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It's good to see everyone here. 
This evening, we got a good 

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crowd and I appreciate that very
much and we're going to continue

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with our study in Philippians 
the second chapter. 

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If you don't have questions, 
there are some on the back 

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table. 
This set of questions, deals 

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with verses 16 through 22. 
I'd like to go back to verse 

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well, let's just go back to the 
beginning and we'll read through

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Let's see, we'll probably read 
through verse 24. 

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Paul writing thier to the church
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there is any consolation in 
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if any Fellowship of the spirit,
if any affection and mercy, 

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fulfill my Joy, by being 
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love being of one, Accord of one
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through selfish. 
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But in lowliness of Mind, Let 
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himself. 
Let each of you look out not 

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only for his own interest but 
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others, let this mind be in you 
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Jesus, who being in the form of 
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to be equal with God, but made 
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the form of a bondservant and be
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and being found. 
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humbled himself and became 
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even the death of the Cross. 
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highly exalted him and given him
the name, which is above every 

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name that at the name of Jesus 
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in heaven and of those on Earth 
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that every tongue should 
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Lord to the glory of God. 
Father therefore my beloved as 

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you have always obeyed, not as 
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more in my absence work out your
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trembling for it is God who 
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do for his good pleasure? 
Do all things without 

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complaining and disputing that 
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harmless children of God without
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and perverse. 
Zeus generation among who you 

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whom you shine as lights in the 
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the life, so that I might may 
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that I have not run in vain, or 
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being poured out as a drink 
offering on the sacrifice and 

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service of your faith, I am glad
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same reason that also for the 
same reason, you also be glad 

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and rejoice with me, but I trust
in the Lord Jesus to send 

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Timothy to you shortly. 
That I also may be encouraged 

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when I know your state for. 
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will sincerely care for your 
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For all for all seek their own, 
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Christ Jesus. 
But you know, his proven 

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character that has a son with 
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He served me in the gospel, 
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once as soon as I see how it 
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But I trust in the Lord that I 
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So throughout the first part of 
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that Paul is really kind of just
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for them. 
He's praising them for what they

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do their faithfulness, they're 
they're, you know, holding fast 

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to to the the word of Truth and 
doing the things that need to 

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be, but he also gives them 
encouragement. 

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Maybe some things that maybe 
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and guys, too. 
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all headed in the right 
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Talks about Unity talks about 
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putting each other first and 
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But he he tells them that 
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a good job there. 
He's praising them but but still

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encouraging them, I guess is the
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I'm really looking for 
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doing what they're doing and 
showing them that they are. 

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This light of the All that they 
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He says. 
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verse 16 and he says holding 
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may rejoice in the day of Christ
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labored in vain. 
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meant by the phrase holding 
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The words? 
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day of Christ? 
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commentators kind of had a 
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this, but the if, You go to 
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term holding fast. 
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hold forth present as a light by
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lights of the world. 
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what he's saying, even, even 
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different, two different ways 
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basically take the gospel, which
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take it and and have that light 
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In other words, that it's 
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do, I believe the other way that
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other words, kind of holding 
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at as well or described as But 
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encouraging them to continue 
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In other words, taking that word
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or a or a flash light that 
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gives us to know where we need 
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the path. 
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term that's being used here, so 
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go back to 2. 
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He says do all things without 
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This Den disputing that you may 
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children of God without fault in
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perverse generation. 
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they're the the, the the Society
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always going in the right 
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So they're living amongst these 
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pervert and take them different 
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So he says, among whom you shine
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kind of ties together with that 
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words of Life holding fast. 
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light. 
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lights of the world, to take 
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the good to shine. 
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staying on the path and other 
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where the path is, so they can 
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sure that everyone is going in 
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The words of Life talked about 
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gospel. 
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the work, the gospel and using 
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the direction, in which they 
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If we look at John 6, + 63, 
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gives life, the flesh profits, 
nothing the words that I speak 

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to you are spirit and they are 
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The words of life. 
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spreading it, the church at 
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responsibility of spreading the 
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It was taking the words of Life,
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are lost in sin and sustaining 
that defending it, taking it and

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using it effectively. 
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within it and then the day of 
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comes again, the day that Paul 
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he's encouraging them to stay 
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they're doing, and Paul stating 
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remain blameless. 
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with and, and in the Lord, Verse
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Yes. 
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a drink offering on the 
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faith, I am glad and rejoice 
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So this was a bit of a difficult
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Some others may not have found 
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little bit for me to kind of 
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what was being being talked 
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Well this was a term. 
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term of being Poured out poured 
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talking about this practice 
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some of the pagans that they 
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they would pour liquid that, 
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sometimes it would be wine, 
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and other things that we're had 
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would pour it on the thing that 
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So it was kind of like a I'm 
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wrote down here now, I can't 
find it. 

