Philippians (Program #9) – The Believers’ Support to the Apostle
The book of Philippians is concern with the experience and the enjoyment of Christ and this issue in our joy and rejoicing yet among the Philippians believers there were much dissension in their thinking. Dissension which troubled the apostle Paul, he even asked them to think the same thing, even think the same one thing that in this way they may make his joy full. Paul had given them such positive fellowship in the first chapter now he desires them to return this fellowship to support him in his imprisonment. This mutual fellowship in the Body of Christ is what we are looking at in today’s life study of the Bible in the book of Philippians.
The apostle is not nearly as bothered as it seems by his imprisonment in this Roman jail as it was by the fact the Philippians believers were not of the same mind, were not thinking the same thing.
Let’s look at the 4 verses in chapter 2, actually these verses make up one very long sentence. “If there is therefore any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any tenderheartedness and compassions, make my joy full, that you think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking the one thing, doing nothing by way of selfish ambition, not by way of vainglory, but in lowliness of mind considering one another more excellent than yourselves, not regarding each his own virtues, but each the virtues of others also.” This is not just ethical instruction from the apostle Paul, there is much more profound and organic.
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