Philippians
Joy Above the Fray
Thanks for the gifts & aid
Philippians 4: 14-20
Whether…
* in chains or defending/confirming
the Gospel
* with false or true motives
* by life or by death
* see you or hear about you
* well fed or hungry
* in plenty or in need
Philippians 1: 7, 1: 18, 1: 20, 1:27, 4: 12
Joy…
* God is working for the good
Romans 8: 28
* salvation, eternal life
I Peter 1: 3-9
* Christ has overcome the world
John 16: 33
“What has happened
to all your joy?”
Galatians 4: 15
Worries of this life
Deceitfulness of wealth
Matthew 13: 22
Joy & Contentment
Proverbs 19: 23
Joy from Prison
Philippians 1: 1-11
Completing the good work
Philippians 1: 6
Whatever the cost
“…mature and complete,
not lacking anything…”
James 1: 2-4
Love growing in knowledge
Philippians 1: 9-11
Discernment
Purity & blamelessness
Righteousness
The good
through the chains
Philippians 1: 7-8, 12-14
Whether in chains or
defending & confirming the Gospel
Chains advance the Gospel
- palace guard
- courageous speaking
Perfect Message
Imperfect Messengers
Philippians 1: 15-18
“Indeed, we are all in peril
if the flawed messenger
invalidates the message.”
Philip Yancey
Soul Survivor
“…whether by life or by death…”
Philippians 1: 18-27
Whether in chains or
defending and confirming the Gospel
1: 7
Served to advance the Gospel
1: 12
Will turn out for my deliverance
1: 19
“…whether by life or by death…”
Philippians 1: 18-27
“To live is Christ
and to die is gain.”
1: 21
“I desire to depart and be
with Christ…”
Philippians 1: 23
“absent from the body,
present with Christ…”
II Corinthians 5: 6-8
Paul’s earthly mission
Philippians 1: 20-27
Life = fruitful labor
For your progress
Joy in the faith
Whatever happens…
Philippians 1: 27
You know how to act
“What is that to you? You follow Me.”
If worthy of the Gospel…
Philippians 1: 27-28
One spirit
One man
No fear
Salvation or destruction
For it has been granted…
Philippians 1: 29-30
The fellowship of suffering
Philippians 3: 10
I Peter 4: 12-13
I Peter 5: 8-9
If knowing Christ has changed
you in ANY way, then…
Philippians 2: 1-5
Encouragement
Fellowship
Comfort
Tenderness &
Compassion
If disunity & selfishness is
displayed by an individual,
class, or church, then…?
Philippians 2: 1-5
The Holy Spirit drives us toward:
Unity in community
Selflessness
Benefit of others
Philippians 2: 1-5
“Your attitude should be the
same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who…”
Philippians 2: 5-11
“…equality with God…”
Philippians 2: 6
“To whom will you compare me?
Or who is my equal?"
says the Holy One.”
Isaiah 40: 25
“You will be like God.”
satan’s lifelong lie
“I will make myself like the Most High.”
Isaiah 14: 14
Oppose God – exalt himself over God
Set himself up in God’s temple
Proclaim himself to be God
II Thessalonians 2: 4
Willfully:
* made Himself nothing
* nature of a servant
* likeness of a human
Philippians 2: 7
“Greater love has no man than this…”
Humbled unto death;
even death on a cross
Philippians 2: 8
Mark 10: 42-45
Deuteronomy 21: 22-23
“God made him who had no sin
to be sin for us…”
Since He lowered Himself
lower than all men;
“Therefore God exalted Him to
the highest place.”
Philippians 2: 9
“Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord
will be saved.”
“For whoever exalts himself
will be humbled,
and whoever humbles himself
will be exalted.”
Matthew 23: 12
James 4: 10
I Peter 5: 6
Every knee
Every tongue
Philippians 2: 10-11
“I am God,
and there is no other.”
Isaiah 45: 22-25
Every knee
Every tongue
Philippians 2: 10-11
“They will look on me,
the one they have pierced.”
Zechariah 12: 10
Zechariah 14: 1-9
“continue to work out your
salvation with fear and
trembling…”
Philippians 2: 12-13
Ephesians 2: 8-10
“continue to work out your
salvation with fear and
trembling…”
Greek
Work out – complete, finish, accomplish
Fear – terror, exceedingly afraid
Trembling – quaking with fear
Philippians 2: 12-13
“continue to work out your
salvation with fear and
trembling…”
Philippians 2: 12-13
Salvation is not the end of all
things; it is the beginning of all
No complaining
No arguing
Blameless & pure
Without fault
Philippians 2: 14-18
“poured out like a drink offering…”
based on what?
Philippians 2: 17-18
Exodus 29: 38-43
Timothy –
“I have no one else like him”
Epaphroditus –
“my brother, fellow worker
and fellow soldier”
Philippians 2: 19-30
REJOICE!
Repetition = safeguard
Philippians 3: 1
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The Perfect Jew
circumcised on 8th day
Israelite
Tribe of Benjamin
Jew of Jews
regarding the law? Pharisee
zeal? Persecutor of the church
legalistic righteousness? faultless
Philippians 3: 2-6
consider everything a loss
consider them rubbish
Philippians 3: 7-9
“…that I may gain Christ...”
“I want to know…”
Christ
Power of His resurrection
Fellowship of sharing in His suffering
Philippians 3: 10-11
become like Him
attain resurrection
“I want to know…”
Fellowship of sharing in His suffering
Philippians 3: 10-11
“But rejoice that you participate in the
sufferings of Christ, so that you may be
overjoyed when his glory is revealed.”
1 Peter 4:13
“For whatever reason God chose to
make man as he is—
limited and suffering and subject to
sorrows and death—
He had the honesty and the courage
to take His own medicine.
Whatever game He is playing with
His creation, He has kept His own
rules and played fair.
He can exact nothing from man that
He has not exacted from Himself.
He has Himself gone through the
whole of human experience,
from the trivial irritations of family
life and the cramping restrictions of
hard work and lack of money to the
worst horrors of pain and
humiliation, defeat, despair,
and death.
When He was a man,
He played the man.
He was born in poverty
and died in disgrace
and thought it well worthwhile.”
Dorothy Sayers
“[The Bible] rarely, or ambiguously,
answers the backward-looking
question “Why?”
Instead, it raises the very different,
forward-looking question,
“To what end?”
Philip Yancey