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I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ according to my earnest expectation and my hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed but that with all boldness as always so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body whether it be by life or by death. He said look if my body is alive it's going to magnify Christ because I'm going to be using this body to preach the gospel and if my body is a dead body then that dead body is going to glorify God because people are going to see my dead body and it's going to be a testament to the gospel because it's going to be known this guy was killed for preaching Christ. He said for me to live is Christ and to die is gain. Now here's the thing that just jumps out at me in this chapter all the way from verse 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, I mean all the way down here. What is the main theme that is just coming across in this chapter that's just screaming out at us the whole time whether he's talking about his bonds, dying, people preaching Christ for the wrong reason. At the end of the day you know what his attitude is? Hey everything works together for good to those that love God to them who are the called according to his purpose. I love Paul's attitude. I like Paul's attitude that says oh man I'm in jail. Well hey look at all the good that came from me being in jail. Oh man you got these ego driven bozos preaching the gospel and doing soul winning. He's just like well at least they're knocking a lot of doors and getting people saved. Oh man you you're facing death for the cause of Christ. He's like well my dead body will glorify God and to die is gain because I have a desire to depart to be with Christ. It's like no matter what you throw at Paul whether it's imprisonment, being surrounded by bozos, whether it's facing death, whatever he's just always looking on the bright side. Just boom look here's how it worked for good. Here's how it works for good. Here's how it's getting people saved. Here's how it's going to turn to my salvation. I'm going to turn out okay. Things are going to happen for the furtherance of the gospel. This is how we need to look at life and you don't see Paul murmuring and complaining and groaning in this very same book. If you would just flip over to the end of the book in chapter 4. It says in verse 11, not that I speak in respect of want for I've learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I'm instructed both to be full and to be hungry. Both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengthen me. Look if I'm suffering need it's making me stronger. It's making me a better person. It's training. If I'm abounding well enough said I'm abounding. I mean hey I'm instructed both to be full and to be hungry. If I'm hungry hey sometimes it's good to be hungry. You can lose a little weight, amen? And not only that but if you're hungry you know what it can it can it can just build character being hungry. So when he's hungry he says God's using this in my life. God's using my hunger in my life to make me a better person. And then when he's full he's like man isn't this great? Look at all this bounty that God's giving me. Look how I'm whining and dining as I serve God. So look sometimes he's getting invited over to a guy like Publius' house in the book of Acts where he's eating good and he's with the chief man of the island and he's in the mansion on the island eating all the good food. Another time this rich woman the seller of purple is having him over for steak and lobster. Other times he's eating gruel in a dungeon but he looks at it as win-win because when he's eating the steak and lobster enough said. When he's in the dungeon hey he's earning rewards. He's building character. He's content in whatsoever state he is. If you speak Spanish he's contento, right? In whatsoever state he's in, alright? So we see Paul's attitude it starts out in Philippians chapter 1 all the way through Philippians 4 he's saying the same thing, right? He starts out in chapter 1 being positive. Look you've heard bad stuff. You've heard that I'm going through hard times but let me just tell you how good it is. Let me tell you all the good things. Let me show you all the positives. Let me tell you the praises and the glory and not complain and whine and murmur about it and then at the end he ends on that note saying look I know how to be abased. I know how to abound. Being full is great. Being empty is great. Whatever happens is going to be great and by the way the people that I won to Christ in Caesar's household say hi. That's why I love this book because I like that attitude.