So, Philippines one, and we're starting at the end of verse 18.

Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,

for I know that through your prayers and the help given by the spirit of Jesus Christ

what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance. I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed,

but will have sufficient courage,

so that now, as always, Christ will be exalted in my body,

whether by life or by death.

For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain.

If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labour for me.

Yet what shall I choose? I do not know. I am torn between the two I desire to depart and be with Christ which is better by

far but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.

Convinced of this, I know that I will remain,

and I will continue with all of you

for your progress and your joy and faith, so that through my being with you again, your joy in Christ

Jesus will overflow on account of me. I want to talk about a discovery that I made.

I want to talk about a discovery that I made by grace in the word of God 50 years ago.

In the fall of 1968, I can date it the three months or so during which I passed from

ignorance into knowledge concerning things that have shaped everything in my life.

The discovery has to do with the glory of God and its massive centrality in the universe and my happiness and its massive power in my heart, my desire for it.

And the discovery was how they relate to each other

and how that relationship catapults delighting in God or the enjoyment of God to a place that is so pervasive that it changes everything in life.

So that's where we're going. Let me pray.

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