This study is part of our series of verse by verse studies of Philippians, the 50th book in the Bible. Taught by Sim Forder, one of our pastors, at our Sunday evening service on the 9th August 2020. You can listen to the audio on this web page or save it for later listening.

In this study we look at chapter 2 of Philippians – a letter that the apostle Paul wrote to the church in Philippi, to encourage and strengthen them. In 104 verses, Paul mentions “joy” or “rejoicing” 19 times, despite the fact that he was writing this from prison, and he also writes about unity in the church – we saw the start of our previous study at the end of chapter one, in this study in chapter two, and we’ll see it again when he comes back to it in chapter four.

As we move through the second chapter of this letter, there are four different topics that should stand out to us;

• Unity through humility (Jesus being our ultimate example)
• Attitude of gratitude
• Timothy as an example (focussing on the right things)
• Epaphroditus as an example (serving the Lord)

Further studies on this book will be added to our web site as we study it in August 2020, however we also studied it previously as a church in 2009; you can find all Philippians studies here.