WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.359 We are our focus verses today is continuing in Philippians chapter 4. 00:00:09.120 --> 00:00:18.179 ! So if you would take out your Bibles and your markers and your highlighters and your pens, whatever needs to take notes, we're going to Bible study today. 00:00:18.420 --> 00:00:26.679 So Philippians chapter 4, and our focus is 2 through 9, which I will read momentarily. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.219 Well, let's pray first. 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:38.679 Heavenly Father, we pray now for this time that we look into your work. 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:46.120 I pray that you would speak, that we would hear you, that you get the glory. 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:48.320 In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. 00:00:49.980 --> 00:00:54.920 So I want to open up first with, before we get into our focus passage, 00:00:54.920 --> 00:01:02.740 and there's a verse I want to read to you to sort of frame our thinking on this particular passage. 00:01:02.939 --> 00:01:06.060 It's from Luke chapter 6, verse 45. 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:07.140 It says, 00:01:07.240 --> 00:01:12.320 The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, 00:01:12.460 --> 00:01:17.599 and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil. 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:22.379 For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth spees. 00:01:22.379 --> 00:01:34.280 So Paul's encouragement to us today, Paul's going to go to a place that nobody else goes. 00:01:35.039 --> 00:01:37.679 Nobody else goes in this whole world. 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:39.500 Your mind. 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:46.159 He's going to talk to us about what it is to think and to practice. 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:53.159 And so if you take this first verse and you think about our treasure, 00:01:54.079 --> 00:02:03.759 what treasure do you have that out of the abundance of the treasure in your heart, the mouth speaks? 00:02:04.479 --> 00:02:12.400 And that's what Paul's going to strike at in different ways when it comes to thinking and then practically in practice. 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:21.259 So unity, joy, gentleness, and a host of other thoughts are what we are going to look into here. 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:26.060 And on the day to day, what are your thoughts? 00:02:26.700 --> 00:02:31.960 The things that just in regular daily life, what are you thinking about? 00:02:32.040 --> 00:02:33.080 What do you focus on? 00:02:33.140 --> 00:02:34.439 What do you meditate on? 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:38.359 And where do you camp, in other words, with your thinking? 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:45.060 Consider your inner treasure and your thoughts will follow and your actions also. 00:02:45.359 --> 00:02:48.419 So let's read Philippians 4, 2 through 9. 00:02:52.139 --> 00:02:55.659 Starts off with two ladies' names I'm going to mispronounce over and over. 00:02:55.900 --> 00:02:57.400 So I just want you to understand that. 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:03.620 I urge Yodia and I urge Syntyche to agree in the Lord. 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:10.480 Yes, I also ask you, true partner, to help these women who have contended for the gospel at my side, 00:03:10.900 --> 00:03:16.099 along with Clement and the rest of my co-workers, whose names are in the book of life. 00:03:17.099 --> 00:03:19.259 Rejoice in the Lord always. 00:03:20.379 --> 00:03:21.759 I will say it again. 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:22.879 Rejoice. 00:03:23.040 --> 00:03:26.460 Let your graciousness be known to everyone. 00:03:26.460 --> 00:03:28.000 The Lord is near. 00:03:28.740 --> 00:03:33.260 Don't worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition, 00:03:33.939 --> 00:03:37.319 with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. 00:03:37.980 --> 00:03:41.120 And the peace of God, which surpasses every thought, 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:45.060 will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 00:03:45.480 --> 00:03:48.640 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, 00:03:49.379 --> 00:03:52.760 whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, 00:03:53.640 --> 00:03:54.800 whatever is commendable, 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:59.600 if there's any moral excellence and if there is any praise, 00:04:00.100 --> 00:04:01.840 dwell on these things. 00:04:02.480 --> 00:04:05.860 Do what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, 00:04:06.020 --> 00:04:08.160 and the God of peace will be with you. 00:04:08.700 --> 00:04:10.080 Now, I'm reading this out of 00:04:10.939 --> 00:04:12.300 Holman, 00:04:13.140 --> 00:04:13.939 our 00:04:13.939 --> 00:04:16.400 CSB, Christian Standard. 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:18.219 So it's a little bit different. 00:04:18.299 --> 00:04:20.699 If you're an ESV, there's a couple of those words that are different. 00:04:20.699 --> 00:04:24.199 And there's very familiar wording in here, 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:27.099 like the peace of God passes all. 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:28.519 Understand. 00:04:28.939 --> 00:04:33.179 Like that's one that we know and rejoice in the Lord always. 00:04:33.379 --> 00:04:35.379 That's another one that we are very familiar with. 00:04:35.379 --> 00:04:41.459 So we're going to dive into these things and see if we can understand a little bit more of what Paul's talking about. 