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Author = Paul
Audience = Church in Philippi.
Date = 60-62 AD
Paul’s addressing = Persecution they were experiencing.
Theme = Joy


Paul is in prison … again.


Today’s Key Passage:
Philippians 4:4
Theme:
How to Keep Your Joy

Philippians 4:4 - Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!


Once we discover joy in Christ, we can then live a life that expresses joy.

Philippians 3:1 (NLT) - Whatever happens, my dear brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord.


Philippians 3:1 (NLT) - Whatever happens, my dear brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord. I never get tired of telling you these things, and I do it to safeguard your faith.


Philippians 3:18-19 - For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

19) Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things.


>Unaware of the benefits of the cross.


>Unaware of the benefits of the cross.
>Addicted to pleasure.


>Unaware of the benefits of the cross.
>Addicted to pleasure.
>Earthly minded.

Romans 12:2 - Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.


Romans 8:6 - The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace;

Philippians 3:20 - But our citizenship is in heaven.


Philippians 3:20 - But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

The key to joy is to be eternally-minded.


Eternally-Minded means …
1. Seeing God’s redemption for my yesterday.


Philippians 3:7-11- But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.


(8) What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things.


I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ (9) and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—


the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. (10) I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in His sufferings,


becoming like Him in his death, (11) and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Eternally-Minded means …
1. Seeing God’s redemption for my yesterday.
2. Seeing God’s purpose for my today.


Philippians 3:12-14 - Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus

(13) Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,


(14) I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

How to live for what I’m made for
>Recognize discontentment.
>Make a decision.
>Sell out to a direction.


Eternally-Minded means …
1. Seeing God’s redemption for my yesterday.
2. Seeing God’s purpose for my today.
3. Seeing God’s plan for my tomorrow.


Philippians 3:20-21 - But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, (21) who, by the power that enables Him to bring everything under His control,


will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like His glorious body.


“Aim at heaven, you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth, you get neither.”
C.S. Lewis


The key to joy is to be eternally-minded.

GIVE US ONE YEAR OF YOUR LIFE.

1 PETER 1:17 // MSG

You call out to God for help and He helps - He’s a good Father that way. But don’t forget, He’s also a responsible Father and won’t let you get by with sloppy living. Your life is a journey you must travel with a deep consciousness of God.