Welcome to Enjoying the Journey with Evangelist Scott Pauli.

Today we are on a journey through Scripture.

We hope you'll join us as we make 66 stops through each book of the Word of God.

Do you have a favorite book of the Bible?

Well, on our journey, we have come to my favorite today.

Have you been listening to our broadcast for some time?

You know that we actually began our enjoying the journey broadcast with a study of this book.

And so we've spent a lot of time in it, and my goal today is simply to give you a brief overview

of the book of Philippians.

It only has 104 verses,

and is much more practical than some of the other books,

and it is deeply personal.

It is one of the most personal things the Apostle Paul ever wrote.

He loved the people at Philippi. You can read the story in the book of Acts of him coming to Philippi. It was there that Lydia, the seller of purple, got saved and the church started meeting in her house. It was there that a demon-possessed girl, a slave girl, was set free. It's the only recorded miracle of the

Apostle Paul. Did you know that? It was in that city that Paul and Silas sang a hymn at midnight,

gave praise and thanks to God, and a jailer got gloriously saved. He heard the message, believe

on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. The church at Philippi was the fruit

of Paul's obedience to a vision he had when he saw a man saying, come over into Macedonia and help us.

I tell you, when you obey God, you never know what's going to come out of him. When you never know

what's going to be produced because of your obedience to God's

call in your life. And so the church at Philippi, I really believe this, was very dear to the

Apostle Paul. Three times in four chapters, he calls them his beloved. This book was written about 30

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