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PAUL’S MINISTRY TO THE CHURCH ALIVE IN CHRIST

For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

LABORING TO PERFECT THE CHURCH

And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.

OUR WONDROUS PRIVILEGES IN CHRIST

For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

GOD’S PROVISION MY GOD SHALL SUPPLY EVERY NEED

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

EXHORTATION, ENCOURAGEMENT, AND PRAYER

Therefore, my fellow believers, whom I love and long for, my delight and crown [my wreath of victory], in this way stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.

STRAINING TOWARD THE GOAL

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST

Look out for the dogs [the Judaizers, the legalists], look out for the troublemakers, look out for the false circumcision .

HONORING CHRISTIAN MESSENGERS TIMOTHY AND EPAPHRODITUS

How was Timothy distinguished from Paul’s other helpers? What is said about Epaphroditus?

BRIGHT LIGHTS IN THE WORLD

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Do all things without murmurings and disputings

CHRIST’S EXAMPLE OF HUMILITY FOLLOWING HIS EXAMPLE OF SELF-SURRENDER

So that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW , of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess and openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord , to the glory of God the Father