I. Mark the confidence of the declaration, "I know." Righteousness is a prophetic power.
II. Mark the ground of this confidence. The Apostle's joy does not arise from the fact that certain persons preached, but from the higher fact that Christ was preached.
III. The extension of the truth is the best guarantee of personal happiness.
IV. The Gospel has everything to hope from being allowed to reveal its own credentials.
V. The greatest man in the Church may be served by the supplication of the good.
Parker, City Temple,vol. ii., p. 207.
References: Philippians 1:19. Spurgeon, Sermons,vol. xix., No. 1139; Clergyman's Magazine,vol. iv., p. 85.