PREFACE
I have finished my exposition on Ephesians to day, and I am now beginning an exposition on Paul's letter to the Philippians. I am using the same format I have used in all my expositions of writing the verse out in the King James Version [KGV] followed by my literal Greek translation [LGT]. The reason for this is that I am able to keep my thinking fresh in the original language of the N.T. These studies are for my own benefit, and any one who might read them I pray they might receive spiritual help and benefit as I surely do. I will endeavor to keep my expositions as brief as I can, in order that they might not get weighted down with undue, needless details. Some expositors beat a subject to death with facts that only a Bible critic would enjoy, and to be honest with you, sometimes I get a little dizzy before I'm through. May God richly bless us as we study this wonderful Epistle.
INTRODUCTION
This is one of the epistles Paul wrote while he was in prison in Rome, the others being, Colossians, Ephesians, and Philemon. In the epistle to the Ephesians, Paul presented the believer in his position in Christ in heaven. In this epistle he will present the believer in his daily walk here on earth. Our daily walk surely depends on positional truth, but this epistle is what one might classify as practical sanctification, while Ephesians presented the believer in his heavenly sanctified position, clarifying to us all the Divine Riches of His Grace. The church in Philippi was made up of many of Paul's friends, and he felt a special bond of fellowship with them. "So Paul wrote this epistle to thank the church and to express his love for them. He had no doctrine to correct as he did in his Epistle to the Galatians. Neither did he have to correct their conduct, as he did in his Epistle to the Corinthians . . . His letter to the Philippian believers is the great epistle of Christian experience. This is Paul's subject in his epistle to the Philippians" (McGee).
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