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Stand United in Joy: An Exposition of Philippians is unavailable, but you can change that!

Division and anxiety mark the church of Jesus Christ today. Denominations, churches, families, and individuals are fragmented, confused, and depressed. A revival of unity and joy is needed, but it must first begin in the heart of a yielded believer. In the first century the same situation prevailed in the church at Philippi. Paul wrote this epistle to produce a oneness of joy within the members...

A. His Testimony (1:20) This verse contains two main verbal concepts, introduced by a qualifying prepositional phrase. Through this grammatical structure, Paul included three ideas within his testimony. 1. He had hope The opening preposition “according to” (kata) shows the standard behind Paul’s confession. There is one object of that preposition with a double feature (“my earnest expectation and my hope”).1 Expectation is the outward manifestation of hope, whereas hope is the inward conviction of
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