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<p><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehighroadshow/2327S0819.mp3" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Download</a></p> <!-- END 1022 Download Link --> <p>Philippians 4 - Colossians 4 We are in the Church Stream reading from the Tree of Life Version. 7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Streams | <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YPPA8XGTQ2YHU">Donate</a></p> <!--more--> <p>Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</p> <blockquote>Jesus, we marvel at the effect you have as your Spirit is moving among us like it has since Pentecost. Thank you for working through Paul and then through his students and eventually in us. We are touched and transformed by you indeed.  Amen.</blockquote> <div>Phil.4 - The two names that sound like technical terms are prominent women who are major players in the church in Philippi but they had power issues and neither of them knew well enough to drop it. Paul urges them to put it to rest and to remain gracious for the sake of the church's good testimony that would be jeopardized if they didn't. It would also start to run people off.    Come what may, Paul is so joyful, he is ready to burst from his assurance of the love of God. [Remember he is writing this while chained to a wall in a Roman prison.]  Paul wants the Philippians to be calm, prayerful, and mindful of all things good.  Paul asserts to them that there is power embodied in their contentment.  His explanation of the giving that brings such change to the world is immense in its implications. The incalculable amount of good that the "giving" Church has done over the centuries is truly mind boggling.  His final greetings come also from those living <u>within</u> Caesar's palace who were now Believers! Culturally, we could say that the gospel had reached "the top" and it took hardly 30 years.</div> <div>The Church at Colossae was established and run by men who had been discipled by Paul: Epaphras, Archippus, Philemon, and Onesimus.  The occasion for writing the Colossians was th