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0:00In the previous chapter,
0:02Paul was
0:04showing us
0:05that we've got to consider everything
0:07lost that is based in the power of the
0:10flesh
0:12in order to gain what is based in the
0:14power [music] of Jesus.
0:16His power by which he is able to subject
0:19all things to himself including our
0:21mortal [music]
0:22broken state.
0:24And we're either going to we're either
0:26going to seek the approval and
0:28citizenship that is from heaven [music]
0:30or we're going to seek the approval and
0:32citizenship that is earthly. And that
0:34may be the Jews or that may be the
0:35Romans or that may be your faith
0:37tradition, but anything that is in the
0:39flesh is going to ultimately become an
0:43enemy of the cross because the cross is
0:45inviting us into [music] a journey of
0:47true pilgrimage faith.
0:48Then he begins
0:50in the last chapter of Philippians,
0:52chapter 4, with this word, "Therefore,
0:54my beloved brethren."
0:56Therefore links everything he's about to
0:58say
1:00to what he just said, that Jesus is
1:02going to transform our mortal bodies
1:04through his power.
1:06Amen. And that's why the Holy Spirit,
1:09the baptism of the Holy Spirit such as
1:11at Pentecost, is the foretaste,
1:14it's the pledge and seal of what's
1:17coming. It's the deposit of eternal
1:19life.
1:20"Therefore, my beloved brethren,
1:23whom I long to see,
1:25my joy and crown,
1:28in this way stand firm in the Lord, my
1:31beloved." In what way?
1:34How What is the way?
1:36Join in following my example, he said,
1:39"and observing those who live by the
1:41same pattern. This is the way to stand
1:44firm in the Lord." "Therefore, my
1:46beloved brethren, whom I long to see, my
1:49joy and my crown, in this way of
1:53following examples, stand firm in the
1:56Lord, my beloved.
1:59I urge Euodia
2:02and I urge Syntyche
2:04to live in harmony in the Lord.
2:08So, these are two women who we know had
2:11helped him.
2:12They apparently
2:14are at odds with each other
2:16and they are eroding the unity that Paul
2:19wants in the church. Remember that from
2:21the first chapter on, he's telling them,
2:23"Have the same mind, have the same
2:25heart, be of the same spirit." In verse
2:27three, he begins to speak to who it is,
2:29the minister who he's writing the letter
2:31to. "Indeed, true companion, I ask you
2:34also to help these women who have shared
2:37my struggle in the cause of the gospel
2:40together with Clement also
2:42>> [music]
2:42>> and the rest of my fellow workers whose
2:45names are in the book of life."
2:47So, he's saying, "You need to stop your
2:49quarreling.
2:51You need to come back into harmony.
2:54Not unison. You each have something
2:56valid in your unique perspective, but it
2:59needs to be subjected to the Holy Spirit
3:01and it'll become a harmony." And he
3:03writes to the elder of the church, "Help
3:05them.
3:06Help them quit this nonsense and get
3:08back into harmony."
3:10"Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I
3:14will say, rejoice."
3:17So, something about Paul's biggest
3:19burden here keeps coming through. You've
3:22lost your joy.
3:23You've lost your joy. And he's he's
3:25repeating it. He's told them in the
3:26previous chapter. It doesn't bother him
3:28to repeat it. Now, he's repeating it
3:30again. In one sentence, "Rejoice in the
3:33Lord always. Again, I will say,
3:35rejoice."
3:37And that word joy, it means to be glad.
3:40It means to give a greeting of joy.
3:45It means to make joyful.
3:47Means to rejoice, to be the verb of joy.
3:51Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I say
3:54rejoice.
3:55Let your gentle spirit be known to all
3:58men.
4:00The Lord is near.
4:03He's not far away.
4:05He hasn't left you.
4:07You're not alone in the dark tunnel of
4:10your crisis. You can rejoice because the
4:13Lord is near. Doesn't that make you
4:15think of Psalms 23?
4:17Yea, though I walk through the valley of
4:19the shadow of death, I will fear no
4:21evil, for thou art with me.
4:24That's what Paul is saying. You can
4:25rejoice because the Lord is near.
4:28Be anxious for nothing.
4:31But in everything
4:34by prayer
4:36and supplication with Thanksgiving
4:39let your requests be made known to God.
4:43So, he's saying you need to let your
4:45requests be made known to God.
4:48But there is a very specific way to let
4:51your requests be known to God.
4:54First, by being anxious for nothing.
4:57Anxiety
5:00bottles up and screws the lid on your
5:02requests so that they don't get out of
5:04you and into the courts of heaven.
5:06But it is through Thanksgiving that we
5:08enter the courts
5:10of heaven. So, he says, be anxious for
5:12nothing, but in everything by prayer and
5:16supplication with Thanksgiving let your
5:19requests be known. So, we have several
5:22critical words.
5:24Anxious
5:26prayer
5:27supplication, Thanksgiving, requests.
