The transition from praise and thanksgiving to prayer and supplication should always be a smooth one as Paul here demonstrates. After his time of thanksgiving to God for past and present blessings, the Apostle petitions God in regard to certain basic needs for the...
“I thank my God”—What an unusual way to begin a letter written in prison by a faithful messenger of Christ who is no longer free to travel and establish churches as he had been doing for many years. Surely he is a living example of the admonition he...
The introduction of the epistle makes known the writer, the Apostle Paul, and Timothy his companion, presenting them as bondslaves of Jesus Christ. The addressees include all of the saints in Philippi with their spiritual leaders. As members of the body of Christ in...
In order to understand the historical background of this charming little epistle, we must go to the inspired record in the Acts of the Apostles, where in chapter 16, verses 12 to 40, we are given the history of what happened about ten years before the writing of the...
A dispensational outline study of Paul’s epistle to the Philippians. As members of the body of Christ in this dispensation of grace, we know we too are included as recipients of the message of this great epistle. In fact, someone has well said that every...
When the late Pastor J. C. O’Hair was teaching the Epistle to the Romans in North Shore Church many years ago, he urged his students to read the epistle at least 100 times. They were told that after they had read it a hundred times, they were ready to begin to...
