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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Philippians is a letter written by Paul where his original intention for writing the letter changed.
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- Now he is in prison at this time. The Philippian church had sent Epaphroditus to him with some money to care for him.
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- Epaphroditus had gotten so sick he almost died. So Paul's original reason for writing this letter is to send back
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- Epaphroditus, basically saying to the church that Paul was doing well because they'd be upset with Epaphroditus coming home and not being able to stay and care for Paul.
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- So Paul wanted to reassure him that he was fine, that he was more concerned about Epaphroditus being back with the
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- Philippian church. Now, there also was some division that was going on in the church, so he had to address that as well.
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- So where he starts off with the hopes of sending Epaphroditus back, he also had to deal with division, deal with the issues of legalism and lawlessness that was going on in this church.
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- And the interesting thing about this letter is this is a letter of unity.
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- It is strongly trying to promote unity within the body of Christ, specifically within the church.
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- And that is the goal. He wants to see there be unity in this body of believers that cared so much for him.
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- And he's going to give lots of different examples of that unity, using himself, using
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- Christ as an example, many things. It is a very easy to read book, very enjoyable, but it is one that is written for unity in the church.
