Hey church family if you got your bible and i hope you do philippians chapter three is where we are

in our study of philippians and it is devot time we'll just pick it up three one finally my brothers

which is this is how you know paul is a preacher because he says finally and he's halfway through the

letter so he's still got

two chapters ago. Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no

trouble to me and is safe for you. Once again, Paul uses this word, rejoice it. And just in case you've forgotten, remember where

he has written this from. He is writing this from prison. And yet, in like per capita, the word

joy or rejoiced is used more in the book of Philippians than any other book. And the reason is

because Paul, he was not pursuing happiness

found in happenings, but he found his joy in Jesus. And since Jesus never changes, then his joy

never changes. And so he says, rejoice. Verse two, he's going to give a warning. Look out for the dogs. Look out for the evil doers. Look out for those who

mutilate the flesh. For we are the circumcision who worship by the spirit of God and glory in Christ

Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh. What he's talking about here, he talks about it also

in the book of Galatians, is dog was a derogatory term. By the way, it is one of my favorite

verses. And as the season starts out, look out for those dogs, so I always love that.

But what he's talking about is a group of people called Judaizers.

And what Judaizers would do is they believed in Jesus.

They just believed it was Jesus plus obedience.

Jesus plus works.

And the specific work was that your salvation was dependent on the old covenant symbol of covenant,

which was circumcision. And so this is why Paul calls them mutilators of the flesh.

And what he says here, he says it in the book of Romans too. Basically, he says,

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