Philippians 4:10-23

Philippians 4:10-23 Message by Luke Bates at The Red Door Community Church.

Episode Transcript

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Because my voice getsreally, really boring to me.
Today I'm gonna invite Tia tocome and do the reading for us.
So let's welcome Tia.
Lemme find it.

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Okay, we're gonna be reading fromPhilippians chapter four, verse 10, two.
23. I rejoice greatly in the Lord that atlast you have renewed your concern for me.
You have been concerned, but youhad no opportunity to show it.
I am not saying this because I am inneed for, I have learned to be content.
Whatever the circumstances, Iknow what it is to be a need and

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I know what it is to have plenty.
I have learned the secret of being contentin any and every situation, whether
well fed or hungry, whether living inplenty or in want, I can do everything
through him who gives me strength.
I. Yet it was good for youto share in my troubles.
Moreover, as you Philippians know, in theearly days of your acquaintance with the
gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, notone church shared with me in the matter of

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giving and receiving, except you only foreven when I was in Thessalonica, you sent
me aid again and again when I was in need.
Not that I am looking for agift, but I'm looking for what
may be credited to your account.
I have received fullpayment and even more.
I'm amply supplied nowthat I have received from
Epaphroditus the gifts you sent.

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They are a fragrant offering, anacceptable sacrifice pleasing to God, and
my God will meet all your needs accordingto his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
To our God and Father, beglory forever and ever.
Our men greet all thesaints in Christ Jesus.
The brothers who are with me sendgreetings all the saints send
you greetings, especially thosewho belong to Caesar's household.

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The grace of the Lord JesusChrist be with your spirit.
Amen.
Amen.
Thank you.
Beautiful.
Let us pray.
I

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gracious King, we submitourselves to you today, this
morning as we come to your word.
We are not just trusting, butwe're needing the Holy Spirit
to come and reveal things to us.
The mysteries of your kingdom, thepower of the truth of the gospel.

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We need you.
We are reliant upon you.
Come and bring your word to lifetoday in your people we pray.
Amen.
So as we come to the end of
this letter,
we arrive at a passage that sums uppretty much what this letter's been about,

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and what has it been about.
It's been about sacrificial partnershipwith Christ and with his people.
Living under the riches of thissacrificial king that we serve,
and this partnership is foundin the waters of baptism.

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Our lives joined with his,our ministry in his ministry.
New creation, welcoming through thetaking of his blood and his body,
and communion that we live in.
Partnership marked by this king's life,his death, and also his resurrection.

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What makes this passage so rich isPaul's skillful use of language.
He's a brilliant writer.
From verses 10 through to 17,he's using very formal commercial
language, like business language.

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And then at verse 18, he takes a turnand he shifts to familiar Old Testament
sacrificial language, and he's not.
Just talking about finances here, he'spainting a theological picture for us.

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Paul is helping the Philippians andus see the context, our context, our
lived reality in light of the gospel.
And this passage that Paul so beautifullycrafts at the center of it all is
about mutual sacrificial reliance.

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He's putting two things inopposition with each other.
That's partnership or friendshipin Christ versus what I wanna
refer to as stoic self-sufficiency.
You see in the Greek Romanworld of the time, friendship

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was based on mutual benefits.
See the stoics
who were,
quite, quite influential at the time, agroup of it is, it is a group of ideas.
The stoics referring tothe philosophy of stoicism.

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Believed that if someone helped you,you were morally obliged to re repay
that help later if you couldn't.
The friendship was done.
Equality of service wasthe rule in friendship.
But Paul leans into this stoic ideal.

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Not to affirm it in this passage,but to contrast it with the
life in Christ that we have.
At first glance, the actionsmight look very similar to us.
So let's say that I go help Kel.
Where are you, Kev?
He's got some help thathe needs at his house.
So I go help Kelvin out with some stuffat his house, and I spend the whole

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day helping him and he doesn't feed me.
He doesn't gimme anything to drink.
He really just uses andabuses me, which is like.
So not Kev.
In fact, if I went and helped Kev, we'dprobably get little done and eat more.
Yeah, yeah.
He'd probably be like, well, we canworry about, worry about later, Luke.

