Paul in His Own Words 3 | The Prisoner of Christ

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Hey, hey, it is November the
2nd.

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November 2nd and you.
Know what that means?

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Yeah, we're we just hit daylight
saving time being gone.

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Brutal that.
That is.

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Yeah.
So the clock says that it is

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747, but your body says it's 847
maybe.

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Yeah, it's, it's it's crazy.
I appreciate the extra, you

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know, hour of sleep.
I don't appreciate it's just

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dark, just just dark, you know,
man.

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But it's also no shave November,
which I don't know if you're, I

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know you didn't go clean shaven.
Are you?

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You should go no shave November
and just keep it going.

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This is scragglier than I
normally.

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Yeah.
So you're already like, so just.

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Keep on going and like, have it.
Yeah, Jill would love that.

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She would love that.
I don't know how you know, Jill

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has fallen off the bandwagon a
little bit listening.

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She's really behind and she's
like still behind.

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She's like, I don't I she's
like, I can't catch up on.

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You don't have to catch up.
Yeah, just just stay three

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months behind as long as you're
listening to every single one of

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them.
That's.

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The key, that's the ticket.
You know, that's good.

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Yeah.
So she's no fan of.

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She would not like it if you
went even more lumberjack.

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I don't think so.
Like, there was a time when the

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Duck Dynasty craze was hitting
everyone and people like growing

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really big bears was like, I
should do this.

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And she was like, no, she's
like, I don't want you to clean

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shaving, but I don't want that.
That and the just the.

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I should, I should just, yeah,
just see and.

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And maybe if she would stay up
to date on the podcast episode,

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she would know when to shut it
down.

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You know when she listens to
this then she can shut it down.

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That's right, that seems
appropriate punishment fits the

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crime.
So I'm I totally clean shave

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October 31st Halloween, not I'm
just going to see if I can go

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the whole time to see what
happens and you can already see

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in two days where my facial hair
grows.

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Right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So.
I I do reserve the right to

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clean up the neck and even like
your feet a little bit, you

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know?
But you know the The thing is, I

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have cleaned up my ears.
It's so bad.

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It's like dude.
I don't know.

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I don't know if if you're old
enough where the hair starts

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growing on the like the little
lobe part of your ear, but it's.

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Yeah, yeah, like you get ear
hair like on your on your ear,

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like on the outs, like on your
ears, What you're saying?

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Yeah, it I've, this is really
weird, probably a little bit

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gross.
I've had like an ear hair that's

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like, I'm like, how did this
sneak up on me?

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How how is this like yes, yes.
How is this like actually?

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Substantial.
I've also had a nose hair like a

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nose hair like like a hand
that's like like 2 inch.

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I was like, how did no one's how
did they miss this?

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Like what's going on?
I.

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Had one of those on my chest.
It was like really thin and just

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like 3 inches long.
You're like, where did this come

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from?
What's going on?

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Yeah, yeah.
So yeah, that's.

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November.
Human body boy, the daylight

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savings thing we need to get on
the you know, we need.

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To Do you know how there may
have been someone today in our

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sermon who said the fruits?
Of the Spirit several times.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you know that it is actually

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daylight saving time?
How, boy, it doesn't.

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Have enough?
I don't.

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It doesn't have any.
Litigate this ad.

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Yeah, yeah.
So it's just daylight saving?

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Not in my book.
Yeah, yeah.

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Not, not saving, not in my book.
Daylight savings, I just, I just

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shorten it.
Daylight savings, I don't even

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say the time, but it's brutal,
man.

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I just need that's what that
would bring America together.

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To just stay on daylight saving
time, don't go back to Standard

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Time.
Just yeah, Just, you know.

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I think that's now Jill.
We are.

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Jill and I went on a walk today,
this evening, and she said she

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saw some chart of the negative
effects if you just stayed on

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Standard Time or if you just
stayed on Oh.

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Yeah, let's go pros and.
Cons Yeah.

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And I don't have that chart.
Maybe you should maybe you

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should look that up.
Maybe next banter we can talk

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about it.
I don't know, but she was saying

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maybe this is the best way
because, you know, one of the

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things is if you stay, stay on
daylight saving time, which is

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what I would want.
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It gets dark and cold.
And kids who are waiting on

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buses are like, it's they're
waiting in the dark and very,

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very cold.
Hey, Learn.

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To grow up life's, that's what I
say.

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Life's no picnic.
That's what I say, you know, you

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got, you know, a month and a
half, two months.

