PHILIPPIANS Introduction (verses 1-11) Salutation (vv. 1, 2) Thanksgiving (vv. 3-8) Petition (vv. 9-11) Verses 1, 2: Three things in Paul’s letters: 1)    Writer 2)    Readers 3)    Greeting 1)    Writer (v. 1) – lists his associate’s name, Timothy –    his offices – bondslaves of Christ Jesus –    His apostleship is not mentioned here. The absence   Read More …

Philippians 4:16-18 I. People Are Fickle, vs 16 — “all men forsook me.” 1. It is a sin to abandon a brother—”I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.” 2. It is a sin to be bitter about it. Paul prays that God will not charge it to their account. II.   Read More …

Philippians 3:17-21 INTRO: Here are presented two types of people and their conduct and character and consummation. Paul is warning the people against following the example of certain people. He gives a withering denunciation of those whose example it would be fatal to follow. Paul weeps as he speaks because these people are in the   Read More …

Philippians 2:12-16 How are we to live “in the midst”? I. OBEY AS SERVANTS-VV 5-13      1.Don’t neglect your salvation      2.Don’t depend upon others      3.Be responsible for your own growth II. BEHAVE AS SONS-14,15 Greek: “show yourselves to be sons….” Prove that you are what you profess to be.      1.Blameless: irreproachable, living   Read More …

Philippians1:19-21 I. The Christian Life Is POSSIBLE. “For me to live is CHRIST.” The resources of the Christian life are Christ Himself. There is no demand made upon my life that is not a demand upon the Christ within me.  (Phil. 4:13) II. The Christian Life is PERSONAL. “To me.” III. The Christian Life is   Read More …

Text: Philippians 4:10-13 I want you to open your Bibles again tonight to the letter to the Philippians, chapter 4, and I want to read verses 10 through 13: But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at last you have revived your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned before, but you lacked   Read More …

Text: Philippians 1:20 If God is going to use you, Sunday School teache, deacon, Christian, you must choose one great purpose in life. I think the great purpose that every Christian ought to have for his life is the purpose that Paul revealed in the twentieth verse of Philippians, chapter one. According to my earnest   Read More …