Philippians 1:15-18

Philipians Philippians 1:15

I. Diverse developments of human disposition.

II. The possibility of doing a good deed through a bad motive.

III. The impossibility of entirely concealing motive.

IV. The actions of self-seekers turned into the good man's source of joy.

V. Man is never so diabolised as when making a good cause the means of grieving and tormenting the Church.

VI. The mere fact that a man preaches Christ is not a proof of his personal salvation.

Parker, City Temple,vol. ii., p. 182.

Reference: Philippians 1:15. H. W. Beecher, Christian World Pulpit,vol. xi., p. 108.