Philippians
chapter 2 that what was behind

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all?
This was the mind of Christ.

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That’s what allowed Paul to
allow himself to choose to

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suffer Affliction and that’s
what he’s encouraging them to

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develop the mind of Christ.
And then in Chapter 3 of

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Philippians, We looked at a
danger that, that development of

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the mind can take there is a
warning to develop mind of

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Christ, but not by law, not by
either the law of Moses or

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bylaws, which we can make.
And to avoid this danger.

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How, how do we avoid that danger
of trying to rely on on

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ourselves, on law?
Just by the mind, that presses

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toward the prize of the high
calling.

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And so we saw the athlete and
how he strives, how he leaves

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behind and disciplines himself.
And give us a way things, he’s

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not interested in for their
moment and looks to the Future

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and he’s looking for the prize
of the High Calling of God.

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So in this last class, what
we’re going to do is last class,

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at least on Philippines is to
look at the unity of standing

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fast together in more detail.
So we’d seen the mind that was

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in them.
And in chapter 3, we looked in

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verse 16 about them walking by
the same rule for walking line

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to walking rank para the Phalanx
if you like and we’re going to

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take that up.
In this, in this particular

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class and we also learned the
means by which that mind can be

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generated gradually formed.
So have a look at verse 1 of

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Philippians, chapter 4,
Therefore, my brethren dearly

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beloved.
So it starts with a therefore,

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why do we use therefore, because
of all the things that have come

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up to this point.
So, because of the Mind, the

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Press is toward the prize.
He can say this.

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So, therefore, because of the
things that have gone before my

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brethren, dearly, beloved and
longed for my joy and Crown.

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So Stand Fast in the Lord.
My dearly beloved, this is the

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same word stand fast as in 1:27
and it can only be accomplished

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through the one. – count it.
You can’t walk in file, you

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can’t walk in line, you can’t
hold the line.

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Unless you’re of the same mind
The Stand Fast.

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And the christadelphians
scripture, study service,

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booklet on Philippians gives
this as to stand in an unbroken

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line, the standard, an unbroken
line.

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So that’s what he’s talking
about.

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So because of the things that
have gone before because of the

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mind of Christ because of the
choices and we can see them

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because of the Affliction, the
choosing of it.

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We can stand fast together.
Now, look at the way he uses

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this phrase, but you’re not
going to go through them all.

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But Paul uses the stand fast in
these ways to you says, to stand

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fast in faith to stand fast in
Liberty to stand fast in spirit

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to stand fast in the Lord, and
to stand fast in the Traditions.

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It’s sort of a defensive mindset
if you like it.

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The steak.
Oh, this standing in an unbroken

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line in faith, in Liberty, in
spirit, in the Lord, in the

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tradition, And of course, the
Roman Colony here.

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Philip I being a Roman Colony.
They’re quite they’re aware of

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these things.
This is language.

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They were familiar with.
They’ve just seen this happen

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and they defeated Superior
forces by their discipline and

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teamwork.
And we’ve seen that idea coming

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through before we 3:16 they
were, we have the wood to

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attained rather arms as to
advance.

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So they advanced in the same
rank, they were to stand fast.

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They were to walk by the same
rule to walk.

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Same rank.
So we’ve seen this kind of idea

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before, haven’t we of them
walking in that rank of a stand

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fast?
There, there’s The Stand Fast of

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keeping in the line and we’ve
had that idea.

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And but look at the language
though of chapter 4.

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It’s not the language of the
sergeant major.

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It’s the language of what have a
look.

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The tenderness of this language
is lovely, my brethren, my

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dearly beloved, my joy and Crown
Stand Fast in the Lord.

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My dearly beloved, this isn’t
The, I mean, he’s taking the his

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note from what he’s seen around
him.

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He’s taking his notes from the
stake of from the, from the

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Phalanx.
But he’s saying my dearly

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beloved, he’s not forcing things
on them.

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He says doesn’t write them.
Say, I demanded you do this or

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that he doesn’t do that.
Does he?

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It’s the tenderness there.
And we think of the language of

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the Lord Jesus, in this respect,
he was gentle, wasn’t he?

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And in 2 Corinthians 10 verse 1.
It says, I beseech you by the

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meekness and gentleness, Of
Christ doesn’t demand things by

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the strength and the power of
Christ he beseeches by the

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meekness and the gentleness of
Christ.

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So that’s that’s what is going
to keep this line.

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It’s not hardness of discipline.
It’s love.

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That’s what binds it together.
The Phalanx is not drawn from

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fearful discipline, but from
loving discipline, have a look

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at verse 1 again.
It says my joy and Crown.

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So we’ve got this keyword again.
Going up the joy that flows

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through this whole epistle and
he calls them a joy and Crown

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also in second Corinthians 1:14
we won’t go there but in 1

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Thessalonians 2 verse 19.
If you want to flick over to

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that 1 Thessalonians 2 verse 19.
It says for what is Our Hope or

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Joy or crown of rejoicing are
not even you in the presence of

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our Lord?
Jesus Christ at his coming.

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So you see this is the crown
he’s got in his mind.

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These people would have seen
crowns all the time with them.

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They they were fully aware of
it, what he’s talking about, but

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it, what is his ground York?
Leisure is his clout ground, but

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not just the Ecclesia.
Now, what he says is, are not

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even you in the presence of our
Lord.

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Jesus Christ, at his coming,
that’s his goal.

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That is long-sighted goal.
It was the preciousness of that,

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the source of delight that he
has that he writes of the joy

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and rejoicing, the source of
that was this Ecclesia at the

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Kingdom.
The presence of our Lord Jesus

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Christ at his coming and he
feels the degree of

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responsibility for their eternal
life.

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And that’s what will bind this
column together.

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That’s what will bind this
Ecclesia and our individual

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colleges together is the love
with the long-sighted goal of

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presenting one another of
helping one, another on that

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road to the kingdom.
So these are the Crown’s that

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these guys here are striving
for, I think, is it the Laurel

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wreath?
I think was the emperor’s War

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Laurel wreath.
I think this is the Olive wreath

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that the athletes were striving
for so they’d see it?

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This is imagery.
They’re quite Quite familiar

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with here.
The Greek games and when they

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had the Olympics in Athens, they
replayed that didn’t he?

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That’s what the actual athletes
had.

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And so, obviously they weren’t
being exhorted to strive after

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those things where they was.
The Incorruptible Crown, the

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Crown of Life, the crown of
righteousness in the Old

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Testament, the crown is used in
several ways as well.

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The crown is used of glory and
the glory of wisdom.

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The crown of a grandfather is
his grandchildren.

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There are crowned him absolutely
precious and it’s this kind of

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mindset that Paul had almost
looks on the Ecclesia is if

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there is grandchildren, you
know, that special bond a

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grandfather or grandmother has
for their grandchild.

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It’s beautiful.
And we’ve seen played out before

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us.
And of course, we also know that

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old men in the truth are
regarded as a crown in the

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proverbs.
Just that wisdom that’s drawn

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out over all those years.
Yahweh describes himself as a

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crown and Israel are his crown
and a read to you from Psalm 21.

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And from verse one, the king
shall joy in your strength or

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Yahweh and in your salvation.
How greatly shall he Rejoice?

