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Peace That Stands Guard

What Philippians 4 tells an anxious church to do

Today's Focus

Paul writes about anxiety in the middle of instructions about rejoicing, gentleness and the nearness of the Lord. He directs anxiety somewhere: prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, with the requests made known to God. The result he states is a peace that guards heart and mind in Christ Jesus.

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The Lord is at hand.
Philippians 4:5
Requests are to be made known to God in everything.
Philippians 4:6
The peace of God guards heart and mind in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:7

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Questions this reading raises

Can the Bible be trusted?
Scripture claims to be true and invites examination rather than avoiding it. It says God's word is truth and that it stands when everything else fades, and the New Testament writers appeal to eyewitnesses, named places and public events rather than to private experience. Trust in Scripture is finally trust in the God who speaks in it, and the clearest reason a Christian gives for that trust is that Jesus treated these writings as God's own word.
Did Jesus really rise from the dead?
The New Testament says yes and puts the claim in a form that can be tested rather than admired. Paul lists named witnesses and a group of over five hundred still living when he wrote. The accounts describe a body that could be touched and that ate, not a vision. They also record the first alternative explanation, that the disciples stole him, and record who paid for it. Scripture treats the resurrection as the point on which everything stands or falls, and says so in those words.

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Can the Bible be trusted?

Did Jesus really rise from the dead?

From Audela Wear