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Now, the compelling to go help Kev looksvery similar in these two ideologies.
The stoics would say, yes, go help himas Christ would compel me to go help him.
But.
Christ's compulsion to go serve hasno expectation of anything returned to

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me, and that's the radical differencebetween these two ideologies.
The stoic has the sweetener of,after helping Kel, he should repay me
and this gospel.
That Paul is inviting the Philippians intochanges the motivation of life itself.

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That our life together in Christ andwith E each other is not transactional.
It's actually a lifewelcoming of transformation.
And Paul's point here in this smallpassage is not subtle to the reader.
He is taking this prevailing idea ofthe day and flipping it on its head to

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showcase the beauty of Christ's gospel.
Namely that difference of thelife of self-sufficiency to a life
of sufficiency in Christ alone.
That self-sufficiency, according toPaul in life, produces no joy in any
CIR circumstances ultimately, butChrist's sufficiency are, that's where

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we can experience joy in all things.
Think about it.
Paul is riding from prison,yet we see him rejoicing.
How?
Why?
Because Jesus has risen.

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That's why he's king.
Even in Shane's, Jesus has risen.
Even in prison, Jesus is king.
He smiles.
I just, I get this thought as I readPhilippians and I'm like, I reckon, I
reckon Paul's having moments of anguish.

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I reckon Paul's going, ohman, I wish this not to be.
So, but I reckon for Paul, that deepunderstanding of Christ being risen,
Christ being king, I reckon there weremoments as he's sitting in, in, in jail
and just a little smile comes on his faceand he's like, it's all gonna be okay.

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Christ is king.
He sits on the throne.
Christ efficiency isn'tjust for those in chains.
It means that even in our inability,even in our weakness, in our unproductive
ways, and being sidelined and feelingin life, that we're unable, that

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we still find ourselves sittingas Paul was unable to participate.
In able to get out into the world anddeclare the gospel that he's so desired
and loved, we can sit there and go.
It is well, Christ is king.
You see, the Philippians didn'tstop supporting or seeing Paul

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as a missionary of the gospel,even though he was in chains.
Even though he was in prison.
They supported him sacrificially.
Why I. Why he's not much for you?
Si he, he's sitting in a jail.
He's not a very good missionary.

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Sitting in jail, is he, how much, howmuch productivity can he give the church?
How useful is he?
But for, for the Philippians, that didn'tmatter because it mattered more to them
proclaiming part gospel partnership, thatthat isn't about performance, but it's
about finding that our value is not inour capability, it is in Christ alone.

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So this isn't about prosperity or poverty.
This letter.
It's about joyful contentmentin Christ through all things.
No matter what happens in our lives,
we've gotta sing about Jesus.
This reminds me of a storyfrom the Great Depression.

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My grandparents were born andraised through the Great Depression.
Anyone have family members?
I'm sure you all do actually.
Just how are you here?
If you don't, as I'm sayingit, I'm like, that's stupid.
Luke.
That was so good.

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During the Great Depression, therewas this panel that came together
and.
And,
on the panel it had this guyby the name of Clarence Darrow
and he was an atheist lawyer.
He was quite well known throughoutthe Chicago area, and they con, they
formed this panel to go listen to themostly black audience in Chicago's

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south side during the Great Depressionand in Chicago, south side, where
these mainly black people lived.
Conditions were shocking.
It was very, very bad.
There was little hopein regards to things.
Will things get better?
Can I get a job?

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No.
Can I get food?
Probably not.
And that was the realitythat these peoples lived in.
And, and then Darrow ended hisspeech on this panel by asking
the question to the community.
And yet, through allthese things you sing.
Through all these things, you, you,you sing the best I've ever heard

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people sing before and he asksthem a question, he says, but what
do you have, have to sing about?
What is it that would makeyou want to sing in the misery
that you find yourselves in?
And without
missing a beat.

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A woman in the crowd jumpsto her feet and shouts out.
We've got Jesus to sing about.
We've got Jesus to sing about.
Darrow was stunned, left speechless,which was very unusual for him from
what I've read, because he justencountered something, the defied

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logic, and that was joy through tears.
A community that is walking with the onewho strengthens them through all things.
And this is what Paul is showing us.

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This woman understood just likePaul, that Jesus is king, and if
he is king, he has all things.
She didn't deny her pain.
But she brought her pain underthe rule and reign of King Jesus,
and that changes everything.
Paul sitting in the pain locked up, haschosen the same path as this woman to live

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under the rule and reign of Jesus as king.
That means I am not alone.
Our sufferings are shared.
Our rejoicing is shared in thecommunity of faith that we live in
deep partnership with Christ and hispeople, and this is why so funny.

