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As he sits in a Roman prison, the Apostle Paul does not focus on the difficulties of his own situation when he writes to the Philippians. Rather, he is most interested in encouraging the Philippian church that he and his ministry team had founded on his second missionary journey. He overflows with joy as he urges his readers to maintain unity by looking to role models—himself, their brother...

but it also is the sign of everything Christian. These false teachers apparently preached the cross, but the behavior they condoned and even encouraged put the lie to their preaching and made them “enemies of the cross.” There is an important principle here. Right teaching that fails to produce right living is an abomination to God, who demands that belief be lived out in practice, that the mind influence the lifestyle. Those who claim to know Christ but fail to live accordingly are “enemies of the
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