Did you know that a tiger can defeat a lion in battle every time?

Did you know that?

I did not know until recently.

You think of the lion being the king of the jungle, but if you have five lions, they will

defeat five tigers in battle every time.

You say, what happens and what made the difference?

Very simply this.

The lions fight together against their enemies.

The tigers fight separately. And that is the blessing of unity and the curse of this unity.

Years ago, the man who disciples me, I told you about him in the last message, he wanted

to teach me that lesson. And not forsaking the assembling and submitting myself to authority in the church,

and be in unity with the church, and he hand me a stick.

He said, break it.

Well, I put it to my knees, and it broke.

And the next thing, he hand me ten sticks wrapped together.

He said, now break these.

I couldn't.

The lesson was learned.

You say, what has this got to do with the joy that you have been preaching about? A great deal. The truth be said, there can be no joy in any of our

lives without unity. And this is really the message of Philippians chapter

1 beginning at verse 27 to chapter 2, verse 11. I want you to turn with me, please, to your

Bibles, to that passage. We had begun a series of messages from Paul's letter or epistle to the

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