- Practice What You Have Been Taught, Keeping Your Thinking Rightly Focused - Paul expresses genuine delight in the Philippians. As each of us faces various 'sacrifices' for the faith we will come to see each other as the close family that we really are in Christ. But if we blend in with society it will become far less likely that we will face times of shared sacrifice. Paul instructs the Philippians to work on being in harmony with each other "in the Lord". There were two women among the Philippians who had a disagreement with each other, Paul wants them to work at achieving harmony in the Lord.