Shalem IPC NJ

Philippians 3:13-16

Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead…

Introduction

• As we know the background of this epistle, Paul was in Roman prison.

• While being there he was writing to the Philippians.

• The central theme of the epistle is to rejoice.

Introduction

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