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You have given him his heart’s
desire and have not withholding

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the request of his lips for you.
Prevented him with the blessings

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of goodness.
You set a crown of pure gold on

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his head.
Now, that crown of pure goal, of

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course, is talking about the
Ecclesia, the pure gold being

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tried and refined its us on the
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And that’s the king.
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asked life of you, and you gave
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Even Length of days forever and
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His glory is great in your
salvation, honor and Majesty.

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Have you laid upon him for you
have made him, Most Blessed

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forever you have made him
exceeding, glad with your

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countenance, for the king,
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Yeah and through the mercy of
the most high, he shall not be

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moved so this idea of trusting
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chapter 3.
There’s no the Philippians 4,

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Paul laid out all the things he
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Remember that skubalon, that’s
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It was the refuse and what he
wants was to trust in God, his

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confidence was not in the flesh,
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Therefore it was sure because it
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In the Revelation for we hear of
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Don’t we Revelation 4 verse 10,
we have the Ecclesia, the body

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of Christ.
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24 elders, and they all wore
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It’s the Ecclesia in the role.
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Sovereign of being rulers.
It’s the rulership aspect of the

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brothers and sisters in the
millennial age, and the

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twenty-four Elders cast their
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Lord.
Nay was a symbol of the Ecclesia

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worshipping the lamb and During
that these crowns are his glory

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is his several look back at
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2.
And 3, we have a possible

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problem coming up here, right?
There’s a problem with this

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line, it was meant to be an
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This Stand, Fast has a chink in
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If you like the unity, The
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Well, there’s an encouragement
here in verses, 2 & 3, for the

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line to stay Unbroken.
Have a look of us to of

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Philippians 4.
I beseech you odious and besiege

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Syndicate that they be of the
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Now this idea of beseeching
we’ve seen a few words which are

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particular to the Philippians
joy and rejoicing.

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That’s a particularly Philippian
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There, the mind of Christ,
that’s how they had such joy and

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rejoice.
In this.

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The mind of Christ is a
particularly Philippian word and

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this word also is one of the
other words which is

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particularly Philippian besiege
What does beseech mean

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literally?
It’s got this interesting thing,

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when you look at things,
literally, of course, you can

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lose the meaning.
Can’t you when we think of

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awful?
Well, we think that’s bad but

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literally, it means full of all.
But it’s lost that kind of

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connotation.
So there is, there is a danger

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looking at things literally.
But when we look to besiege, it

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literally means to call
alongside call alongside now,

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you imagine being in The
Unbroken line will.

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Come on quick.
Come over here.

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And it’s interesting when you’ve
got This kind of thing in your

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head you see you notice it.
When you look around, I saw a

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sister two Sundays ago in our
Ecclesia brother came in, who’s

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on his own.
Doesn’t have his family.

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There he comes in and he just
goes and sits at the end of the

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row and she goes.
Come on, come over here.

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Oh, that’s Lovely.
Isn’t it?

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He’s she’s literally beseeching
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She’s literally calling him
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Obviously don’t have to do it.
Literally like that, but it’s

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nice.
If we can do include somebody to

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bring them into the line to
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and of course, there’s more to
that is no.

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As many ways we can do the
calling alongside so he

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beseeches you old.
Yes, come on.

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Your odious, come over here and
besiege US integrate.

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Come on, come over here, he
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And he calls them alongside.
And what does he say to them?

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He says to be of the same mind.
Now, if we were to go back to

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acts 16 which see this idea of
calling alongside and hopefully

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tomorrow when we finish we can
we can develop that further but

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it’s interesting that just take
until chapter 4 to get to this

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point.
Isn’t that interesting?

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He doesn’t go in straight in
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As a you odious and synthetic a
uni sort things out.

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So what’s the exhortation there
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It doesn’t bring a railing
accusation.

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Doesn’t say yoga should totally
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It doesn’t say that does he
doesn’t do that, he’s gentle, he

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doesn’t even solve the issue.
Just says, Hey be of the same

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mind.
You trust them to understand the

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excitation and to let the little
things go and to be of the same

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mind call alongside.
And the mind of chapter 2 of the

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mind of Christ.
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mind that will do that, isn’t
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Take away the disagreement.
And it’s interesting that it’s

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taken all the way to here to do
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It’s interesting you look at
Galatians Galatians, 3, verse 1

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isn’t Galatians, 1 verse 1, the
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he exhorts them, he stalks them.
And so we when we speak the

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people, we may have an issue.
We need to discuss with them.

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Well, that’s not get it out of
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The context is all of the other
things that come first.

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All the things we do, share, all
the things were sharing in the

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line.
All the things we’re sharing

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with what we have is a prize set
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So, let’s not get that.
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And also, there seems to be an
exhortation here, not

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necessarily to get involved in a
fight between these two people.

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I mean, who, who is poor or
Paul?

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Is somebody who’s got the spirit
of God is the holy spirit gift,

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and he chooses not to get in and
solve it and that can be

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something we can get involved
in, isn’t it?

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We see a problem.
Your, I can solve that this do

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this, do that to the other,
you’re wrong.

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You’re right.
But he just says be of the same

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mind as lovely, trust them to
sort it out.

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And it’s one of the options that
we Have is just not to get

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involved and obviously, when
we’re looking at these things,

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it doesn’t apply to every single
situation to this.

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Sometimes we have to get
involved but it’s one of the

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options.
One of the strings to the bow.

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If you like is just to say to
brother sister, hey, sort that

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out.
Now, have a look at these two

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words, you odious and Sint,
okay?

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It’s interesting.
You odious literally means to

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help on the way as a lovely.
As a lovely name is at you,

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odious means to help on the way,
of course, when we think of the

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way we think of God.
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obvious, his name, and of his
character and His glory.

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That’s what we think of when we
think of the way and the way

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back to Redemption and so you
rode, his actual name is to help

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on the way and sin.
Okay, I don’t know if she was

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the youngest daughter or
something, but her name’s her

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name means accident.
So, it’s kind of interesting

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when you look at it, literally
says, Hey, help on the way I

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beseech you to come over here
and to be of the same mind is

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accident.
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Well, what are we trying to get
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So these two sisters are
encouraged to be of the same

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mind, aren’t they?
So that they may meet together

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on the way.
It was an accident and help each

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other on the way to the kingdom,
of course.

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And so you look at that help on
the way.

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An accident and then if you like
that us doesn’t it.

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We accidentally bumped into each
other, we’re all on the same way

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and we can all help each other
on that way.

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We’re pretty, disparate group,
aren’t we?

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You know, I think about it.
Look at look at us.

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And so were the disciples under
the 12 were pretty disparate

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group, his brother.
Peter has said previously, very,

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very different backgrounds and
we have very different

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backgrounds.
Some of us are completely

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uneducated and some of us are
professors leaders in our field.

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Some of us are well, In some of
us are poor and most of us are

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somewhere in the middle.
The very different group and if

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you like, we’ve all bumped into
each other, each other we have

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poor.
Syndicated with all had an

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accident with, oh, you’re on the
same road to you.

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And yet we all need to you
odious, we all need to help each

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other on the way.
And it’s actually that, which

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makes it special, isn’t it?
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Which makes it special, we’re
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We’re all different and it’s
that which brings together

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something as a whole, which we
could never do individually.