00:04:42.459 --> 00:04:44.620 The first thing is verses two and three. 00:04:44.779 --> 00:04:47.459 We have Iodia and Sintch. 00:04:48.740 --> 00:04:50.839 And these two ladies, 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:54.500 I've got some thoughts about this that I want to bring out. 00:04:54.500 --> 00:04:58.879 Now, this there is I just want to say this particular passage, 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:01.759 as many of these is so rich. 00:05:02.899 --> 00:05:06.199 We're only going to scratch the surface on some of these ideas. 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:10.339 But I just want to draw a couple of these things out to discuss today. 00:05:11.060 --> 00:05:12.259 And so these two ladies, 00:05:12.339 --> 00:05:13.519 if we look back at two and three, 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:17.560 I urge Iodia and I urge Sintch to agree in the Lord, 00:05:17.660 --> 00:05:18.839 to agree in the Lord. 00:05:19.019 --> 00:05:20.199 So they are disagreeing. 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:22.160 There's a problem. 00:05:22.339 --> 00:05:24.120 There's something going on between them. 00:05:24.500 --> 00:05:25.740 We're not sure exactly. 00:05:25.819 --> 00:05:26.600 It's not specific. 00:05:26.699 --> 00:05:28.759 It doesn't tell us what we do know. 00:05:29.500 --> 00:05:30.620 Let's look at verse three. 00:05:31.259 --> 00:05:31.540 Yes. 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:32.680 I also ask you, 00:05:32.819 --> 00:05:33.339 true partner, 00:05:33.339 --> 00:05:36.899 to help these women who have contended for the gospel at my side, 00:05:37.339 --> 00:05:39.500 along with Clement and the rest of my coworkers, 00:05:40.120 --> 00:05:42.240 whose names are in the book of life. 00:05:43.100 --> 00:05:44.300 So these two ladies, 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:48.319 they they have contended in the gospel with Paul. 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:52.899 They've worked together at one point because they were working with Paul. 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:53.720 They were a group. 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:56.840 So they were side by side with each other as well. 00:05:58.340 --> 00:06:01.500 They were faithfully working together. 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:04.720 Their names are written in the book of life. 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:06.440 These are two believing women. 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:07.720 They're, 00:06:07.780 --> 00:06:12.180 they're two people in the church who trust in Jesus, 00:06:12.180 --> 00:06:14.920 who believe in the gospel, 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:16.720 who have worked in the gospel. 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:19.760 And now they have sinned. 00:06:20.340 --> 00:06:21.100 And what that has, 00:06:21.220 --> 00:06:21.740 what, 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:25.040 what that has left them with is disunity. 00:06:25.500 --> 00:06:27.500 There's disunity between them. 00:06:27.500 --> 00:06:31.660 So the first thing, 00:06:31.660 --> 00:06:35.000 first thought from this is that quote unquote, 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:37.259 good people fail. 00:06:37.620 --> 00:06:38.600 We fail. 00:06:38.980 --> 00:06:39.740 We sin. 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:40.800 Uh, 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:41.540 we will, 00:06:41.660 --> 00:06:42.339 um, 00:06:42.339 --> 00:06:47.279 we will cross our brothers and sisters from time to time. 00:06:47.819 --> 00:06:48.299 Um, 00:06:48.379 --> 00:06:49.159 we will, 00:06:49.159 --> 00:06:52.019 we will sin against the Lord. 00:06:52.859 --> 00:06:53.899 This happens. 00:06:54.060 --> 00:06:54.719 We do this. 00:06:55.379 --> 00:06:55.699 Um, 00:06:56.019 --> 00:06:56.319 they, 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:58.199 we look back at this, 00:06:58.319 --> 00:06:59.879 at this first century church. 00:06:59.879 --> 00:07:01.759 And sometimes we, 00:07:02.019 --> 00:07:02.300 uh, 00:07:02.300 --> 00:07:02.699 uh, 00:07:02.699 --> 00:07:03.680 you know, 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:04.719 not, 00:07:04.839 --> 00:07:06.959 not in a real way, 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:08.839 but we kind of feel like how, 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:10.719 if Paul was your pastor, 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:13.439 which he was very close to them for a time. 00:07:13.959 --> 00:07:14.279 Uh, 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:15.159 if Paul was your pastor, 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:17.600 it seems like everybody would be almost perfect. 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:19.579 Like they would just be like super Christians. 00:07:19.819 --> 00:07:20.300 No, 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:22.540 they sin just like everybody else. 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:23.459 We all do. 00:07:23.699 --> 00:07:24.879 And that happens. 00:07:25.379 --> 00:07:26.259 Second thing. 00:07:27.860 --> 00:07:28.839 And this is, 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:33.359 this is where the problem occurs is they haven't stopped. 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:35.219 They sin, 00:07:35.699 --> 00:07:37.319 but they have not stopped. 