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A comparison of the Epistle to the Philippians with the letters that Paul had written before it might seem to indicate that the church at Philippi had no censurable weaknesses at all. Such a thought, of course, cannot be true because just as "there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins" (Eccl. 7: 20 ESV) so it is with churches, and even though the church at Philippi is not...

coupled with an air of spiritual unreality and lack of unity within as presenting an alarming threat to this. The church had been in partnership with Paul in the cause of ‘the defence and confirmation of the gospel’ (1:7). That is what had bound them together as one and it is what Paul fervently desired to continue, whether or not he was spared. He wrote, therefore, so that the church might be and remain truly evangelical—that is, thoroughly characterized by the gospel. All Paul’s epistles are gospel-centred,
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