FREE TO BE CONFIDENT (4 OF 6)
Scripture: Philippians 3:1-9
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Free to Be Confident (4 of 6)
Series: True Freedom
Dave Gustavsen
Philippians 3:1-9
We are taking this spring to walk through Paul's letter to the Philippians. Paul knew these people in Philippi personally, because twenty years earlier he had spent some time there, and started a church there. And they had kept in touch over the years. So the letter is very warm and personal. But what makes it so amazing is that Paul wrote it from a Roman prison cell. And so, similar to the prison writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela, and others, there's this added sense of gravitas and power to everything Paul says.
But not only that; it also makes us recognize the prisons in our own lives. Some of you feel locked in by a terrible job situation. Or you feel imprisoned by an addiction. Or an abusive relationship. Or a really difficult marriage. Or a school that you hate. Or maybe motherhood-and I say that very respectfully, but sometimes the demands and the relentlessness of motherhood can feel very confining, and can make you feel trapped-right moms? We all have our prisons. And in this letter, Paul is showing us that even when life traps us and imprisons us, there is an inner kind of freedom that no chains can take away.
So today we come to chapter three, and Paul is going to show us that, regardless of what prisons may be around us, we are Free to Be Confident. Free to be confident. And the way he goes about it is he opens up about his life story. Years earlier, Paul had been extremely confident. He didn't struggle with insecurity or lack of ambition; he knew exactly who he was and where he was going. And then everything blew up. And it was through that blowup-through the crisis-that Paul learned a new kind of confidence. And this new kind of confidence he had found was so solid, even prison couldn't shake it.
So I don't know how confident you're feeling today-some of you probably feel ready to go take on the world; ...
Series: True Freedom
Dave Gustavsen
Philippians 3:1-9
We are taking this spring to walk through Paul's letter to the Philippians. Paul knew these people in Philippi personally, because twenty years earlier he had spent some time there, and started a church there. And they had kept in touch over the years. So the letter is very warm and personal. But what makes it so amazing is that Paul wrote it from a Roman prison cell. And so, similar to the prison writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela, and others, there's this added sense of gravitas and power to everything Paul says.
But not only that; it also makes us recognize the prisons in our own lives. Some of you feel locked in by a terrible job situation. Or you feel imprisoned by an addiction. Or an abusive relationship. Or a really difficult marriage. Or a school that you hate. Or maybe motherhood-and I say that very respectfully, but sometimes the demands and the relentlessness of motherhood can feel very confining, and can make you feel trapped-right moms? We all have our prisons. And in this letter, Paul is showing us that even when life traps us and imprisons us, there is an inner kind of freedom that no chains can take away.
So today we come to chapter three, and Paul is going to show us that, regardless of what prisons may be around us, we are Free to Be Confident. Free to be confident. And the way he goes about it is he opens up about his life story. Years earlier, Paul had been extremely confident. He didn't struggle with insecurity or lack of ambition; he knew exactly who he was and where he was going. And then everything blew up. And it was through that blowup-through the crisis-that Paul learned a new kind of confidence. And this new kind of confidence he had found was so solid, even prison couldn't shake it.
So I don't know how confident you're feeling today-some of you probably feel ready to go take on the world; ...
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