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Thank you.

Father God, thank you so much that though we have sin and separate ourselves from you, that you've pursued us for relationship and you've given us a means by which we can have not

only reconciliation with you but also reconciliation with one another through the person and work

of Jesus.

So we ask that you would send the Holy Spirit

that as we study the words which he inspired to be written that we would

understand them and apply them and experience the life that Jesus intends for us as we ask this in his good name.

Amen. Well here's our topic. Our topic is out of Philippians 1, be a long

introduction then we'll begin in chapter 1 verse 2 and the theme that we're looking at is loneliness

and uh... paul is a guy who's experiencing at the time of the writing of this book profound

loneliness in jail all by himself separated from from his friends, writing them a letter,

speaking about how much he misses them, how much he has enjoyed them, and how he may

never see them again. By virtue of the fact that he is facing the potential of being put to death in prison.

And his issue of loneliness really is interesting because in our day it's essentially an epidemic.

The people are disconnected, isolated, lonely.

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