Good From Bad Situations

Paul was a prisoner. He was under house arrest in Rome. The Jews had tried to kill him but they failed. What could the great apostle to the Gentiles do? Why would God allow him to be kept from traveling so that he could convert lost souls and build up churches?

We see so little. We look at troubles through thick lenses of pessimism and doubt that distort our thinking. Paul teaches us in this episode that the things we might think are for the worst are actually for the better. 

Read about this subject:

• Scriptures: Philippians 1:12-18; Genesis 50:19-20; Romans 8:28
• “Bright Expectations”

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• America Through the Eyes of Isaiah - “The Furnace of Affliction”

Episode Transcript

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Hi, I’m Kerry Duke, host of My Godand My Neighbor podcast from Tennessee
Bible College, where we see the Bibleas not just another book, but the Book.
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Do you believe that God is able tobring good out of a bad situation?

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Do you believe that God can turn apainful experience into a blessing?
Paul did.
He saw it happen many times in his life.
Here’s one of them inPhilippians chapter 1.
“But I want you to know, brethren, thatthe things which happened to me, have
actually turned out for the furtheranceof the gospel” [Philippians 1 verse 12].

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He didn’t say I want you to know aboutall the bad things that happened to me.
They already knew that.
They saw Paul mistreated the first timehe came to their city in Acts chapter 16.
He and Silas were arrested,beaten and thrown into prison.
And now Paul is in prison again– this time in the city of Rome.
That’s why Paul doesn’t go into a lotof detail here about his persecution.

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These Christians were well awareof what he was going through.
But what he teaches them is that histroubles were not the end of the story.
As human beings, we tend to thinkthe worst when something bad happens.
As we sometimes say, we’re justwaiting for the next shoe to drop.
But throughout this book, it is amazingto watch Paul talk about one hardship

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after the other, and yet he seesthe good that comes out of it all.
When Paul was put into prison in thecity of Philippi, he didn’t stay long.
So the Christians in that city andin other places didn’t lose heart.
They knew Paul wouldjust keep on preaching.
They depended on that.
They took encouragementfrom Paul’s example.
But this time it’s different.

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He was a prisoner of the Romangovernment for several years.
That means he was not ableto visit these churches and
encourage them like he did before.
That means he couldn’t go to newplaces and preach the gospel.
When Paul was taken out ofcirculation, so to speak, it left
a big void in the Lord’s church.
What could he do sitting in a guardedhouse in Rome ? What were the churches

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that depended on him supposed to do?
It just seemed, from a humanpoint of view, that what happened
to Paul would be a big hindranceto the spread of the gospel.
But Paul said to theseChristians that he wanted them
to understand that didn’t happen.
In fact, just the opposite happened.
Instead of hindering the gospel,the bad things that happened to

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Paul actually furthered the Gospel!
How could that be?
Paul answers beginning in verse 13.
He said, “So that it has become evidentto the whole palace guard, and to
all the rest, that my chains are inChrist” [Philippians 1 verse 13].
Picture his situation in Rome.
He is a prisoner under house arrest.

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Soldiers are guarding him.
Sometimes they have to takehim to appear in court.
They have to escort him.
And when they do, people see him.
And people then werejust like people today.
They were curious as towhat this prisoner had done.
But they found out that he was notlike a lot of the other prisoners.
He wasn’t a thief or a murderer.

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He was a Jew, a highly trainedJew, who had joined a new
movement that started in Judea.
They found out why he was in chains.
It was for Christ, the onecalled Jesus of Nazareth.
Paul said that the whole palace guardfound out about why he was a prisoner.
How many times have you heardthe word Praetorian guard when

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you’re watching a movie aboutancient Rome or reading about it?
The words palace guard here inPhilippians chapter 1 verse 13 is
from the Greek word praetorian.
The soldiers learned about Paul.
And from there, we will never knowexactly how far the word spread.
We do know that people all the wayto the household of the emperor found

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out about this prisoner called Paul.
And we know that some ofthem became Christians.
At the end of this book, Paul said,“All the saints greet you, but
especially those who are of Caesar’shousehold” [Philippians 4 verse 22].
The household of Caesar caninclude the family of the emperor.
But it can also include the servants, bothmen and women, who work for the emperor.

