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Expressions of love: Phil 2 & 3
Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be encouraged by hearing news about you.
I am all the more eager to send him (Epaphroditus), so that when you see him again you can rejoice and I can be free from anxiety.
Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! To write this again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.
Expressions of love: Phil 4
So then, my brothers and sisters, dear friends whom I long to see, my joy and crown, stand in the Lord in this way, my dear friends!
I have great joy in the Lord because now at length you have again expressed your concern for me. (Now I know you were concerned before but had no opportunity to do anything.)
Philippians 1
I thank my God every time I remember you.
I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you
For it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart...
For God is my witness that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
Goal
To be so deeply impacted by what Jesus did
that it changes all our relationships.
Letter from a Roman governor
Pliny the Younger, wrote to Emperor Trajan in A.D.112–3
“…Christians are in the habit of singing hymns, to Christ as to a god”
Philippians 2:1-11
At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow,
every tongue confess him King of glory now;
‘tis the Father’s pleasure we should call him Lord,
who from the beginning was the mighty Word.
Humbled for a season, to receive a name
from the lips of sinners, unto whom he came;
faithfully he bore it spotless to the last,
brought it back victorious when from death he passed;