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Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.

If you got a Bible, we are in Philippians, Chapter 1, if you don't have a copy of your

scripture with you, don't stress, I'm going to read it to you. We're in a series about

Home Team, about what it's like to be at us.

And I want to read to you from Philippians, Philippians the letter that Paul wrote,

the apostle to his favorite church. I don't know if you can say that, but we're

gonna say that. It was his favorite church. It's very excited about these guys.

And the passage we're gonna reads, chapter one, starting verse 12, it's him giving him an update on his own life.

And he says this, I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me is really serve to advance the

gospel so that it's become known throughout the whole imperial guard and all the rest that

my imprisonment is for Christ. And most of the brothers having

become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment are much more bold to speak the

word without fear. Some indeed preach Christ from envy and

rivalry but others from goodwill. The latter do it out of love, knowing I'm put here

for the defense of the gospel. The former proclaimed Christ that of selfish ambition, not

sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment. But what then? Only that in every way,

whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed and in that I rejoice.

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