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Remember at this time that the Caesar wasone of the most wicked men in history.
His name was Nero.
When you think about all that stoodin the way of the progress of the
gospel, it seems amazing that it couldspread so rapidly into so many places.
But when you think about the power ofGod, it shouldn’t be amazing at all.
If Paul hadn’t been arrested, this wouldnot have turned out the way it did.

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Those soldiers wouldn’t have seenhim and asked questions about him and
learned about Jesus and the gospel.
This is what Paul wants theseChristians to understand.
He wants them to remember this.
God can take bad things,even the seemingly worst
things, and turn them to good.
Think about how incredible this is.
Paul is at the mercy of themost powerful nation on earth.

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He doesn’t have any influenceto sway Roman officials.
He sees the strength of their military.
The Romans had conquerednations all around them.
They seemed invincible.
How could an obscure movement likeChristianity, composed of poor people and
slaves among others, make any difference?
But it did.
Not by any wealth or power orskill or intelligence Christians

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had, but by the power of Godand the gospel of Jesus Christ.
And now that gospel has penetrated boththe military and the government of one
of the most powerful nations in history.
And Paul did that by thegrace of God, without bending
the ear of a Roman senator.
He did it without standing in the Forumand shouting at everybody that walked by.

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And, he did it without the internet.
But that’s not all.
That’s just the first good thing thatcame out of Paul’s bad situation.
The second thing he mentions is in verse14: “And most of the brethren in the Lord,
having become confident by my chains,are much more bold to speak the word
without fear.” Now he talks about theeffect his trials had on the inside—on

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the church. Again, if you try to putyourself in the place of the Christians
in the first century, how would you havefelt when you found out that Paul had
been arrested and then to know that he’sstill a prisoner after several years?
Would you be afraid?
I think you would.
Christians were beingarrested right and left.

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The Jewish government waskilling Christians and the Roman
government was trying to figureout what to do with these people.
That’s why Paul was detained for so long.
Of course, just a few years after Paulwrote this letter, the madman at the
helm of the Roman Empire declared hisown personal war against Christians.
And even though that hasn’t happenedyet, it was still a frightening time

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for these early members of the church.
Think of it this way.
The Lord’s church is an armyand Christians are soldiers.
That’s an image Paul usesseveral times in his letters.
Now what happens when one of the mainleaders of an army is taken prisoner?
How do the rest of thesoldiers feel about that?
This is what happened to the early church.

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Paul was one of the greatleaders in the church.
Those early Christians may have thought,“If they can do this to the apostle
Paul, what about the rest of us?”
We know what happenedwhen Jesus was arrested.
That scared the disciplesso bad they fled.
Peter was so afraid he denied Jesusthree times even though he had made the
strong claim that he would never do that.

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So what did Paul say about the effecthis imprisonment had on the brethren?
Did they stop preaching the gospel?
Did they hide?
No.
They continued to preach the gospel.
But they didn’t just preach.
They were more bold than ever.
How could that be?
Paul said not only that they werebold, but that they were “much more

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bold to speak the gospel withoutfear.” What a compliment to these
brothers. They didn’t back down.
You see how strong Christiansare when they are tested.
You see how strong your faith iswhen you’re really put to the test.
Sometimes we’re surprised at other people.
There are some that you thinkare strong, but they’re some of
the first ones that back down andcompromise when trouble comes.

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Then there are others that you didn’tthink we’re so strong, but they
end up being some of the strongestChristians when a crisis strikes.
We learn over the years thatour assessment of others is
not as good as we think it is.
We certainly learn that we’re nota good judge of our own character.
We think we’re strong and then we learnwe’re not as strong as we thought we were.

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Or, we feel like we’re weak, butwe’re much stronger than we realized.
The only way you can know is to be tested.
Paul said his persecution broughtout the good in the brethren.
They didn’t quit preaching.
They didn’t make apologies when theyspoke or avoid controversial subjects.
They spoke with more courageand clarity than ever.

