All right, good morning. Thanks for joining us. Today. We are starting the Book of Philippians and I’m excited because the Book of Philippians is a very encouraging book. It speaks of the benefit and the beauty and the joy of the body of believers. And it also speaks about the power and influence of the gospel. And so right right into it. Looking at some of the genesis of history here with the flipping is is it really starts in acts 16. So if you look back at 16, there’s this event that’s going on and Paul is traveling around and he he has three or four missionary journeys in his life, depending on how you look at it. He’s got three missionary journeys. Some may consider the fourth where he was taken as a prisoner to Rome as his final missionary journey. But this is on his second missionary journey where he reaches the Philippians. But he’s going through this this portion of Asia, which would be modern day Turkey. And he’s going up and it says that the Holy Spirit as he’s going through Malaysia and ferga, that the Holy Spirit then prevents him from sharing the word sharing the gospel throughout this portion of Asia. So he goes up and he’s at troughs. And then here is where in Acts 16, it says that he was uh he has a vision of a man from Macedonia who is calling out and not just calling out, but he’s pleading with Paul to come help them. And paul right there says, this is a call from God to take the gospel to europe. This is the evangelization of europe. He goes across this is in modern day Greece. He goes to the Philippians along with other churches, but that’s really where it started as God called paul to reach the Philippians. Now, this was written later, like I said on his fourth missionary journey, if you want to call it, as he sits in the prison at Rome. He’s writing back to this church that he went to, that he started and this would be considered most likely the last of his prison epistles where he wrote Ephesians, colossians and Philemon. And so that’s really where this starts. And so we’re gonna look at Philippians one versus one through 11. So if you open your bibles, you can read with me here or it’s up on the screen Verse one, Paul and Timothy Servants of Christ Jesus to all the saints in christ jesus who are in philippi including the overseers and the deacons, Grace to you and peace from God, our father and the Lord jesus christ. I give thanks to my God for every remembrance of you, always praying with joy for all of you in my every prayer because of your partnership in the Gospel. From the first day until now I am sure this that he who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of christ jesus. Indeed, it is right for me to think this way about all of you, because I have you in my heart and you are all partners with me in grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel for God is my witness. How deeply I miss all of you with the affection of christ jesus. I pray this that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment so that you may approve the things that are superior and maybe pure and blameless in the day of christ filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through jesus christ to the glory and praise of God. Mhm. From the get go you see that this is a very similar, familiar greeting that paul would give. But yet sometimes you have to look at not what is just written but what’s not written. And so a lot of times you’ll read where he writes a letter, he’ll address people by saying paul, an apostle of christ, jesus and here he doesn’t he doesn’t use the title that authoritative position, the title of the apostle. And so you see that in Galatians Ephesians, colossians, romans 1st and 2nd Corinthians, this is a very common…