The following resource is from desiring God.org. So he's just finished chapter 8, which is the greatest chapter in the Bible full of some of the most precious promises that there are.

And he says next, I am speaking the truth in Christ.

I am not lying.

My conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit that I have great sorrow and

unceasing anguish in my heart. Maybe I should pause there. I wasn't, this isn't the one thing I was

going to underline but I said last night I think we'd come back to that great sorrow and unceasing anguish.

So in Philippians 4. 4. 4. Paul says, rejoice always and again I say to you rejoice.

Rejoice. rejoice. So that is a moment that requires thinking.

Think over what I say to you, Timothy, and the Lord will give you understanding and everything.

So here's a text that says, Rejoys Always.

And here's a text that says, I always have anguish.

So either we say he just is overstating or forgot what he said or he had a good day one day and a bad day

another day or I rule all that out because of his

Apostleship and his claiming to speak in his letters,

words taught by the Spirit.

He's really claiming to be in the Holy Spirit as he speaks here and in Christ as he speaks here.

I say Christian emotional experience is profoundly complex and that the key is found in 2nd Corinthians,

chapter 6,

where there's this little phrase,

sorrowful, yet always rejoicing.

So when you ask Paul, okay, in Philippians you said this,

in Romans you said this, but you didn't say them together and so we're

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