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I love this reality ofthe letter of Philippians.
This is why nowhere in the book, inthe letter of Philippians, does Paul.
Directly thank the Philippiansfor the gift that they gave him.
Now, for some people that'smade Paul hard to read.

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He comes across as sortof entitled or rude.
But you gotta understand,Paul isn't ungrateful.
So he's helping this church.
And us to understand that theirgift is ultimately for Christ and

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his gospel, not just for Paul.
You see the Philippians, were not wealthy.
They were a small, under-resourced church.
You, yet they gave sacrificially outof their little, not out of abundance,
but out of a joy of gospel partnership.

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Because they delighted in seeingthe gospel advanced, and that's our
calling to live in a way that reflectsour sacrificial king to one another.
A way that shares, that gives thatdevotes itself to the other in love.

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Not expecting any return or thanks.
But rejoicing because we are one body withone mission and one shared blessing in
our king, and this way of living actuallyopens us up to the true reality of what we
call shalom, the peace of God because it'speace with God and peace with one another.

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We are not solo operatorsin our kingdom Call.
We are interdependent connected brothersand sisters in Christ, and there's
freedom in living that type of wayunder that rule of our sacrificial
king because it shifts our motivationfrom obtaining to finding ourselves in

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satisfaction with our Lord and our king.
As Tim Keller writes in his smalllittle book, the Freedom of Self
Forgetfulness, he says this, theverdict is in, oh, there you go.
The verdict is in.
And now I perform on the basisof the verdict because he

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loves me and he accepts me.
I do not have to do thingsjust to build up my resume.
I can help people to help people,not so I feel better about myself.
Joy for the sake of joy.
Service for the sake of serviceto the king who served us first.

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The gospel frees us to let go ofthe plenty or the fear of lack.
It grounds us in contentment knowingthat we are secure under his reign.
Paul can be content in chains because he'sprofoundly convinced that these sufferings
are nothing compared to the new creation.

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Breaking through God's story is real, evenin imprisonment, even through suffering.
And this brings us to a place that we mayneed to come back to time and time again.
This is where it all starts for us.
In our faithfulness to Jesus,and this is where it will end.

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And that is at the foot of the throne.
We're not at the foot of the cross.
We're at the foot of the throne.
The cross speaks of sacrifice and love,absolutely, but the the throne speaks
of hope, joy, peace, and promise.
The throne is thefulfillment of the gospel.

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Yeah.
Amen.
Yes.
Jesus is not on the on the cross anymore.
He is on the throne,
and from there he confirmsthe verdict to us.
His people, all will be madenew, all will be made right and
all will be well once again.

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Amen.
This gospel partnership.
Have you thought about your gospelpartnership with Christ in ways where.
It is necessary to partner with othersto see it achieved in your life.

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Have you thought about it in suchexpansive ways as Paul highlights to us
at the conclusion of Philippians thatthey're giving of a gift to him in prison,
unable to run around and share the gospelnews of Jesus, but confined to a jail.
Have you thought about that?
That is even that transaction,that giving of that gift is

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doing something in the world.
It is breaking.
It is rallying against, it issubverting against evil powers.
Have you thought aboutyour gospel partnership?
Just even in those practical ways ofseeing someone in need and blessing
them in their need without a desireof a thank you or any repayment

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and that that might be, that simpleact might actually be a part of
declaring Jesus as king in the world.
Have you thought aboutit in such simplicity?
'cause Paul seems to think about it.
Amen.
In very expansive ways that ourgospel partnership with Christ is

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not a set of ideals spoken to people.
It is a life lived.
The gospel manifesting in andthrough you and I in all that we do.
That's Paul's vision for us.

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Do you struggle?
Do you struggle when you seeothers honored and you miss out?
Is that a challenge for you?
Do you really struggle whensomeone comes and meets a need
and you cannot repay their need?
Does that, does thatjust, oh, that really?

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Oh, I find that so hard.
Do you struggle with that?
Just reflect on that.
I've got some questions here
that in your.
Receiving and unable to repaythat debt to a brother and sister.

