YOUR DAILY REVELATION

AFTER PAUL SAYS HOWDY IN VERSES ONE AND TWO, HE IS A VERY HAPPY CAMPER.
NOTICE HOW HE PATS THEIR HEADS AND GIVES THEM PLENTY OF ATTA BOYS. WITH
THIS DONE HE JUMPS RIGHT INTO SOME HARD CORE THEOLOGY. IN VERSES FIVE THROUGH NINE HE ADDRESSES THEIR POSITIONAL SANCTIFICATION. IN NINE THROUGH ELEVEN HE DEALS WITH THEIR PRACTICAL SANCTIFICATION. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE SHOWING THAT THEY UNDERSTOOD THIS TRUTH BUT I THINK THEY DID BECAUSE OF THEIR RESPONSE TO PAUL'S TEACHINGS. DO YOU THINK THE SAME COULD BE SAID ABOUT THE CHURCH TODAY? I SERIOUSLY DOUBT IT. IT HAS BEEN MY
EXPERIENCE THAT NOT ONLY IS POSITIONAL AND PRACTICAL SANCTIFICATION NOT
KNOWN IN THE CHURCH, THERE IS NO DESIRE TO WANT TO KNOW IT. IT IS LIKE GROWING UP CATHOLIC AND NEVER KNOWING ABOUT SACERDOTALISM. WHAT ARE YOU SEEING HERE? IF WE LOOK CLOSE WE CAN GET FURTHER INSIGHTS AS TO WHAT PAUL MEANT BY THE PHRASE, "IN CHRIST"

Saturday Afternoon

Good talking with you last night.

I have an idea.

I'm about to start a study of Phillippians.

Why don't we do it together?

1. Study the passage...what does it say, what does it mean, how do I need to change?

What do you say?