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:38.819 Um, 00:07:39.219 --> 00:07:43.299 now at this point in this letter to the Philippians, 00:07:43.539 --> 00:07:48.539 they're singled out as they rightfully should be by somebody, 00:07:48.659 --> 00:07:49.259 by, 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:51.000 by somebody faithful. 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:56.899 They should be singled out as two people who are unrepentant because the 00:07:56.899 --> 00:07:58.419 disunity continues. 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:02.659 Because what Seth was talking about before our, 00:08:02.659 --> 00:08:04.599 our time of Lord supper, 00:08:04.599 --> 00:08:06.959 they did not reconcile. 00:08:08.039 --> 00:08:10.560 And now Paul is calling them out. 00:08:11.679 --> 00:08:11.939 And, 00:08:11.979 --> 00:08:12.279 uh, 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:19.079 not addressing those issues between themselves as grown legs. 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:21.519 And the church feels it. 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:27.479 The people around them feel this disunity between these two women. 00:08:27.979 --> 00:08:30.479 Their families probably feel it. 00:08:31.979 --> 00:08:33.939 And Paul was in Rome. 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:40.299 So this word has traveled all the miles to Rome. 00:08:40.299 --> 00:08:42.779 And now Paul feels this as well. 00:08:44.779 --> 00:08:46.279 Where was their treasure? 00:08:47.659 --> 00:08:48.559 These women, 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:54.399 the treasure in their heart at that moment was in their own thinking. 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:57.779 It was in their own sense of justice. 00:08:57.779 --> 00:09:04.319 It was in their own sense of who's right and who's wrong of what I want and not 00:09:04.319 --> 00:09:06.240 what someone else, 00:09:06.980 --> 00:09:07.399 uh, 00:09:07.500 --> 00:09:10.120 where I should consider them more significant going back to, 00:09:10.220 --> 00:09:11.259 to, 00:09:11.340 --> 00:09:11.539 uh, 00:09:11.539 --> 00:09:12.259 chapter two. 00:09:12.259 --> 00:09:18.580 So the first thing people say, 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:20.120 second thing, 00:09:20.580 --> 00:09:23.799 stop before it continues. 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:24.480 Repent, 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:26.039 confess, 00:09:26.439 --> 00:09:26.819 stop. 00:09:27.379 --> 00:09:31.639 Third thing is they kind of fell on the wrong side of history. 00:09:32.340 --> 00:09:33.139 In other words, 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:34.899 what are you known for? 00:09:34.899 --> 00:09:36.939 If we put ourselves in this position, 00:09:37.259 --> 00:09:39.159 in this same thinking. 00:09:40.659 --> 00:09:41.879 So the first thing, 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:42.319 like, 00:09:42.379 --> 00:09:42.600 uh, 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:45.620 if I could sum up what Paul is saying is ladies, 00:09:45.779 --> 00:09:46.179 repent, 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:47.799 ladies, 00:09:47.959 --> 00:09:48.379 repent. 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:50.139 Don't let this go on. 00:09:51.819 --> 00:09:52.899 My companion. 00:09:53.299 --> 00:09:53.699 Look at, 00:09:53.699 --> 00:09:53.919 uh, 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:54.459 verse three. 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:55.779 Yes. 00:09:55.799 --> 00:10:01.220 I also ask you true partner or true companion. 00:10:01.340 --> 00:10:01.819 I think he has, 00:10:01.819 --> 00:10:03.399 he has companion there. 00:10:03.939 --> 00:10:04.299 Um, 00:10:04.299 --> 00:10:07.139 this is an interesting little thing. 00:10:07.299 --> 00:10:08.539 The word there, 00:10:08.539 --> 00:10:10.659 and I'm going to mispronounce this one too. 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:11.399 It's a Greek word, 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:11.719 but, 00:10:11.719 --> 00:10:12.359 uh, 00:10:12.419 --> 00:10:15.359 syzygous is the word there, 00:10:15.359 --> 00:10:19.099 which means companion or yoke fellow, 00:10:19.099 --> 00:10:19.639 uh, 00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:21.419 someone who goes along with, 00:10:21.419 --> 00:10:22.419 um, 00:10:22.479 --> 00:10:23.079 and the, 00:10:23.079 --> 00:10:25.879 the actual text says, 00:10:25.879 --> 00:10:28.979 uses that word syzygous. 00:10:29.659 --> 00:10:33.379 And there are a couple of different ideas of who this person is. 00:10:33.379 --> 00:10:36.039 Number one is a person named syzygous. 00:10:36.840 --> 00:10:37.320 Uh, 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:38.279 like that's his name. 00:10:38.340 --> 00:10:39.120 He was named, 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:39.679 uh, 00:10:39.860 --> 00:10:40.059 uh, 00:10:40.059 --> 00:10:44.740 that kind of like someone would be named hope or faith or something like that. 00:10:44.740 --> 00:10:48.740 This person might've been named companion or yoke fellow. 00:10:48.740 --> 00:10:49.940 Um, 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:51.519 that's a possibility. 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:51.799 Um, 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:51.560 that's a possibility. 00:10:51.560 --> 00:10:52.379 The other one, 00:10:52.460 --> 00:10:55.840 maybe Paul is talking to the pastor or, 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:56.100 or, 00:10:56.100 --> 00:10:57.840 or a specific elder, 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:00.759 maybe that was close to these two women. 