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But it's like, I mean, I don't
know.

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I don't know.
I would rather have the daylight

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at the end than in the morning,
you know?

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I don't know why.
That's just like, I just don't

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like getting home from work and
it's like already dark.

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For you know, I haven't been
hunting at all this year.

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I've been trying to figure out a
way that I can fit it in.

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But for hunt, for me hunting
anyways, what it does is it

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moves everything earlier the
the, the so you have to get up

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earlier, but also at the end of
your day that windows closing

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earlier.
So if it was an hour later, then

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I can get up a little bit later,
get out there, and then after

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work I have more time to get out
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Yeah, to go to because you know,
you can only hunt while it's

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daylight unless you're poaching.
Right.

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That's and you're and you're
above board.

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I'm above board, yeah.
I've never poached SO.

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Man, well, I tried to anything
else?

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I mean, we just came off the
heels of Halloween Reformation

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Day.
Reformation day, Yeah.

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Got some candy.
Yeah, lots.

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I got lots of candy in my
household, right?

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Now we had a a bowl leftover and
we almost drove by yesterday,

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knocked on your door and like
just handed something more to

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your kids.
She was like, no, no, no, no.

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Leanne would not want us to do
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That's that, that's the best,
you know, just so much candy.

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It's like insane.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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You can always give it to the
school when they're doing this

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Candy for Veterans drive.
Oh, that's true.

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Yeah, that's true, I'm sure.
Your kids will love you.

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Love you if you do that.
Yeah.

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Did you see this actual contract
that Jonathan had his kids sign?

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I heard.
About this, I think it's genius,

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you know?
Yeah, like 10% of his picks.

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It's pretty good.
Although Phoebe, she's like, I'm

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gonna separate them in piles.
I like and don't like and like

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the Twix and the Snickers and
the Baby Ruth all in the pile

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that she doesn't like.
I'm like wow, what is wrong with

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like man?
We you get we get the girl

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checked out.
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I mean, who that that, that
honestly, that should be like

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that should be like a test like
for something, I don't know what

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it is, but we should test for
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Yeah.
Yeah.

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So what what's like her go to?
Is she like more of like the

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candy and not?
Chocolate is that the sugar and

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not?
Chocolate.

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Yeah, yeah, I get that.
When you're a kid, especially on

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your little, it's just like the
things that you like eat, man.

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It it's crazy.
Yeah, I don't, I don't get it.

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I I mean, I love a good Jolly
Rancher.

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Yeah, Yeah, a good an hour
later.

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No, too soon.
Oh, brutal.

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You know, sometimes with
daylight saving time.

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See, I said it right.
Yeah.

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Are you happy?
I appreciate it.

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I'll.
Never say it again.

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You feel like a prisoner.
Yeah, a prisoner to the sun.

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That's right.
That's right.

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Yeah.
I'm in a dark dungeon that is

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daylight saving time.
And you know Paul, prisoner of

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Christ, we're talking Paul in
his own words.

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That's right, episode.
Three.

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That's right.
And remember, we're taking these

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kind of like in chronological
order, not kind of like in

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chronological order.
Yeah.

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And so this is our third
episode, and we're going to be

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looking at really what he has to
say about himself, Man in

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Ephesians, Philippians,
Colossians and Philemon.

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We already covered these books.
Kind of as a whole.

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From a different angle.
Yeah, yeah, different angle and

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yeah, if you like scripture,
you're probably enjoying this

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series and it might surprise you
like there there's a lot more of

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that, you know, autobiographical
stuff or where Paul's talking

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more than you would think.
You know, it, it, it's, it's a

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lot in there and, and I like it
a little different angle, but

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really, really good 'cause I
think it's an angle that you

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people don't generally go down
this, this road that often.

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I think that's good.
Sweet.

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Well, let's go ahead and take it
to the next level from the

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hearts of the low country in
South Carolina.

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It's the Take Two podcast where
we take theology to the next

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level.
Paul the prisoner of Christ.

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This is during his first
imprisonment that he wrote these

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books.
We call them the Prison Epistle.

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Makes sense.
Checks out.

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Yeah.
And it's Ephesians, Philippians,

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Colossians, Philemon, or.
Philomon.

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Philomon Yeah.
I've honestly, I have heard one

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person say this, but you know,
not not common.

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Maybe we should bring it back.
Yeah, and that person was that

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Bob Jones it.
Was it was like a podcast I

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listened to sometimes, Yeah.
So probably somewhere around 60

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to 62 AD.
So context going way back to

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Galatians, what would what are
we thinking again?

