People are consumed by the pursuit of happiness & joy. Self-help books, motivational speakers claim to offer the key to happiness. Unable to control circumstances, people find themselves controlled by circumstances. When job, relationships, church fails to make them happy...they dump it and look for a new one. But...if happiness, the fleeting feeling of exhilaration, is elusive-Joy is not. Biblical joy, the settled conviction that God sovereignly controls the events of life for believers for good and His glory...is available to all who obey Him. The circumstances of both writer and recipients were not circumstances you would think produce joy. Paul: From conversion till now...persecutions-prisons-stoning-mocked-ridicules-one plot on his life after another-shipwrecked-beaten-and now in prison over 4 years. Philippi: Members very poor, persecuted, attacked by false teachers, a feud between 2 prominent women threatened the unity-to the point of splitting the church. Paul wrote the Corinthian church about how the church Philippi overcame circumstances victoriously. The Philippian church was the first church Paul founded in Europe.
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