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What is your greatest need this morning?
Think of the one need in your life, that if that need was met, your life would be impacted the most!
What is is?
Financial debt- What if, this morning, I could write a check for every one of you and totally erase all of your financial debt?
Would meeting that need impact your life at all?
Is that your greatest need this morning?
Physical health- What if I could I could somehow cure COVID, or take away cancer, or get rid of some other incurable disease or physical ailment you are struggling with?
If you could be restored to pristine health, or your loved one could be restored to pristine health would that impact your life the most?
Is that your greatest need this morning?
Significant other- Is a relationship your greatest need?
Children- Is having a child or having more children your greatest need?
What is your greatest need?
Paul makes this statement in the context of giving for gospel ministry and it has been taken out of context so many times and has been used to manipulate people to give money time and time again.
So this morning we are going to look at this verse and ponder what Paul is telling the Philippians about giving.
And how verse 19 is one of the biblical reasons for giving to gospel ministry.
Followers of Christ ought to love to give towards gospel ministry.
What are the Biblical reasons for giving towards missions?
I. Giving for gospel ministry produces a loving concern for others.
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Giving for gospel ministry creates a spiritual partnership with others.
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Giving for gospel ministry increases eternal reward.
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Giving for gospel ministry accomplishes spiritual worship.
Philippians 4:18 (ESV)
18 I have received full payment, and more.
I am well supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.
V. Giving for gospel ministry abounds in you because of the glorious riches of God’s grace.
Before we make some careful remarks about what Paul is trying to say in this verse, and how it has been used out of context in the past, lets carefully examine what the text actually says.
Philippians 4:19 (ESV)
19 And MY GOD will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
And MY God
Why does Paul say MY God and not OUR God?
This is a very deliberate word choice.
Look down at the next verse, verse 20
To OUR God and Father be glory.
Why does Paul say MY God in v. 19 and OUR God in v. 20?
Paul is highlighting the personal nature of his relationship with God.
I think Paul is a bit overwhelmed with the financial gift of the Philippians.
Paul recalls the days of sitting in Roman prison and the struggles that God allowed him to face:
Being alone:
Having less than enough:
And yet now, according to the wise providence of God, the Philippians had sent Paul a gift and it was an overwhelming expression of love and worship and Paul is marveling at the provision of HIS God.
MY God, according to HIS wise providence, has supplied my need in a jail cell in Rome- and the implication is- Paul is confident that HIS God will supply the needs of the Philippians as well.
Illustration: Wednesday night talking to the teens- 15 passenger van needed to get them all to camp in the summer.
My response: “Pray about it.”
Why? MY God is a big God.
He can, if He chooses, provided for that kind of need.
God provided for this building didn’t he?
I lived through that.
I saw the mighty hand of God!
I saw the visible finger of God moving over a period of 15 years to making this church building a reality.
MY God can provide for this need as well.
Paul is making it personal!
MY GOD will supply your need.
Just love Him, just serve him, just joyfully obey him- and just like he has provided for my need time and time again, he will do the same for you Philippians- he will do the same for you Faith.
Philippians 4:19 (ESV)
19 And my God WILL SUPPLY every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
πληρόω- future, active, indicative- will, in the future at some unspecified time, supply or literally fill up every single one of your needs.
The illustration of this word is the idea of filling up a vessel or a container until it is completely full, full to the brim and overflowing.
God will (future tense) supply or fill up all the way to the top, every need of yours.
The future tense does not set a date when God will meet all your needs.
God’s provision will always be on time, but his time may not be our time.
God will supply, in his own time and according to his own wise providence, your needs.
Philippians 4:12 (ESV)
12 I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound.
In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and NEED.
God let Paul experience need for a while in prison!
That means Phil. 4 :19 does not teach a health and prosperity gospel.
What is the prosperity gospel?
If you will give to God, you will be healthy, wealthy, and wise.
You can’t out give God.
If you give, you will never experience need every again.
If that is true how can Paul say in 4:12 that God allowed him to learn the secret of facing NEED?
The answer is that God’s promise is future tense- He will supply, in his own time and according to his own wise providence, your needs.
Illustration: God waited 15 years to supply us with the finances to construct this building.
I can remember praying, “God we need a new building.
We can only grow so much in the basement of a split level house.
God provide for this need!”
And He did, exceedingly abundantly above all that we could ask or think.
But, it took 15+ years.
He will supply, in his own time and according to his own wise providence, your needs.
God’s provision for your need includes both this present life and the future time of final consummation.
God WILL fill up every need of yours- both now
God used the Philippians to meet Paul’s need in prison.
And most importantly your needs that matter throughout eternity.
This really begs the question of our next point- what is your need?
Philippians 4:19 (ESV)
19 And my God will supply EVERY NEED OF YOURS according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Need- that which is lacking and particularly needed / a necessary thing.
I want you to see from other NT uses of this word, that NEED is not only limited to physical/financial needs.
Mark 2:17 (ESV)
17 And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no NEED of a physician, but those who are sick.
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Luke 15:7 (ESV)
7 Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who NEED no repentance.
Romans 12:13 (ESV)
13 Contribute to the NEEDS of the saints and seek to show hospitality.
Philippians 4:16 (ESV)
16 Even in Thessalonica you sent me help for my NEEDS once and again.
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