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Is that like?
Galatians probably 50.

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Yeah, so we're.
Like 50 ± 5, that's maybe

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probably most people would say
around 5152.

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OK.
And so we're, you know, 10 years

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past that approximately.
Yeah, so he's got, he's gone on

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a missionary journey three times
up into Asia Minor and into

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Europe and come down.
He was collecting an offering

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and brought that down to
Jerusalem, shaved his head and

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paid the temple tax, was found
in the temple by some Jews who

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didn't like him.
They were trying, they're going

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to take him out and selling
them.

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The guard that's there at the
temple came in and he's like,

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hey, I am a Pharisee.
I believe in the resurrection.

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Smart, smart move.
End Times debate.

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So then he's held there for a
little bit and his nephew.

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Yeah, Paul's sister son.
Yeah, that's like I think it's

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up in the KJV.
At least it's Paul's sister,

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son.
Gets wind that they're these

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guys have taken an oath not to
eat food until they kill Paul

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and I hope they starve to death.
But but so he's moved up to

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Caesarea Maritime with Festus
and Felix and he stayed there

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for a couple years and then he
eventually he realizes that

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they're kind of looking for a
bribe or something and he feels

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like it's going to go where they
just hand him back over the Jews

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and he's appeals to Caesar.
So now he took this boat through

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like some storms, landed on this
island, got bitten by a snake,

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but that snake wasn't bad,
didn't hurt him.

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Don't.
Don't stand up for the snake.

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One of our members today show me
a picture of a snaking frogs.

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Yeah, and this is the member who
loves frogs.

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Mary, you know and.
She's like, you know, 'cause she

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the frog, the an acrostic, you
know, fully rely on godson.

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And I was like, what do you
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There was no plague of snakes,
but there was a plague of frogs.

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You countered her.
It's great, honestly, both are

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bad.
Hey, I'm not here to make

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friends, Michael.
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Paul has made his way to Rome
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Rome.
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he's there for a couple years.
He's tried and then released.

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So, but these books were written
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But you read these books and we
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It's clearly evident he is, you
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He's he's imprisoned.
But at the same time, he don't

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sound like he's in prison, do
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Yeah, he sounds like he is
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settings.
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Tichius, Onessimus and Epaphyrus
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And as you said, you know, it's
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tone.
So maybe we got some of these,

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maybe Ephesians 3 one through
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Maybe you can read this one for
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If if you're kind of familiar
with the book of Ephesians, you

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know, this great chapter 1 is
all that we have in Christ.

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Chapter 2 is kind of like this
salvation chapter.

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And then it seems like seems it
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little Arkansas coming down.
It seems like he's about to

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break into prayer, and then he
interrupts himself to say these

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things about his ministry to the
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This is great chapter 3 verse
one reads for this reason I

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Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus
on behalf of you Gentiles,

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assuming that you've heard of
the stewardship of God's grace

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that was given to me for you.
How the mystery was made known

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to me by revelation as I've
written briefly.

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When you read this, you can
perceive my insight into the

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mystery of Christ which was not
made known to the sons of men

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and other generations as it has
now been revealed to his holy

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apostles and prophets by the
Spirit.

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This mystery is that the
Gentiles are fellow heirs,

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members of the same body and
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Christ Jesus.
Through the gospel of this

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gospel, I was made a minister
according to the gift of God's

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grace, which was given to me by
the working of His power to me,

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though I'm the very least of all
the Saints.

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This grace was given to preach
to the Gentiles the unsearchable

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riches of Christ and to bring to
light for everyone what is the

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plan of the mystery hidden for
ages, and God who created all

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things, so that through the
church the manifold wisdom of

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God might not be made known to
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the heavenly places.
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eternal purpose that He has
realized in Christ Jesus our

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Lord, and whom we have boldness
and access with confidence

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through our faith in Him.
So I ask you not to lose heart

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over what I'm suffering for you,
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We see this word mystery a lot
coming up here, you know?

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Yeah, yeah.
And he he loses to his

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suffering, says don't lose heart
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Talks about his ministry to the
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fact that they were going to be
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And those are huge words for a
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gentiles are going to be joint
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and fellow members of the body,
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And a lot of times in Paul's
letter, he might just like, say,

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mystery here or there, but it's
like, it's like he spells it out

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here.
So you don't have to be like,

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what's this mystery?
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You know, this is clearly
autobiography, autobiographical.

