This continual habitual joy should mark us, rejoice in the Lord always, and I repeat it, rejoice in the Lord.

And it's our knowledge of Him that causes us to rejoice.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

A.W. Tozer once explained that if you have a hundred pianos and you tune the second piano

to the first and the third to the second and so on, you will still have disharmony.

However, if you tune each piano to the same tuning fork, you'll have unity and harmony.

So it is within the church, as Tozer said, when we tune ourselves to Christ, we will have unity.

Well, as John MacArthur continues his study called,

seven steps to spiritual stability. He's going to show you practical steps that you can take to tune your life to Christ

and experience maximum joy in your relationships with fellow believers.

So follow along now as John begins the lesson.

Would you open your Bible now to Philippians chapter 4, this lovely letter from the Apostle Paul

to the Christians in the city of Philippi? Let's start with this matter of pursuing or

cultivating harmony or peace in the fellowship of love. Verse 2, uses the word urge here,

paracle...we'll get the word paracleete from it, which the Holy Spirit is called in John's gospel,

one who comes alongside to plead or beg or encourage or help. So Paul is in a pleading, begging,

encouraging mode and he says, I want to plead with these two women, Eudia and Sintiki,

to please live in harmony in the Lord. Now will you notice he says, to live in harmony in the Lord?

That's the sphere. If they'll just get right with the Lord, they'll solve the problem. You understand

that? Two people who are right with the Lord are right with each other. Is that not true?

If I'm walking in the Spirit and I'm right with the Lord and you're walking in the Spirit and

you're right with the Lord, we're going to get along great. No problem. So he says,

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