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Jumpstart your sermon planning with Study, Apply, Share: Philippians—a resource for preparing and presenting sermons and coordinating your worship services. For each biblical paragraph covered, Study, Apply, Share: Philippians does the work of several resources: it identifies interpretation issues, provides application suggestions, and suggests worship service ideas. Elegant, professionally...

The notion that God accepts people by faith without their compliance with the Mosaic Law is perhaps Paul’s greatest theological contribution. This “justification by faith” teaches that trust in Jesus rather than obedience to the Law renders a person justified before God. Although this doctrine is articulated best in Romans and Galatians (Rom 3:26–30; 5:1; Gal 2:16; 3:8, 24), Paul was forced to address it in Philippi also because of the influence of Judaizers. In Philippians 3:2, he refers to them