Hello again, and welcome to the program. We're here with a little strength for today. We've been talking about dealing with hard times today. We're looking at Philippians 4, 7. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Paul is sitting in a dark, cold dungeon, and the context of Philippians chapter 1 would indicate that he is in the Mamertine prison. It is one of Rome's most notorious prisons. It was a subterranean dungeon known for its extreme darkness and filth. It was a holding place for condemned enemies of the state that were going to be executed. In spite of being in a very trying circumstance, Paul used the word joy and rejoice in the book of Philippians at least 16 times. In Philippians chapter 4 verse number 7, as he writes to the church at Philippi, he says, And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. The phrase, the peace of God, is only found twice in the scriptures, here in Philippians 4, 7, and then in Colossians 3, 15, where we read, And let the peace of God rule in your heart, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be ye thankful." Now it's interesting, in Philippians 4-7 when he referred to the peace of God that passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts. In Colossians 3-15 it says, and let the peace of God rule in your heart. That word rule means the umpire or the referee. If you watch a hockey game, when somebody does something wrong, the referee will blow his whistle and say, go sit in the penalty box there for a couple of minutes and think this over. That's what we ought to do if we don't have the peace of God in the trying circumstances. Maybe we should just sit down and get the scriptures and figure out what's wrong. Again, in Philippians 4-7, the peace of God which passes all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. The heart and mind has to do with the soul. The soul consists of the mind, the will, and the emotions. And so, as Paul sits in this dark, filthy Mamertine prison, maybe being executed sometime tomorrow, he has a peace of God that passes all understanding And he wanted the church at Philippi to have that same peace. But the Bible says these things happen unto them for examples, and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come. And so we're going to look deeper into the book of Philippians and see how can this peace that passes understanding be mine.