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:01.960 And, 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:02.360 uh, 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:02.820 he was, 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:04.440 he was referencing that person. 00:11:04.580 --> 00:11:05.000 Hey, 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:06.060 will you help here? 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:08.600 Will you help them in what's going on? 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:10.759 That's another possibility. 00:11:10.980 --> 00:11:13.600 Or maybe there was just an obvious person in the group, 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:15.000 uh, 00:11:15.139 --> 00:11:15.500 that, 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:16.180 that had, 00:11:16.300 --> 00:11:18.740 that was working with them in some capacity. 00:11:18.940 --> 00:11:19.500 And he, 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:20.440 and he sort of, 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:21.379 uh, 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:21.879 said, 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:22.180 Hey, 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:23.040 will you, 00:11:23.259 --> 00:11:27.639 will you take time and give them the help that they need to get through this, 00:11:27.639 --> 00:11:28.540 uh, 00:11:29.139 --> 00:11:30.680 difference that they have in their life? 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:35.219 So either way, 00:11:35.500 --> 00:11:38.120 he asked for help from that person. 00:11:38.459 --> 00:11:44.859 And the pastoral heart of Paul really comes across in what he's saying here. 00:11:44.979 --> 00:11:46.159 If you look at it, 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:47.299 verse two, 00:11:47.779 --> 00:11:50.219 I urge or I entreat. 00:11:50.899 --> 00:11:53.539 I urge or I entreat. 00:11:54.099 --> 00:11:56.120 Sintage agree in the Lord. 00:11:56.899 --> 00:11:58.699 These are two people that Paul cared about. 00:11:58.700 --> 00:12:01.040 And each he, 00:12:01.140 --> 00:12:02.660 he spoke to each of them. 00:12:03.580 --> 00:12:04.080 This, 00:12:04.220 --> 00:12:08.800 this is what I encourage you to do because I love you. 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:10.240 We work together. 00:12:10.580 --> 00:12:11.100 We, 00:12:11.379 --> 00:12:13.960 we serve together and this is not good. 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:14.600 What's happening. 00:12:15.060 --> 00:12:16.400 So each of you, 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:18.980 I want to speak to each of you here. 00:12:19.640 --> 00:12:20.080 Um, 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:21.020 so you hear that, 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:22.080 you hear that shepherding, 00:12:22.160 --> 00:12:25.780 you hear that pastoral heart that Paul has, 00:12:25.779 --> 00:12:29.519 and then bringing in this other person to help them even further. 00:12:30.259 --> 00:12:31.079 Pretty cool. 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:34.980 But we know nothing else of these two women, 00:12:35.379 --> 00:12:39.480 except for their names are now in scripture. 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:47.340 The only thing that we possess physically that will go on eternity. 00:12:48.340 --> 00:12:52.180 Their names are in it as being unrepentant sinners. 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:55.320 That's tough. 00:12:55.539 --> 00:12:56.320 That is tough. 00:12:56.320 --> 00:13:01.620 Not what I would want to be named for in scripture. 00:13:03.140 --> 00:13:06.420 But I'm sure that we don't know how it worked out, 00:13:06.500 --> 00:13:09.060 but I'm sure that this letter, 00:13:09.379 --> 00:13:09.800 uh, 00:13:09.800 --> 00:13:10.879 if they hadn't already, 00:13:10.879 --> 00:13:12.500 I'm sure this helped. 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:13.620 And they, 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:14.000 they, 00:13:14.280 --> 00:13:16.240 I'm sure were able to work this out. 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:17.200 Um, 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:19.759 but they wouldn't, 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:20.539 unfortunately, 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:22.000 up until this point, 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:23.639 let go of their own thinking. 00:13:24.100 --> 00:13:29.320 And this led to broken unity in practice. 00:13:29.899 --> 00:13:30.980 Their hearts, 00:13:31.180 --> 00:13:31.840 their minds, 00:13:31.980 --> 00:13:34.879 their thinking led to the broken unity in practice. 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:37.299 So we see how that works out. 00:13:37.820 --> 00:13:38.340 Um, 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:42.139 and they are forever chiseled into the word of God. 00:13:42.139 --> 00:13:42.200 Uh, 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:44.200 a similar example. 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:47.180 Jar Jar Binks. 00:13:50.420 --> 00:13:54.759 Now you understand it is May the 4th today. 00:13:55.879 --> 00:13:56.140 So, 00:13:56.460 --> 00:13:56.860 uh, 00:13:57.340 --> 00:13:57.800 you know, 00:13:58.259 --> 00:13:59.340 anyway, 00:13:59.580 --> 00:14:03.540 Jar Jar Binks was a mistake, 00:14:03.860 --> 00:14:04.180 right? 00:14:04.520 --> 00:14:05.000 This, 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:06.180 this was a problem. 00:14:06.640 --> 00:14:10.400 And we know that because episode two, 00:14:10.400 --> 00:14:11.400 uh, 00:14:11.500 --> 00:14:13.000 Jar Jar had like one line, 00:14:13.400 --> 00:14:14.100 right? 