Specific Instruction to the Beloved

Read and study Philippians 4:1-9. This final chapter of the short epistle to the Philippians contains a moving address and important instructions. Note the great love of the apostle as expressed in the first verse: ". . .My brethren, dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown . . . my dearly beloved." They are 'loved" with that high, intense love which is not mere attraction, but a tie because of the perfections of Christ in them. They are as well Paul's "joy and crown." Paul did not...