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And the only thing, of course,
we really have in common is the

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mind of Christ as an IT and the
goal of the prize of the high

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calling.
Now you think of the this in

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example, how do we see that
people bumping into each other?

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And going along a way.
What we have a bad example.

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In the parable, when the man
goes down from Jerusalem to

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Jericho and the levite and the
priest they bump into him, don’t

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they accidentally find him on
the way and they’re not of the

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same mind, so they just keep
going.

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They’re not of the same mind of
Christ.

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The servant mind wasn’t in them.
So they Syndicate.

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They bumped into up by accident.
Somebody on the you odious on

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the way but they didn’t help.
Because they weren’t of the same

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mind they didn’t have the
christ-like spirit of service in

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them.
In the Old Testament that was

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the ox, wasn’t it?
That was the face of the

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Caribbean which was the ox and
they didn’t want that, they

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weren’t interested in it.
So there’s a bad example of

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where people bump into each
other on the way and don’t help

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each other.
We think of a good example.

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I’ve good example would be the
Ethiopian eunuch if you like and

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fill it Ethiopian eunuch sin is
Chariot trying to read Isaiah

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and and Phillip bumps into him
by accident on the road and the

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Chance together and they helped
each other.

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On the road to Salvation because
they were of the same mind that

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was interesting actually in that
example that they were trying to

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figure out or he was trying to
figure out, Philippines was

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helping Ethiopian eunuch to
figure out why Christ would

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suffer.
Why would why would the P person

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who is to be the Savior, have to
be a sufferer?

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It’s interesting that that
mindset that servant mindset is

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there.
And so these sisters are told,

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you know, you bumped into each
other on the road, but help each

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other.
It was an accident.

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You chance together, but help
each other on the way.

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And it was the mind of Christ
that would help that happen,

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isn’t it?
Now Colossians 3 verse 2 says to

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set your affection on things
above, now that word for

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affection is the same word is
mine.

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Set your affection on things
above set your mind on things

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above, you can only do it.
If you esteem your sister better

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than yourself, you can only do
it that way to look at the Lord

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Jesus and say, you know, he
helped me while I was yet a

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sinner Christ came and died for
me.

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That’s the way you’d achieve it.
Now in Colossians 3, it lists

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all the evil afflictions that
happened Colossians 3, tells

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them to lift their mind.
And he says look this is the

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list of problems fornication
uncleanness inordinate,

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affection, evil, concupiscence
and covetousness which is

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idolatry and because it gives
the list.

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And then in verse 16, The
antidote to all that thinking

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which was refused and vile the
antidote.

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This is what brother Max and our
Ecclesia calls it for the matter

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working Styles.
This the antidote is in verse

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16.
He says let the word of Christ

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dwell in you richly in all
wisdom.

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So there is the mind of Christ
to let the word of Christ dwell

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00:23:18,000 –> 00:23:20,600
in.
You the let it dwell in you.

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It’s interesting, isn’t it?
It’s not like good on your sword

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00:23:23,600 –> 00:23:26,000
and go and fight.
It’s that little thing.

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00:23:26,000 –> 00:23:28,700
The small thing to let the To
Christ dwell in.

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00:23:28,700 –> 00:23:31,600
You don’t want it in there,
really I’m natural.

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00:23:31,600 –> 00:23:35,500
Inclination is not for it, but
let it dwell in you and that’s

437
00:23:35,500 –> 00:23:39,700
where your affection, your mind
will be lifted by letting it

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dwell in you richly teaching and
admonishing.

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00:23:44,100 –> 00:23:46,900
Now, what’s interesting in
Colossians is talks about a

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repeatedly phrase, thanks.
And that seems to be where they

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were their mind was correct.
Their affection was correct.

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00:23:56,600 –> 00:23:58,700
And what did that generate
didn’t generate?

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I’m better than them.
It generated thankfulness and

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that’s where we are.
And in Romans 1, it looks like

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the end of not having
thankfulness is all those

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despicable things.
At the end of Romans 1, they

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were unthankful and it lists
that as sort of a precipice off

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which they dropped because they
were unthankful all these

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00:24:16,600 –> 00:24:20,200
horrific things happen and you
can Colossians they’d lift In

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00:24:20,200 –> 00:24:23,000
mind their affection, they fill
themselves with the word of

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Christ and so that led to them
being thankful.

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It’s interesting how simple
these things I wasn’t.

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It it wasn’t like go out and
battle go and do this.

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Don’t achieve that go and climb
this going row over there.

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It was just let it dwell in you.
It will if you let it It’s

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lovely, isn’t it?
Let’s go back to Philippians 4

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and verse 3.
And again, he continues his very

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gentle approach to them in verse
3.

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He says, I entreat you and
that’s the same word.

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This beseeching a calling
alongside I entreat.

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You also true yoke fellow.
Help those women, which labored,

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with me in the gospel, with
Clement also.

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And with other my fellow
laborers, whose names are in the

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Book of Life.
The gentleness like the

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shepherd, isn’t it?
Check it doesn’t get the stick

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out of whack the sheet for going
off.

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Hey just gently nudges it this
isn’t the lovely beauty of the

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gentleness and meekness of
Christ in effect.

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So in treats, he calls alongside
his gentle approach.

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And he calls this person a true
yolk fellow or a genuine Co

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yoked person again.
We’ve got this idea of of the

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Ecclesia being together is this
togetherness yoke fellow.

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Rob the same yolk.
I was gonna see if somebody had

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a yoke.
They could bring to show us that

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they were genuine yolk fellow.
Now who is this?

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00:25:47,600 –> 00:25:50,600
Well let’s have a think.
Well we can maybe delay thinking

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00:25:50,600 –> 00:25:52,200
about it.
When we first off, consider

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about the coal yoked what are we
go cooked into what’s our

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00:25:55,100 –> 00:25:57,900
service Romans?
6 Styles us as slaves.

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00:25:58,400 –> 00:26:02,700
Romans 6 kind of shows that you
are a slave like it or not

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00:26:02,800 –> 00:26:05,400
sorry, but you do get this
incredible Choice.

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00:26:05,800 –> 00:26:07,700
You’re up here.
You’re about to be auctioned

483
00:26:07,700 –> 00:26:10,100
off.
And you can choose who’s going

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00:26:10,100 –> 00:26:14,200
to be your master.
If you want to choose sin, it’s

485
00:26:14,200 –> 00:26:16,900
wages are death.
Or do you want to shoot choose

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00:26:16,900 –> 00:26:19,200
righteousness?
You don’t learn anything but

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00:26:19,200 –> 00:26:21,300
there’s a gift.
And the gift is eternal life and

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00:26:21,300 –> 00:26:24,300
Paul never forgot that status as
a slave because himself a slave

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all the time.
We see it a servant but it’s the

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word is slave.
Never forgets that status and he

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rejoices to share it with this.
I believe sister to have the

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load, isn’t it?
True, yoke fellow to have the

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load the load.
So that’s what we’re looking at.

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A yoke.
So Paul sees himself and the

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sister together in this way,
like those two oxen and those

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00:26:49,300 –> 00:26:53,500
two men, they’re sharing the
load the yoked together.

