FREE TO SUFFER (2 OF 6)
Scripture: Philippians 1:12-30
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Free to Suffer (2 of 6)
Series: True Freedom
Dave Gustavsen
Philippians 1:12-30
We're taking this spring to walk through Paul's letter to the Philippians, and we're calling the series ''True Freedom.'' As usual, our discipleship team has developed some great resources to help us get the most out of this series. Let me tell you about two of them: there's a brand new Facebook group called True Freedom. So you can interact with other people about what you're learning from Philippians. So I encourage you to join that group. We also have this new feature called ''Live it Out!'' It takes the teaching of each sermon, and it gives a few practical ways to live it out that week. Really well done. So you can find both of resources on our web site; just go to Connect and then select Small Groups, and you'll see it all right there.
So when Paul was writing the letter to the Philippians, he was locked up in a Roman prison cell. So from every outward measure, he was not free. And yet, when you start reading the letter, you quickly realize that he wasn't feeling sorry for himself; he didn't view himself as a victim; he wasn't complaining about how his rights had been violated, or all the things he couldn't do. It becomes obvious that you're listening to a man who was free. Not on the outside! But in the place where it really counts-on the inside-Paul was a free man.
So how does that relate to us? Well, we all have our prisons, don't we? Last week someone said to me, ''My prison was getting Coronavirus. Other people were supposed to get the virus-not me! And all of a sudden, I felt trapped by this sickness.'' On the True Freedom Facebook group, someone said, ''I'm deaf, and recently that's felt like a prison. I read lips, but now that everyone is wearing masks, that's been taken away and it felt so isolating.'' We've all got our prisons. And it's easy to let those things own us and define us. And through this letter, Paul shows us what it looks like to have inner ...
Series: True Freedom
Dave Gustavsen
Philippians 1:12-30
We're taking this spring to walk through Paul's letter to the Philippians, and we're calling the series ''True Freedom.'' As usual, our discipleship team has developed some great resources to help us get the most out of this series. Let me tell you about two of them: there's a brand new Facebook group called True Freedom. So you can interact with other people about what you're learning from Philippians. So I encourage you to join that group. We also have this new feature called ''Live it Out!'' It takes the teaching of each sermon, and it gives a few practical ways to live it out that week. Really well done. So you can find both of resources on our web site; just go to Connect and then select Small Groups, and you'll see it all right there.
So when Paul was writing the letter to the Philippians, he was locked up in a Roman prison cell. So from every outward measure, he was not free. And yet, when you start reading the letter, you quickly realize that he wasn't feeling sorry for himself; he didn't view himself as a victim; he wasn't complaining about how his rights had been violated, or all the things he couldn't do. It becomes obvious that you're listening to a man who was free. Not on the outside! But in the place where it really counts-on the inside-Paul was a free man.
So how does that relate to us? Well, we all have our prisons, don't we? Last week someone said to me, ''My prison was getting Coronavirus. Other people were supposed to get the virus-not me! And all of a sudden, I felt trapped by this sickness.'' On the True Freedom Facebook group, someone said, ''I'm deaf, and recently that's felt like a prison. I read lips, but now that everyone is wearing masks, that's been taken away and it felt so isolating.'' We've all got our prisons. And it's easy to let those things own us and define us. And through this letter, Paul shows us what it looks like to have inner ...
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