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I always have problems with that
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But there's a lot of theology
mixed in, too.

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So you can read this and you can
see about, you know, God weaving

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the two people together, the
wisdom of God being made known

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even to the heavenly
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So maybe, you know, what does
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Does that mean that the angels
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he's going to be making this one
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So maybe we shouldn't be as hard
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'cause we always.
Talk.

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That's right, We always.
Get Abraham covenant like we're

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gonna bless all nations through
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Like we can clearly see that
now, but maybe it wasn't.

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That's clear back then.
I think you're right underneath

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all of this is so much about
eternal purposes and all all of

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this with the people of God,
like looking back and then, you

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know, maybe thinking about his
imprisonment too.

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You know, he's like, you know,
he's like, you know, that's kind

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of layered in there where like,
hey, this is, you know, for

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ordained all these.
Things right his I I got this

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momentary thing but hey I can
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that's really good all right so
our next section in Ephesians is

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Ephesians 619 through 22 and if
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spiritual armor.
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This comes right at the end of
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And so he is going to ask them
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out there.
So I'm going to start in verse

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18 and it says with all prayer
and petition, pray at all times

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in the Spirit.
And with this in view, beyond

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the alert, with all perseverance
and petition for all the Saints,

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and pray on my behalf, that
utterance may be given to me in

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the opening of my mouth.
To make known with boldness the

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mystery of the gospel, for which
I am an ambassador in chains.

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That in proclaiming it I may
speak boldly as I ought to speak

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so.
And then he'll go on to talk

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about his circumstances.
But that you may know about my

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circumstances, how I'm doing.
Tichius, the beloved brother and

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faithful minister in the Lord,
will make everything known to

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you.
And he sent them on to them.

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So Paul asked him for prayer.
He's an apostle.

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And he seems like he's been
pretty bold already like that.

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He he's like, I need to be bold.
You're like, wow, seems like

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you're killing it in that
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Right.
So it's like, you know, maybe we

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should be more about prayer.
Yeah, that that that's a good

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take your way.
Apostle feels that way.

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And it's like, man, he's like in
prison for the sake of the

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gospel.
And he's like, man, just just

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help me be bold, man.
And it's like, yeah, it's like

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we, we could do, we could pray
for that more.

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Cause a lot of times I think
we're like, I need to be bold.

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But it's like, are we, you know,
are you praying for that

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boldness?
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So even though he's chained,
he's mobilizing Ticius, you

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know, he's sending a message
out.

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Yeah, Yeah, that's good.
His perspective is that long

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term, like we talked about
before, like, hey, I'm, I want

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to be a good steward of this
suffering and your, your, your

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boy John Piper.
John and P.

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Don't don't waste the cancer
type of.

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Mindset, you know.
Hey, don't waste this

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imprisonment.
Let's make the most of of this

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opportunity.
And that's good.

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If you caught it as you were
reading, another little allusion

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to the mystery there.
So you know, it's like, boom,

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Paul's coming, coming back to
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But this is good.
I like it.

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Ambassador in chains.
Very good.

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OK, Philippians.
We talked a lot about

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Philippians in our review when
we went through the path, the

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prison epistles in general.
You want me to?

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Why don't you read 12 through 20
from verse from chapter 1?

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12 through 20.
Here we go, Paul writes.

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I want you to know, brothers,
that what's happened to me has

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really served to advance the
gospel.

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So that's become known
throughout the whole imperial

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garden to all.
The rest of my imprisonment is

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for Christ.
And most of the brothers, having

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become confident in the Lord by
my imprisonment, are much more

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bold to speak the Word without
fear.

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Some indeed preach Christ from
envy and rivalry, but other from

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goodwill.
The latter do it out of love,

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knowing that I am put here for
the defense of the gospel.

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The former proclaimed Christ out
of selfish ambition, not

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sincerely, but thinking to
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What then?
Only that in every way, whether

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in pretense or in truth, Christ
is proclaimed.

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And in that I rejoice.
Seems like Paul is is really

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focused on one thing and one
thing only that the gospel going

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forth.
Yeah, yeah.

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And so you, you see, like he is,
you know, back at the beginning,

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you know, he talks about a
circumstance.

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His imprisonment for the cause
of Christ has been been made

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known through the whole
Praetorian card.

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That's it's like, hey, you can
see, yeah, you see that payoff

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if you were to keep reading,
which we're kind of omitting

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since so we don't just become,
you know, you can go to dwell

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and listen to all this, but you
know, go ahead and finish

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reading on out maybe through
chat verse 26 in this chapter,

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Paul's going to talk about, hey,
if if I live, I've got work to

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do.
If I die, that's gain.