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And so I think this is Lydia, if
it is why doesn’t he named her

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white?
Well, whoever it is, why doesn’t

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00:27:01,600 –> 00:27:05,200
he named them?
I believe it’s because and I

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think it’s Lydia because he’s
talking to this person to help

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00:27:08,900 –> 00:27:11,300
out a particularly the women,
which labored with me.

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00:27:12,500 –> 00:27:14,500
Now, it’s particularly a
sister’s role to help the other

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00:27:14,500 –> 00:27:16,400
sisters.
Not that we can’t help each

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00:27:16,400 –> 00:27:19,100
other regardless of gender,
doesn’t matter.

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00:27:19,100 –> 00:27:23,000
Does it in Christ, but I would
think it’s probably Lydia and

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00:27:23,000 –> 00:27:24,700
he’s got a real gentleness with
her.

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He doesn’t name her, I think,
because she’s of the order of

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Sarah, she’s that kind of
person.

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00:27:31,200 –> 00:27:32,800
She didn’t like a public
reference.

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00:27:32,800 –> 00:27:35,600
Now, imagine this is the
Ecclesia Philippi.

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And the Philippians epistle
comes is going to be read by the

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brother and during their getting
together.

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00:27:42,300 –> 00:27:44,800
It.
And so this sister who’s very

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00:27:44,800 –> 00:27:49,600
gentle sister is not spoken of
directly, there’s an inference,

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00:27:49,900 –> 00:27:51,600
and sometimes that’s the best
way, isn’t it?

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00:27:51,600 –> 00:27:56,900
Not all of us are out there and
gregarious and gentle word is

517
00:27:56,900 –> 00:27:59,500
what’s needed, a little
inference for somebody.

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00:28:00,200 –> 00:28:03,300
I say this, I’m the worst person
to be saying that a gentle even.

519
00:28:03,300 –> 00:28:06,900
For instance, somebody can be
more helpful than you need to do

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00:28:06,900 –> 00:28:08,800
this and there’s the gentleness
of the shepherd.

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00:28:08,800 –> 00:28:11,400
The shepherd knows his flock
knows that sheep over there.

522
00:28:11,400 –> 00:28:14,600
Does need a bit of Her kick.
But he knows this one over here

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00:28:14,600 –> 00:28:17,500
is very gentle and timid.
It would crush this sister,

524
00:28:17,500 –> 00:28:21,400
probably to hear of herself
being spoken of and we can

525
00:28:21,400 –> 00:28:23,100
probably all think of a sister
like that.

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Some of you here are probably
that sister and we can know I’ve

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00:28:27,400 –> 00:28:29,900
got Heroes of all these things
in my mind.

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00:28:29,900 –> 00:28:32,400
You know, I’ve got a hero like
this in Heracles.

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Your another ugly.
Just I think of her, I think a

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00:28:35,000 –> 00:28:38,200
gentle word from the platform is
much better than the sort of

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sisters.
Such you need to do this.

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00:28:41,500 –> 00:28:44,100
And she’s gentle and she needs
to be treated gently.

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00:28:44,400 –> 00:28:46,900
And that’s the best way and most
effective of encouragement for

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00:28:46,900 –> 00:28:50,200
that particular type of lamb
that particular type of sister.

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00:28:50,700 –> 00:28:52,600
And so what, why is he speaking
to her?

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00:28:52,700 –> 00:28:54,900
He says to her I believe it’s
her.

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00:28:54,900 –> 00:28:56,600
I entreat you also true yoke
fellow.

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00:28:56,800 –> 00:29:01,100
Help those women, which labored
with me in the gospel, what does

539
00:29:01,100 –> 00:29:03,900
she need?
She just needs a gentle prod to

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00:29:03,900 –> 00:29:07,300
step up her efforts to help the
other sisters.

541
00:29:08,300 –> 00:29:10,800
And it’s probably why would this
sister need to be given this

542
00:29:10,800 –> 00:29:13,300
excitation it is not wasting his
words as he.

543
00:29:13,600 –> 00:29:16,400
He’s saying this sister.
Hey step up your efforts a

544
00:29:16,408 –> 00:29:19,300
little bit because it’s probably
out of her Comfort level.

545
00:29:19,700 –> 00:29:22,400
She’s probably a shy sister,
naming her.

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00:29:22,900 –> 00:29:26,200
If it is a, her would crush her
and she’d cringe at it.

547
00:29:27,100 –> 00:29:29,900
So she probably is out of a
comfort level to help others.

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00:29:30,100 –> 00:29:33,100
She didn’t really want to say
what needs to be said and we can

549
00:29:33,100 –> 00:29:35,600
identify with that.
Can we do not always want to go

550
00:29:35,600 –> 00:29:38,400
out of our way and say?
Hey, I think that might be Wrong

551
00:29:38,400 –> 00:29:40,600
and for some of us that’s easier
than for others.

552
00:29:40,800 –> 00:29:44,800
And this little sister here
needs a gentle subtle push to do

553
00:29:44,800 –> 00:29:47,000
that.
Now, it’s interesting.

554
00:29:47,000 –> 00:29:51,300
It says to that her exhortation
was to help those which labored

555
00:29:51,300 –> 00:29:55,100
with me in the gospel to those
women, which labored with me in

556
00:29:55,100 –> 00:29:59,100
the gospel now rather hams
translators that as those

557
00:29:59,100 –> 00:30:01,400
sisters which maintained the
combat.

558
00:30:02,100 –> 00:30:04,700
So the language here again is
language they would have

559
00:30:04,700 –> 00:30:08,900
understood of the soldiers in
this Roman colony. so, to the

560
00:30:08,900 –> 00:30:12,800
women, which labored with me in
the gospel that those, that

561
00:30:12,800 –> 00:30:18,900
main, the maintain the combat
with me in the gospel, The words

562
00:30:19,600 –> 00:30:21,000
in the Greek.
We lose it.

563
00:30:22,200 –> 00:30:25,600
In the English, probably.
But in this particular verse

564
00:30:25,800 –> 00:30:31,000
this word, which we call soon
keeps coming up in all of these

565
00:30:31,000 –> 00:30:36,000
words.
So soon, Takei, Is one of the

566
00:30:36,000 –> 00:30:42,800
sisters in verse 2.
Yeah, there’s two.

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00:30:43,200 –> 00:30:47,100
And then throughout verse 3 we
keep coming up with this prefix

568
00:30:47,100 –> 00:30:50,200
on all these words.
So you can imagine if it was

569
00:30:50,800 –> 00:30:53,900
read to us in the Greek, you
have the case in Decay or soon,

570
00:30:53,900 –> 00:30:56,200
Decay you, and your odious be of
the same mind.

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00:30:56,200 –> 00:30:59,700
And the next verse is Sewell and
Bando tsudzuki, gasps sued

572
00:30:59,700 –> 00:31:03,500
Nathalie ho Suna gasps.
Now, that’s obviously falling

573
00:31:03,500 –> 00:31:05,500
over itself to say this would
soon.

574
00:31:06,000 –> 00:31:12,300
Now, what does soon mean?
It means together so soon, 2K.

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00:31:14,200 –> 00:31:17,900
Was not only to accident or to
chance, but the chance together

576
00:31:18,100 –> 00:31:21,500
chance together, and her strong
word soon is a strong word, and

577
00:31:21,500 –> 00:31:23,500
there’s other words, it could
have been used of the

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00:31:23,500 –> 00:31:27,300
togetherness.
They were to help together.

