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welcome to back to the Bible radio
featuring best-selling author and
internationally known Bible teacher
Warren where's being one of the major
messages in the book of Philippians is
the joy of ministry in Chapter 1 we have
the joy of the message of our ministry
the gospel of Jesus Christ in chapter 2
the joy of the model for our ministry
the Lord Jesus Christ the servant of God
in chapter 3 the motives for our
ministry and in chapter 4 the means of
our ministry chapter 1 we have the
message of our ministry and this message
ought to give us great joy just think of
the privilege we have of sharing the
gospel whether you are a Sunday school
teacher an elder a deacon a trustee a
church visitor a minister a missionary
you sing in the choir whatever it may be
you are helping to get out the gospel of
Jesus Christ in Chapter one you find the
Apostle Paul applying this gospel to
three different groups of people you'll
notice he talks about the fellowship of
the gospel in verse five
because in verses 3 through 11 he talks
about the fellowship of the gospel he
applies the gospel to God's people
that's going to be our subject for today
you must always look at the people of
God through the heart of the gospel in
verses 12 through 26 he talks about the
furtherance of the gospel and here he's
applying the gospel to the unbelievers
how do we get the gospel out and then
verses 27 through 30 he talks about
defending the faith of the gospel in
verse 27 striving together for the faith
of the gospel we have enemies in nothing
be terrified by your adversaries so here
we have three different groups of people
to whom the gospel must be applied to
God's people the fellowship of the
gospel verses 3 through 11 to the
unsaved verses 12 through 26 that's the
furtherance of the gospel and then even
to our enemies
verses 27 through 30 the faith of the
gospel now verses 3 through 11 I
mentioned that the here we're dealing
with the fellowship of the gospel
perhaps you've read in the Peanuts comic
strip where Linus says that one day he
wants to become a great doctor but Lucy
says you can't be a doctor you don't
love mankind to which Linus replied I do
love mankind as people I can't stand and
sometimes the people of God are
difficult to get along with and yet
here's the Apostle Paul in verses 3
through 11 explaining to us the ties
that bind us together now what are they
I thank my god upon every remembrance of
you always in every prayer of mine for
you all making requests with joy for
your fellowship in the gospel from the
first day until now being confident of
this very thing that he who hath begun a
good work in you will perform it
complete it until the day of Jesus
Christ the first tie that was binding
the hearts of the Philippians to the
heart of the Apostle Paul I have you in
my mind he remembered them I thank my
god upon every remembrance of you that
means the whole remembrance now there
were some things about the Philippian
Church that when he remembered them
could have brought sorrow for example
when he was at Troas Acts chapter 16 he
didn't know where to go he was waiting
waiting waiting then he had that vision
well he could say I want to forget about
that delay at Troas he had a vision of a
man who said come over and help us and
so Paul and his team went over to
Philippi and they couldn't find that man
but they did find a woman's prayer
meeting thank God for women's prayer
meetings a group of Jewish women and
some Gentiles who were Jewish proselytes
or Jewish followers were there having a
prayer meeting by the river and then
that slave girl came along and created
problems for Paul Paul was
thrown into prison he was whipped he was
humiliated now there was division in the
church at philippi there were some
people who were fighting one another
Paul could have had some memories of
Filipina that would bring him sorrow but
you know what he says here I thank God
upon every remembrance the whole thing
you know what he's saying
he is saying you've got to see the total
picture now my preacher friend there are
people in your church who are creating
problems for you but you've got to see
the total picture look at them through
the eyes of Jesus Christ and the gospel
Paul said I thank my god upon every
remembrance of you I'm thankful for your
fellowship in the gospel I'm confident
that God is at work in your life maybe
he's not at work like he ought to be
that's not his fault that's your fault
maybe you're not allowing him to do
everything he wants to do but you must
look at people in Jesus Christ
chapter 1 verse 1 to all the Saints in
Christ Jesus every chapter in
Philippians begins with in Christ
chapter 2 verse 1 if there be any
consolation in Christ chapter 3 verse 1
finally my brethren rejoice in the Lord
in chapter 4 we read verse 1 so stand
fast in the Lord always look at God's
people in Jesus Christ
you know whenever you meet an unsaved
person you can love him because he's
somebody for whom Christ died whenever
you meet a Christian you can love him
he's someone in whom Christ lives Paul
said I have you in my mind I thank my
god upon the whole remembrance of you
missionary friend that person who's
creating a problem for you right now a
hundred years from now you'll look back
and you'll say you know God was taking
care of that God is at work be patient
God is not able to work in our lives the
way he'd like to
we sometimes hinder him in his ministry
in our own hearts let's be thankful for
the fellowship of the gospel let's be
thankful for the people
of God I have you in my mind that's the
first tie that binds our hearts together
but in verses 7 and 8 there's a second
tie that binds our hearts together Paul
says I have you in my heart even as it
is right for me to think this of you all
I notice that 9 times he talks about you
all there was division in the church he
wants to include everybody in his
message even as it is right for me to
think this of you all because I have you
in my heart
it's one thing to have somebody in your
mind and quite something else to have
them in your heart in as much as both in
my bonds and in the defence and
confirmation of the gospel you all are
