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The church
The church in Philippi is very unique.
It is the only church written to in to the NT that isn’t being corrected for something.
In fact, they are continually commended for their love, faithfulness and obedience.
I want you guys to catch this, Paul is comparing his love for this church body to Jesus love and compassion for people.
Think about that for a minute.
Jesus love and compassion drove Him to become human and drove Him to a humiliating, painful death on the cross.
That’s a very intense, powerful love.
This church must be pretty amazing, right?
So let’s see how this church started.....
Lydia was a fashionista from Asia.
She had multiple homes in metropolitan areas.
Think homes in NY, London, Mulan, Paris, LA.
She was very wealthy and also very intelligent.
Lydia was a God fearer which means that she had rejected the Gucci god and his gang for the one true God.
Because she was intelligent Paul appealed to her reason to show her Jesus is the Messiah.
The possessed slave girl was the complete opposite of Lydia.
She was greek, not asian.
She was poor, not rich.
She was exploited and powerless, not influential.
She was manic, not self controlled.
This girl didn’t need a conference or an intellectual discussion.
She didn’t need reason.
This girl needed the power only God has.
Paul eventually gets so frustrated with her that he turns around, casts out the demon, and she becomes a follower of Jesus.
She need to experience God’s power.
This caused problems for Paul though...
The jailer was a working class dude.
He was ex-military, so he was completely loyal and faithful to Rome.
In fact, when he was given these prisoners he was told to keep them safely.
Instead, the jailer throws them in stocks.
Stocks meant that their bodies were twisted and contorted them locked into place in chains.
This caused their bodies to cramp and convulse.
But Paul and Silas and Luke are so frustrating.
They started singing in prison.
The night of the earthquake they could have escaped, but they didn’t.
This is because if they had, the jailer would have died or killed himself.
instead, the jailer sees God’s mercy, compassion and grace through Paul and Silas.
This led to the jailer and his whole household being saved.
What does this all mean for us?
So many times we try to make church or youth in our image.
We try to only include the people that fit a specific idea or image we have in our head.
Or a certain criteria we have made up.
But God doesn’t care about all the cultural walls or barriers we try to put up.
These people couldn’t have been more different.
That’s is what make the church beautiful.
All God cares about is your willingness to sacrifice all follow Him.
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