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Philippians 2:19-30
INTRODUCTION
Introduce yourself!!
Let me start by asking this question: how important is faithfulness to you in your walk with the Lord?
I think we all recognize the importance of faithfulness in other areas of life, right?
It’s important that you faithfully complete your schoolwork on time and well.
Otherwise, you’ll face the consequences of a bad grade, right?
It’s important that you faithfully attend sports practice.
Otherwise, you won’t improve your skills!
You won’t play as well in the games in either.
It’s important someday that if you get married, that you are faithful to your spouse!
That is a way that you show honor to the Lord, as well as to your wife or husband.
But, how often do we think of faithfulness in our walks with the Lord?
Do we pursue faithfulness to Christ more than we pursue faithfully attending classes or sports practice?
Do you know what characteristics constitute a faithful follower of Jesus Christ?
Big Idea: Timothy and Epaphroditus are examples of faithful servants in ministry.
So, if you’re ever wondering, man, am I being faithful?
Am I what God would define as a faithful worker?
A faithful laborer for His Kingdom?
Where should you go? Philip.
2:19-30.
Before we jump into the text, let’s get a little bit of context shall we?
CONTEXT
Who wrote the book?
Does anyone remember where Paul was when he wrote this letter?
What was he doing in Rome?
Bonus: How long had he been in Rome for at this point?
Paul under house arrest in Rome.
This was Paul’s first imprisonment, and was written around 62 A.D. He had been in Rome for about 2 years at this point.
Another important piece of context is that news and supplies traveled between Paul and churches, like the one in Philippi, via messengers like Timothy and Epaphroditus.
And these messengers weren’t just anyone; they had an important task!
Sometimes they carried letters from the Apostles to the churches, like in 1 Thessalonians, sometimes they carried supplies like in the book of Philippians.
Paul, in the passage we are going to talk about this morning, shifts his focus from working out our salvation with fear and trembling,not grumbling, to sharing his plans of sending these messengers to Philippi.
The reason Paul did this was to encourage them and see how Philippians doing spiritually.
In sharing his plans, Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, is going to shed light on some of the qualities of faithful servants of Christ Jesus.
If you’re not already there, please open your Bibles to Philippians 2:19.
Our text is in Philippians 2, and I’ll will start reading in verse 19 in a moment.
Let’s begin our study with a quick word of prayer.
TIMOTHY (vv.
19-24)
Alright, in v.19, the text says that Paul hopes to send Timothy to the Philippian church.
Ask them who Timothy was.
Who was Timothy? ( Acts 16:1-5)
Let’s turn over to the book of Acts to review a little bit.
Acts 16, verses 1-5.
So, what did we learn?
A disciple, who had a Jewish mother and a Greek father
He had a good reputation
A committed disciple, enough so that he began traveling through various cities with Paul.
What else do we know about Timothy?
That’s a good review, but there is a little more I think we need to know for our text here this morning.
he was with Paul when he wrote the letter (Phil.1.1).
That he and Paul were incredibly close.
In the greetings of 1 and 2 Timothy, Paul refers to him as “[his] true child in the faith” and “my beloved child”.
He was a pastor.
This is made clear through the letters of 1 and 2nd Timothy.
Excellent.
Turn back to our text in chapter 2, v.19.
This was the Timothy Paul was hoping to send to the Philippians.
And notice the last half of this verse, so that I too may be cheered by news of you.
Paul, as a caring shepherd, wanted to know how the believers were doing in Philippi.
So, he was going to send one of his closest friends to check on them and see how they were faring.
Naturally though, this raises a question.
Why did Paul send Timothy?
Didn’t he have other people he could’ve sent?
What do you guys think?
Let’s look at v.20 to find out.
A Genuine Concern (v.20)
I want to draw your attention to the phrase, “no one like him”.
NASB: “Kindred spirit”.
In Gr., it literally means “one souled”.
Paul and Timothy thought so similarly, had the same priorities, had the same goal of glorifying Christ, that they were like one soul.
This is the reason why Paul wanted to send Timothy to the Philippian church.
Out of the people Paul had access to in Rome, Timothy was unique; he stood out.
Why?
He was the only one whom Paul could trust to genuinely care for other Christian’s spiritual welfare.
Sadly guys, I think this is still the case today.
There are far too many Christians, who, even though they are true believers in Jesus, they still lack a genuine concern for the spiritual well-being of other pilgrims.
Have you guys seen this?
I have.
And first and foremost, I’ve seen this in my own heart too.
Yet, this should not be.
Believers in Christ ought to watch out for each other right?
What do you guys think it looks like to genuinely care for your brothers and sisters in Christ?
What kind of questions could you ask to get a better idea of this?
Let me give you some questions you can use to think about your friends’ spiritual condition:
Are they loving Jesus more this year than they did last year?
Are they actively trying to kill sin?
How often are they getting into God’s word?
Those are some questions I would encourage you to ask yourselves about your friends, so that you can get a pulse on how your friends are doing spiritually.
I would submit to you that this is the first quality of a faithful worker: a genuine concern for other believers.
Now, I think this statement merits a question: why were there not more believers who had a genuine concern for the spiritual well being of others?
What was it that was keeping them from doing this?
Let’s look at the next verse to find out.
The Interests of Christ Jesus (v.21)
Why didn’t they genuinely care?
They were too busy seeking after their own interests.
I want to draw your attention briefly to the word: seek.
To seek means to search for.
This is an active, purposeful word.
So, what Paul is saying is that the believers he had in mind were so focused on searching out their own interests, that they were failing to search after the interests of Jesus.
In other words, their interests were being pursued, at the expense of the interests of Jesus Christ.
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