REMEMBERING - THE KEY TO PEACE (4 OF 4)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Philippians 3:20, Philippians 4:7
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Remembering - The Key To Peace (4 of 4)
Series: Unity In Christ
Jeff Strite
Philippians 3:20-4:7
OPEN: A preacher told of how his family would spend weekends at his grandparents when he was a boy. In winter, they'd slide down a grassy hill on an old car hood. In the spring, before the fields were plowed, they'd play football in those fields, and when the fields were plowed they'd have dirt clod fights. And in the summer, they'd fish for catfish in the creek. It was a fun time to be alive.
But he said he remembered one thing that was all out of whack in those days at the farm. He had two aunts who had gotten into a spat and they refused to speak to each other or be in the same house with each other. So on those days when they were both there at the farm one of his aunts would sit in the car while the other was in house having a good time. Then at a specified time the aunt who was in the house would go out to her car and sit while the other aunt went inside.
(Monty Newton, sermoncentral.com)
Now, how bizarre is that? The preacher went on to say that eventually his aunts made up and everything was OK... but that's a truly odd way to live life. And yet, when Paul is writing to the church at Philippi it seems they have a couple of quarreling aunts at that church too. Paul writes: ''I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel ...'' Philippians 2:2-3
What's going on here?
You'd think in a church that Paul started (a man who'd written half your New Testament and who'd been instrumental in the spread of Christianity throughout the known world) everything would be sweetness and light. Everyone would love everyone else.
But not so with Euodia and Syntyche.
Something was definitely wrong there.
And what makes this even more troubling was that these two ladies had been personal helpers of Paul's. They had ''labored side by side ...
Series: Unity In Christ
Jeff Strite
Philippians 3:20-4:7
OPEN: A preacher told of how his family would spend weekends at his grandparents when he was a boy. In winter, they'd slide down a grassy hill on an old car hood. In the spring, before the fields were plowed, they'd play football in those fields, and when the fields were plowed they'd have dirt clod fights. And in the summer, they'd fish for catfish in the creek. It was a fun time to be alive.
But he said he remembered one thing that was all out of whack in those days at the farm. He had two aunts who had gotten into a spat and they refused to speak to each other or be in the same house with each other. So on those days when they were both there at the farm one of his aunts would sit in the car while the other was in house having a good time. Then at a specified time the aunt who was in the house would go out to her car and sit while the other aunt went inside.
(Monty Newton, sermoncentral.com)
Now, how bizarre is that? The preacher went on to say that eventually his aunts made up and everything was OK... but that's a truly odd way to live life. And yet, when Paul is writing to the church at Philippi it seems they have a couple of quarreling aunts at that church too. Paul writes: ''I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel ...'' Philippians 2:2-3
What's going on here?
You'd think in a church that Paul started (a man who'd written half your New Testament and who'd been instrumental in the spread of Christianity throughout the known world) everything would be sweetness and light. Everyone would love everyone else.
But not so with Euodia and Syntyche.
Something was definitely wrong there.
And what makes this even more troubling was that these two ladies had been personal helpers of Paul's. They had ''labored side by side ...
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