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Claim - A Gospel worthy life is one of: rejoicing, gentleness, free from anxiety, prayerful and at peace with God.
To achieve this, dwell on ‘good things’ and practice what you hear from scripture.
Focus - The life everyone really wants is the one described here, but the only way to find it is by living for and like Jesus (not for ourselves)
Function - To excite us to rejoice in Christ, praying, living worry free, and gentle lives that trust in God’s word and ways above all.
Joke of the week for you.
Last week I suspected that someone had stolen a petal off every flower!
As I suspected, someone has been adding soil to my garden.
This week, I’m certain someone has been adding soil to my garden.
The plot thickens!
PRAY
If you’ve joined us for the first time here at GC, then if will be useful for you to know
that
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we don’t just believe in the idea of God,
and make him up to be whatever we think he’s like from our heads.
He’t not a complete mystery, like my thickening garden plot.
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God wouldn’t be much of a God if he hadn’t revealed himself to us in a way that we can understand.
And he wouldn’t be much of a God if he didn’t reveal himself in a way that gives us the oppertunity to have a relationship with him.
And so, that is the purpose of the bible.
Which itself claims to be the revelation of who God is and how we are to know Him.
So, as a church we go through a book of the bible,
a book at a time, to ensure we have understood God correctly.
That we understand our relationship with him, and so that we can live now for him.
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So we will spend the next 25 mins taking the bible very seriously.
Today, we are almost at the end of a short book called Philippians - from the apostle Paul,
who lived at the time of Jesus and met Jesus after his resurection.
Infact Paul persecuted Christian’s for teaching that Jesus was the Risen saviour
that the world was waiting for.
He didn’t believe them at all!
He was a Jew, trying to be right with God through obeying the law of God as we saw 2 weeks ago in chapter 3.
In other words, he was what today we’d call a ‘good person’!
He called it living in the flesh - doing what was best, to the best of his own abilities.
And we all like to think that’s us, don’t we!
Christian or not!
I’m on the PTFA,
I give to charity,
I try to be nice to my neighbours,
I’m a fair boss
and so the list goes on.
But the message of the bible is not, try hard to be a good person and you will be right with God.
For no-one is good enough!
But to trust in Jesus, the only man who was ‘that good’.
The man who despite his goodness, died on a cross at the hands of mankind,
But did so as part of God’s plan to take the punishment we deserve for not being good enough!
Jesus faced God’s right judgement,
so that those who trust in Jesus for salvation,
for the forgiveness of sins,
for a relationship with God,
Can receive all that, for simply repenting and believing in Jesus!
And nothing else can save you!
phil 3
No good works can qualify you,
And no bad works can disqualify you!
It is all by the love and grace of Jesus, taking our place of punishment before God!
And then we, through faith in him,
receive his righteousness - his right relationship with God.
Of course the bible tells us that Jesus rose again,
In fact the NT was written by eyewitnesses, who would go on to die for what they had seen!
And Jesus’s resurection gives us hope
- hope that there is life after death,
and for those that trust in Jesus,
that there is a life of joy with God forever.
That is why we must get this right.
Don’t be fooled into thinking that salavtion can be acheived by good works!
No!
Simply have faith in Jesus.
Or, to get to our passage today,
phil 4
1 - Rejoice in the Lord always
Rejoice in the Lord Jesus, why?
Well we have alluded to 1 key reason -
So that we’re not tempted to rejoice in our ‘good works’,
What a travesty that so many in this world
think they can earn a way into God’s heart.
So many false religions and moralistic world views that are peddling
the unachievable message, of ‘be good enough for God’.
No - rejoice in the Lord always - for only he can save.
The other reason to have this attiitude towards Jesus, is so that we are not
So we are not tempted to despair when our circumstances are bad!
Paul as he writes this letter was languishing in a miserable Roman prison!
Of course he must have been miserable,
stressed, uncomfortable, hungry.
Perhaps God doesn’t exist, perhaps he’s forgotten me.
Surely I’ve done enough good things for him to help me out now!
But what does Paul keep telling himslef?
Rejoice in the Lord always!
He has saved me - he has already given me more than I can ever repay!
My circumstances are simply an opportunity for me to relate to Jesus’s own suffering,
and remember the miserable death that Jesus went though on my behalf!
Rejoice in the Lord always
1 - It stops us thinking our relationship with God is based on good works - It’s all through faith in Jesus.
2 - It stops us thinking our relationship with God is based on our circumstances!
Rejoice in the Lord always
But remmeber from chapter 3 if you were here,
just because ‘doing good’ can’t save you,
But just because doing good can’t save you, does not mean we now make no effort to obey Jesus if we have accepted his salvation.
does not mean we now make no effort to obey Jesus, to do good,
if we have accepted his salvation.
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