579
00:31:27,400 –> 00:31:30,700
They were to be yoke, fellows.
That’s a together team.

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00:31:31,000 –> 00:31:34,100
They were to labor together.
They were to contend together.

581
00:31:34,500 –> 00:31:36,800
They were fellow laborers, they
were to work together.

582
00:31:37,300 –> 00:31:40,700
So it really tripping over
itself in this verse to tell us

583
00:31:40,900 –> 00:31:45,700
about the togetherness that is
re being required of this

584
00:31:45,700 –> 00:31:50,100
formation of those, in the
combat of the gospel and

585
00:31:50,100 –> 00:31:53,200
underlines the excitation to us,
doesn’t it of The Stand Fast of

586
00:31:53,200 –> 00:31:55,400
the togetherness and it wouldn’t
be tripping.

587
00:31:55,600 –> 00:31:59,100
Itself, if this came naturally,
naturally, we’re essentially

588
00:31:59,100 –> 00:32:03,400
goats going all over the place.
But he’s exhorting to have this

589
00:32:03,400 –> 00:32:06,900
togetherness and have a look at
the end of the verse is, lovely

590
00:32:07,500 –> 00:32:10,700
talks about the fellow laborers
about the, the, those who

591
00:32:10,700 –> 00:32:15,300
maintain the combat together,
whose names are written in the

592
00:32:15,300 –> 00:32:18,000
Book of Life.
Now, that is lovely.

593
00:32:18,000 –> 00:32:21,200
A lovely picture, isn’t it?
The names written in the Book of

594
00:32:21,200 –> 00:32:26,500
Life, the plural, they’re all of
their names, not just one.

595
00:32:26,500 –> 00:32:30,000
But the plural for names, were
written in the book of life.

596
00:32:30,300 –> 00:32:35,600
It’s not a Sprint finish.
Those athletes that we looked at

597
00:32:35,600 –> 00:32:38,700
earlier.
He’s guys have a gold medal for

598
00:32:38,700 –> 00:32:42,800
the one person who gets to the
end, but what God is interested

599
00:32:42,800 –> 00:32:44,900
in is not a Sprint finish for
us.

600
00:32:44,900 –> 00:32:49,600
What he’s interested in is.
For the names to be written in

601
00:32:49,600 –> 00:32:51,900
the book of life.
And they are says, the written

602
00:32:52,000 –> 00:32:56,300
in the Book of Life is a team
Race and we can help each other.

603
00:32:56,800 –> 00:33:00,100
It’s is the whole team together
and they’re written in the Book

604
00:33:00,100 –> 00:33:05,500
of Life in Exodus 32 in verse
32, remember, when we had the

605
00:33:05,500 –> 00:33:08,800
issue with the golden calf, and
Moses speaks to God and he says,

606
00:33:09,400 –> 00:33:11,300
forgive them.
And if not block me, I pray you

607
00:33:11,300 –> 00:33:13,300
out of your book of life.
In other words, he’s already in

608
00:33:13,300 –> 00:33:16,200
it, take me out.
God has to interrupt that

609
00:33:16,200 –> 00:33:17,200
prayers, he know.
Uh-huh.

610
00:33:17,600 –> 00:33:19,700
The soul that sins essentially
shall die.

611
00:33:20,100 –> 00:33:24,700
He does no substitution here.
You can’t separate Christ from

612
00:33:24,700 –> 00:33:28,100
his Brethren Moses in Psalm 69
Verse 18.

613
00:33:29,900 –> 00:33:34,100
David says, in verse 28,
actually of Psalm 69, let them

614
00:33:34,100 –> 00:33:36,700
his enemies be blotted out of
the book of the living and not

615
00:33:36,700 –> 00:33:40,900
be written with the righteous.
So this book is written already

616
00:33:41,600 –> 00:33:46,000
and our names by God’s grace
already in it, but perhaps they

617
00:33:46,000 –> 00:33:50,200
were inserted in it.
A baptism, they can be removed,

618
00:33:50,800 –> 00:33:53,100
there is that?
But the inserted in The Book of

619
00:33:53,100 –> 00:33:58,400
Life and in verse, 4 of
Philippians 4:8, says rejoice

620
00:33:58,600 –> 00:34:01,800
The lord always.
And again I say rejoice it’s

621
00:34:01,800 –> 00:34:06,300
worth reminding at this point of
the happiness that is because

622
00:34:06,300 –> 00:34:10,800
sometimes togetherness doesn’t
always yield happiness, the line

623
00:34:10,800 –> 00:34:13,600
remains unbroken but they’re not
always delighted.

624
00:34:13,699 –> 00:34:17,500
We want the next person is doing
so is it a handy reminder to

625
00:34:17,500 –> 00:34:21,500
rejoice and again I say rejoice,
it’s not natural necessarily to

626
00:34:21,500 –> 00:34:24,699
pull together like this.
It’s not a natural reaction to

627
00:34:24,699 –> 00:34:27,100
compromise.
Is it delightfulness?

628
00:34:27,699 –> 00:34:29,600
I’ve compromised.
I didn’t want to do that but I

629
00:34:29,600 –> 00:34:33,100
did for you and perhaps it’s not
always natural to Rejoice about

630
00:34:33,100 –> 00:34:36,400
that and this sister who was
referenced in verse 3.

631
00:34:36,400 –> 00:34:40,300
Perhaps she was going out of her
comfort zone to do something and

632
00:34:40,300 –> 00:34:42,400
he’s saying, hey you got out
your comfort zone, but be happy

633
00:34:42,400 –> 00:34:44,500
about it.
Be rejoicing about it.

634
00:34:45,800 –> 00:34:48,800
And sometimes saying, or
receiving bringing into line

635
00:34:49,199 –> 00:34:53,000
isn’t comfortable as it if that
person over there needs a little

636
00:34:53,000 –> 00:34:56,199
push this way or that way or
over this way, it’s not always

637
00:34:56,199 –> 00:34:58,800
comforting to be brought back
into line.

638
00:34:58,900 –> 00:35:02,100
I’ve never enjoyed it.
But that’s, that’s something he

639
00:35:02,100 –> 00:35:05,100
tells them then to sweeten,
this, with the rejoicing.

640
00:35:05,900 –> 00:35:09,600
And again, I say rejoice.
Now, how do we overcome this?

641
00:35:09,600 –> 00:35:13,400
How do we overcome our natural
things, the things which is

642
00:35:13,400 –> 00:35:16,500
listed in chapter 3.
The thing, the big things that

643
00:35:16,508 –> 00:35:19,800
needed to be overcome and I love
in scripture, how big things are

644
00:35:19,800 –> 00:35:24,400
overcome with very simple thing.
So he said to let the word of

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00:35:24,408 –> 00:35:27,500
Christ dwell in you.
It’s very simple, isn’t it?

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00:35:27,600 –> 00:35:31,100
In its Essence.
Another look at Bruce, well

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00:35:31,100 –> 00:35:34,000
let’s have a look at verse 8.
Finally Brethren whatsoever,

648
00:35:34,000 –> 00:35:37,800
things are true whatsoever.
Things are honest whatsoever.

