Phil 4:1-9 | A Whole New Game
October 16, 2022

Where have we been:

Love would abound
To Live is Christ to die is gain
No selfish ambition, but be like Christ
Knowing Christ and the power of his resurrection

Two women
Some disagreement
Exhortations

New Way of Being Human
Whole Letter
Be together, shaped by the Gospel

Let’s start with being together
Disagreement
Significant to be name dropped
Treats them as equals

Unnamed helper
Ephaph? Someone else left in charge?

We will collide with one another
Paul teaches us
1). We are equals
2). We are to work toward reconciliation
3). Always a third party, the church, we are right there with you to reconcile
4). In the Lord
Throughout Philippians
In Christ, our Savior
In Lord, our King

Exhortations - Gospel shapes us
We don’t shape it; it shapes us

Peewee football - trying to figure out the game
Crowds in the stands - yelling to kick the ball like soccer or hit the ball with a stick like baseball
Tough…if we do what they say, they will cheer for us

But, our coach, he’s the one we listen to…

Hear our coach 5 things!
1). Rejoice
Starts with joy!
Paul writes this in prison!

We have Christ!

2). Let your reasonableness be known to everyone

glitch
Forbearance? Gentleness? Yes
Word history - It’s both
Again, in this game, we have people yelling at us
Stand for truth? Be Gentle?
Coach - yes

3). Don’t be

Isn’t that just nuts?
Soooooooo much to be anxious about
Crowd actually agrees on this one - be anxious

Nope
Pray
…not carefree….we have so much to care about
God cares more, so go to Him

He will guard our hearts and minds
Let’s go with our prayers
Anxious heart and mind - eyes wide, hearts pounding fists out
We live in Christ
He will guard us

4).

!

World is scary, messed up, broken

Also, full of glory…

True, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, worthy of praise
Think about those things

Not just churchy things
Not just in grown

Be out in the world - be on the look out!
Kingdom of God is NEAR!

Like Elijah, we have more allies than we thought
Creation is on our side!
Bad ideas show themselves, truth will be told

Glory in it! Think about it!

Funny command - think about it
Your brain wants to dwell

Songbomb
We can change what we dwell on

5).


Paul - practice the teaching as its been given
Practice it, small bits
It will shape us

Worship, Together
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