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I really don't know which one I
want because, you know, I, I

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like to be of Christ, but you
know, I like to stay here and

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work too.
So we've, we've kind of

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recovered that idea as well.
Anything else?

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Just looking over here.
No, I, I, I, I think it's good.

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You know, if we're trying to, I
know we already outlined it, but

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you know, Chapter 2's right
around the corner that that

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prominent passage which really
leads us in to chapter.

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Three I I do have one question.
Yeah, go for it.

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I've I've I should have asked
this last time, it says.

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Some, to be sure, are preaching
Christ from envy and strife.

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What does that mean?
What does it look like to be

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preaching Christ from envy and
strife?

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I don't, I don't know, Maybe you
have a good idea.

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Yeah, I, I don't know exactly
because I'm trying to think

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about this if this, you know,
may maybe as it continues to go

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on selfish ambition, all this
stuff together like.

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This is like a a the first
televangelist or something.

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Yeah.
You see, I, I wonder because at

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some point it's got to be,
you've got to preach Christ.

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That's like important.
You can't be like preaching a

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false gospel, right?
So it's like, I, you know, I've

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read these passages.
I'm like, man, maybe I don't

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agree with everyone the whole
way, but I wouldn't necessarily

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say they're preaching out of
envy, right.

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And like, maybe the theology's
up and, you know, I don't know,

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you know what I mean?
Yeah, I don't know.

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It's a mystery.
It's a myth mystery, all right,

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Chapter 3 is going to end.
This passage will end with a a

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verse you've heard a lot and
we've hit this before, but if

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you're just tuning in, it's a
it's a verse that's commonly

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used out of context and this is
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So hopefully you'll know it.
So three, I'll start in verse

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four, he says, although I
myself, I'm thinking of 413.

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I'm sorry, sorry.
Let me just read this this

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passage and not going to help
myself. 3 verse 4, Although I

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myself might have confidence in
the flesh, if anyone has a mind

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to put confidence in the flesh,
I far more circumcise the 8th

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day of the nation of Israel, of
the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew

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of Hebrews.
As to the law of Pharisee, as

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the zeal persecutor of the
church, as to the righteousness

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which is in the law found
blameless, that's a, that's a

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big thing to say strong.
But whatever things were gained

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to me, those things I have
counted as loss for the sake of

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Christ.
More than that, I count all

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things to be lost, in view of
the surpassing value of knowing

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Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I
have suffered the loss of all

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things, and count them.
But go ahead and say the word

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rubbish, so that I may gain
Christ, and may be found in him,

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not having a righteousness of my
own derived from the law, but

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that which is through faith in
Christ.

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The righteousness which comes
from God on the basis of faith,

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that I may know him in the power
of His resurrection, and the

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fellowship of His sufferings,
being conformed to His death, in

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order that I may attain to the
resurrection from the dead.

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Not that I've already obtained
it, or have already become

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00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:08,520
perfect, but I press on, so that
I may laid hold of that for

447
00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,880
which also I was laid hold of by
Jesus Christ.

448
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:15,480
Brethren, I do not regard myself
as having laid hold of it yet,

449
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,320
but one thing I do forgetting
what lies behind and reaching

450
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,520
forward to what lies ahead, I
press on toward the goal for the

451
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:26,000
prize of the upward call of God
in Christ Jesus.

452
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:31,680
So the word you really drove
home is it's rubbish in the NASB

453
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,400
2 is it K?
Is it KJV that it's dung or

454
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:35,400
where?
Where maybe it?

455
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,040
Is done OK.
I was wondering what the well

456
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,720
how how the different
translations like like pick this

457
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:44,200
although that's like the go to
be like hey I I should be able

458
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:45,760
to say whatever I want.
Right, right.

459
00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:49,200
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But man, what to be able to say

460
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:53,720
those things, you know,
whatever's behind me, it's

461
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,240
behind me.
I'm not going to dwell on that

462
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,240
because I'm focused moving
forward.

463
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:03,080
It's like, you know, Walt Disney
had this phrase.

464
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:04,520
I'm probably going to mess it
up.

465
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,800
But I think it was like just
cut, keep moving forward.

466
00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:08,680
I think it's something like
that.

467
00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:11,120
And it was that idea of, hey,
we're just going to.