649
00:35:37,800 –> 00:35:41,000
Things are just whatsoever.
Things are pure whatsoever.

650
00:35:41,000 –> 00:35:44,700
Things are lovely whatsoever.
Things are of good report if

651
00:35:44,700 –> 00:35:46,100
there.
It’d be any virtue if there be

652
00:35:46,100 –> 00:35:48,500
any praise think on these
things.

653
00:35:49,800 –> 00:35:52,500
It seems too simple.
Doesn’t it that all of our

654
00:35:52,500 –> 00:35:56,400
problems can be overcome by just
thinking on these beautiful

655
00:35:56,400 –> 00:36:00,900
things thinking on what is true
and honest and just and pure and

656
00:36:00,900 –> 00:36:04,000
lovely and of good report
doesn’t seem right that that

657
00:36:04,000 –> 00:36:07,400
would be the answer and the
battle with a sinful mind.

658
00:36:09,000 –> 00:36:11,500
Is not doesn’t take great acts
of skill and in Courage and

659
00:36:11,508 –> 00:36:15,000
endurance necessarily.
It takes thinking on the things

660
00:36:15,000 –> 00:36:19,000
of Christ filling ourselves with
that takes discipline to make

661
00:36:19,000 –> 00:36:23,100
the Mind, think on these things.
Of course you don’t naturally go

662
00:36:23,100 –> 00:36:26,700
that way, do we.
But to obtain the christ-like

663
00:36:26,700 –> 00:36:29,400
mind is to think on these things
and you think of the Lord Jesus

664
00:36:29,400 –> 00:36:32,500
Christ, think of him on the
cross, does he use strength and

665
00:36:32,500 –> 00:36:36,300
power to come down from the
cross and prove that he was the

666
00:36:36,300 –> 00:36:37,400
son of God?
No.

667
00:36:37,700 –> 00:36:39,700
Didn’t he just?
He didn’t do that.

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00:36:39,700 –> 00:36:42,800
He put the serpent mind of the
Pharisees to shame in a

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00:36:42,808 –> 00:36:44,200
different way.
Didn’t do it by strength.

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00:36:44,200 –> 00:36:46,900
He did it by thinking we’ve
already looked at the Hebrews.

671
00:36:46,900 –> 00:36:49,100
12 verse 2 for the joy that was
set before him.

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00:36:49,100 –> 00:36:53,300
He endured the cross.
So how do we do that?

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00:36:54,300 –> 00:36:56,900
Well, how do we start our day?
We start with prayer.

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00:36:57,200 –> 00:36:59,300
We can zoom out the door as fast
as we can.

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00:36:59,900 –> 00:37:03,900
On my case, my bike to work,
well, we could stop coming.

676
00:37:03,900 –> 00:37:07,900
We’d have a thoughtful prayer.
We can stop and have a verse

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00:37:07,900 –> 00:37:09,700
before.
Going out for the day, the

678
00:37:09,700 –> 00:37:15,100
scriptural song on a journey.
Force ourselves to think this

679
00:37:15,100 –> 00:37:17,400
way, really?
And then it’s there when you

680
00:37:17,400 –> 00:37:21,300
need it, the Lord Jesus didn’t
have a concordance with him on

681
00:37:21,300 –> 00:37:23,200
the cross, to look up what he
would need to do.

682
00:37:23,200 –> 00:37:24,700
Is Brother.
Rich has been saying it has to

683
00:37:24,700 –> 00:37:27,600
be in you if they want it.
He’s got to be put their first

684
00:37:27,600 –> 00:37:30,100
to be drawn on.
You need to build up our pool.

685
00:37:30,300 –> 00:37:32,600
So we can go.
Hey this is this is what we need

686
00:37:32,600 –> 00:37:35,100
right now.
He said it is written, he put it

687
00:37:35,100 –> 00:37:38,800
in his mind in advance.
And so, especially with our

688
00:37:38,800 –> 00:37:41,200
children, we can do that.
Can’t we can constantly show

689
00:37:41,200 –> 00:37:44,200
them and teach them the truth.
And the scriptures while we’re

690
00:37:44,200 –> 00:37:46,700
sitting down while we’re lying
down while we’re on the journey.

691
00:37:48,000 –> 00:37:53,100
Philippians 4 verse 9.
It says those things which you

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00:37:53,100 –> 00:37:57,900
have both learned and received
and heard and seen in me do.

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00:37:58,300 –> 00:38:00,400
Now there’s a position Brother,
Paul’s coming from.

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00:38:01,000 –> 00:38:04,200
This is not many of us can say
this those things, which you

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00:38:04,200 –> 00:38:06,900
have both learned received heard
and seen in me.

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00:38:06,900 –> 00:38:10,600
Do it’s not a one-dimensional.
I told you how to do it.

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00:38:11,200 –> 00:38:12,500
He not only told them how to do
it.

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00:38:12,500 –> 00:38:15,700
He taught them.
He showed them, he went there

699
00:38:15,700 –> 00:38:19,200
and he got the beating and he’s
how could the Philippian Jailer

700
00:38:19,200 –> 00:38:21,400
say anything about feeling bad
about preaching?

701
00:38:21,500 –> 00:38:23,300
Dang, one pulls their singing
hymns.

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00:38:23,800 –> 00:38:26,800
He knows he’s seen it, it’s not
one-dimensional.

703
00:38:26,800 –> 00:38:30,200
I learned he received and they
heard it and they saw it in poor

704
00:38:30,700 –> 00:38:35,600
wonderful example, and in verse
10, Says.

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00:38:37,100 –> 00:38:41,600
But I rejoiced that word again
in the Lord greatly that now at

706
00:38:41,600 –> 00:38:44,600
the last your care of me has
flourished again.

707
00:38:44,600 –> 00:38:47,700
Now that word care is the same
word as mind, that mind of

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00:38:47,707 –> 00:38:50,300
Christ.
So they’d use the mind of Christ

709
00:38:50,300 –> 00:38:54,600
they developed it.
That care has flourished again.

710
00:38:54,600 –> 00:38:56,100
Now, that’s what God loves isn’t
it?

711
00:38:56,400 –> 00:38:59,000
He loves flourishing.
He loves fruitfulness.

712
00:39:00,100 –> 00:39:03,900
The talent needed to be
increased, the Mustard Seed

713
00:39:03,900 –> 00:39:07,100
needed to grow.
But all these things happen from

714
00:39:07,100 –> 00:39:09,500
a growth.
You’ve got what, you’ve got the

715
00:39:09,500 –> 00:39:12,500
talents, you have the skills,
you have the opportunities.

716
00:39:12,500 –> 00:39:14,300
You have, you didn’t decide to
have them.

717
00:39:14,300 –> 00:39:17,600
I didn’t want to be that or
this, I was, there is what we do

718
00:39:17,600 –> 00:39:20,300
with them, we don’t go.
Yeah, I’m really good at that.

719
00:39:20,300 –> 00:39:23,700
We just give it more and more
and let God’s grace growing it.