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:17.600 And he was the comedy relief and everything in the first one. 00:14:17.800 --> 00:14:21.220 Now Lucas won't come out and admit that he made a mistake. 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:22.840 He still tries to make excuses, 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:26.759 but he did have a much smaller part intentionally. 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:29.259 So we, 00:14:29.460 --> 00:14:30.560 it's sort of in a, 00:14:30.560 --> 00:14:31.920 in a similar way, 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:32.680 though, 00:14:32.940 --> 00:14:38.940 episode one will go down in perpetuity as having this problem. 00:14:38.940 --> 00:14:40.320 Of Jar Jar Binks. 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:40.920 Uh, 00:14:42.440 --> 00:14:44.000 anyway, 00:14:44.160 --> 00:14:44.780 I wanted to share, 00:14:44.980 --> 00:14:46.740 there may be more Star Wars references. 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:47.400 I don't know. 00:14:48.280 --> 00:14:48.540 Uh, 00:14:48.580 --> 00:14:48.780 here, 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:49.840 anyway, 00:14:50.100 --> 00:14:52.800 let's think about with this, 00:14:53.140 --> 00:14:53.300 with, 00:14:53.520 --> 00:14:56.240 with these two ladies and what happened here. 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:59.940 I think about us and I don't know. 00:14:59.940 --> 00:15:04.220 I don't think there is any fighting or, 00:15:04.220 --> 00:15:08.580 or disunity in this sense among our group. 00:15:09.220 --> 00:15:11.020 I don't know of anything like that. 00:15:11.260 --> 00:15:12.320 Probably you don't either. 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:19.020 But what I would say is remembering where this disunity started, 00:15:19.560 --> 00:15:23.980 started in their minds and in their hearts, 00:15:24.500 --> 00:15:28.840 treasuring something other than Jesus, 00:15:29.940 --> 00:15:30.780 one another, 00:15:31.460 --> 00:15:32.280 and his word. 00:15:32.820 --> 00:15:33.960 That's where it started. 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:35.360 Now, 00:15:35.560 --> 00:15:45.600 what can be true of us today is that disunity can be there right now. 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:57.920 The seeds of what led to this problem practically and in practice can be there today in one of our hearts or multiple of us. 00:15:57.919 --> 00:16:09.439 I think this is the caution that we take from looking at these two ladies and how that worked out in the church is we have to say, 00:16:09.860 --> 00:16:10.099 okay, 00:16:10.299 --> 00:16:15.939 if any of those type of disunity issues come up in my heart, 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:18.379 that's got to get squashed. 00:16:19.059 --> 00:16:21.259 That must be repented of, 00:16:21.899 --> 00:16:23.860 like we talked about this morning, 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:24.339 Seth did. 00:16:24.340 --> 00:16:27.980 That must be repented of and dealt with right away. 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:30.300 What does that look like? 00:16:30.420 --> 00:16:30.560 Well, 00:16:31.379 --> 00:16:32.200 disagreements, 00:16:32.379 --> 00:16:35.240 things where I have to have my way. 00:16:35.920 --> 00:16:38.660 This has to go the way I think it should go. 00:16:39.040 --> 00:16:41.440 I don't care what anybody else thinks. 00:16:47.139 --> 00:16:48.340 Breeds disunity. 00:16:49.500 --> 00:16:50.720 It breeds disunity. 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:52.800 Well, 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:53.379 let's go on. 00:16:54.340 --> 00:16:56.840 What does Paul talk about next? 00:16:57.019 --> 00:16:57.519 Verse four. 00:17:00.220 --> 00:17:01.100 He says, 00:17:01.340 --> 00:17:02.440 rejoice in the Lord. 00:17:02.560 --> 00:17:03.080 Always. 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:04.500 I will say it again. 00:17:05.180 --> 00:17:05.700 Rejoice. 00:17:05.819 --> 00:17:09.200 Let your graciousness or gentleness or, 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:09.799 uh, 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:10.759 reasonableness. 00:17:10.759 --> 00:17:13.779 I think also is one that's used there. 00:17:14.259 --> 00:17:14.860 Um, 00:17:15.100 --> 00:17:20.539 let your graciousness or gentleness be known to everyone. 00:17:20.779 --> 00:17:22.059 The Lord is near. 00:17:22.059 --> 00:17:25.319 Don't worry about anything, 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:29.500 but in everything through prayer and petition with Thanksgiving, 00:17:29.500 --> 00:17:33.759 let your requests be made known to God and the peace of God, 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:36.599 which surpasses every thought. 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:37.599 I like that. 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:37.619 I like that. 00:17:37.619 --> 00:17:38.699 This particular, 00:17:38.699 --> 00:17:38.699 00:17:38.699 --> 00:17:40.019 the CSB on that, 00:17:40.579 --> 00:17:46.159 that surpasses every thought will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:47.200 So, 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:50.160 rejoice always. 00:17:50.660 --> 00:17:52.560 Rejoice in the Lord. 00:17:53.560 --> 00:17:54.240 Always. 00:17:54.840 --> 00:18:01.240 This type of rejoicing is what makes all circumstances to rejoice in possible. 00:18:01.779 --> 00:18:01.980 The, 00:18:02.100 --> 00:18:03.440 in the Lord. 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:05.720 that's what makes it possible. 