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By Jim Spoerl Pastor / Teacher

Our Sunday morning Bible studies as taught by Jim Spoerl at libertymessenger.org.

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December 19, 2019"Paul's Letter to the Philippians — The Witness of the Apostle Paul — Risking Everything for the Sake of Christ"
In Philippians 3:8 the apostle Paul restated how he had given up everything for the sake of Christ, and, in slightly other words, counting “all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things”. From this we could conclude simply that for Paul it was worth it all to risk everything for the sake of his Lord Jesus. That is our theme today, Risking Everything for the Sake of Christ and His glory and grace. As we have already seen, that led the apostle to exclaim that being “found in him, not having his own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ! Then he said that his choice would always be focused exclusively on that which faith dictated and never on what law dictated, even Moses Law. For, as Romans 7 makes so clear, all law encourages the flesh and short-circuits the working of God’s abundant grace. Far better is to risk it all and to receive the abundance of grace with thanksgiving as Romans 5:17 proclaims so victoriously. Amen.
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48min
December 10, 2019"Paul's Letter to the Philippians — The Witness of the Apostle Paul — To Be Found In Him"
So, as we have seen, suffering with Christ is both Paul’s calling and his glory. Amen. And that involves and requires that he be conformed unto Christ’s death. This great work of God is given as our example as well so we also can possess day by day the power of his resurrection. Today, to lay the foundation for verse 11, we will see that resurrection was promised to all saints from the beginning but that there would be in God’s redemptive plan different “orders” of resurrection and that ours is different from that of “kingdom” saints. Our inheritance is in the heavenlies, not on this earth. But what Paul reveals here in these words in Phil. 3:11 is a very special kind of resurrection which is not given to every believer under grace but only to those that meet the conditions, only to those, like Paul, who are “found” or discovered to be in Christ at the Judgment Seat of Christ, those that have “no righteousness of their own” but only that which is based on the “faith of Christ”. May we be of that number, not “wood, hay or stubble”, but of a special character indeed and rewarded accordingly. Amen.
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48min
December 10, 2019"Paul's Letter to the Philippians — The Witness of the Apostle Paul — Sharing Christ’s Suffering Is Our Glory and Should Be Our Joy AND Calling”
Today we will continue with those key verses in Philippians 3, especially verse 10 where the apostle writes that suffering together with Christ would be his life long challenge, even his calling! If that is the case, then as he writes elsewhere in 2 Corinthians in several places and in Colossians 1 where we will focus today, suffering with Christ is even better than deliverance. In fact, if the grace of Christ is sufficient even then, Paul learned that his suffering must, therefore, continue so that God in his great work through him might be glorified. For, as he writes here in Phil. 2:13, it is He who is working all things together according to His glorious will and His good pleasure. We shall also see in these verses that his example is an example that dictates the same for each of us too. For an example has no power or application practically speaking otherwise.
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51min
November 24, 2019"Paul's Letter to the Philippians — The Witness of the Apostle Paul — Sharing Christ’s Suffering Is Our Glory and Should Be Our Joy!”
In our study today and next time we will look at more of verse 10 of Philippians 3. Our primary focus today is on Paul’s words “the fellowship of his sufferings” while next time we will consider the conformation “unto his death”. Both of these constitute expressions of Paul’s testimony regarding the working of Christ’s resurrection life in him. The first we will examine today by especially taking note of what Paul writes in his second letter to the Corinthians, chapters four and six. His descriptions there of ministry using these words “alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh” stand as perhaps the greatest statement of Christ’s working in the apostle of the Gentiles. His life and ministry are set forth here as examples to us of the resurrection power of Christ. How can we not be motivated to follow or imitate Paul while reading these words?
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46min
November 19, 2019"Paul's Letter to the Philippians — The Witness of the Apostle Paul — Christ’s Resurrection Power Changed Me!”
Today we will examine further Paul’s statement in Philippians 3:10 regarding his threefold blessing in gaining his knowledge of Christ. These three focus initially on the “power of his resurrection”, or, as he writes also in this same verse, “having been made conformable unto his death”. We continue next time with this same focus since the meaning here is so precious and so powerful. But the gist of this powerful teaching is that the living out of resurrection life is dependent upon death to begin with and the apostle states it here exactly that way, “to know him and the power of his resurrection . . . having been made conformable unto his death.” We will look at a number of other scriptures showing in detail what this means, especially from his second letter to the Corinthians where he reveals himself as the witness of the resurrected life of Christ himself as that powerfully operated in him.