720
00:39:24,300 –> 00:39:27,900
And so it’s flourished, its
growth And this word for careful

721
00:39:28,100 –> 00:39:32,200
is also the same word as mind
where until you were mindful or

722
00:39:32,200 –> 00:39:33,900
careful.
The mind of Christ was in their

723
00:39:33,900 –> 00:39:37,600
care but you lacked opportunity,
it given a gift with

724
00:39:37,600 –> 00:39:41,700
epaphroditus verse 14 and 15.
It sent a gift they communicated

725
00:39:41,700 –> 00:39:44,700
or fellowshipped with Paul.
Even though they weren’t with

726
00:39:44,700 –> 00:39:46,800
him, they couldn’t pick up the
phone.

727
00:39:48,200 –> 00:39:49,600
But he was so endearing, isn’t
it?

728
00:39:49,600 –> 00:39:52,400
That even when he was away?
The thoughts were of him and had

729
00:39:52,400 –> 00:39:56,500
sent him a gift?
Sent him a gift, the

730
00:39:56,500 –> 00:40:00,100
thoughtfulness and the prayerful
Provisions that they given were

731
00:40:00,300 –> 00:40:02,200
far better than whatever gift
they’d sent.

732
00:40:02,200 –> 00:40:05,200
I’m sure they’d sent some money
for him on his journey or

733
00:40:05,200 –> 00:40:07,600
something like that, but it’s
the thoughtfulness that was

734
00:40:07,600 –> 00:40:11,800
behind that which was lovely to
him and did them to him and we

735
00:40:11,800 –> 00:40:16,000
can do that.
Can’t we, we can send a CD or we

736
00:40:16,000 –> 00:40:19,600
can send an email can help out
with videos or cards.

737
00:40:20,700 –> 00:40:24,300
Six cards that brother, Larry’s
been talking about, we can do

738
00:40:24,300 –> 00:40:25,700
that.
We can help each other on the

739
00:40:25,700 –> 00:40:28,800
road phone calls, especially to
the unpopular, you know, is

740
00:40:28,800 –> 00:40:31,300
under the feast and the law.
It wasn’t the popular who needed

741
00:40:31,300 –> 00:40:33,700
to be invited.
It was the unpopular us.

742
00:40:34,100 –> 00:40:36,000
The ones who were in need of
help.

743
00:40:37,000 –> 00:40:40,900
I remember in San Diego,
Ecclesia, this happened for us

744
00:40:40,900 –> 00:40:43,200
as well.
We went across to Europe, I

745
00:40:43,207 –> 00:40:47,600
think I was teaching the German
Bible school and we came back

746
00:40:47,800 –> 00:40:50,300
and the fridge is got milk in.
There’s Breakfast.

747
00:40:50,400 –> 00:40:52,800
For the next day, there’s some
bread for sandwiches.

748
00:40:53,000 –> 00:40:55,400
Somebody come in got into the
house and they’ve done that for

749
00:40:55,400 –> 00:40:58,900
us and it meant a lot.
Not that, I really needed that

750
00:40:58,900 –> 00:41:01,000
milk.
I mean but it was super useful

751
00:41:01,000 –> 00:41:02,900
for us so we didn’t have to do
that extra thing.

752
00:41:02,900 –> 00:41:05,500
The next day didn’t come back
thinking, I’ve got this to do

753
00:41:05,800 –> 00:41:09,700
and that sister came in and she
did that for us and it’s stuck

754
00:41:09,700 –> 00:41:13,000
with us that the love that was
there and we can all do that.

755
00:41:13,000 –> 00:41:15,900
We can go out of our way and we
can call one another alongside

756
00:41:15,900 –> 00:41:18,200
to do this.
And so that’s where we leave

757
00:41:18,200 –> 00:41:21,900
this lovely family.
The Ecclesia It in sand in San

758
00:41:21,900 –> 00:41:25,300
Diego, because you’re in
Philippi and we can treat one,

759
00:41:25,300 –> 00:41:27,400
another as family has a Texan
trait, isn’t it?

760
00:41:27,400 –> 00:41:31,100
So to take it, and go on with it
and include people, take that

761
00:41:31,100 –> 00:41:35,300
household of the Jailer, the
household of Lydia mindset and

762
00:41:35,300 –> 00:41:39,100
bring in others to the Ecclesia.
And so let’s briefly just

763
00:41:39,100 –> 00:41:42,800
summarize what we’ve been in the
Philippian occlusion here.

764
00:41:42,800 –> 00:41:46,300
Lovely at leisure, we talked in
Acts chapter, 16 about the

765
00:41:46,308 –> 00:41:50,100
choice between Israel and roam
about putting our suffering in

766
00:41:50,100 –> 00:41:55,000
the Text of that about Babylon
and Rome or about the things of

767
00:41:55,000 –> 00:41:58,400
God, Jerusalem and Zion.
And so we pale into

768
00:41:58,400 –> 00:42:01,100
insignificance in our choices.
When we see that all this going

769
00:42:01,100 –> 00:42:05,200
on is this battle and choice to
suffer is, is reduced in its

770
00:42:05,200 –> 00:42:09,200
difficulty by doing that.
We see Lydia and the Jailer and

771
00:42:09,200 –> 00:42:13,700
their Delight from the first
day, to open the truth, to open

772
00:42:13,700 –> 00:42:17,200
their families to allow Paul in
to do, not only to come and a

773
00:42:17,207 –> 00:42:19,300
by.
But to constrain the want to

774
00:42:19,300 –> 00:42:24,500
serve In the Philippians chapter
1, we looked at that heartfelt

775
00:42:24,500 –> 00:42:28,500
Delight from the first day and
not only to leave it there, but

776
00:42:28,500 –> 00:42:32,400
to encourage to grow to grow,
God loves fruitfulness.

777
00:42:34,800 –> 00:42:38,100
In the second chapter of
Philippians, he draws on that

778
00:42:38,100 –> 00:42:41,600
level of the mind of the Lord,
Jesus Christ, that allowed him

779
00:42:41,600 –> 00:42:45,500
to choose the difficult path
that while he was grappling

780
00:42:45,500 –> 00:42:48,100
with, what to do in the
particular situation, it was the

781
00:42:48,100 –> 00:42:52,100
mind of Christ, which infused
him and allowed him to choose

782
00:42:52,100 –> 00:42:57,400
things, which weren’t natural.
And it’s the mindset of the

783
00:42:57,400 –> 00:43:00,800
Lord, in the particular aspect
of the servant that is given to

784
00:43:00,800 –> 00:43:03,100
the Philippians is poor
Philippians, their poor will

785
00:43:03,100 –> 00:43:04,700
look at it in 2 Corinthians
tomorrow.

786
00:43:04,700 –> 00:43:08,100
Hopefully, they were a very poor
group of people and they were

787
00:43:08,100 –> 00:43:11,100
giving group of people, they
gave more than others even

788
00:43:11,100 –> 00:43:14,100
though they out of their
poverty, they are bounded.

789
00:43:14,600 –> 00:43:17,600
They were beaten.
They were Afflicted in chapter

790
00:43:17,600 –> 00:43:19,000
one.
We told that they were

791
00:43:19,000 –> 00:43:23,400
undergoing strains and stresses
physical ones And it’s the mind,

792
00:43:23,400 –> 00:43:27,300
the servant mind that particular
aspect of the Caribbean which

793
00:43:27,300 –> 00:43:30,700
has been drawn on that the Lord
Jesus didn’t see equality with

794
00:43:30,700 –> 00:43:33,400
God, something to be snatched at
something to be grasped.