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:12.180 Not rejoicing in a thing or a situation because those change, 00:18:12.180 --> 00:18:14.600 a new job or, 00:18:14.600 --> 00:18:15.500 uh, 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:17.000 a new house or, 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:17.860 um, 00:18:17.860 --> 00:18:18.759 a new relationship, 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:19.460 things like that. 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:20.340 Those things, 00:18:20.460 --> 00:18:20.880 uh, 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:25.400 rise and fall because we can move from that house. 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:26.799 We can lose that job. 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:27.220 We can, 00:18:27.220 --> 00:18:28.080 uh, 00:18:28.360 --> 00:18:28.820 uh, 00:18:29.100 --> 00:18:29.700 separate, 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:30.100 you know, 00:18:30.099 --> 00:18:32.139 across the miles from a relationship. 00:18:32.139 --> 00:18:34.219 Those things will always change, 00:18:34.219 --> 00:18:38.119 but joy in the Lord, 00:18:38.419 --> 00:18:41.799 rejoicing in the Lord will not in his goodness, 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:43.000 in his power, 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:44.539 in his provision. 00:18:45.099 --> 00:18:49.559 These are all the things that elevate our thinking beyond the now, 00:18:50.639 --> 00:18:51.259 beyond the, 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:52.619 what happens to me right now? 00:18:52.639 --> 00:18:54.559 How do I feel right now? 00:18:55.899 --> 00:18:57.719 When it's in the Lord, 00:18:57.839 --> 00:18:59.980 I can elevate beyond that. 00:19:00.099 --> 00:19:03.119 And I don't worry about what I'm thinking or, 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:03.839 uh, 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:04.240 how I, 00:19:04.339 --> 00:19:05.000 how I should say, 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:06.679 how I feel about something, 00:19:06.679 --> 00:19:07.859 uh, 00:19:08.139 --> 00:19:10.539 because I'm trusting in him. 00:19:10.659 --> 00:19:15.839 The circumstance does not determine our heart's orientation. 00:19:16.639 --> 00:19:19.419 And this goes back to what do we treasure? 00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:22.339 If I treasure my, 00:19:22.679 --> 00:19:23.119 the way, 00:19:23.219 --> 00:19:23.639 uh, 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:24.199 I, 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:25.259 uh, 00:19:25.339 --> 00:19:30.079 am comfortable and feel in creature comforts and things like that, 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:31.319 um, 00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:31.319 00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:31.819 um, 00:19:31.819 --> 00:19:32.639 then, 00:19:32.639 --> 00:19:32.759 uh, 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:33.759 uh, 00:19:34.099 --> 00:19:33.819 uh, 00:19:33.819 --> 00:19:34.399 uh, 00:19:34.399 --> 00:19:35.859 I may treasure, 00:19:35.859 --> 00:19:37.199 um, 00:19:37.199 --> 00:19:41.179 my air conditioning when it's hot. 00:19:41.179 --> 00:19:42.720 And if I lose it, 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:45.159 maybe then I lose it, 00:19:45.159 --> 00:19:46.559 right? 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:56.899 If that's what I treasure is my comfortability rather than rejoice in the Lord always and deal with things on his level, 00:19:56.899 --> 00:19:58.259 uh, 00:19:58.259 --> 00:20:02.619 especially things that are my circumstance that are outside of my control. 00:20:02.619 --> 00:20:07.239 So I can rejoice in light of past sins. 00:20:07.399 --> 00:20:10.099 Let's look at a couple of different verses here in Philippians, 00:20:10.159 --> 00:20:10.979 in the book of Philippians. 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:11.919 Um, 00:20:11.919 --> 00:20:15.159 so Paul rejoiced even in, 00:20:15.159 --> 00:20:15.599 uh, 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:17.379 recounting his, 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:20.279 his previous poor behavior. 00:20:20.399 --> 00:20:21.459 Look at chapter three, 00:20:21.539 --> 00:20:22.079 verse four. 00:20:24.659 --> 00:20:25.719 He says, 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:28.779 although I once had confidence in the flesh too, 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:31.819 the flesh isn't where we put our confidence, 00:20:31.980 --> 00:20:32.180 right? 00:20:32.980 --> 00:20:34.779 But he once had that. 00:20:35.259 --> 00:20:38.200 If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:38.980 I have more. 00:20:39.100 --> 00:20:51.460 And then he went on to talk about all the different areas that he put his confidence and trust in himself and what he did and his works and those kind of things. 00:20:51.460 --> 00:20:53.460 Sinful, 00:20:54.620 --> 00:20:55.220 sinful, 00:20:55.340 --> 00:20:58.160 not trusting in God in those occasions, 00:20:58.680 --> 00:20:59.240 which is, 00:21:00.140 --> 00:21:00.460 uh, 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:01.579 where's our treasure. 00:21:02.299 --> 00:21:07.539 Second thing is we can rejoice in light of troubling situation with friends or, 00:21:07.539 --> 00:21:08.700 or different troubles. 00:21:08.840 --> 00:21:09.680 Look at chapter one, 00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:10.600 verse 29. 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:14.779 For it's been given to you on Christ's behalf, 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:16.019 not only to believe in him, 00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:18.519 but also to suffer for him. 