Real Joy and Christian Fellowship

``Think about Jesus when he was on the cross. Did he not express love for the people who had crucified him? He said, father, forgive them for they know not what they do. That should be the same attitude for us when someone is not very loving to us and you hope they are still loving you when you're not quite what you should be towards them. [00:34:46] (30 seconds)  #ForgiveLikeJesus

Because you wanna know when there's real joy in your life is when you're loving on people and they're loving on you. There is great joy in your life. And in the church, having the love of God in us gives us the love that we should have for our brothers and sisters. Even when sometimes our brothers and sisters are not very lovable. [00:34:19] (27 seconds)  #JoyInMutualLove

If god is moving work in your life, it's because somebody prayed for you. I've seen people dramatically healed of cancer. I've seen people financial situations totally turn around. I've seen people that struggle with all kinds of things and I've seen god move and work and folks, one of the greatest joys you can have in your life is when you pray for someone and you see god answering your prayer because god is moving in their life And don't we want God to move in other people's lives? [01:01:31] (46 seconds)  #PrayerMovesGod

Is there genuine love and concern in your heart for the brothers and sisters in this congregation? Now I know we've got two different churches here. However, we're still brothers and sisters in Christ. We are still part of the same family of god. We still love and serve the same god. We pray and ask the same Jesus to come live inside us, change our lives, forgive us of our sin, and we all get the same holy spirit to come inside our life to encourage us, guide us, direct us, and empower us to do what god wants us to do. So, we are part of the family of God, the same family. [00:32:40] (48 seconds)  #FamilyOfGodUnity

And what we're gonna see here today in in the first chapter of Philippians, Paul has a tremendous love for the church at Philippi. We're gonna see why. And there's some key ingredients here that if you really love someone, they're gonna be in your thoughts. They're gonna be in your heart, and they're gonna be in your prayers. We should be praying for each other. [00:35:34] (31 seconds)  #ThoughtsHeartPrayers

We've gotta be there for one another. You know? You don't have to give everybody details when you're going through stuff, but tell them enough said, hey, man, I'm going through a struggle. Man, I could really use some prayer. And then, you know what? I I believe we've got people in both of these churches here that will be glad to pray with you. They'll be glad to pray for you throughout the week if they know what that is. [00:45:20] (26 seconds)  #AskForPrayerToday

Paul had such confidence in god and in the church at Philippi that knowing that god began a good work in them, he knew god was gonna complete that work until they were no longer here on this Earth because you know what? If we are loving god the way we're supposed to do, which means we're serving god, we're we're we're loving others, you know, we're living our life God's way. God's gonna continue to mold and shape us into being the very person that we are becoming more and more like Jesus. And doesn't the world need more people being like Jesus, especially us right here? [00:48:01] (50 seconds)  #GodsOngoingWork

All we have to do is look at our passage of scripture here today and we can see what that looks like. Paul is experiencing great love for the church at Philippi. You can tell by the way he's talking to the church in this epistle. His words are well thought out. They're carefully formulated and put together that he has a very deep love for them. [00:37:15] (29 seconds)  #PaulsLoveForPhilippi