Victory Church
02.2/3.20 Pastor Curt Seaburg
(Philippians 4:4) Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
Joy > Happiness
> Happiness is eternal
Joy is internal
> Happiness is based on happenings.
Joy is based on Christ.
> Happiness happens by chance.
Joy happens by choice.
(Philippians 3:20) But our citizenship is in heaven.
And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
We must always be eternally minded.
1. See 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.
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 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. 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, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
If your struggling with your past:
> Knowing – “God thank You for your salvation.”
> Righteousness – “God, thank You for grace.”
> Fellowship – “God, every day, I will keep walking this out.”
2. See 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 took hold of me.
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,
I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
(Romans 11:29) “for God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.”
If you’re wondering what God is doing:
> Recognize the discontent.
> Live for a purpose.
> Sell out for a direction.
3. See 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, 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 and you get neither.” - CS Lewis
> See life past,present, future.