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:24.220 Having the same struggle that you saw I had and now hear about me. 00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:28.779 He's telling his friends and his church family and these, 00:21:28.920 --> 00:21:30.279 these people that are dear to him, 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:32.940 that suffering is on the horizon. 00:21:33.460 --> 00:21:35.139 It's going to be that way, 00:21:35.579 --> 00:21:37.900 but rejoice anyway, 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:39.839 rejoice anyway. 00:21:41.879 --> 00:21:42.400 Third, 00:21:42.500 --> 00:21:45.000 we can rejoice in light of personal suffering. 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:47.460 If you look back at chapter one and verse 14, 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:51.160 he mentions this in different occasions, 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:53.880 but we know that verse 14, 00:21:54.119 --> 00:22:01.299 most of the brothers in the Lord have gained confidence for my imprisonment and dare even more to speak the message fearlessly. 00:22:01.940 --> 00:22:04.000 So there we hear his imprisonment. 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:06.920 We hear his life situation, 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:08.500 which obviously isn't good, 00:22:08.500 --> 00:22:12.339 but he's also giving reason, 00:22:12.339 --> 00:22:16.019 how he trusts in the Lord and what he's seeing from that fruit. 00:22:16.579 --> 00:22:16.960 So, 00:22:17.220 --> 00:22:17.539 uh, 00:22:18.180 --> 00:22:21.180 any situation that we are in, 00:22:21.180 --> 00:22:22.119 uh, 00:22:22.200 --> 00:22:25.339 fruit of righteousness in any of these situations, 00:22:25.339 --> 00:22:26.779 the fruit of righteousness, 00:22:26.900 --> 00:22:27.119 uh, 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:27.839 of rejoicing, 00:22:27.900 --> 00:22:28.119 I'm sorry, 00:22:28.119 --> 00:22:29.639 in the Lord. 00:22:31.339 --> 00:22:32.279 And not, 00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:38.299 not just a faking of happy or rejoicing or something like that. 00:22:38.739 --> 00:22:39.099 Um, 00:22:39.139 --> 00:22:40.279 but the actual joy, 00:22:41.199 --> 00:22:42.000 Galatians 5, 00:22:42.059 --> 00:22:42.539 22, 00:22:43.299 --> 00:22:45.879 joy is the fruit of this. 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:47.239 If we are in the Lord, 00:22:47.239 --> 00:22:48.319 uh, 00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:51.239 and joy is not just a face that's put on. 00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:53.220 It's not just, 00:22:53.220 --> 00:22:53.660 uh, 00:22:53.660 --> 00:22:54.059 uh, 00:22:54.539 --> 00:22:54.960 a, 00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:55.460 uh, 00:22:55.460 --> 00:22:56.900 a smile, 00:22:57.319 --> 00:22:58.240 a happy face, 00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:03.660 just trying to make everybody else think that everything is fine and good. 00:23:06.039 --> 00:23:08.079 Actual joy is different. 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:10.599 It doesn't lack energy. 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:12.400 Uh, 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:13.359 when, 00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:13.880 when we, 00:23:14.039 --> 00:23:16.859 when we try to pretend joy, 00:23:16.859 --> 00:23:18.940 or when we try to put on something, 00:23:19.559 --> 00:23:20.940 this joy is just an example. 00:23:20.940 --> 00:23:21.340 I mean, 00:23:21.360 --> 00:23:23.740 this kind of works with any other fruit of the spirit as well. 00:23:23.740 --> 00:23:27.320 But when we try to put things on that aren't true, 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:32.700 it zaps our energy because then we have to work so hard to look a certain way. 00:23:33.460 --> 00:23:35.000 And that is transparent. 00:23:35.320 --> 00:23:36.640 And we lose that. 00:23:37.259 --> 00:23:37.340 We, 00:23:37.480 --> 00:23:37.759 we, 00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:41.420 our energy just drains from us. 00:23:44.420 --> 00:23:46.820 And then frustration and anger and, 00:23:46.900 --> 00:23:49.680 and maybe that's what happened to you at the instant. 00:23:50.940 --> 00:23:51.740 I don't know. 00:23:51.740 --> 00:23:52.759 It's possible. 00:23:56.140 --> 00:23:59.240 True joy also comes with God's perspective. 00:23:59.980 --> 00:24:00.559 So it'll, 00:24:01.059 --> 00:24:01.279 uh, 00:24:01.279 --> 00:24:02.320 the scriptural, 00:24:02.620 --> 00:24:03.460 encouraging, 00:24:03.900 --> 00:24:06.740 pure perspective of what God says, 00:24:06.740 --> 00:24:09.080 that will be a part of joy, 00:24:09.279 --> 00:24:10.960 not just a simple, 00:24:11.140 --> 00:24:11.539 happy, 00:24:12.080 --> 00:24:12.460 uh, 00:24:12.460 --> 00:24:13.740 or smiley face. 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:15.819 He says, 00:24:15.900 --> 00:24:16.360 rejoice. 00:24:17.079 --> 00:24:19.360 And I will keep on saying rejoice. 00:24:19.500 --> 00:24:20.380 If you look back at, 00:24:20.440 --> 00:24:20.740 uh, 00:24:21.340 --> 00:24:21.860 verse four, 00:24:21.960 --> 00:24:22.759 rejoice in the Lord. 00:24:23.259 --> 00:24:23.860 Always. 00:24:24.259 --> 00:24:25.759 I will say it again. 00:24:25.759 --> 00:24:27.039 And the, 00:24:27.039 --> 00:24:27.740 the will, 00:24:27.740 --> 00:24:28.720 there's like an ongoing, 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:33.579 like I'm going to keep on saying it because we need to keep on rejoicing. 00:24:34.059 --> 00:24:37.279 The circumstances keep changing our life. 