Come on, clap your hands. One more time, everybody.

I want to read a few verses of scripture found in the book of Philippians chapter four.

We're in a series called Arresting Anxiousness, and I want to continue a lesson I started last week found taken from Philippians 4, verse 4,

where Paul says these words, rejoice in the Lord always.

I'll say it again, rejoice.

Let your gentleness be evident to all.

The Lord is near.

Do not be anxious about anything.

But in every situation by prayer and petition,

with Thanksgiving, present your request to God and the peace of God, which transcends all

understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

So I'm going to stop the reading of scripture there.

We're still talking from this subject.

I am putting anxiousness under arrest.

Putting anxiousness under arrest.

This particular passage allows us to eavesdrop on a conversation that a spiritual leader named Paul is having with a burgeoning group of believers in northern Greece in a colony called Philippi.

Hence, the book is called Philippians.

Paul's letter to believers in Philippi.

And in Philippians chapter four, we get some insight into a conversation that Paul is having

with people who have new life but need to learn how to live life a new way.

They have new life.

They're what we would call saved, born again, converted. They have new life. They're what we would call saved, born again, converted.

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