Philippians 3:1-11

We, as Christians, are designed to experience joy in this life.

But, to experience this joy, we must know the enemy of our joy

and the source of our joy.

1. The enemy of our joy

2. The source of our joy

Philippians 2:19-30

Paul is holding up Timothy and Epaphroditus as helpful models of the Christian life.

What does Paul see in them?

1. They are sensitive to others.

2. They serve Christ.

3. They are willing to sacrifice.

Philippians 2:12-18

God wants to conform us into the image of His Son, Jesus, through a process Called sanctification.

1. What sanctification is

2. How sanctification happens

3. What sanctification accomplishes

Philippians 2:1-11

Christians are called to serve, not to be served.

1. What service is

2. Why it's so hard

3. How we can find joy in it

Philippians 1:27-30

God has ordained that our actions affect the progress of the gospel.

1. How we are to act individually

2. How we are to act as a church.

3. How that affects the world.

Philippians 1:19-26

The purpose of the Christian life.

I. Why we can have a purpose

II. What that purpose is

III. The tools we have to carry it out

Paul is processing the events unfolding around him with a very different filter than the Philippian church.

1. What is Paul's filter?

2. What does this filter change in us?

3. How can we have this same filter?

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Philippians 1:1-11

The affection Paul and the Philippian church have for each other

is no ordinary affection. How can we experience the same affection

for each other here?

1. Where this affection comes from.

2. What this affection produces.

Jonah 3:10-4:11

The book of Jonah is a Gospel for older brothers.

Ch.1 & 3: God shows mercy to the humble and repentant regardless of ethnicity or wickedness.

Ch.2 & 4: God's grace to others deeply offends older brothers.