Philippians

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Philippians

• Lesson 4
• Have The Attitude of Christ Within You
• Phil 127-218

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Pauls Attitude Toward His Imprisonment or
Dealing With Disappointments

1. Pauls unselfish attitude toward his imprisonment
   Php 112-18
2. Pauls primary concern in life exalting Christ
   Php 119-26

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Introduction

• No matter what happens to Paul, he wants the
  Philippians to remain faithful to the Lord
• To be faithful, they must have the attitude or
  mind of Christ toward each other and the world
• Having the attitude of Christ, they will be able
  to conform their conduct to the gospel, be
  unified as a church and be lights to a darkened
  world

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Have The Attitude of Christ Within You

1. Live in a manner worthy of the gospel Php 127-30
2. Imitate humble unselfish attitude of Christ Php
   21-11
3. Joyously serve God as lights in the world Php
   212-18

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Live In A Manner Worthy Of The Gospel

• Php 127 Only conduct yourselves in a manner
  worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I
  come and see you or remain absent, I will hear of
  you that you are standing firm in one spirit,
  with one mind striving together for the faith of
  the gospel
• Php 128 in no way alarmed by your
  opponents--which is a sign of destruction for
  them, but of salvation for you, and that too,
  from God.

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Live In A Manner Worthy Of The Gospel

• Php 129 For to you it has been granted for
  Christ's sake, not only to believe in Him, but
  also to suffer for His sake,
• Php 130 experiencing the same conflict which
  you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

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Live In A Manner Worthy Of The Gospel

• Worldly pressure follow customs and laws of
  your city even if they conflict with the Lord
• Although Philippi was a Roman city, they were to
  live as citizens of heaven
• Word conduct means behave as citizen of a city
• From this word, we get politics

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Behave As Citizens of Heaven

• Php 320 For our citizenship is in heaven, from
  which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord
  Jesus Christ
• Php 321 who will transform the body of our
  humble state into conformity with the body of His
  glory, by the exertion of the power that He has
  even to subject all things to Himself.

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Two Privileges Serving Christ

• First, they had opportunity to believe in (obey)
  Jesus
• Second, they had privilege of suffering for
  Jesus sake
• Their persecution was to Gods glory and
  condemnation of their enemies

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Eternal Results of Persecution

• 2Th 15 This is a plain indication of God's
  righteous judgment so that you will be considered
  worthy of the kingdom of God, for which indeed
  you are suffering.
• 2Th 16 For after all it is only just for God to
  repay with affliction those who afflict you,
• 2Th 17 and to give relief to you who are
  afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus
  will be revealed from heaven with His mighty
  angels in flaming fire,

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Privilege of Suffering For The Lord

• Act 541 So they went on their way from the
  presence of the Council, rejoicing that they had
  been considered worthy to suffer shame for His
  name.
• Act 542 And every day, in the temple and from
  house to house, they kept right on teaching and
  preaching Jesus as the Christ.

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Imitate Humble Unselfish Attitude Of Christ

• Php 21 Therefore if there is any encouragement
  in Christ, if there is any consolation of love,
  if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any
  affection and compassion,
• Php 22 make my joy complete by being of the
  same mind, maintaining the same love, united in
  spirit, intent on one purpose.

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Imitate Humble Unselfish Attitude Of Christ

• Php 23 Do nothing from selfishness or empty
  conceit, but with humility of mind regard one
  another as more important than yourselves
• Php 24 do not merely look out for your own
  personal interests, but also for the interests of
  others.

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Two Ways To Destroy Local Church Unity

1. False doctrines promoted by false teachers
2. Un-Christ-like attitudes toward one another

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False Doctrines Promoted By False Teachers

• Php 318 For many walk, of whom I often told
  you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are
  enemies of the cross of Christ,
• Php 319 whose end is destruction, whose god is
  their appetite, and whose glory is in their
  shame, who set their minds on earthly things.

