Philipians Philippians 1:15-18
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 1:15-18. H. W. Beecher, Christian World Pulpit,vol. xi., p. 108.