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Did you notice whatgave them this courage?
Where did they get thisrenewed confidence?
It wasn't because ofsomething Paul said to them.
It was because of what he did.
I'm not talking about all thepeople that heard Paul preach.
I'm not talking about allthe people he baptized.
Sure, he had great success in that way.
And that's alwaysencouraging to see today.

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But Paul didn’t say these brethrenwere uplifted and inspired
by the great things he did.
He said they were encouragedby what others did to him—the
bad things they did to him.
He said in verse 14 that theybecame “confident by my chains”
—not discouraged, but confident.

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Confident that if he coulddo it they could do it.
Confident that the Lord wouldbless them if they were persecuted.
Confident that good would come fromtheir labor just like it did with Paul’s.
This is a great lesson for us today.
When you see Christians going throughtheir bad times and keeping their
head up and staying faithful toGod, it doesn't just give you hope.

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It gives you courage.
When you see a woman who has lost herhusband of many years going to church and
doing things for others like visiting thesick and taking food to families who are
having a crisis, her actions themselvesleave an indelible impression on you.
She doesn’t have to say a word.
Just seeing what she is going throughand watching her smile in the midst of

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adversity moves you to say, “If she cando it, so can I.” When you see a man
who is struggling with cancer go throughtreatment after treatment but he is at
church services every time he can bethere, it motivates you to say, “If he can
come to church feeling as bad as he does,what’s my excuse?” When you see elders and

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preachers and their wives sacrificing forthe good of the church, it makes you say
to yourself, "I need to be more like that.
I need to do better.”
This is what happened during thoselong days when the Christians
at Philippi thought about Paul.
They took courage.
When they thought about him beingin chains, it had to hurt them.
But it did more than that.

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It lit a fire in their soul.
So in Philippians one verses 12, 13, and14, Paul teaches us a powerful lesson.
He shows us in verse 12 that badthings can turn out for good.
He said that one good thing thatcame out of all this trouble was
that people heard the gospel.
That's verse 13.

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Then he said another good thing was thatbrethren gained confidence because of
what he was going through in verse 14.
If you stop reading in verse 14,you'll see what we're talking about
when we say that this book teaches youto look on the bright side of things.
But if you read further, you'llsee that lesson even more.

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Paul said in verse 14 that many ofthe brethren, not just a few, but
many of the brethren gained courage bythinking about Paul being in chains.
He’s talking about preachers.
We know that because ofthe next verse, verse 15.
“Some indeed preach Christ even from envyand strife, and some also from goodwill.”

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It’s encouraging to read verse 14 wherePaul says these preachers didn’t back
down out of fear, but when you read verse15, you scratch your head and ask what’s
wrong with some of these preachers.Paul said some, not all, but some of
these preachers preach out of “envy andstrife.” These preachers were jealous.

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They may have been jealous of each other.
But evidently, because of whathe’s about to say in the next
verse, they were jealous of Paul.
Why?
There may been several reasons.
Paul was a very educated man, andsome preachers resent a preacher if
he has more education than they do.
Paul was a specially chosen apostle.
That was a high position.

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In fact, it was the highestposition in the early church.
Paul was also very successful.
He preached at churchesin many different cities.
He was well known and wellloved by many Christians.
He got a lot of attention.
He had the honor of speaking before Kings.
Before Paul was converted, Jesussaid he would appear before Kings.
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now Paul has endured beatings,slander, and imprisonment
[Acts chapter 9, verse 15].
He had a long list of accomplishmentsand was still a humble servant of God.
For whatever reason, some of thesegospel preachers resented Paul.
They preached, but they preachedout of a heart of jealousy.
It wasn't love that motivated them.
It was envy.

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If you're a preacher, you needto think seriously about this.
All of us preachers do.
We need to look inside andask what our motivation is.
We need to be honest with ourselves abouthow we feel about fellow gospel preachers.
There's no place forcompetition between brethren.
There's no excuse for jealousy.
And yet, you know as well as I do thatthis is one of the oldest and most

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common sins the world has ever seen.
Cain resented his brother Abelbecause of the good man he was.
Joseph’s brothers envied him.
Saul was jealous of David.
The Jewish leaders were jealous of Jesus.
The church at Corinth wasfull of envy and bickering.
You expect jealousy out of children.
You’re not surprisedto see it in the world.

