Hello, friends, this is Evangelist Scott Pauli. I'm so happy that you are joining our broadcast today.

Several years ago, when we first began the Enjoying the Journey broadcast, we started with my favorite book of the Bible.

I've adopted it really is my life's study on the book of

Philippians. And the theme, of course, of that great book is the joy of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Truly, it is the Bible treaties on what it means to enjoy the journey. Now we're thrilled to share

this anniversary series with you again in the hopes that God will use it in your life to help you learn to enjoy the Lord Jesus Christ at whatever stage you happen to be on on life's journey.

I trust that these studies from the Word of God today will refresh your spirit and renew your strength for the days ahead.

God bless you as you listen.

I once had a teacher that said that oftentimes truth is not found in the acceptance of one

extreme or the other, but often in the acceptance of both. In other words,

oftentimes there are two things that seem to be opposite and yet they work together. That's true

in many things in scripture. For example, God connects repentance and faith. God reveals himself as the sovereign God and yet gives us a will and the ability to choose

and the responsibility to choose.

There are many truths like this that are connected in Scripture.

Well, you're going to find one of those in Philippians chapter 3, where we've come to in our study.

Because verse 15 and verse 16

almost sound like opposite truths, like they contradict, but they don't, they complete one another.

It's not one or the other, it is both. Let me read them to you.

Philippians chapter 3, verse 15, says, let us therefore therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded.

And if in anything you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

Nevertheless, where to we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

Now, in verse 15, he says,

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