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Will You Live a Life Worth Living?
“27 Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ,
The words conduct yourselves translate a political word It is the word politeuo (πολιτευο).
From it we get such words as “politic, political.”
it would mean much to the Philippian believers.
Literally it means “live as citizens.”
Because Philippi was a Roman colony, retired soldiers lived there, the Christian inhabitants of the city would appreciate Paul’s use of that verb
(1) To stand firm (v.
27)
(2) Not to fear (v.
28)
(3) To accept suffering (v.
29)[1]
The words conduct yourselves translate a political word It is the word politeuo (πολιτευο).
From it we get such words as “politic, political.”
it would mean much to the Philippian believers.
Literally it means “live as citizens.”
Because Philippi was a Roman colony, the Christian inhabitants of the city would appreciate Paul’s use of that verb
Voddie Bauchman: How to be a Family Shepherd
How to be a Family Shepherd
The Gospel is not just how we get saved.
The gospel is all of the Christian life.
It is how we got saved, it is how we are being saved, and how we will be saved.
The gospel is news, good news.
News is something you proclaim not something you live.
You would never say of the 11:00 news lead story about a fireman saving a family from flames, “I am going to go out and live the news.”
The event already happened.
It can’t be relived.
You can live in the light of the news but you cannot live the news.
You may have heard it said, “preach the gospel at all times, and when necessary use words.”
Bring that into the 11:00 news… “News so powerful, that it needs no words!”
The gospel is God centered.
It is not man centered proclaiming what we have done, but what God has done for us.
The gospel is Christ centered and cross centered.
It is about Jesus and his payment for our sin.
It is not a fairy tale or an embellished story that contains truth.
It is truth about a real man who is God who died on a real cross and really rose from the dead according to the Scriptures.
When Paul says in that all of this was according to the Scriptures it is an important statement.
The gospel is in the context of the whole Bible.
Without the rest of the Bible the gospel doesn’t make sense.
And, it is the Scriptures that tell us why we need to be saved, how to be saved, how to live once we are saved, and what will happen to us because we are saved.
The gospel is also grace centered.
Grace is unmerited favor by God toward us.
We didn’t earn it or deserve it.
The fact that we are saved by God’s grace is precisely what makes it such good news!
What does the gospel require?
It requires repentance and faith.
We must agree with God that what He calls sin is really sin and we have to choose to turn our backs to it.
We do this by faith not our works.
“The righteous shall live by faith.”
Then when we have believed by faith, the gospel will produce in us obedience.
It must produce good works or it isn’t real repentant, saving faith.
Charles Spurgeon “That grace that does not make a man better than his neighbors is a grace that will never take him to heaven nor render him acceptable before God.”
Why does this understanding of the gospel matter?
R. Ellsworth put it this way…It seems that we love precision in every area of life.
We want the surgeon to be precise; we don’t want him just to be ‘in the neighbourhood’ when he opens us up to remove a tumour.
We want precision in sports; we don’t want the referee to signal a touchdown when the ball carrier is still ten yards away from the goal line.
We want precision in our banking; we don’t want our bank to short-change us by a few hundred dollars or pounds.
But when it comes to the truth of God, our love for precision seems to disappear.
The reason is not hard to identify.
If the gospel cannot be defined, we are absolved of responsibility.
We are off the hook!
While we comfort ourselves with the thought of an imprecise gospel, the Bible insists on the opposite.
The gospel is the good news of the precise details of what God has done in the redeeming work of Jesus Christ.
It is the message of the holy God providing in Christ the righteousness that sinners must have in order to stand acceptably in the presence of God.
It is the message of God propitiating or appeasing his wrath against sinners by pouring out that wrath upon the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are commanded by Paul to live worthy of that marvelous gospel
Paul gives us 4 behaviors that are worthy of the gospel of Christ.
1. Standing Firm (27)
Paul is in Rome when he writes to the Philippians.
In the Greek word translated “stand fast,” the ideas of firmness or uprightness are prominent.
It means “to stand firm and hold one’s ground.”
The implication is clear that when one holds one’s ground, he does it in the face of enemy opposition.
They are to stand fast in one spirit.
The word “spirit” here refers to the unity of spirit in which the members of the church should be fused and blended.
We are to stand as one man.
In the Greek word translated “stand fast,” the ideas of firmness or uprightness are prominent.
It means “to stand firm and hold one’s ground.”
The implication is clear that when one holds one’s ground, he does it in the face of enemy opposition.
They are to stand fast in one spirit.
The word “spirit” here refers to the unity of spirit in which the members of the church should be fused and blended.
We are to stand as one man.
Roman soldiers standing together with locking shields.
No appeasement.
No giving ground to the enemy.
No compromise on the precision of the gospel.
4 behaviors that are worthy of the gospel of Christ…Stand Firm...
2. Striving Together (27)
Paul now changes the illustration from politics to athletics.
The word translated “striving together” gives us our English word “athletics.”
Paul pictures the church as a team, and he reminds them that it is teamwork that wins victories.
[NBA Finals, San Antonio Spurs and the Miami Heat.
Labron James cannot win all by himself.]
They struggle together with one “mind” = “soul”
It would not be difficult to expand this idea of the local church as a team of athletes.
Each person has his assigned place and job, and if each one is doing his job, it helps all the others.
Not everybody can be captain or quarterback.
Who is it OK to strive with?
Dr. Whitcomb’s Circles of fellowship.
4 behaviors that are worthy of the gospel of Christ...Stand Firm, Strive Together...
3. Be Fearless (28)
28.
terrified—literally, said of horses or other animals startled or suddenly scared.
Who is the enemy?
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