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That in your doing that, in your humility,in your grace of receiving and unable
to, to repay even in those moments, thatis, that is declaring Christ as king.
It's an interesting way ofthinking about it, isn't it?
And And do you strugglewhen honors are because?

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Because when we see another honor, when wesee another succeed in the life of Christ,
that honor and that success is ours.
Amen.
Yeah.
There's a bit of a reframe we need to dohere by the power of the spirit, don't we?

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That our resistance in Christ is shared,then our mission in Christ is shared.
Paul brings this letter to the endby painting that very picture that
brothers and sisters in Christ all overthe world are in this thing together
of declaring Jesus Christ as king,and that their success is our success.

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Because we are his people.
We are one people under the rule andreign of Jesus that you are living out.
The gospel isn't a personal calling,but a communal calling with your
brothers and sisters in Christ.
So I just want, I wantus to just take a moment.
I want you to close your eyes, justwant you to enter into a time of just

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reflection as I ask a few questions.
And a, and as we do this, I wantus to be open to the spirit.
I want us to be sensitive to the spiritand what he might be saying to you

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has, has it been hard?
Has it been hard to live
in sacrificial partnershipswith others where?
Opportunities come to bear with others,to enter into others' struggles.
Has that been hard?

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Is your story a story of beinghurt and misused within the church,
or are you finding yourself here todaygoing, actually, I'm just apathetic.
I'm disconnected from God's peopleand I just can't be bothered.

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Have you forgotten?
Has the truth of the gospel, the truthof the foundation of our faith being
communal, has that disappeared fromyour imagination in Christ Jesus?
I want you just invitethe Holy Spirit to come.

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And start that conversationwith us afresh.
Do you need to taste the freedomof contentment in Christ today?
Is that what you need?
Is there a longing within your heart andyour mind to fully partake of the truth

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that Christ is truly that risen king?
As an invitation today to cometo the throne, the phone throne
of grace before our King of Kingsand say, Lord, I need your help.

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Maybe in reflecting of thesethings, there's a call to repent.
Maybe in US today, there's a call toforgive and to release people from
judgment and to pass that judgmentinto the care and concern of your king.

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Maybe there's a call tocome and worship him.
Whatever it is, the invitationis that we can come boldly.
As citizens of heavenbefore the throne of grace,

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he is enough.
As the days come, I want us tocontinue to ask these questions.
Then it might be a rhythm oflife that we open ourselves to

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what it means to live in Christ.
That that's not just a,
an ideal, a thought, a wonderfulsort of idea, but to live in Christ
is an invitation to come and embodysets of practices together to

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actually live a life in Christ.
Yeah.
You see, the problem that we face,I think, in our formation as Christ
followers has been our stuntedreduced understanding of what the
gospel is in Christ Jesus, which Ithink has caused many of us issues in

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responding to a vision of sacrificialpartnership with Christ in community.
I.
And that is namely that thegospel's been reduced to something
that is very salvation centric.
And my call, my conviction over manyyears has been that we as Christians

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need to lay that gospel down andpick up the gospel of scripture.
The gospel is this,according to the word of God.
To the words of Christ and his apostlesis this, that God's promised, anointed

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one Messiah, Jesus is now king.
That is the gospel.
There are benefits of that gospel.
Amen.
That we are saved from sin and death.
Absolutely.
But it is a benefit of the gospel that is.

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The gospel that he, the father, hisanointed one Messiah, Jesus the Christ
has been proclaimed king over what?
All things heaven and earth.
Come on, get excited about it.
This is, this is life.

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That announcement is life.
That king Jesus has authority.
Over all things that no powersor principalities, spirits or
kings of the world can come andfought that the declared gospel,
that Jesus is the risen king.

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Nothing comes against him.
And in scripture theyuse language of kingdom.
And as we've seen in Philippianscitizenship, these words
are used quite regularly.
So when we come to give ourselvesto Christ, commit our following
to him, scripture uses imaginationlike kingdom and citizenship.

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When we come to know and submit to Christ,we are in fact giving our allegiance and
loyalty as citizens to a king, we commitour lives under his waves and receive
responsibilities of entering his kingdom.
And these responsibilities areto our king, but extend to our
fellow citizens in this kingdom.