468
00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:14,120
We're going to fail sometimes,
but we're going to keep making

469
00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:17,120
more progress and that's that's
Paul's goal here.

470
00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:19,520
Because when he looked in the
rearview mirror had a pretty

471
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:21,720
impressive resume too.
You know what I'm saying?

472
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,320
You you paused up that part like
he and he could say, you know,

473
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,240
under the laws, I was blameless.
I was nailing.

474
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:27,920
It.
Yeah, yeah.

475
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,800
Yeah, even my favorite, one of
my favorite things under this

476
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,200
list, he's like listing
everything.

477
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,800
And then he's like even even I
was even born with like the

478
00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:37,560
right personality where I was
zealous.

479
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:39,280
Like I had all the things.
Not even that.

480
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:42,480
I was doing the things I just
like, had this desire to do all

481
00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:47,160
these things too.
Yep, but nothing because it's

482
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,400
not good enough.
And so I mean, it's not good

483
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,120
enough to and I, and I was
listening to a podcast and it

484
00:23:52,120 --> 00:23:55,720
was talking about how religions
of the day either tend to go

485
00:23:55,720 --> 00:24:00,680
into God's grace or their
version of God's grace so that

486
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:02,600
you don't really have to do
anything like, oh, it's all

487
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,800
good.
It doesn't really matter or his

488
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,520
justice.
And you try to earn, earn, earn.

489
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,160
And I it's only Christianity
that can kind of marry both of

490
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,000
those together.
Yeah, that's something, yes.

491
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,320
You are forgiven because of the
cross and there's justice there.

492
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:17,800
So.
Yeah.

493
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,040
So, so unique, Yeah.
You start going on the list and

494
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,760
it's like, man, things, things.
A lot of these religions, I

495
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:26,480
think too LAX or just too, too
strong.

496
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,760
It's like, yeah, you can't.
It's like you're losing on both

497
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,840
sides.
Yeah, I, I.

498
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,600
I think I think you nailed it.
You got everyone thinking ahead

499
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,880
to verse 13 in chapter. 4 So now
this is the verse where it's not

500
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,760
only used, but taken on context.
There you go, you want to read.

501
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,000
It let's go so verses 10 through
20.

502
00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:48,200
I've rejoiced in the Lord
greatly that now at length

503
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,560
you've you've revived your
concern for me.

504
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,440
You were indeed concerned for
me, but you had no opportunity.

505
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,920
Not that I'm Speaking of being a
need, for I've learned in

506
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,200
whatever situation I am to be
content.

507
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,920
I know how to be brought low and
how to abound in any and every

508
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,120
circumstance.
I have learned the secret of

509
00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:07,080
facing plenty and hunger,
abundance and need.

510
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,280
I can do all things through Him
who strengthens me.

511
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,280
Yet it was kind of you to share
my troubles.

512
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,360
And you, Philippians yourselves
know that in the beginning of

513
00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:18,040
the gospel, when I left
Macedonia, Macedonia, no church

514
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,880
entered into partnership with me
in giving and receiving, except

515
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,520
you only.
Even in Thessalonica you sent

516
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,560
help for my needs once and
again.

517
00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:28,960
Not that I seek the gift, but I
seek the fruit that increases.

518
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:32,080
To your credit I have received
full payment and more.

519
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,960
I am well supplied, having
received from Epaphroditus the

520
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:36,600
gifts you sent a frequent
offering.

521
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,200
A sacrifice acceptable and
pleasing to God and my God will

522
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,640
supply every need of yours
according to his riches and

523
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,680
glory in Christ Jesus.
To our God and Father be glory

524
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,560
forever and ever.
All right.

525
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:57,320
So I think what we see here is,
you know, Paul is demonstrating

526
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,080
not just stoicism in light of
his.

527
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,120
He's not just like, hey, I'm in
prison.

528
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,360
I'm not going to get upset about
it.

529
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,880
It's like he's found true
contentment in it.

530
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,440
He loved it every day.
But he's able to go, you know

531
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,080
what, I'm going to take these
chains, I'm going to convert

532
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,480
them to converts.
And whether I'm in prison,

533
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,560
whether I'm rich people, whether
I'm with poor people, whether I

534
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,680
have food or don't have food,
whatever, you know, whatever

535
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:28,640
circumstance I find myself in, I
am going to, you know, use that

536
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,480
for the furtherance of the
gospel.

537
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:33,400
Yeah, that's good.
I like how he says I've learned

538
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,920
the secret of facing all these
different things, and that's I

539
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,760
can do all things through him
who strengthens me.

