Hey church family if you got your Bible would you turn to the final chapter of the book of

Philippians and funny enough this is going to be the final week of our divos they're not gone forever

but um I felt like when we were ordered to shelter at home, was that six months ago or something,

I felt like the Lord impressed upon me that I needed to shepherd our church through this season.

So this is why I started doing these devos.

And at this point now, we're into like the middle of October,

all of our campuses are open except our prison campuses. So pray for those guys. But they can watch

kind of online. Our kids ministry is open. Our student ministry is open. Everything is wide open.

And so just for pacing sake for myself,

this is going to be the end of the online divos, at least for the rest of this year. I do think

they will come back for certain seasons based on series that we're doing. So I hope they've been

helpful. And if you feel like you just have to have them,

well, I think we did 30 weeks or something like that. So feel free to go back all the way to

week one and re-listen to them all. Maybe you'll learn something brand new. So Philippians,

chapter four, one of my favorite chapters in all of Philippians. I feel like I go here a lot.

We're just going to do three verses today. Paul says to the church of Philippi,

therefore brothers whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.

Do you hear the affectionate language that Paul has for the church at Philippi?

And again, we talked about this a few weeks ago when he said in the introduction to Philippians,

how he longed to see them, he remembered their tears. He said it was right for him to feel that way,

and he had this church in his heart. Again, 1122, this is how I feel about you. My joy, my crown,

my beloved. And even though what's interesting is the next two verses that we get to,

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