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Un-Christ-like Attitudes Toward One Another

• Php 42 I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to
  live in harmony in the Lord.
• Php 43 Indeed, true companion, I ask you also
  to help these women who have shared my struggle
  in the cause of the gospel, together with Clement
  also and the rest of my fellow workers, whose
  names are in the book of life.

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Jesus Perfectly Displayed Humility and
Unselfishness

• Php 25 Have this attitude in yourselves which
  was also in Christ Jesus,
• Php 26 who, although He existed in the form of
  God, did not regard equality with God a thing to
  be grasped,
• Php 27 but emptied Himself, taking the form of
  a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of
  men.

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Jesus Perfectly Displayed Humility and
Unselfishness

• Php 28 Being found in appearance as a man, He
  humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point
  of death, even death on a cross.
• Php 29 For this reason also, God highly exalted
  Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above
  every name,

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Jesus Perfectly Displayed Humility and
Unselfishness

• Php 210 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE
  WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth
  and under the earth,
• Php 211 and that every tongue will confess that
  Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
  Father.

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We Should Follow Jesus Humble Unselfish Example

• 1Co 67 Actually, then, it is already a defeat
  for you, that you have lawsuits with one another.
  Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be
  defrauded?
• 1Co 68 On the contrary, you yourselves wrong
  and defraud. You do this even to your brethren.

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We Should Follow Jesus Humble Unselfish Example

• 1Co 89 But take care that this liberty of yours
  does not somehow become a stumbling block to the
  weak.
• 1Co 810 For if someone sees you, who have
  knowledge, dining in an idol's temple, will not
  his conscience, if he is weak, be strengthened to
  eat things sacrificed to idols?

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We Should Follow Jesus Humble Unselfish Example

• 1Co 811 For through your knowledge he who is
  weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ
  died.
• 1Co 812 And so, by sinning against the brethren
  and wounding their conscience when it is weak,
  you sin against Christ.
• 1Co 813 Therefore, if food causes my brother to
  stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I
  will not cause my brother to stumble.

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We Should Follow Jesus Humble Unselfish Example

• 1Co 912 If others share the right over you, do
  we not more? Nevertheless, we did not use this
  right, but we endure all things so that we will
  cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
• 1Co 1031 Whether, then, you eat or drink or
  whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

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We Should Follow Jesus Humble Unselfish Example

• 1Co 1032 Give no offense either to Jews or to
  Greeks or to the church of God
• 1Co 1033 just as I also please all men in all
  things, not seeking my own profit but the profit
  of the many, so that they may be saved.

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We Should Follow Jesus Humble Unselfish Example

• 2Co 83 For I testify that according to their
  ability, and beyond their ability, they gave of
  their own accord,
• 2Co 84 begging us with much urging for the
  favor of participation in the support of the
  saints,

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We Should Follow Jesus Humble Unselfish Example

• 2Co 85 and this, not as we had expected, but
  they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us
  by the will of God.
• 2Co 89 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your
  sake He became poor, so that you through His
  poverty might become rich.

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Joyously Serve God As Lights In The World

• Php 212 So then, my beloved, just as you have
  always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but
  now much more in my absence, work out your
  salvation with fear and trembling
• Php 213 for it is God who is at work in you,
  both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
• Php 214 Do all things without grumbling or
  disputing

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Joyously Serve God As Lights In The World

• Php 215 so that you will prove yourselves to be
  blameless and innocent, children of God above
  reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse
  generation, among whom you appear as lights in
  the world,
• Php 216 holding fast the word of life, so that
  in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory
  because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.

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Joyously Serve God As Lights In The World

• Php 217 But even if I am being poured out as a
  drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of
  your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you
  all.
• Php 218 You too, I urge you, rejoice in the
  same way and share your joy with me.

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Have The Attitude of Christ Within You

1. Live in a manner worthy of the gospel Php 127-30
2. Imitate humble unselfish attitude of Christ Php
   21-11
3. Joyously serve God as lights in the world Php
   212-18