Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today in our New Testament plan we finished book 16 and in our full Bible plan we finished

book 55.

We first met the Philippians in Acts 16.

Here's a quick refresher.

Philippi is where Paul and Silas were arrested and God used that to save their prison guard

and his whole family.

It's also where they met Lydia, whose whole family converted to Christianity too, and

it's also where they met a demonized girl and set her free from the demon and from slavery.

Today Paul writes an encouragement filled letter to the church here.

From day one they've had a unique relationship with Paul.

He planted this church and he's watched it grow and he's confident that God will finish

what he started in them.

He repeats this idea a few times in this short letter.

In 16 he says,

He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Christ Jesus.

And in 212-13 he says,

Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling for it is God who works in you, both to will

and to work for his good pleasure.

He indicates that God is the one doing the good works through them and even creating the

desire in them to do those things.

And here's one important point of clarification.

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