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Throughout Philippians, Paul islittering these responsibilities as
citizens of the Kingdom of heaven.
Throughout his letter, he'shelping to build a picture of
life in Christ as his people.
And I want to go through them sothat there's some clarity around

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what Paul is trying to communicateus to us through his letter
as I want, as I gothrough them step by step.
Just allow your hearts to be open and softto where God might be pushing us to push
in further into these responsibilities.

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So my first responsibility that Ican see in the book of Philippians
is that we are called to a lifeof obedience, not posturing.
Now, I'm not gonna read these scriptures.
That's, that's up to you to godo that, but I will speak and
articulate what I can see in them.

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Firstly that we are called tocultivating a life of obedience.
As citizens of heaven, we are calledto actively pursue lives that please
God by aligning with Christ's valuesthrough deep encouragement with his
word and life together in community.

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This is with him and with others.
Secondly, obedience requiresreliance and community.
True obedience, not just intellectualagreement, is a life relied
upon Christ's goodness, becausenone of us know him perfectly.

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Do we e We must discern and deeply applyhis commands together, which means we've
gotta do the hard work together people.
Of seeing the teachings of Christin scripture and then translating
them into our lives today.

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How do we practice these commandstogether in 2025 together?
How do we practice his commandsin the situations that's
unfolding in my life today?
We must do that to together, todiscern and to seek the ways of Christ.
Yeah.
Thirdly, the kingdom culture overthrows,worldly posturing in Christ's kingdom.

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There is no place for flattery,self-promotion, or shaming
others in Christ's kingdom.
The call of obedience is to realizethat we, every single one of us
stands equally in need of graceand in fact, in the kingdom.
The least is made most, yeah, thatwe are a kingdom type of people.

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That does not elevate the VIPs or the, thepopular people, but we elevate those that
are pushed to the side that have no voice.
Secondly, another responsibilityPaul articulates to us.
In the third chapter, chapterof Philippians, he says that we

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are to pursue res resilience,
um, over, not being,
pushed into conformity.
So faithfulness over comfortis one of our responsibilities
as citizens of his kingdom.
Blending in or prioritizing comfortfor ourselves or even, even at times

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for others at the cost of gospelfaithfulness, is to actually surrender our
responsibilities as citizens of heaven.
My wife reminded us as housechurch leaders on Monday night.
That comfort and growthnever sit in the same room.

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Oh, that's, that's a joyfulencouragement, isn't it?
It's like, can't it just bea little bit of comfort and
then growth as well, you know?
But comfort and growth, they don'tsit in the same room, they don't live
in the same stages of life, and thekingdom of God is going to call us to
lay down our comfort and pick up growingin reliance of his ways together.

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Jesus sets the example, doesn't he?
Christ intentionally went againstsocial norms to love the outcast,
often upsetting the powers of hisday and his life models to us costly
obedience for the sake of love.

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He doesn't conform to the ways of theworld, but he, in fact, at times goes
against the ways of the world, whichmeans he gets pushed to the side as
well, and as gospel citizens, thatis something that we need to expect.
And, and then thirdly.
We're misunderstood and marginalized.
We stand with the misunderstoodand marginalized Following Jesus

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can mean losing our social statusor even influence in our lives.
As citizens of a different Kimkingdom, we should expect to be
misunderstood and push to the margins.
At times.
There's a cost to following Jesus.
To following Jesus underhis rule and reign.

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There's a cost at times.
Then a third responsibility that weare welcomed into is humility, not
self-confidence, and take that fromthe second chapter of Philippians,
that true humility is Christ'sconfidence, not self-confidence.
A humble person doesn't draw attentionto themselves or their efforts.

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Instead, a humble person findsjoy in trusting Jesus and thinking
of others more than themselves.
A humble person.
True humility in Christ centerednessis actually finding yourself being
lost in the joys, in the burdens of theconcerns of others more than yourself.

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Secondly, freedom indistrust, self distrust.
There's a great spiritual strength,I believe, for us to lean into, and
that is admitting our weaknessesand not relying upon ourselves.
JI Packer A. A guy that isno longer alive said this.

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The way of true spiritual strengththat leads to real fruitfulness
in Christ life and service is thehumble, self distrustful way to
consciously recognize our weaknesses.
Did everyone get that?

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Who didn't?
Do you want me to read it again?
Yes,
the true way of spiritual strength.
Is that leads to real fruitfulnessin Christian life and service
is the humble, self distrustfulway of consciously recognizing

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weaknesses that we become people.
They are not, they're notdefensive about our weaknesses.
But actually joyfully open torecognize them before others
in love and before Christ.

