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Introduction
My Favorite Illustrations (Lacking a Grateful Spirit)
A man prayed that God would send him one hundred dollars.
A Baptist deacon heard about the man’s need.
At the next meeting of the deacons he related his concern and the man’s prayer.
He suggested that they honor the man’s expression of faith by taking up an offering for him.
They received seventy-five dollars and delivered it to the man.
Later the man prayed again for God to send him one hundred dollars.
Then he added to his prayer, “Lord, if you don’t mind, this time please send it through the Methodists.
Last times those Baptist deacons kept twenty-five percent.”
This is how people are isn’t it?
Too often we become like this and are not thankful like we should be.
This is not what we see in Phil.
4:10-20.
In each section we will look at in this text we see Paul thanking the Philippians in three different ways.
In each thank you there is an Acknowledgement, and explanation, and a qualifier for Paul.
But we see that Paul had Peace in Concern, Thankful for the Blessing the giver will receive more than what they gave him, and that he praises God for what God does how he supplies every need for His people.
That is why this sermon is titled No Need Left Behind.
Let us read the text and then look at what Paul says about being thankful.
At how he was thankful in all things.
Let us read Phil.
4:10-20.
In this reading we see that Paul had:
Peace Even in Concern(10-13)
Paul had a peace even in concern.
He did because he knew where peace comes from.
He knows that his joy is not wrapped up in earthly material.
He makes his thank you as I mentioned above in the threefold method of Acknowledgement, explanation, and a qualifier.
This threefold system is molded from the qualifier.
Paul knew where he could get strength from.
This strength is found in one of the most pulled from context Scriptures there is in the whole Bible: verse 13.
In Phil.4:13 we see Paul say, “I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”
What are the things that Paul is speaking of here?
They are found in the previous three verses.
Namely in 11 and 12.
Paul had found out how to be content in all things.
There is nothing that could happen to him that he would not have joy in.
Being in need does not phase him.
He knows that self-sufficiency is not what drives him.
This makes him know that material items are not what brings joy.
In this time frame there were the Stoic philosophers who pushed a self-sufficiency of getting by.
They believed that contentment was by an act of the human will human achievement.
They believed that they did not need any outside help.
Paul disproves this by being thankful and acknowledging the concern the Philippians had for him.
But he acknowledges that they had concern for him but did not have the opportunity to help.
It is here where Paul makes it clear that he knows the secret to contentment and it is not from his human achievement.
It is from Christ.
He knows that Christ will not allow any need to be left behind, but what he does not have is not necessary.
He is content in all situations.
We can only have that kind of peace even in concern if we are resting in the glorious grace of Jesus Christ.
If we are resting in Him strengthening us to make it through all situations.
You see, this verse is about making it through difficulties and struggles in life and making it through without becoming bitter.
It is about Christ helping us through everything because it is His strength we are resting on.
Much like 2 Cor.
12:7-10 “So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.
Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities.
For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
We rest in Christ to give us what we need and to help us through the difficulties.
And we rest in Him if we are brought low or abounding, facing plenty or hunger, or in abundance or need.
It is Christ who gives us strength not ourselves or even the gift from others.
We are thankful for the help of others, unlike the Stoics who were doing it on their own, like many try to do today.
We all too often will turn down help because we are self-sufficient and then we will turn around and gripe and complain because of the situation we are in.
We will reject any help from another because we can do it ourselves.
Paul is saying here that we cannot do it ourselves that it is Christ in us and what He does for us.
Much like the joke I have heard about the man who said God would provide him a way out of the flood.
A fellow was stuck on his rooftop in a flood.
He was praying to God for help.
Soon a man in a rowboat came by and the fellow shouted to the man on the roof, "Jump in, I can save you."
The stranded fellow shouted back, "No, it's OK, I'm praying to God and he is going to save me."
So the rowboat went on.
Then a motorboat came by.
"The fellow in the motorboat shouted, "Jump in, I can save you."
To this the stranded man said, "No thanks, I'm praying to God and he is going to save me.
I have faith."
So the motorboat went on.
Then a helicopter came by and the pilot shouted down, "Grab this rope and I will lift you to safety."
To this the stranded man again replied, "No thanks, I'm praying to God and he is going to save me.
I have faith."
So the helicopter reluctantly flew away.
Soon the water rose above the rooftop and the man drowned.
He went to Heaven.
He finally got his chance to discuss this whole situation with God, at which point he exclaimed, "I had faith in you but you didn't save me, you let me drown.
I don't understand why!"
To this God replied, "I sent you a rowboat and a motorboat and a helicopter, what more did you expect?"
This man would not take help and he drowned.This is far too often us.
We will reject help and then complain to God for not helping us when we needed it.
God will sometimes humble us by having someone else help us rather than allowing us to help ourselves.
We need to be thankful for the help another gives because it may very well be God working for us.
But we need to be just as thankful and joy-filled if we do not receive anything.
Just like Paul who gladly accepted the help from the Philippians but wanted them to know that he was not only out for their help.
He let them know even if they had not helped him he would not complain because his joy and peace is found in Christ.
He is thankful in all situations because he rests in Christ and what He will do for him regardless what the world throws at him.
This is why Paul was able to rejoice in the help the Philippians gave him and be:
Thankful for the Blessing the Giver Will Receive (14-17)
Paul again gives them a thank you for their help.
He is over joyed that they would help him when no one else would.
He is thankful because this help helped him spread the gospel to more and more people.
Even in Thessalonica they helped him.
This is important because in Thessalonica he was accused of starting riots and causing grief.
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