partakers of my grace for God is my
witness how greatly I longed after you
all in the tender mercies of Jesus
Christ tie number one I have you in my
mind is there somebody in your church
you're trying to forget is there
somebody in your Christian life you you
don't want to have them in your memory
watch out you'll lose the joy of
ministry secondly I have you in my heart
this was not a normal natural human love
this was a divinely supplied love it was
the love of the Lord Jesus Christ I long
after you all in the tender mercies of
Jesus Christ we are taught of God to
love one another more than that we have
that gift of love in our hearts the love
of God is shed abroad in our hearts by
the Holy Spirit who is given unto us
we're commanded the love one another now
God doesn't command the heart to feel a
certain way he commands the will to act
a certain way what is Christian love
Christian love is an act of the will
Christian love means I treat you the way
God treats me God is patient with me so
I'll be patient with you God is kind to
me I'll be kind to you and you should be
kind to me God tells me the truth I
should tell you the truth and do it in
love the way God does that Christian
love is not a feeling you say well there
are folks in the church I don't like
that may be true you might not want to
spend a weeks vacation with them or even
an evening
with them that doesn't make any
difference in Christian love it's not a
matter of feeling it's a matter of
willing we treat other people the way
God commands us to treat them I have you
in my mind I have you in my heart
the Apostle Paul loved these people oh
how much he had suffered for them but
these people were participants with him
in the work of the Lord verse 5 their
fellowship in the gospel verse 7
you're partakers of my grace they were
not spectators they were partakers they
had participated in Paul's ministry and
you know the more you work together the
more you stand together the more you
weep together and sacrifice together the
more you love one another I think one of
our problems in churches today is we
have too many spectators we don't have
enough participants you see when you
love people then you're concerned about
the gospel
why was Paul defending the gospel there
at the Roman Court because he loved the church
church
Paul was paying a tremendous price there
in Rome he was there to defend and
confirm the gospel to get the church to
be an accepted legitimate religion in
the Roman Empire and oh the price he was
paying why because he loved God's people
in the Old Testament the high priest had
two stones two precious stones one on
each shoulder and then he had twelve
stones over his heart on the breastplate
individual stones they represented the
tribes of Israel there were six names on
the stone on his left shoulder and six
names on the stone on his right shoulder
and there were twelve stones over his
heart this is the way it is in ministry
we bear God's people on our shoulders
collectively we love them individually
and those stones over the high priests
heart were a reminder to him to love the
tie number one I have you in my mind I
think about you tie number two I have
you in my heart I love you tie number
three I have you in my prayers I pray
for you nine through eleven and this I
pray now if you were going to pray for
the church at Philippi what would you
ask God to do this prayer would be good
for all of our churches first of all
it's a prayer for maturity and this I
pray that your love may abound yet more
and more in knowledge and in all
judgment discernment that you may
approve the things that are excellent
you may prove the things that differ
approve the things that differ that you
may be sincere and without a fence till
the day of Christ being filled with the
fruits of righteousness which are by
Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise
of God he prays that they might have
mature Christian love a developing love
it abounds more and more a discerning
love a love that's not blind you I hear
people say well if you do what you're
doing love it'll be all right well what
kind of love you see love without
discernment could be lust love that
lacks discernment is blind Christian
love is not blind Christian love is very
discerning because we must have the
guidance of the Spirit of God now he's
praying for developing love there were
some problems in the church when you
read chapter 2 Paul wrote and said be
like-minded have the same love be of one
Accord be of one mind let nothing be
done through strife or vainglory my I
bet they were having some business
meetings that were really interesting
what's the solution for all these
problems love discerning Christian love
abounding love and discerning love that
you may approve the things that are
excellent mature Christian character
that you may test the things that differ
now little children can't tell a pie
from a mud pie they don't know a tool
from a toy they use everything in
confusion but as you get older you learn
to do
earn and that's what we need as
Christians to test the things that
differ to have wisdom to be sincere and
that word sincere means transparent pure
tested by the sunlight it also means
tested by a sieve you put the grain into
a sieve and you were lit a round off
goes the chaff and through the sieve
comes the good grain sometimes God has
to put you and me into the sieve of
suffering difficulty tribulation why to
build our character that you might be
sincere without offence not causing
other people to stumble until the day of
Jesus Christ and so we must have mature
Christian love developing love and
discerning love we must have mature
Christian character sincerity honesty
openness our motives must be right until
the day of Christ and mature Christian
service being filled with the fruits of
righteousness fruit has to come from
life doesn't it you don't manufacture
fruit you grow it righteousness by Jesus
Christ notice please we don't
manufacture this fruit it comes from the
power of God at work in our lives now
here are three beautiful spiritual ties
that bind God's people together pastor
do these ties bind your heart to the
hearts of your people missionary friend
The Sunday school teacher church officer