5:32And
5:34how we get the requests is what he's
5:37solving. How we get the requests before
5:39God.
5:40If I want to get a request to Judah, I
5:44send it to him by means of a text
5:47message. That's how I get my request to
5:49Judah.
5:50I send a text. But how you get your need
5:53in front of God is in a very particular
5:56way. First, get rid of anxiety.
6:00Because your anxiety stops your prayers.
6:04Bottles up your prayers. Screws the lid
6:06on your prayers so they don't get up to
6:08heaven.
6:09Thanksgiving gets your prayers
6:11into the courts of the Most High. You
6:14enter his gates with thanksgiving and
6:15his courts with praise. So, he says, "No
6:19anxiety,
6:20but through prayer
6:22and supplication." Prayer is
6:24calling on his name, asking him for
6:26something. Supplication is begging, but
6:29he says begging with thanksgiving.
6:33>> [laughter]
6:34>> Telling him you're grateful. Telling him
6:36you trust him. Telling him his character
6:39is worthy.
6:40In that way, let your requests, your
6:43demands,
6:45be made known to God. The things you
6:48desperately need.
6:50That's how they get known to God.
6:53If you have anxiety, they don't get
6:54known to God.
6:58If you don't have thanksgiving,
7:01you've unplugged the phone from the AT&T
7:04server.
7:05Your thanksgiving is your cell reception
7:08that puts your prayer from you into the
7:10courts of heaven.
7:12And verse seven, "And the peace of God,
7:16which surpasses all comprehension,
7:20will guard your hearts and minds in
7:23Christ Jesus."
7:25If you don't just make demands,
7:28but you do them without anxiety and with
7:31prayer and with thanksgiving and with
7:33supplication,
7:34then the peace of God
7:37will be there for you. And what kind of
7:38peace is this? It's a peace that is not
7:42the product of what you understand,
7:46but is
7:47the
7:48power over what you understand. The
7:51peace of God does not come from better
7:53understanding.
7:56It surpasses understanding.
7:58Understanding says no peace.
8:00Understanding says freak out, be
8:02anxious. The peace of God says I am the
8:06guard over the heart and the mind
8:08because this person is in Christ and is
8:11knowing Christ, is in fellowship with
8:13Christ. So it says it the peace of God
8:16will guard your hearts and that means a
8:18soldier stationed as sentry over a
8:21doorway.
8:23The peace of God is a powerful
8:25authoritative soldier of God that says,
8:29"Uh-uh.
8:30No, we're not doing anxious today.
8:32We're not doing that. We're not doing
8:34comprehension today. We're not doing I
8:36can't trust because I don't understand.
8:38That's not what we're doing.
8:40We're going to let our hearts and minds,
8:42that means our emotions and our
8:44intellect, be guarded by the soldier of
8:47a chosen peace, a peace from God.
8:51Finally, brethren,
8:53whatever is true,
8:55whatever is honorable. Now this finally
8:56is going to show us how peace is the
8:58soldier. Finally, brethren, whatever is
9:01true, whatever is honorable,
9:04whatever is right,
9:06whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,
9:10whatever is of good repute,
9:13if there is any excellence,
9:16and if anything worthy of praise,
9:21dwell on these things.
9:25Peace decides what you dwell on.
9:30The soldier of peace decides, "I can't
9:34dwell on that."
9:36That's ruminate. That's what that that
9:38that's what he's speaking of there.
9:41It's how you process what has happened.
9:43It's you your mental reckoning of what's
9:46going on.
9:48And he says, "I don't want you to dwell
9:51on or ruminate on anything if it does
9:54not fit these things." The word is most
9:57often translated as consider
9:59or think about again.
10:02What should you be ruminating on?
10:07Whatever is true,
10:09honorable, right,
10:11pure, lovely,
10:14of good repute.
10:16Don't even dwell on the bad stories.
10:19Don't even repeat them and rehearse them
10:21to yourself.
10:23Whatever is lovely.
10:26This is the word of God commanding you
10:29to ruminate on lovely.
10:35Of good repute, excellent, worthy of
10:38praise.
10:40He wants you to think about, consider,
10:43and take account
10:46of the things that are excellent.
10:50Come out of a service and talk about
10:52what you loved about it.
10:54Finish a day and talk about what went
10:56right.
10:58Finish a conversation and tell the
11:01highlights to your spouse or friends.
11:04Do not be the garbage disposal
11:08rumination station for everything bad
11:11that happens in the church.
11:14That
11:16would be making demands with anxiety
11:19without Thanksgiving.
11:21That
11:23would be refusing to let the peace of
11:26God guard your heart and mind.
11:32The things you have learned and received
11:35and heard and seen in me,
11:38practice these things,
11:41and the God of peace will be with you.
11:47Notice this, the things you have learned
11:50and received
11:52and heard
11:54and seen
11:56in me.
11:58Not in my letters, in me.
12:01In the way I treat people, in the way I
12:03talk, in the way I show, in the way I
12:05live.