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But you just don’t expect tosee it in the church, especially
out of all people preachers.
But it happened then and it happens today.
Paul said these preacherspreached out of envy and also out
of strife—arguing and fussing,backbiting and causing hard feelings.
This is what happens whenenvy gets into our hearts.

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We say and do thingswe otherwise wouldn’t.
We cause strife because we want theattention somebody else is getting.
This happens in homes,workplaces and even in churches.
It happens with people in general, buthere Paul said preachers were guilty too.
Paul didn't hesitate to saywhat these preachers were doing
and why they were doing it.

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In verse 16, he said “The former preachChrist from selfish ambition, not
sincerely, supposing to add afflictionto my chains.” They were selfish.
They were looking forglory and praise from men.
He said they were not sincere.
They did the right thing by preaching thegospel, but their heart was not right.

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Have you noticed how many times theNew Testament talks about religious
leaders looking for attention?
Jesus said in Matthew six thatthe Jewish leaders would do good
deeds and pray in public just sothat everybody could see them.
He told the Pharisees in Luke chapter16 verse 15, “You are those who justify
yourselves before men, but God knowsyour hearts. For what is highly esteemed

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among men is an abomination in thesight of God.” He said in Matthew 23
that the scribes and Pharisees worespecial clothes, sat in the best
seats, and loved for people to callthem rabbi, which means my great one.
The Bible even says many among the Jewishrulers believed on Jesus, but they would
not confess him because "they lovedthe praise of men more than the praise

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of God” [John chapter 12 verse 43].
These preachers Paul talks aboutin Philippians chapter one had
been infected by the same spirit.
Then in verse 15 Paul sayssomething about these fellow
preachers that was even worse.
Jealousy is a terrible thing formany reasons, and one of them is
that it roots out any feeling ofcompassion for the person you envy.

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All jealousy cares aboutis revenge and spite.
Did you notice what Paulsaid about his chains?
How did these preachers feel about that?
Did they feel sorry for Paul?
No.
And not only did they not feelsorry for him, they wanted
to see him suffer even more.
Paul said they preachedjust to cause him more pain.

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They thought their preaching wouldadd affliction to his chains!
How on earth can men getthat twisted in their hearts?
But that’s what jealousy does.
It blinds you.
It makes you act like a crazy person.
So Paul said in verse 12 to rememberthat good can come from a bad situation.
And now he tells us that one of thosebright spots has a dark side to it!

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So as the Spirit guides Paul towrite, where does he go from there?
If he had been like a lot of us, hemight have kept talking about how
these preachers mistreated him whenall he did was preach the truth.
He might have dropped the subject andgone on to something else without saying
anything good about all these preachers.
He could have spent all his time talkingabout the bad people in the church.

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But he didn’t.
Not all the preachers that wereencouraged by his example resented him.
Some of them were sincere.
In verse 15 he says theypreached out of goodwill.
In verse 16 he says they preachedout of love—love for him, love
for God, and love for the truth.
What was the first thing Paul said afterhe talked about these jealous preachers?

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He gave credit where credit wasdue to these good men who preached
the gospel out of a pure heart!
Paul loved these men.
They brought him a lot of joy.
Think about what Paul said about Timothy.
Timothy was such an encouragementto Paul when others were not.
In fact, in the next chapter, inPhilippians chapter 2, he said he was

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sending Timothy to the church at Philippi.
And why Timothy?

Here’s what Paul said about him: “For I have no man like-minded, (18:42):
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who will sincerely care for yourstate” [Philippians 2 verse 20].
He told Philemon, “For we havegreat joy and consolation in
your love” [Philemon verse 7].
He talked about how encouraging it wasfor Titus to bring him good news in

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Second Corinthians 7 verses 6 and 7.
Paul didn’t let thesejealous preachers win.
He didn’t allow himself tothink about it all the time.
How did he do this?
How did he keep their bad attitudefrom making his attitude wrong?
He kept himself busy in the work of God.
If you do that, you won’thave as much time to think

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about how others look at you.
He prayed to God and thankedGod for all his blessings.
If you and I pray more we willhave less time and less reason to
get mad over what others do to us.
But what we find in this book ofPhilippians is that every time
Paul talks about trouble in hislife, he takes the high road.

