EPISTLE OF THE PHILLIPPIANS

- author: Paul with Timotheus
- written in ad 61 in Rome
- it is a letter from prison
- Acts 16:12, Phillipp 1:1, Phillipp 4:10-18
- Paul releases joy to the people
- 1Cor 8:1-6 "1. Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; 2. How that in a great trial of afliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. 3. For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves; 4. Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. 5. And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God. 6. In so much that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also."
- it's great grace to be able to give
- Macedonia got grace to willingly persuade us to accept from them money
- they offered themselves first (if you do that you can offer everything)
- Phillipp 1:21 "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain"
- Phillipp 3:7 "But that things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ"
- Phillipp 4:4 "Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, rejoice"
- Phillipp 4:6-7 "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."
- Phillipp 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."
- we can be good people
- learn to acknowledge the source of the notes
- Phillipp 1:4, 6, 11, 18, 25, 26; 2:2, 5-11; 3:1; 4:1, 4, 10.
Upperview Theology Centre/ 12.05.2010