12:06Practice these things. You're not
12:09perfect at it. I'm not either, Paul
12:10said. I haven't attained. I haven't been
12:12perfected, but you can practice. You can
12:15work at it. Practice these things,
12:18and the God of peace
12:21will be with you.
12:22And then you don't have to be anxious.
12:25So, he's given two powerful paths to
12:28success. Guard what you think about,
12:30guard what you ruminate on, and then
12:33focus on practicing
12:35what's right.
12:37If you do that,
12:39you're going to be all right.
12:42But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that
12:44now at least you have revived your
12:47concern for me.
12:50Indeed, you were concerned before, but
12:52you lacked opportunity.
12:56Not that I speak from want,
12:58for I
13:00have learned
13:02to be content
13:05in whatever circumstance
13:07I am in.
13:10I know how to get along with humble
13:12means,
13:13and I also know how to live in
13:15prosperity.
13:17In any and every circumstance, I have
13:20learned the secret of being filled and
13:24going hungry,
13:26both of having abundance and suffering
13:28need.
13:29I
13:30can do all things
13:33through him
13:35who strengthens me.
13:37This is the summation of the whole
13:38letter.
13:39He's saying, I've learned the secret.
13:41You can, too. And I just gave you the
13:43recipe for how.
13:45Focus on your thoughts and focus on your
13:47actions.
13:49And imitate people. Practice what you
13:51see in others that you want in you.
13:54I've learned the secret. You can learn
13:55it, too.
13:56And what is the secret? To live a life
13:59of faith that is not circumstantially
14:01dependent.
14:03I've learned the secret.
14:06When he says, I can do all things
14:07through him who strengthens me,
14:09what are the all things that he's
14:10talking about?
14:12I can live
14:14in poverty and I can live in prosperity.
14:17I can live in hunger and I can live in
14:19abundance. I can live with praise and I
14:21can live with slander. I can live with
14:24understanding and I can live with
14:25misunderstanding because I know how to
14:27dwell on the right things when my
14:29spirits are soaking wet.
14:31I know how to direct my mind to be
14:34soldiered and guarded by the peace of
14:37God that is bigger than my
14:39comprehension.
14:41Nevertheless, you have done well to
14:44share with me in my affliction. You
14:47yourselves also know, Philippians,
14:50that at the first preaching of the
14:52gospel after I left Macedonia, no church
14:56shared with me in the matter of giving
14:59and receiving,
15:01but you alone.
15:03For in Thessalonica, you sent a gift
15:07more than once for my needs.
15:10Not that I seek the gift itself, but I
15:13seek for the profit which increases to
15:17your account.
15:20They gave something
15:22and they got something.
15:24They gave they went and they gave a
15:26financial or practical gift to the
15:28ministry Paul was heading up and they
15:31got something. What did they get?
15:33Partnership in Paul's ministry. Because
15:35Jesus has said whoever gives a prophet a
15:38cup of cold water in my name receives
15:39the same reward as if he had prophesied
15:42as the prophet.
15:46But I have received everything in full
15:48and have an abundance.
15:50I am amply supplied
15:52having received from Epaphroditus
15:55what you have sent a fragrant aroma
15:59an acceptable sacrifice well pleasing to
16:02God.
16:04I don't know what in the name of God a
16:07church would want
16:10to hear
16:11except that what they gave
16:16was a fragrant aroma
16:18an acceptable sacrifice well pleasing to
16:21God.
16:23And my God
16:25my God
16:27will supply
16:29all your needs
16:31according to his riches in glory in
16:34Christ Jesus.
16:36He said you've given
16:37and God loves it. It's acceptable.
16:40And I want you to know you're you're not
16:41going to out give God. He's going to
16:43take care of everything you're facing
16:45because you have that sense of blessing.
16:50You're that willingness to give that
16:52sacrificial ethic is still in the
16:54Philippian church
16:55that apparently had been lost in the
16:57Galatian church.
16:59Now to our God and Father
17:02be the glory
17:03forever and ever. [music] Amen.
17:06Greet every saint in Christ Jesus.
17:10The brethren who are with me greet you.
17:13All the saints greet you
17:15especially those of Caesar's household.
17:18The grace of the [music] Lord Jesus
17:20Christ be with your spirit.
17:27God's going to supply all our needs
17:30if we'll let his peace
17:33take sentry post over our thoughts
17:37and our hearts, our feelings.
17:40If we'll direct our minds [music] to
17:42dwell as Paul has said and our actions
17:45to imitate as he has instructed.
17:48Amen. And he finishes by telling them
17:50that
17:50>> [music]
17:50>> those of Caesar's household greet them.
17:54What he's saying is he's saying, "You
17:56guys have invested in my ministry. I
17:58want you to know it's working."
18:01Those of Caesar's household greet you.
18:03He's imprisoned by Caesar's household,
18:05but they're being converted to Christ.
18:08What a letter.
18:12>> [music]
18:22[music]

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