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And that that that reality of usbeing open to recognizing where we
are weak actually makes him strong,
heavenly citizens embrace weakness.
Living as citizens of heaven meanletting go of self-confidence,
graceful, joyful expectancy even inour shortcomings because our king is

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strong in and through our weaknesses.
And then lastly, joy andcontentment, not cynicism.
And greed is another kingdomresponsibility, which we
just covered this morning.
Cynicism destroys the soul.
Cynicism offers no joy or transformation.

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It numbs the heart and blocks truth.
As JRR Tolkien said, the greaterpath of truth is always hidden in the
regions out of the reach of cynicism.
Secondly, greed is a trap people.
Like quicksand, greed traps usin a cycle of dissatisfaction.

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The more we clinging to it, the harder itbecomes to live free and fully from it.
And then finally, the gospelcalls us to simplicity.
That is another responsibility wehave as citizens that Paul teaches
us that the good news of Jesus freesus from a life of cynicism and greed.

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And allows us to be open tocultivating faith, hope, love, and joy.
And we begin to recognize that thesethings like being a cynic, being greed,
motivated, wanting more, are in fact justdistractions of what true life really is.

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So notice these traits.
Notice these responsibilities ofobedience, reliance, humility, joy,
and contentment, they can all be hadwith plenty in life or with little,
despite our circumstances, we know we canknow the closeness of God and that his
kingdom will advance and no, no chains canstop it from seeing its full completion

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in the world to your homework today.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm giving you homework.
This is like we, no, no, no.
This is not, this isnot what we normally do.
No.
I'm giving you homework
to go and meditate.
Invite the spirit to reveal.
Invite your brothers and yoursisters to speak into our

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shared kingdom responsibilitiesarticulated in Paul's letter.
Where can we grow church communally?
Where can we grow?
In obedience, where can wegrow in reliance together,
humility, joy, and contentment?
How can we do that together as a family?

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That is not my responsibility.
That's our responsibilityto cultivate these things.
Let me conclude with this.
Nijay Gupta sums upPhilippians in this way.
He says, the good citizen of the gospelkingdom of Jesus is a person filled

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with the good news of the great savior,living fully and deeply here on earth,
but driven by the mission and ethos.
Mission and ethos, ethos,values, responsibilities of the
heavenly Commonwealth government.
Yeah.

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To the praise of God.
That is what Philippians,according to Nijay is all about.
So brothers and sisters,
my joy and my crown, asPaul put it in Philippians,
let us together work togetherto live fully and deeply here.

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And now as citizens of heaven in ourlives today, let us join together
Seeing the Kingdom of Heaven invadeEarth through its mission of making all
things new again through the subversivenature of being sacrificial servants.

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Doing all these things, devoting ourlives to these things for one purpose
and reason, and that is to the gloryand praise of our God and King.
King Jesus.
Amen.
Beautiful.
I'm done

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and you probably are too.
I don't know.
I so get sick of my own voice,but God, God's continuing to
do a good work in us, isn't he?
He's so faithful that even in spiteof our weaknesses, even in spite of
our waywardness, God is faithful.

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He's so faithful people, no matterwhere you find yourselves today.
God is faithful.
Now, whether you now, whether if you,if you're in that prison that you find,
that you see in Paul, you go, I feellike Paul, I feel like I'm trapped.
God is king.
Whether you feel incapablebecause life feels like it's

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falling apart, God is king.
Whether something has come uponyou over the last few weeks where
you're going, I don't know, a wayout of this mess, God is king.
All things will be made new.
God is king.
He sits on his throne.

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I've shared this story a coupleof times 'cause I wanna be
vulnerable with you continuously.
Is that I had, I had a season where lifewas not good for me and I wanted out.
I wanted out.
I was in the depths of depression.
I. I couldn't work.

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I was confined to home in a roomfor about a year and a half,
and I remember in the midst of that,about eight, nine months in, just
battling every day crying as I woke up.
Why didn't you take me, Lord?
I remember standing in my mom anddad's kitchen looking out the backyard.
Just a beautiful daylight today.

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Sun's out.
And I just remember God justsaying something so simple to me.
I am on the throne
and in the midst of that,
all will be well, Luke, all will be well.

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God is on the throne people.
Amen.