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How many of you, this will be your first service

that you've made during this session.

Could I see your hands?

Well, praise God, quite a bit.

You know, if we had everybody who's been here, back here, we'd have a bunch of people,

amen, but we have a lot of new people, a lot of turn over every service.

Real quickly, let me just say that I was using Paul as an example because

when he went to Philippi, the group that this book of Philippians was written to, he was beaten

and put in stocks and at midnight he started worshiping and praising God.

And you know some people don't associate Paul with a really happy person because he talked

about he prevailed in pains know, until Christ was formed in people and sometimes

people hear those things.

And they think that a happy person is a person that has no cares about them there's no problems there's

no pressures in their life that's a total misunderstanding of what true happiness

is I tell you you can rejoice in the Lord even though around you everything may be going bad.

Paul, I believe is a great example of a person that was able to overcome their adversity

and operate in joy and happiness with the Lord.

And so I've been taking the book of Philippians

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