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He talks about the goodthings in the midst of and in
spite of all the bad things.
He refused to let how these preachers feltabout him control his heart and his life.
He made sure to think aboutthe good people in his life
to balance his thinking.
That’s the habit we’re talking about.
A few years ago people in real estatestarted talking about “flipping” a house.

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In the Christian life, you have tolearn to do this with situations.
If you look at trouble from one oneperspective it will get you down.
You have to train yourself to lookat it from different points of view.
You have to consider thelong run, for instance.
You have to think about the hardtimes others are going through.
And you have to turn that awful situationaround and look at the bright side.

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It’s there.
You just have to look at it.
This is not a mind game.
It’s not playing tricks on yourself.
It’s following the example of the apostlePaul and many others in the Bible.
That’s what Paul did.
He looked at troublesfrom different angles.
He saw the bigger picture.
He didn’t look at problems likehe was the only one that mattered.
And here’s something else he did.

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It’s in verse 17.
The preachers that preached outof love knew that Paul had been
appointed by God to defend the gospel.
The King James says, “Knowing thatI am set for the defense of the
gospel.” That can sound like he’ssaying he set himself to defend the
truth, that he prepared himself andtook a stand to defend the gospel.

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But the word “set” in the King JamesVersion is used like it is in Matthew 5
verse 14 where Jesus said, “A city thatis SET on a hill cannot be hid.” The city
was placed or set there by the builders.
Paul was set in this role or placedin this work of defending the gospel.

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The New King James says hewas appointed to that work.
So Paul is not saying that HEset himself to defend the gospel.
He’s saying God set him in that role.
Jesus talked about this with Ananiasjust before Paul was baptized.
He said, “Go, for he is a chosen vesselof Mine to bear My name before Gentiles,

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kings, and the children of Israel.
For I will show him how many thingshe must suffer for My name’s sake.”
Jesus said Paul would suffer.
In the verses we’re looking atin Philippians 1, Paul talks
about some of his sufferings.
And in verse 18 he said it was hisappointed duty to defend the gospel.
That meant suffering for the gospelas well as teaching the gospel.

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He was appointed to sufferas well as work for the Lord.
And it’s interesting thathe told these Philippian
Christians it was their duty too.
He said in Philippians 1 verse 29,“For to you it has been granted on
behalf of Christ, not only to believein Him, but also to suffer for His
sake.” Paul is saying in verse 17that the preachers who were sincere

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understood that he would have to suffer.
So what was Paul’s final outlook on thesituation in the church—the church as a
whole, not just the church at Philippi?
What did he say about this problemof some preachers being sincere
and other preachers being jealous?
Verse 18 gives the answer.
Paul said, “What then? Only in every way,whether in pretense or in truth, Christ

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is preached; and in this I rejoice, yes,and will rejoice.” Paul was glad that the
gospel was being preached, whether it wasbeing preached in pretense or in truth.
This CANNOT MEAN that Paul washappy whether the truth was being
preached or whether it wasn’t.
He never went along with falsepreachers and false doctrines.

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He said in no uncertain terms, “Ifwe, or an angel from heaven, preach
any other gospel to you than whatwe have preached to you, let him
be accursed” [Galatians 1 verse 8].
So in Philippians 1 verse 18 Paul CANNOTmean that he rejoiced whenever someone
preached Christ regardless of whetherthat preaching was biblical or unbiblical.

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When he says He was glad that Christwas preached, “whether in pretense
or in truth,” he’s talking about thepreacher’s heart, not his message.
The ones that preached “in pretense”are the preachers in verses 15 and 16
that preached out of envy and strife.
Paul says they were not sincere.
They were pretending to be pious.

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The ones that preached “in truth” arethe preachers in verses 15 and 17 that
preached out of love and good will.
They were honest andsincere in their motive.
But both sets of preacherspreached the same gospel.
They both preached the truth.
It’s not that one preached a false gospeland the other preached the true gospel.
It’s that one had a fake motiveand the other had a pure motive.

