Lord.” And when he transitions to the following section in 4:4 he will hinge it with the command, “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.” Significantly, as Paul prefaces the warnings of chapter 3 with the call to rejoice, he couples it for the first time in Philippians with the qualifier “in the Lord” because the Lord himself is both the occasion and source of their joy. Such joy (because it is “in the Lord”) is independent of adverse circumstances. The great John Wesley exuded his