PAUL PREACHED TO THE CHURCH FROM PRISON

Philippians 1, Paul said: I pray that God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ will give each of you his fullest blessings and his peace in your hearts and your lives. All my prayers for you are full of praise to God! When I pray for you, my heart is full of joy because God who began the good work within you will keep right on helping you grow in his grace until his task within you is finally finished on that day when Jesus Christ returns. How natural it is that I should feel as I do about you, for you have a very special place in my heart. We have shared together the blessings of God, both when I was in prison and when I was out, defending the truth and telling others about Christ. Only God knows how deep is my love and longing for you with the tenderness of Jesus Christ. My prayer for you is that you will overflow more and more with love for others, and at the same time keep on growing in spiritual knowledge and insight, for I want you always to see clearly the difference between right and wrong, and to be inwardly clean, no one being able to criticize you from now until our Lord returns. Everything that has happened to me here has been a great boost in getting out the Good News concerning Christ. For everyone knows that I am in chains simply because I am a Christian. And because of my imprisonment, many of the Christians here seem to have lost their fear of chains! Somehow my patience has encouraged them, and they have become more and more bold in telling others about Christ. FRIENDS, PAUL URGED US TO CONTINUE PREACHING THE GOSPEL NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS IN OUR LIVES. PRAY FOR CHRISTIANS AND JEWS ALL OVER THE WORLD WHO ARE BEING PERSECUTED AND KILLED FOR TRUSTING IN GOD! John 15:20 JESUS SAID: Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave isn’t greater than his master!’ So since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you!