540
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,240
And then he kind of talks about,
you know, these Philippian, he

541
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:44,040
wasn't he wasn't totally
isolated, right?

542
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,120
These Philippians were sharing
in in his suffering or trying to

543
00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:50,160
help him in different ways.
And you know that I think that

544
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,880
encouragement is good.
People are struggling also.

545
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,560
Maybe it's not as obvious as in
in prison, but it's good to, you

546
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,520
know, have that, that that's
what the body of Christ is for,

547
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,160
you know?
And if you look back at his

548
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:04,680
personality, he's probably like
Leanne.

549
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,760
Leanne talked this morning and
talked about, you know, first

550
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:11,520
born type A planner.
And he probably has ambitions.

551
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:15,280
Well, he he even stated, I, I
and I want to go on to Spain in

552
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:16,320
his book in Romans, right?
Yeah.

553
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:20,520
So he's got to take that
ambition and mold it into the

554
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,840
circumstances that he finds
himself in.

555
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,000
And I, I know for some people
that could be tough.

556
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,960
Like I was playing an AB and C
and I didn't get anywhere near

557
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,720
AB and C.
Paul did not anticipate being in

558
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:33,480
prison.
Like all that list of things

559
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,200
that happened to him.
He was like, you know, in high

560
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,560
standing in in the Jewish, you
know, system.

561
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,840
And it's like, man, his life
totally different, right?

562
00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:43,640
OK, Anything else on
Philippians?

563
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,760
Let's close it out.
We got one more to hit.

564
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,160
Colossians sister book to
Ephesians, a lot of

565
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,040
similarities.
In fact, we're going to maybe

566
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:55,920
skip one.
We'll we'll tell you about it.

567
00:27:56,120 --> 00:27:58,600
But it's very similar to how
Ephesians closes out.

568
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:04,040
But 123 through 29.
I'll go ahead and read this one.

569
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:08,560
It says, if indeed you continue
in the faith firmly established

570
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:12,320
and steadfast, and not moved
away from the hope of the gospel

571
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,120
that you have heard, which was
proclaimed in all creation under

572
00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:19,160
heaven, and in which I, Paul,
was made a minister.

573
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,520
Now I rejoice in my sufferings
for your sake and in my flesh.

574
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:28,040
I do my share on behalf of his
body, which is the church in

575
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,960
filling up what is lacking in
Christ's afflictions of this

576
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:33,760
church.
I was made a minister according

577
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,480
to the stewardship from God
bestowed on me for your benefit,

578
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,800
so that I might fully carry out
the preaching of the Word of

579
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,680
God.
That is the mystery which has

580
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:48,560
been hidden from the past ages
and generations, but has now

581
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:52,480
been manifested to His Saints,
to whom God willed to make

582
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,680
known.
What is the riches of the glory

583
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,280
of this mystery among the
Gentiles?

584
00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:01,680
Which is Christ in you the hope
of glory we proclaim Him,

585
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,120
admonishing every man and
teaching every man with all

586
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:09,760
wisdom, so that we may present
every man complete in Christ.

587
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:13,680
For this purpose also I labor
striving according to His power,

588
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:18,160
which mightily works within me.
You know, we in this, we see

589
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,880
this mystery theme, you know,
again, Paul's back to it.

590
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,920
And then the way you close, I
like this 'cause I think it

591
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,080
does, You know, it's not just
passivity.

592
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,640
It's not just like, hey, Christ
copped everything on the cross.

593
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,760
So I there, there's no work to
be done.

594
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,880
You know, Paul will over and
over say, you know, the work on

595
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:38,120
on the cross that that that
that's that that is what

596
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,320
contributes to salvation.
But you see in verse 29, he's

597
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:44,160
toiling, he's struggling.
He he's putting forth this work

598
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:47,240
to bring people to spiritual
maturity, you know, through

599
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,080
through Christ.
But you know, there's a job to

600
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,880
be done.
Yeah, and and he says, and the

601
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:56,040
goal of that is so that we may
present every man complete in

602
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,040
Christ.
And I guess, you know, the first

603
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,600
big hurdle is, am I going to put
my faith in Christ?

604
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:04,520
Yeah.
But once your faith is in

605
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:08,480
Christ, then it's like we're
running this race and we want to

606
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,160
race, run the race that's set
before us.