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Imagine the self-control, thehumility, and the wisdom it
took for Paul to feel this way.
Even though some of thesepreacher resented Paul and tried
to hurt him, Paul said at leastthey’re preaching the gospel.
He set aside his personal feelingsand focused on the greater good.
And, he did this without grumbling.
He did it gladly.

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How would you and I respondin a situation like this?
If you knew that a Christian wasn’tsincere and that he was trying to hurt
you by doing good, how would you feel?
Would you be strong enough to say, “Hemay be doing me wrong, but at least he’s
helping people, and I’m glad about that”?
Would you be able to overlook the wrongthat was done to you personally and be

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happy that other people were benefitting?
Paul did.
These preachers that enviedhim were acting like children.
Paul was the bigger man.
You could say he took one for the team,but that would be an understatement.
His whole life was about servingothers, not pleasing himself.
He was truly unselfish.
And, he’s just beginning to talkabout that virtue in this book.

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If Paul could rejoice withall this against him, do you
have any reason you can’t?
It’s a decision you make.
And there won’t be many people in yourlife you can learn it from because
most people don’t think like this.
You’ll be fortunate if someone inyour family or the church does.
That’s why you need to readand meditate on this book.

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God can and does bring goodthings out of bad situations.
But you have to open your eyes to them.
You have to look for the good in life.
Do the words of Paul remindyou of something Joseph
said in the Old Testament?
Joseph had been throughone hardship after another.
His brothers hated himand sold him as a slave.

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He ended up in Egypt.
A wicked woman lied abouthim and he was put in prison.
All this time his father thoughtthat he was dead because that’s
what his brothers told him.
Joseph was cut off fromhis home and his father.
But finally the truth came out.
He was the second most powerful manin the country and he eventually

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revealed himself to his brothers.
He told them that there were reasonswhy all these bad things happened
above and beyond their part in it.
They did him a terrible injustice.
But God brought good out of it.
Joseph told them, “But now, do nottherefore be grieved or angry with
yourselves because you sold mehere; for God sent me before you to

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preserve life” [Genesis 45 verse 5].
In verse 7 he said, “God sent me beforeyou to preserve a posterity for you in
the earth, and to save your lives bya great deliverance.” And then listen
to what he said in verse 8 about theoverruling hand of God: “So now it was
not you who sent me here, but God”!

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After this, his father, who was an oldman, went down to Egypt to see his son.
It had been over twenty yearssince they had seen each other.
Imagine the pain they musthave felt all those years.
But finally they were reunited.
Jacob soon died and his brothers thoughtJoseph would take revenge and kill them.

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They begged Joseph to spare theirlife for what they had done to him.
Some of his last wordsare in Genesis chapter 50.
Listen to what Joseph said and see ifthis doesn’t sound like what Paul said in
Philippians 1 verse 12 about the thingsthat happened to him turning out for good.
Joseph told his brothers, “Do notbe afraid, for am I in the place of

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God? But as for you, you meant evilagainst me, but God meant it for good,
in order to bring it about as it isthis day, to save many people alive”
[Genesis chapter 50, verses 19 and 20].
Do you remember another verse—this timein the New Testament—that teaches what

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Paul talks about in Philippians chapter 1?
It’s in Romans chapter 8.
Paul is talking about the trialswe got through in this world.
In verse 17 he says if we suffer withJesus we will be glorified with Him.
He said in verse 18, “For I considerthat the sufferings of this present time
are not worthy to be compared with theglory which shall be revealed in us.”

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But He also says, just as Paul said, thatthese tragedies of life turn out for good.

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“And we know that all things work together for
good to those who love God, to those whoare the called according to His purpose.”
That is the very thing Paul taught inPhilippians 1 verse 12 when he said “the
things which happened to me, have actuallyturned out for the furtherance of the
gospel.” In Romans, eight verse 28, Paulsaid all things work together for good.

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He's talking about thesufferings of this life.
And he’s saying more than what alot of people mean when they say,
“Everything will turn out alright inthe end.” This verse is more than that.
It means the hand of God bringsgood out of these troubles in life.
God does that in His own way, inHis own time, for His own people.

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These two passages—Genesis 50verses 19 and 20 and Romans 8
verse 28—are a wonderful commentaryon Philippians chapter 1.
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