795
00:43:33,900 –> 00:43:38,100
He had the peace in himself and
the trust that God would do it.

796
00:43:38,500 –> 00:43:42,400
If he saw it fit in, in chapter
3 we saw the problems that that

797
00:43:42,500 –> 00:43:44,400
developing of that mind can go
down.

798
00:43:45,400 –> 00:43:48,900
We saw that there is a potential
for us to lean on Law and of

799
00:43:48,900 –> 00:43:53,000
proving things and of developing
our own righteousness but that

800
00:43:53,000 –> 00:43:58,600
servant aspect of Jesus Christ
was one which trusted and we’ve

801
00:43:58,600 –> 00:44:02,100
got underlying all this book the
lessons from a Hezekiah that

802
00:44:02,100 –> 00:44:06,400
wound who trusted in God more
than any other the servant trust

803
00:44:06,400 –> 00:44:10,000
that his master is faithful and
the servant Jesus Christ trusted

804
00:44:10,000 –> 00:44:14,000
that God would give him life and
redeem him from the grave and

805
00:44:14,000 –> 00:44:16,800
not to prove it.
But the count all the stuff we

806
00:44:16,800 –> 00:44:19,000
were thinking we could prove as
refuse.

807
00:44:20,800 –> 00:44:22,500
And to have our confidence in
God.

808
00:44:23,000 –> 00:44:26,400
And that’s the only way we can
have confidence is this by faith

809
00:44:26,700 –> 00:44:27,900
because we know we’re not good
enough.

810
00:44:27,900 –> 00:44:30,700
We Know by works.
There was no strength to this

811
00:44:30,700 –> 00:44:34,200
promise and it’s the
determination of the athlete and

812
00:44:34,200 –> 00:44:37,500
setting aside the things of the
present and determining the

813
00:44:37,500 –> 00:44:41,000
looking at that crown.
Ahead of them.

814
00:44:41,200 –> 00:44:43,700
The prize of the High Calling
forgetting those things which

815
00:44:43,700 –> 00:44:47,500
behind I lost the race.
Last week I tripped and I fell

816
00:44:47,500 –> 00:44:50,400
and I hurt myself.
Well forget those things which

817
00:44:50,400 –> 00:44:52,900
are behind.
Forget them don’t don’t go back

818
00:44:52,900 –> 00:44:56,500
and dwell on those sins are gone
but doesn’t even know about them

819
00:44:56,500 –> 00:45:00,100
anymore.
They’ve been eradicated What is

820
00:45:00,100 –> 00:45:01,900
the discipline of the soldiers
as well?

821
00:45:01,900 –> 00:45:05,100
The keep in line, you can’t do
it on our own, we couldn’t do it

822
00:45:05,100 –> 00:45:07,100
on our own.
So the Lord God sent his own

823
00:45:07,100 –> 00:45:10,000
son, and now we can’t do it on
our own either.

824
00:45:10,100 –> 00:45:13,000
So he’s given us one another to
help each other on the road.

825
00:45:13,100 –> 00:45:14,900
The discipline of the soldier to
keep the line.

826
00:45:14,900 –> 00:45:17,000
Keep the rank.
Don’t let this silly thing

827
00:45:17,200 –> 00:45:19,700
spoil.
The Ecclesia don’t lose a Unity

828
00:45:19,700 –> 00:45:23,200
over something like that.
The discipline of the soldiers

829
00:45:23,200 –> 00:45:27,000
set, before them, these sisters
who I was in combat with for the

830
00:45:27,000 –> 00:45:30,100
truth in the gospel.
Walk by the same rank, keep that

831
00:45:30,100 –> 00:45:33,100
rank together, keep that line be
set for the defense of the

832
00:45:33,100 –> 00:45:38,100
Gospel in chapter 4, that Unity
of standing fast together is

833
00:45:38,100 –> 00:45:41,200
called on again, and the
Reliance on others, the soon,

834
00:45:41,300 –> 00:45:44,300
the togetherness of that
ecclesial unit don’t let that

835
00:45:44,300 –> 00:45:46,400
chink form.
Your audience is in Decay close

836
00:45:46,400 –> 00:45:49,100
up the Gap and he doesn’t say
you over there.

837
00:45:49,100 –> 00:45:51,900
Close up the Gap he calls
alongside you odious see Okay,

838
00:45:51,900 –> 00:45:55,100
come on.
And the means by which that mind

839
00:45:55,100 –> 00:45:58,000
is formed.
Is this simple thing of thinking

840
00:45:58,500 –> 00:46:00,500
on these things?
It’s absolutely Lovely.

841
00:46:00,500 –> 00:46:02,900
Isn’t it?
You think of these things?

842
00:46:02,900 –> 00:46:08,500
Now, I was talking to a sister
earlier on about the mass of the

843
00:46:08,500 –> 00:46:11,800
army of Egypt coming out and
chasing after Israel, in the

844
00:46:11,800 –> 00:46:16,000
wilderness, they depend in no
room either side and just to see

845
00:46:16,300 –> 00:46:19,500
the Red Sea ahead of them.
And it says, this Army of

846
00:46:19,500 –> 00:46:22,300
Horsemen of Chariots came
towards them and in the language

847
00:46:22,300 –> 00:46:23,800
of Exodus, what?
God.

848
00:46:23,800 –> 00:46:26,200
Do he breathe?
That’s it.

849
00:46:26,600 –> 00:46:30,600
It’s a Simplicity of God against
this.

850
00:46:30,900 –> 00:46:35,600
Upstart, very one is host coming
towards them and he breathed,

851
00:46:37,300 –> 00:46:41,000
and he left the way open for
them and gods breathe into his

852
00:46:41,000 –> 00:46:46,300
son and the son buried in, let
this mind dwell in you, let the

853
00:46:46,300 –> 00:46:49,900
words of Christ Infuse.
You, your nature will not want

854
00:46:49,900 –> 00:46:52,700
them there, but let them develop
that mind.

855
00:46:53,300 –> 00:46:56,000
Strengthen one another on the
journey call each other

856
00:46:56,000 –> 00:47:02,500
alongside think on these things.
And so the overriding aspect of

857
00:47:02,500 –> 00:47:04,200
each chapter is the joy, isn’t
it?

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And the rejoicing of the Lord
and you think of the Lord, Jesus

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behind this letter rejoicing, in
this group, that his mind is

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being put to use in this group
of people.

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So, we leave this beautiful
group of people at Philippi who

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brought such joy and praise to
him who saved us, but where are

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they now?
They know sleep, don’t they

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their names?
In written in the book.

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Sadly, we have to look to the
ALS diary.

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If we were to have one and we
see there is no occasion

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Phillipi.
So we need to be careful.

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They had no problems in.
Really, in reality, they didn’t

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get told of issues that we’re
going on.

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There is no doctrinal problems
to speak of but yet they’re no

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longer there.
So we need to have the soberness

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to think that even if we think
we’re doing, well, there’s so

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much more that we can do to take
the example, the excitation from

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this group and Bless all of us
on that Journey as we bumped

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into each other, as we have a
recent decade, we bumped into

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each other, by accident on that
Journey will let us view odious.

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Let us help each other on the
way to Salvation.

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