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Better Together
Greeting
Tremendous prayer meeting last night!
I look back at 2022, and I see such great strides we have made…
In all of these things, I want more.
And God is not done yet!
“I will build MY church.”
There will be attacks… but we are the Church Triumphant!
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Sunday morning, Pastor preached to us a great word, that I soaked in.
I hope we all did.
He had no idea what I would be preaching today.
But I felt led of the Lord in this months and months ago.
Designed to Be Together
Andy Griffith - “The Haunted House”
{SHOW PICTURE: Andy Griffith}
In The Haunted House episode, in the middle of a place that was very strange and unsettling, they moved TOGETHER through the building.
They weren’t told to, it was natural.
My grandmother, who I miss, reached forward for someone when we were on a roller coaster.
She got them by the hair!
But she reached for anybody, anything, in a place of fear.
Togetherness
We are BETTER TOGETHER.
I could do my own thing, but God made me to be a part of the body of Christ!
The New Testament uses the phrase “one another” 58 times.
The NEW Testament.
There is a reason for that.
God designed us to be connected, and life breaks down when we are not!
Different, But Still Together!
Enemies of the Body
Let me tell you what we are up against, if we are to be a unified body.
The American Giants
Busyness
Materialism
Isolation
The Spirit of Offense
Coming Against the Enemy
We want to slay these things!
This is how we can focus away from “me” and toward “being in Christ,” secure and rock solid.
Part of being “together” is submission, also!
True Fellowship
Moving beyond “surface” fellowship to “true” fellowship.
An Exhortation on Unity
What I’m about to read is Paul exhorting on unity.
But the focus is turned on problems within the Church.
These are like little “if” clauses.
And they are things assumed to be true.
So, the sense of the first clause is “If there are any grounds for exhortation because you are in Christ, as indeed there are.…”
As Christians, they were in a vital union with Christ and this placed obvious obligations on them.
They were responsible to heed the orders of Christ as issued by him either directly during his ministry or through his apostles.
Second, the comfort and encouragement provided by love should prompt the Philippians to join hands in common action.
Their love for Christ and for their fellow believers (including Paul) ought to impel them to desist from divisiveness in any form.
Third, the fellowship produced by the Holy Spirit should stimulate the practical exercise of unity.
They have been made one by the Spirit (cf. 1 Cor 12:13) and thus are partners with him and with each other.
Recognition of this theological truth would find expression in their lives.
Fourth, the existence of tenderness and compassion among them would make the unity that was being called for the normal and expected thing.
The exhortation itself is first stated and then elaborated on.
Paul exhorted the Philippians to make his joy full by minding the same thing.
He was already experiencing joy because of his associations with this church (1:3, 4; 4:10), but one thing was yet needed to make his joy “complete” (plērōsate).
They needed to be “like-minded” (literally, “mind the same thing”).
Of course, this was not a command for unity at the expense of truth.
It assumes that “the same thing” is also “the right thing.”
The enjoinder to maintain unity in their thought and action is elaborated on in four participial phrases.
By complying with these instructions, the readers would create a climate where true unity would flourish.
So he tells them what they need...
Conclusion
We are BETTER TOGETHER!
“I Need You To Survive”
Next Wednesday, no one will be at this location!
We’ll all be in LifeGroups!
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