Sunday PM ~ Ultimate Purpose in Life ~ Philippians 1:19-26
This is how the talk of all shapes his life. What rhymes with him and motivate him to live. If it is purpose and it all revolves around our Lord Jesus Christ and his wife because they sit here, what the vs surrounding are going to be going to describe for us, the outworking of that purpose in life and constructive Ross. Okay. So what is this going to look like? It's a list Christ to die is gain, we might have to question. So what? What impact does that happen? My life. Well, we see 4 results. This purpose produces in line for result. That purpose produces live number one with the Apostle Paul life that it produces a joyful peaceful rest. In the sovereignty of God, a joyful peaceful rest. In the sovereignty of God will not make a awesome situation. That is surrounding the Apostle. Paul is joyful peaceful in at rest because he trusts the sovereignty of God what they're in for a team. We're going to pick up an 18in Rim down through verse 20. He says yeah and I will rejoice for I know that this will turn out for my Deliverance as it it might be your expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that will but that with full courage. Now, as always try to be honored in my body, whether my wife or my dad, 42 me to live is Christ to die. Is gain lived out his purpose. He has a joyful people rise to talk to you of God. Vegeta vs. 18. Yes I will rejoice the grammar shifts. It didn't say previously said I do Rejoice not that I Will Rejoice that shipping future places. The first in our context, not the previous contact, your
free toys. But now I'm looking forward to an even greater Rejoice. I Will Rejoice even more it. Is it a greater joy in the future to admire Paul.
What you have to Rejoice about 1st 1974. I know now drop the end of her 19 for. I know this will turn out for my Deliverance except for I know I will be delivered. I know that I'm knowing something up certainty know where Paul is absolutely convinced that he will be delivered from his situation from his circumstances. It will work out for his deliverance and other words. He is not in his control others and not something that he perceived, but he look to a sovereign God, and he said, hate to live is Christ to die. Is gain their forgot. I'm going to trust you with it. I will be delivered and diverse 20. It says, either by life or by Death. But he will be delivered, you will be executed, or he will be relieved, but he will be delivered. And with that Assurance, with that confidence, Iraq. He's crossed the sovereignty of God, Theology of salvation of the Furnace, translated as salvation. And so I will either from or I would stay with my lawyer phone stand in the presence of sin but I will be delivered. No work at all confident on what he deemed will happen. What I have come up with an argument to set him, free from Roman authorities. He places his trust in an all-powerful God, deliver me from this.
I'm going to die and it's going to be a game. It's going to be better. Now, there are three activities that play Rowland. It's that help him with his cough and first of all, is the word of God. We have to go to the word of God to have his confidence in our Sovereign. God, from the book of Joe, Joe 13:16 end. With this visit also will be my salvation is a direct quotation, word, word in the Greek quoting from the Old Testament, like Joe, These trials. Are you from Ghana? God is Not punishing me. Sleeper trial, but I'm facing in life. But God is not a Divine punishment for my sin, like Joe, Paul fully believe that God would deliver in from the suffering, like, Joe. Paul trusted that God was fully in control and good at all times. In other words, that the Apostle Paul trusted the very word of God. He goes back to scripture to know how to handle this situation. Do you write the apply scripture to his situation and he practices what he preaches?
It's the way you said that I didn't Romans 8:28. If you wrote to the Believers in Rome before he entered Rome, Romans 8:28 here, I sent it. So we know that for those who love God, all things work together for good. For those who are called according to his purpose out. What you previously wrote, what he has a red sign in scripture. God is good. God is in control is not punishing me for my sin. This will work out for my Deliverance. I can truck driving We apply God's word to our lives.
We apply it as well on your client to our stops. Or children or family members or neighbors, but to apply God's word to our lives and then live according to it. Work. He's McLoughlin to Paul having his liver and secondly, he has a prayer to the Saints because their first 19 for I know that through your prayers I love you, Papa Hall emphasis on prayer, he truly believed in, you acted nest of prayer, Paul praying for others and he received encouragement from other pray for him. If I could several occasions, I hear it twice that supporting churches would pray for Nana what you need to pray for me if he's even 6:18 after speaking of the armor of God praying at all times. Making supplication for all the things. And also for me that were they be given to me in my the opening of my mouth bull way to proclaim the mysteries of the Gospel. Always fine Ambassador and change. I need to clarify boldly as I ought to Speedy 1st Thessalonians 5, 25 Brothers, pray for us at the Apostle, Paul believe in the power of prayer. And in fact that it has on what prayer makes a difference, whatever situation you're facing Earlier before the holy spirit, that support the hell that the provision of the holy spirit is not competent, is the activity or the work of the holy spirit will turn out for my Deliverance. Understanding scripture in understanding human life, we come to the conclusion, we can do nothing of good without the work of the Holy Spirit around. I only wear this without the ministry, with the supply, the provision of the Holy Spirit.
