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🗓️ 30 January 2025
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute. And joining me is Dr. Jim Prostrow, |
0:05.7 | who is a new professor here of Scripture at the Augustine student. It's a joy, Jim, to have you on the faculty now, |
0:10.8 | teaching at the graduate school. And we're going to talk about Philippians chapter two, the hymn to Christ. |
0:17.4 | And so this is a part versus chapter two of Philippians, verses 5 through 11, is a description that Paul gives of our Lord Jesus Christ that most scholars refer to as a hymn because it looks like it goes back even before Paul perhaps, maybe part of a hymn that the early Christians sang. |
0:36.1 | And we're going to talk about that hymn to Jesus |
0:38.7 | because it is just a treasure trove of insights into who Jesus Christ is. It's a beautiful hymn. |
0:47.2 | It really just expounds upon the glory and the story of Jesus in a very short form. I mean, it's amazing. In these handful of |
0:56.7 | verses, Paul captures the greatness and the majesty of Jesus' story. And then right before that, |
1:02.8 | so the verses that lead up to that, verses 1 through 4 chapter 2, Paul sets up this story as why |
1:09.2 | from Paul's perspective, it's so important for the Christian community |
1:12.6 | to know the story of Jesus and how it gives us the right mindset. So let's jump into this, Jim. |
1:18.8 | Let's just start with the first four verses and how it sets up the hymn before we get into the hymn. |
1:23.1 | You know, Paul talks, and you can really see him exhorting the Philippians here. |
1:27.5 | I mean, he's saying basically, look, so if there is any encouragement in Christ, |
1:32.3 | any comfort from love and participation in the spirit, any affection or sympathy, |
1:36.9 | complete my joy of being of the same mind, having the same love, being a full accord and of one mind. |
1:43.0 | And he's really saying, look, if you have any charity in love or any participation in the |
1:48.6 | spirit, you need to have the same mindset. |
1:51.5 | And, of course, that's going to be important for Paul because having the same mind is very |
1:56.6 | important for the Greeks. |
1:57.5 | And of course, Philippi, just to kind of back up for people, Philippi is |
2:01.6 | in Macedonia, which is part of modern day Greece. So they're part of that Greek culture. And in that |
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