can you say I have you in my mind what I
think about you I give thanks to God I
have you in my prayers I have you in my
heart now you see if we have people in
our minds and in our hearts we're going
to have them in our prayers and the more
you can say to people look I think about
you and I love you and I pray for you
the stronger is going to be the bond
that ties us together in Jesus Christ
January sixth is the anniversary of the
birth of John Fawcett 1739 John Fawcett
was saved under Whitfield's ministry and
he was pastoring a church in Yorkshire
and he got a call to a bigger church
with a better opportunity apparently in
1772 and he packed all of his goods and
he was going to move away but he
couldn't do it he loved his people so
much that he had to stay with them and
then it was in 1772 that he wrote that
beautiful song blest be the tie that
binds our hearts in Christian love the
fellowship of kindred minds is like to
that above my friend are you rejoicing
in your ministry today are you enjoying
your ministry or enduring your ministry
well the Lord Jesus knows because he can
see your heart and you know and before
long everybody will know because we
cannot hide it in Philippians were
looking at the joy of ministry and in
Chapter 1 we're focusing on the joy of
the message of our ministry Jesus Christ
and the gospel and Paul applies this
gospel to three different groups of
people the inner circle of the Saints
verses 3 through 11 the fellowship in
the gospel verse 5 he gives thanks with
joy for your fellowship in the gospel
from the first day until now
then verse 12 down through verse 26 he
talks about the furtherance of the
gospel but I would you should understand
brethren that the things which happened
unto me have fallen out rather unto the
furtherance of the gospel
now he's applying the gospel not to the
believers but to the unbelievers chapter
1 verses 12 through 26 then in verse 27
down through verse 30 he'll be talking
about how the gospel applies to our
adversaries those who oppose the work of
the Lord you see if you go through life
thinking only about yourself you're
going to be miserable but if you go
through life ministering because you are
concerned about Christ and the gospel
then you are going to be happy you're
going to have joy we have the most
joyful message in all the world to
present good tidings of great joy which
shall be unto all people for Jesus
Christ the Savior has died for the sins
of the world
father sent the son to be the savior of
the world now is that why you're living
are you living to get this message out
now if you are you'll be a happy person
if you have a single mind for Christ and
the gospel then you're going to have
Christian joy you're going to relate as
you should to God's people and you're
going to relate as you should to the
unsaved Paul's great desire was to
preach the gospel at Rome when he wrote
the letter to the Romans he said so in
chapter 1 verse 15 that he had a great
desire to come to Rome to preach the
gospel well he didn't come to Rome but
not as a preacher but as a prisoner you
remember in Acts chapter 27 you have
that awful shipwreck described and Paul
finally it does arrive at Rome and then
some difficulties appear even in Rome he
has some needs the Philippian Church
sent him some material help to assist
him in his ministry that's why he wrote
this letter that we call Philippians
well I should have you understand he
wrote to them to the things which
happened unto me have fallen out they
have worked out rather unto the
furtherance of the gospel this word
furtherance means pioneer advance it
means to move forward in spite of
obstructions and difficulties it's the
word that was used for that part of the
army that went on ahead cleared away all
the debris got rid of all that was
standing in the way of the march of the
army you know the devil puts roadblocks
in our way right now you may say well
brother where's be I'm facing that
roadblock here we are in our church or
our mission station or our Sunday School
class or our home and we're trying to
move forward and serve the Lord and
right away we've hit a roadblock we've
hit a blank wall we're on a dead-end
street oh no you're not when you're
living to promote Christ and the gospel
to spread the good news of the gospel
there is no such thing as a dead-end
street or a wall or a roadblock along
your path you see God wants us to take
the gospel out into New Territories
that's the problem in so many churches
we keep sowing the same seed on the same
soil we keep fishing in the same pond
but God wants us to take the gospel into
new territory furtherance the pioneer
advance God is saying let's move into
some new territory are there areas in
your town or city that have never been
touched by the gospel how are you gonna
get the gospel in there well the Apostle
Paul had three very wonderful tools that
God gave him to get the gospel out to
areas where it had never reached verses
12 through 14 his chains so that my
bonds in Christ are manifest and people
are talking about this my chains because
of his chains Christ was known verses 12
through 14 then verses 15 through 19 his
critics Oh Paul had some critics there
in the city of Rome there were some who
were not preaching the way they should
preach they were preaching out of
contention and division and dissension
but Paul tells us in verses 15 through
19 that because of his critics Christ is
preached notice now because of my chains
Christ is known because of my critics
Christ is preached and verses 20 through
26 because of my crisis Christ is
magnified what was his crisis he might
be killed
he says for to me to live is Christ to
die is gain his great concern was not
just to spare his life but to use his
life now get a hold of these three tools
his chains Christ is known verses 12
through 14 his critics Christ is
preached verses 15 through 19
his crisis he might be killed Christ is
magnified verses 20 through 26 yes God
is able to use a crisis to magnify Jesus
Christ you may be in a crisis today just
say with Paul I want Christ to be
magnified whether it's by life or by death
death
I want him to receive all of the glory
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