607
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,520
But at the end of that finish
line, we want to be found

608
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:17,360
complete in Christ so that we
have laid hold of things that we

609
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,720
have been laid hold of.
So you see Paul really

610
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:24,200
struggling with these themes in
during his imprisonment in these

611
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,480
prison epistles.
Now that that that is great, I

612
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:32,920
think can be a confounding
verses where it verse 24.

613
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,280
I rejoice in my sufferings for
your sake and in my flesh.

614
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,520
I am filling up what is lacking
in Christ's afflictions.

615
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:40,520
You ever read that and you're
like seems like a weird way,

616
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,160
like what was lacking about
Christ.

617
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:46,480
Of course he's not talking like
redemptively like you know, but

618
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:51,200
in in a sense you know, he, he's
suffering is like an extension

619
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:52,200
of Christ in a way.
Right.

620
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,320
Yeah, that's really good.
All right, Really that kind of

621
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,920
closes out there.
You know, if you were to go on

622
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:03,160
to read Chapter 4 two through
18, then you would see some of

623
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,440
those themes that we already saw
in Ephesians where he's asking

624
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:11,280
for prayer on his behalf at all
times so that he may be clear

625
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,720
what he ought to speak,
conducting himself with wisdom

626
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,600
towards outside.
Let your speech always be salty

627
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,080
as season with grace.
And then he talks about sending

628
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:26,240
Ticcius again over there.
And you can close out this book

629
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:30,600
where it talks about Epaphras
and Barnabas and Mark and so all

630
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,760
those different folks.
But you, you see some of the

631
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,400
details of his life.
Yeah.

632
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,520
And then we we mentioned
Philemon at the the beginning.

633
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,960
That's right.
But in a previous podcast, we

634
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,080
did read all 25 verses of of
this.

635
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:50,440
So but some of the themes of
Philemon, you would see that,

636
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:54,840
you know, his personal peer on
behalf of of Anessimus, you

637
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:58,560
know, his model of
reconciliation, his humility,

638
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,200
how he, you know, uses spiritual
diplomacy to kind of help defuse

639
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:06,760
the situation, his appeal to be
like Christ and he offers to

640
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:11,080
pay, you know, an SMS's debt.
So yeah.

641
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,960
Now, this is great.
The prison epistles kind of give

642
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,440
you, this is what, you know,
Paul's life consisted of

643
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,400
suffering can happen.
You can, you know, I think

644
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,800
growing up in the church or that
kind of thing, you're like, man,

645
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,800
David and Goliath.
I'm David, I'm slaying these

646
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,320
giants.
It's like, well, Paul, pretty

647
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,120
big hero with the faith.
Maybe you're Paul.

648
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,280
You know I'm saying.
You're John the Baptist?

649
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:32,480
Yeah.
Yeah, boy.

650
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:36,120
Yeah, it's yeah, yeah.
Or James getting stabbed with

651
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,640
the sword, you know?
Yeah, I think a lot of people

652
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:42,360
kind of get set up in the fact
that they're like, man, if I

653
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,080
just pray harder, it's like I'm
going to conquer everything in

654
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:46,640
front of me.
And then when you don't conquer

655
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,520
that, then if your perspective's
not right, it can.

656
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,120
It can, you know, wreck people's
faith, you know?

657
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,720
Right.
And what we see in, throughout

658
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:57,520
all of these that we read, you
know, Paul's root of joy, we

659
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,400
already talked about his
contentment, his willingness to

660
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:06,720
subvert his own plans and to
take on God's plans 'cause

661
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,960
ultimately his identity is in
Christ, not in his plans that he

662
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:11,720
had.
That's exactly right and it's

663
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,480
like man, and Paul probably knew
this better than most where it's

664
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:19,120
like man, you know, actually
Christ is the David figure.

665
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,800
It's like not even I'm not the
I'm not the hero anyway we're.

666
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:26,680
Probably acting more like Lion,
the guy who needs to be slain.

667
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:28,240
Yeah.
Exactly.

668
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,720
Well, that's great.
We got one more round of Paul in

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his own words, so hang in there.
I, I think what, what, what are

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we looking at?
What, what's the next?

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What's the next title?
Do you know what it is?

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Oh, the next title.
Yeah, yeah, this one.

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Yeah.
Yeah, maybe I have it in my

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notes.
Episode 4 of The Old Soldier.

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Paul's farewell in First and
Second Timothy and Titus.

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Oh yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah.

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Alright, sweet.
I'm looking forward to it.

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Anything else you got on the
prison epistles?

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No.
That's our take.

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