Another word a Paul says that he is confident because the Holy Spirit who is a sufficient resources for everything that he needs has been given to him. By the way that we know the holy spirit is given to every believer. He is our sufficient resource for everything that we need to follow God. And without him, we had that we need to follow God. He looked in the character of God of the promise of the God and he applies it all to his situation and he's absolutely confident in the sovereignty of God to bring about his delivery, I don't see how this is going to work for one way or the other, I will be delivered. Why for me to live is Christ It's a die in game or what happened. This is going to be For Your Glory. Long does having crisis, our purpose? Reduce the volume of joy. Peace and rest. Secondly, having Christ, as your purpose, produces a focus on the process, not just the outcome. Focus on the process and not just the outcome of the first 20 once again. Where is my eager expectation and hope that I will not at all. Be a doubt will not be at all ashamed, but that would pull current always Christ will be honored in my body weather by my wife or my dad took me out. Come of a situation that cover. I don't have to worry about it. Okay. To wear my turn. My focus, i trash to the process. I trying to do. How do I go about getting to God's house? Focus on the process expectation. I literally
he saying that he's straining to look into the future and it's paired together. Nicely with hope hope is not been sufficient. Wish wishing for something to happen. When you text me to describe a certainty, a certain confidence in God, another word for looking into the future Kia. Napoli confidence in God. Where this comment, he says his confidence is that he will not be put to shame. He will not be put to shame because having a right relationship with God, removes shame from our life.
Also, that is tangible reason. I didn't give an accounting the testimony of a witness for Jesus Christ. He will not be put to shame. What is man going to do to me? Who can separate me from the love? The love of God, regardless of what they threaten, or accuse or punish me with. I have a right relationship with God. I will not be ashamed. S l, e stands for courage, courage. The courage to stand up for the Lord. He is living in a situation that is possibly hostile or Christianity, a culture that hates Christians and back. When you first got to roam, he met with the Jewish leaders and he said it is real, and they will we ever heard of you about you? But we have her that Christianity is spoken against wherever that everywhere.
It's all about eager to hear from the Apostle Paul using should have got. Both of Christian is not an easy time. Does Apostle Paul looked at his his process at the end result will be either way. He says that he has a confident that you will have a full courage and be put to shame and he has full coverage going through this process. The end result will be that he will honor Christ with his fine and prayer as hope is helping that matter what happens. Life or death. He will go about it in such a way that Christ will be honored in his body. The process is important.
may I ask you, Do you tend to live in the process in mine or just being outcome?
Maybe we can think about it this way. What do you want to pray for? Strength health and ability to go through the process or just a good result on the other side. I love my life and think through this, I am definitely outcome person. I could care less about the journey. I just want to get to that destination that I tend to skip the process and want a good outcome, which is why hunting trips are either good, or they fail based on the success of filming, regardless of how great it was feeling tired. I feel like a failure because I don't have the outcome that I want. They going to a storehouse single-track, mind to get the item that I need and get out before. I just want to grab what I need and get out road trips. Stopping is not allowed at this. Very clear. We are not stopping. We are getting to our destination.
Everything like me, you tend to focus on the outcome of situation is not the process of apostle Paul changed our point of view. He hand over the outcomes, his God I trust you with yelling Call me not be ashamed in the process of how many have full courage in the process of Honor you with my life. As I go through that process. Time is Mariah about this point. She made the connection between focusing on the owl, and our our loss of what to say a prayer for somebody who just went through a try. Because I'm focused on the out, somebody's going through a tragedy. We really don't know what to say because the outcome is not good. We don't see how it could be doing.
or rather if we're going to focus on the process, That we we come into that scenario, we know what the pray for we know to pray that they would honor Christ through this difficult. We notify that they would have the strength needed to endure. This trial who notified that they would have the boldness to stand up for Christ, even in the midst of difficulty when they can't see the results. Because for me to live is Christ to die is gain. Goes back to our purpose. Paul said, got him a trust with the outcome, to help me with the process whether I die or become honor. You whether I live only to serve you and live for you and honor you, you receive the glory for me to live is Christ to die. Is gain. Stock price as you a purpose. Produces the joyful peaceful rest. sovereignty of God don't do that, focus on the process and thirdly it produces a desire to DeWitt trial A2B wouldn't fight his game. Then it increases our desire to be with Clyde because that is better. Look at her 21 and 22 back will be in chapter 14, to me to live is Christ and to die is gain it. If I am to live in The Flash, that means Bupa labor for me yet, which I shall choose. I cannot tell him hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ for that is far better. Oh, Christ is greater Christ, is greater than anything in this world and to be with him and to enjoy him forever, will be fast. Hall Longview Christ.
Between the two. He said he's hard press is Boston. And Trust from both sides, I don't know which to choose. It says add a 22. I want to be with Christ. That's better. It's greater.
