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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...

Third, Christ was magnified in Paul by the agency of the Holy Spirit. There is a switch in the verbal structure here.3 He did not say: “I shall magnify Christ”; rather, he wrote: “Christ shall be magnified.” The passive voice suggests that Christ would be magnified by Paul through an outside influence. The apostle was a microscope or a telescope, but the Spirit was the one who controlled the focus of the instrument. The verb “be magnified” means “to be made great” or “to be extolled.”4 Fourth, its
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