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Well, I'll find it here in a 
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So, if we go back to numbers 15 
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two verses chapter 28 and verse 
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this. 
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says, then he who presents his 
offering to the Lord shall bring

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a grain offering of one-tenth of
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mixed with 1/4 of a hen of oil. 
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drink offering you shall 
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the sacrifice for each lamb. 
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elements and they would mix them
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be poured over the the lamb that
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Hebrew, that that word hen is a 
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about five and a half quarts. 
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of oil and five and a half cups,
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that it was fermented juice or, 
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And that would become then, that
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And so then the grammar of I'm 
being poured out, the Paul talks

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about is, is indicates the 
possibility that his execution, 

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may be short and it coming or 
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And this was an if this was so 
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sacrifice of his blood being 
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So if we go back and read this, 
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poured out as a drink offering 
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your faith, I'm glad and rejoice
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Notice what Paul told Timothy 
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In second Timothy 4 in verses 6 
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be poured out as a drink 
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departure is at hand, I fought a
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have finished the race, I have 
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So Paul was basically saying the
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ready to be poured out as a 
drink offering. 

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cause of Christ, if it, if it 
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I believe For their service and 
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He was willing to even give his 
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Christ, to help them continue 
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says, and I'm glad and rejoice 
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Also on that point of and 
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So, Paul is stating that if he 
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Give his life, which is 
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Here's what I was looking for 
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compared to that which was being
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sacrifice. 
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the oil was the minor sacrifice 
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value and putting it in on the 
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lamb that was given. 
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himself, even if I have to give 
my blood, it's a minor sacrifice

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I hope that I haven't confused 
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So even that humble service of 
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to him, Paul's life was going to
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Either in Life or in death, he 
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had towards the cause of Christ.
So this was the source of his 

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gladness. 
This is what made him happy that

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he was seen that the church at 
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want. 
They were supposed to be doing, 

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he found pleasure in that he 
found gladness in that and he 

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was willing regardless to give 
even his life, that there might 

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be more even more joy. 
And he wanted these Philippians 

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2 even adopt that same attitude.
So verses 18 through 20. 

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Now we come too. 
And the reads for the same 

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reason, you also be glad and 
rejoice with me and that really 

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kind of carries along with what 
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Just said he was wanting them to
Rejoice along with him but I 

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trust in the Lord Jesus to send 
Timothy to you shortly that I 

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also may be encouraged when I 
know your state for. 

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I have no one like minded who 
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somebody for a while or seeing a
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on the phone or whatever it may 
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are going as if everybody's, you
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remaining faithful and and and 
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So he says, I trust in the Lord 
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shortly. 
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on, whatever the Lord's will was
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might be able to do that. 
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prison, he was hoping to be able
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and be able to come and be with 
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Timothy I want to send Timothy. 
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though that I may be also may be
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problems there but he he would 
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going on. 
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and we worry about somebody and 
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to him, see everybody's doing 
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is being said, the contrast to 
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there was a lot of problems that
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writing those letters that were 
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things that they were doing 
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That's not, that's not the, the,
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of this letter to them, that's 
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letter. 
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of this nature. 
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he was the Corinthians So he 
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says I have no one like minded. 
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mayor said they said in other 
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this, I have no one equal in 
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We know what that's like to have
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we know what they're thinking, 
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is going to be, what their next 
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feel about certain things. 
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them. 
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or the King James version, says,
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then they can stop worrying 
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there was anything lacking, he 
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would see to their needs, and 
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necessarily for the benefit of 
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also that the this likeness of 
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The Timothy probably was the 
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It's kind of like we talked 
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well, you know, we're just kind 
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That's kind of way that I feel 
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Timothy that they had this 
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That was not like all of maybe 
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be in some of the Apostles but 
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probably maybe were sent off 
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that like That and and weren't 
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But still Paul's preference was 
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get a good report, he knew that 
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He knew that he would take care 
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and things of that nature. 
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this verse mean and verse 21 
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not the things which are of 
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about others that were preaching
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They were he said Paul was glad 
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preaching the truth but their 
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Timothy is one who stood out, he
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and apart from any of the others
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had this Oh, sness, that Paul 
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Timothy was one that Paul felt. 
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confidence in. 
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Finish up here quickly. 
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his proven character that has a 
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He served with me in the gospel 
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the phrase as a son with his 
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He served with me in the gospel.
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know who Timothy is, he's proven
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And this passage also indicates 
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relationship was between Paul 
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comparing that to the to the 
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and a son. 
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and his son would have that they
work together and had sold so 

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many things in common and 
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cause of Christ. 
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all the things about his son. 
And so the sun would know things

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about his father and that 
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other people would maybe, not 
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are things that my children, 
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And I understand about them that
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That's the closeness that Paul 
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That's the how Close of a 
relationship, they have. 

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