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Retreat Recap
Retreat Recap: Session 1 - Levi
Retreat Recap: Session 2 - Trinity
Retreat Recap: Session 3 -Ethan
Retreat Recap: Session 4 - Tommy
Retreat Recap: Session 5 - Britney
2022 Retreat Response: Philippians 3-4
Paul wrote Philippians in the opposite of a retreat
in a disgusting, degrading prison
chained up.
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This is Pauls most joyful book
joy 4 times
rejoice 12 times
in this 4 chapter book
Showing us that
If Paul can find find joy in the Lord in jail
then we can find joy in the Lord coming from a retreat in our lives.
in the last 2 chapters of Phil
Paul shows the Philippians how to move forward in their walk with God
as He himself is also able to move forward in His walk while in prison
so I thought this would be fitting for us to read and find the responses Paul is sharing
that we could also move forward
Sound good?
Response 1: Rejoice (Phil 3:1)
rejoice!
your saved!
Response 2: Beware (Phil 3:2-11)
okay so this section may seem a little confusing to read at first.
Paul is going to address a major issue in the church
an issue that caused Paul to write the whole book of Galatians:
people who were focusing more on self-rightesouness then Christ.
specifically these people were telling people that being circumcised would
make them closer to God, and make them belong to God.
Lets look at verse 2 & know that
the false teachers in verses 2 were trying to make the believers Jewish
by getting circumcised (Gen 15)
3 bewares,
to dogs, evil workers, and the act of circumcision
its a build up
why dogs?
not literal dogs
dogs in the ancient world were symbolic of thief's
Jesus describes thief's in John 10:9-10
so what Paul is warning is to beware of people who are like Satan:
trying to rob you of God, His grace, His freedom, His joy, His blessings,
Basically all the God has made free
With false teaching dogs, evil workers, self-righteous
their relationship with God is more about what they do
then WHO their relationship is with
I wouldn't want my wife to do a bunch of things at home but not know me
God doesn't want us to do things without knowing Him
Their are people no doubt among us more focused
on the what of their relationship then the WHO
dont be a legalistic, false teaching, self righteous, people
focused on the law of God more then the love of God
when you do as the false teachers do:
these people disconnect fellowship, divide fellowships, and destroys fellowship.
For example
The self-righteous false teachers here in Philippians:
First disconnected themselves from the uncircumcised believers
then they divided the fellowship when some of the believers accepted the false teaching
then they destroyed the fellowship when the believers who accepted the false teaching left the fellowship of the uncircumcised to only be with the circumcised
the problem with circumcision or any other part of the laws of God is like
Galatians and James both teach
that if you try to follow the law in one point your guilty of the whole law
(James 2:10) (Gal 3-5)
Jesus set us free from the law, its sin, its consequences, its guilt.
So to be set free in Jesus just to take up the law again
is like a dog returning to its own vomit
In verses 3-8 Paul will call doing the law “works of the flesh “(because its self righteousness)
& Paul shows that when it comes to obeying the laws of God, and self righteousness that no one can top him.
And it all is meaning less
So Paul shows that when it comes to righteousness, and doing the law
that none of them is better then him.
And Paul sees all the self- rightesouness, and his devotion to the law as meaningless.
I think Phil 3:3 in the NLT nails it
Philippians 3:3 (NLT)
3 ... We rely on what Christ Jesus has done for us.
We put no confidence in human effort,
Jesus was enough
Jesus is enough
Jesus will always be enough
The warning to Philippians is :
beware of the people who focus more on righteousness then Christ.
a good way to beware is remember that false teachers
first disconnect, then divide, then destroy.
When you see a brother or sister disconnect from fellowship for an usual reason
let it be a red flag and watch
the command here is beware.
so in moving forward first rejoice
second beware of the people who focus more on righteousness then Christ.
third
Response 3 Forget what is behind & press on (v.12-15)
you cannot change the past
when your focused on the past, regret, shame, guilt,
“Like Lots wife looking back makes you salty”
were a new creation in Christ
Response 4: As We Wait For Our hope (Phil 3:16-Phil 4)
we have the hope that:
one day everything will be made right
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