Wednesday – 04/15/2015

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Speakers:

Robin Atherton
Ann Eutsler
Karen Hocker
Megan Atherton

Scriptures used:

Philippians 2:17
Philippians 3:1-17
Proverbs 26:11
2 Peter 2:22

Subject:

Philippians.
Whether our authorities are present or not, we should walk in obedience. Even more so in their absence. It is a service of walking in faith.
How many times are we full of complaint in that which we are asked to do.
We need to have the mindset that in Christ we are not our own, but we are bought with a price.
There is no room for murmurings, we are here to serve the Lord.
We are also not one another’s judges. We should not dispute with others or the one’s over us.
We need to join with the decisions made by our authorities, in faith, trusting the Lord.
We should walk as lights shining forth in the world.
Paul’s desire is for the people to be a good fruit. It matters that another person is reconciled unto Christ through the blood of the lamb. It should matter to us as well. It is a place of rejoicing and thanksgiving.
Be obedient with a right attitude, not begrudging. If we do what is asked of us with the right attitude there is joy in it.
We walk in faith and obedience because we believe what the Lord has said.
Our salvation is Jesus Christ and Him alone.
It is a great help having those over us, He has given us an order in which we can be kept and found in a right place.
Paul’s life is the ministry of Jesus Christ, the greatest comfort or joy he has is to hear people are walking rightly in Christ.
The service of Christ should transcend any personal desires.
Paul trusted the Lord in Timothy, that he would rightly divide the word to others and bring a true report of the people.
Everything we have on this earth should be for the service to Christ. It is not about us, it’s about Jesus. Put him first before all else, not seeking our own.
Because of His grace and love we can pick up, learn from our mistakes and move forward.
It is a gospel that forgets our sins till the day we die, if we will believe it. If we will, we are preaching the gospel by our own actions.
A right father son relationship is where the son walks at the feet of his father, supporting him and learning from him, to be even as his father.
Timothy’s desire was to follow Christ as was Paul’s.
Epaphroditus made up the difference for the lack of Paul’s care from the Philippians.
It is important for us to care for the Lord’s people.
It should not be our works that we try to do for our salvation. Praise God what He did was sufficient. There is a hope in Christ that never ends.
Don’t take Christ’s blood for granted, use it to grow in Him.
Circumcision is of the heart.
We dwell in Christ’s body by faith. He made it possible for us, we had nothing to do with it, therefore should have no confidence in the flesh.
Where do we go when we need the truth, do we seek it from those who will give it or do we go to those who are happy to make us comfortable in the flesh?
Our natural man rebels from seeking the truth. It is dangerous for this to continue in the body.
A lot of things Jesus said and did seemed hard.
Three types of people we should give no place to; self righteous or legalists, ones who say they’re Christians without evidence walking after the flesh, and those who come into under mind and destroy those who God put over us. Giving them no place is love.
We need to know in our flesh dwelleth no good thing, but don’t get hung up on it.
Paul in the flesh had many things to be confident about but counted it all dung.
We need to understand the need for a sacrifice because we are sinners, Jesus is the sacrifice we need.
Old testament through now, the people who have been saved are saved by the very same gospel.
The only thing that is good is Jesus Christ.
Paul suffered the same rejection from, “Christians” as Jesus did.
To the end, we are all beneficiaries of Paul’s service to God.
It is Christ’s faith the we trust. Everything He says He will do, He will do.
Paul’s desire is that he will know Christ and the power of His resurrection, we need to know it is there for us. We can only walk in it if we believe it.
Stand up in the power of God by faith, then we can be accounted unto Him as righteous.
Paul did a lot of things right, but he never rested on that, and didn’t get hung up on where he fell short. He pressed to the mark, Jesus being that mark.
Being made conformable unto His death is to stand in Christ and not be brought down by it, or respond in like manner.
Pressing means to battle or to fight!
We have got to get to that place where Jesus’ sacrifice is all we need.
Our flesh is not the proof of being in the body of Christ and it never will be.
We have no excuse but to press on, He has provided all we need.
Put off our natural man and be alive in Christ!
Walk out what we do know and be like-minded as to Paul. That which we do know, if we walk it out, will minister hope to each other.
Mark those who do walk in the faith and follow them. There are those who are in the Bible to mark, but also we have ones here with us today to mark and follow.
Without those who do walk as examples of Christ, it would be near impossible for us to follow after Christ.
There is a warfare that has to be fought to attain unto the resurrection of the dead.