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53min
November 14, 2019"Paul's Letter to the Philippians — The Witness of the Apostle Paul — Losing All but Gaining Christ, Part 2”
The apostle continues in the verses before us to write concerning his heart’s desire, which is, he writes, to “win Christ”. He describes this is to summarize, not having his own righteousness which would be “of the law” and therefore of the “flesh”. But then he adds that gaining this goal will necessarily require great suffering in this life. The details of this are found in verse 10 and we will consider that today, introducing his emphasis there (unexpectantly, perhaps?) on the sufferings of Christ. Next time we will consider this co-suffering more in detail, but to introduce that, Paul in these verses identifies “knowledge” of Christ with “the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death. This is a most profound subject indeed as we shall see.
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November 14, 2019"Paul's Letter to the Philippians — The Witness of the Apostle Paul — Losing All but Gaining Christ”
Paul’s own example is now set forth as ours. He had sacrificed so much (he says “all”) for the sake of Christ and his will. Grace was now to be the overriding theme of what God was doing in this dispensation. What did he have to gain as a believer is the great question here? The answer, he writes, is “Christ”. He describes it as “winning” Christ, not having his own righteousness. He adds that this will require great suffering in this life. This suffering that he desired so greatly to share even calls “the sufferings of Christ”. Furthermore, that end, it seemed, was not guaranteed, either, for he uses the word “if” in regard to it. But that is not the end of what he writes here for he calls this high goal, for him, the highest of all, “the resurrection from the dead”. Today we will only introduce this subject for it is worthy of several studies.
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50min
October 30, 2019"Paul's Letter to the Philippians -- The Fourth Witness of the Mind of Christ is Compelling"
We have come in this magnificent letter of the Apostle Paul to the ending in the second chapter. Today we shall consider the fourth “witness” to the mind of Christ as it works itself out in the intricacies of daily living. We have already seen three witnesses revealed in Paul’s letter, Christ the greatest of all, Paul, the apostle of the Gentiles, and Timothy, Paul’s close friend and fellow worker. Now, one of the Philippian’s own is mentioned as the chapter closes, Epaphroditus. He had come to Rome to bring a gift for the support of the apostle, imprisoned in Rome and awaiting his trial which he expected to occur quite soon. But there were some issues revealed that Paul now addresses in this letter and which Epaphroditus will deliver back to his home church. Today we will consider those issues and how the apostle with great feeling and compassion addresses them. The witness of Christ and these three additional witnesses are compelling as we shall see.
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50min
October 20, 2019"Paul's Letter to the Philippians — On Seeking One’s Own”
Paul’s great exhortation in chapter 2 and verse 5 to set our minds in the right place, even to have the same mindset that Christ himself had in heaven’s glory just before the Incarnation began, remains as his focus in these verses before us today. We already saw how practical that exhortation became as Paul wrote of working out our salvation with fear and trembling knowing that it was God who was working in us for his glory. Now he uses himself and brother Timothy as examples of such a life of sacrifice for the beloved. Their full joy was his desire and his and Timothy’s testimony before them is central to his exhortation now. This focus on mutual self-sacrifice leads him now to pen these truly memorable words in verse 17: “Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.”
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46min
October 17, 2019"Paul's Letter to the Philippians — Work Out Your Own Salvation”
The verses set before us today are the focus of much teaching in the churches, much of it sadly erroneous. Those that want to impose legal restrictions on believers require works-keeping and often use verses 12 & 13 here to support that error. Salvation by faith PLUS works and not faith alone as the apostle clearly teaches is not what we find here. Rather, the apostle writes here about the “working out” of one’s salvation simply living out that redeemed life that we have received as a gift by God’s abundant grace. He mentions however the gravity of that and emphasizes it so strongly by these memorable words: “fear and trembling”. But, he is saying here, this is most appropriate considering what the exhortation here is, namely, to “let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus”. He had considered well the costs of entering into humanity in the Incarnation, and then having well considered fully, leapt boldly into the world’s stage living that life that could lead only to his death and then glorious resurrection. Should not the realization of the magnitude of God’s abundant grace towards us sinners cause such a reaction in each of us, that with fear and trembling we would live out our salvation here within the realm of his all sufficient grace? Amen.
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46min

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