Philippians 1:27-2:18
Dear RTB’ers,
For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in Him but also suffer for His sake, engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had... (vv. 1:29-30a) I can’t read this verse without my mind going back to Acts 16, the incident of Paul and Silas in prison in Philippi. It makes the whole epistle come alive, in that Paul’s readers can always identify with his imprisonment there.
Encouragement, comfort, participation, affection, sympathy… (v. 2:1)
consolation, fellowship, compassion (NASB) Words that describe how Christians need to be living with one another. Other descriptors…?
“Joy” (or “rejoice”) shows up three times today. (vv. 2:2, 17, 18)
Therefore God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (vv. 9-11) GLORY!
Blessings.
Fred