But it's true. I meant for me. If I stay here with myself shoes he said I cannot tell that I do know, maybe translate other places I know and it refers to something that is reveal that was previously unknown. By the Lord, man. To man, the pulse point is that he has not determined what God has chosen for him. So he doesn't know which one he doesn't know which direction to go, because he doesn't know what God will is in the end, whether you'll be executed in, go to be with Christ, or whether he will be relieved. We we get the same idea as we are following the GPS going to location. We don't know.
Until you woke me out, have your GPS. If you see the direction you say, okay? I'm going to choose to go right off of Halls approaching the situation, the same way to do that. I can't tell and I don't know God's will in the situation. I want to be with Christ. This is better, this is greater Christ is greater and if you would come in glory, what a joy? That would be to take a moment to imagine living life where there is no suffering, there is no harm in your body, they're gone. The hurts that you are holding in your heart is gone. There is no more sorrow or sadness and you get to be in the front of your Lord, and Savior, Jesus Christ. So that John said that inhibit pissed off and you said you will be like him because you will see him as he is. So, for the Christian dying is not all that bad. It's picking up camp and moving to the eternity to our Heavenly home to live with Christ. This is far bed, you desire heaven. You desire to be with the Lord, or is there something you want to accomplish first? We got to have that desire that longing that the Apostle Paul does to be free from the Frailty in the failures of this Fallen World in to be with Christ to be like Christ because that is far better for me to live. Is Christ to die. Is gain it better. It's Raven. Limerick, right produces a joy and peace and rest in God's sovereignty of Medusa's a focus on the process, not just the outcome producing the desired to be with Christ. And lastly, a result call to sacrificially serve others on behalf of Christ. It resolves sacrificially. Serve? Others are Martin nature referring to since that's not the case here. Possibly refer it to this world is simply to keep living on Earth is to rule in The Flash and escaped. And says, verse 22. For me, if I have to live in a Flash that means football, labor is going to be productive and not that these good work. How are you working for Christ and labouring for Christ? According to the word of Truth, the Lord will produce good fruit from It's beneficial for Paul to continue on in a flash drive is more necessary on your account convinced of it. I know that I will remain and continue with you all for your progress and joy in the face. So that you may have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus because of my coming to you again. The all-new got to be really considered and Ponder the mystery. The work condition of a Believer to build my team. Knew that the Lord had work for him to continue with a new that this is where he needed to be.
But he does realize that he has something to offer and through his influence through his leadership, he is willing to postpone be with the Lord in the presence of the Lord, in order to minister to their needs and serve them.
Genesis Apostle. Paul practicing what he preaches. 1st Corinthians 15:58 said there for my beloved brother. Be steadfast unmovable always abounding in the work of the Lord knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Apostle Paul on the pause on his going to be with the Lord says it is game. This is better than greater than that. Why? Because I need to serve you. I need to serve the Believers in Philip II. He does so because it is necessary for their growth and go down. He says that's why I know that I remain and continue with you all for your progress reports against hardship, push against resistance. So that would be for you or on the progress and joy in the face so that in me you may have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus that you see Paul desire is perfect for 4 to me to live is Christ to die. Is gain because I want to give God glory. Try everything that he died.
For tomorrow order. Why don't you wake up and have another day? You have another opportunity to live in The Flash to live in that world.
Purpose of salt and putting forward to it in a purpose at 7 high-priced, sacrificially used your time in the flash today. Serve one. Another live each day serving others for the glory of Christ. Or to me to live is Christ. And to die is gain the whole life of the car. Lot in Apostle, Paul, a joyful peaceful, rest in the sovereignty of God because God I can just give this over to you. If I live, I live for the glory of Christ, it should be with class. It's a win-win situation. I'm going to trust you with my line. It is even able to focus on the process. Should be out by. Now that I work out my responsibilities, I focus on my responsibilities to be faithful to endure to be full of courage to be Bowl in speaking. The truth. To honor Christ with my wife.
Prices are for beds. Just heard that desire to be with Christ. Always be with Christ. This is game. This is far better. I want to be with you. Nothing to come in between us and the Lord.
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There is no depression here when he's in, no matter where he's at or what he's facing, he had her drive motivational. I want to give you glory come with you, that can be great. Going to be game. If I'm not with you by the station, in my wife, and everything that I do, I'm going to honor you a purpose shavings and directs our life when things are going well it's shaped and directs. Our life will win difficult trials. And sufferings, come on way, we don't know what to do. It gives the drive-in motivation as to what we ought to do it. She's our perspective of death, approaching death is my opportunity to move our home to be in heaven.
It's not too late to be with class to be like Christ to enjoy him forever. The purpose of all things for us verse 21, Horton me. Live is Christ. Die. I was just okay, that's gay. Of course, we do. Thank you for the example. Struction and get us from the Poplar Hall. Now Lord help us to live according to it. Oscar asked me not to take your word in the plaza. Beachfront Park in the specific area that that we need to live by for a struggling purpose. Wouldn't you help us to grab on purpose of hog is Forest more than we would honor you? The we would give you glory and every situation that we would live for you. We look forward to being with you. For Cuba.
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