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:38.240 Uh, 00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:42.920 we need this reminder over and over and over because, 00:24:42.920 --> 00:24:43.920 uh, 00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:45.240 circumstances change. 00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:48.819 Rejoice because your name is written in the book of life. 00:24:48.819 --> 00:24:53.839 As he told these ladies and Clement and the rest of the workers, 00:24:54.179 --> 00:24:56.639 what a thing to rejoice about. 00:24:58.220 --> 00:24:59.279 Ever think about that. 00:25:00.059 --> 00:25:06.740 Ever think about your name as a believer in Jesus written in the book of life. 00:25:07.379 --> 00:25:08.740 It's there right now. 00:25:09.639 --> 00:25:10.159 Your name, 00:25:10.519 --> 00:25:10.740 man, 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:11.720 it's incredible. 00:25:13.159 --> 00:25:17.200 So it's an ongoing command from Paul and he's going to continue to say, 00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:20.420 and then he says, 00:25:20.799 --> 00:25:23.200 verse five, 00:25:23.980 --> 00:25:27.279 let your gentleness be known to everyone. 00:25:28.160 --> 00:25:30.259 Let your gentleness be known to everyone. 00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:31.200 As I said, 00:25:31.360 --> 00:25:34.960 reasonableness you may have in your Bible or graciousness in the, 00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:41.740 and there's actually this particular word covers a lot of different words. 00:25:41.860 --> 00:25:43.640 There's a lot of different translations. 00:25:43.819 --> 00:25:44.620 And they're just some of the, 00:25:44.700 --> 00:25:45.840 of the most common. 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:46.939 Um, 00:25:47.179 --> 00:25:47.939 gentleness. 00:25:48.939 --> 00:25:49.500 Really. 00:25:49.500 --> 00:25:50.059 Uh, 00:25:50.059 --> 00:25:50.659 I liked, 00:25:51.019 --> 00:25:51.359 and, 00:25:51.459 --> 00:25:51.799 uh, 00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:54.500 it was a translation that I really appreciate. 00:25:55.259 --> 00:25:55.659 Um, 00:25:55.859 --> 00:25:59.379 the idea of gentleness. 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:02.799 Second Corinthians 10. 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:04.599 One said, 00:26:04.699 --> 00:26:04.939 uh, 00:26:04.939 --> 00:26:05.559 says I, 00:26:05.759 --> 00:26:11.399 Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ. 00:26:11.400 --> 00:26:14.120 The gentleness of Christ. 00:26:14.500 --> 00:26:15.400 Matthew 11, 00:26:15.500 --> 00:26:15.900 29, 00:26:15.900 --> 00:26:19.900 take my yoke upon you and learn from me. 00:26:20.060 --> 00:26:21.140 Jesus says, 00:26:21.280 --> 00:26:24.920 for I am gentle and lowly in heart, 00:26:24.920 --> 00:26:26.880 and you will find rest for your souls. 00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:28.420 Jesus says, 00:26:28.420 --> 00:26:31.380 learn from me in gentleness. 00:26:34.280 --> 00:26:36.040 And Paul says in our, 00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:37.020 in our verse here, 00:26:37.100 --> 00:26:39.200 make this known to all people, 00:26:39.200 --> 00:26:41.000 not just the brothers, 00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:42.740 not just the people in the church, 00:26:42.740 --> 00:26:45.620 make it known to all people, 00:26:45.620 --> 00:26:47.160 wherever you go, 00:26:47.640 --> 00:26:48.880 wherever you find yourself, 00:26:49.020 --> 00:26:49.860 whatever you're doing. 00:26:49.859 --> 00:26:52.419 Philippians 2, 00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:53.639 14 and 15. 00:26:57.059 --> 00:27:00.639 Do everything without grumbling and arguing. 00:27:02.719 --> 00:27:15.000 So that you may be blameless and pure children of God who are faultless in a crooked and perverted generation among whom you shine like stars in the world. 00:27:15.859 --> 00:27:19.579 Let your gentleness be known before all people. 00:27:19.859 --> 00:27:23.439 And shine like stars in the world. 00:27:24.519 --> 00:27:25.579 That picture, 00:27:25.899 --> 00:27:30.500 I really held on to that this week in, 00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:31.439 in studying this, 00:27:31.500 --> 00:27:31.659 just, 00:27:31.759 --> 00:27:32.519 just that thought, 00:27:32.979 --> 00:27:36.219 let my gentleness be known to all people, 00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:36.619 you know, 00:27:36.899 --> 00:27:37.839 combining that with, 00:27:37.959 --> 00:27:40.319 with the consider others more significant, 00:27:40.459 --> 00:27:41.159 those kinds of things. 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:43.740 But I found myself just sort of repeating this. 00:27:43.740 --> 00:27:45.200 And also another phrase I'll, 00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:45.880 I'll talk about, 00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:51.660 but this was one of the areas as you prep for lessons like this, 00:27:51.980 --> 00:27:54.420 like God just sort of gives you certain things, 00:27:54.420 --> 00:27:54.840 you know, 00:27:54.880 --> 00:27:56.380 in the study. 00:27:56.380 --> 00:27:57.740 And this was one of them for me. 00:27:58.240 --> 00:28:00.359 And so I just can't drive that dry. 00:28:00.500 --> 00:28:04.500 I drive a lot to go in different places and stuff and meet with different folks, 00:28:04.579 --> 00:28:05.539 a lot of seniors. 00:28:05.700 --> 00:28:08.019 I was a senior building and, 00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:09.819 but I was driving there and I was just thinking, 00:28:09.980 --> 00:28:12.940 let my gentleness be known to all people, 00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:13.319 you know, 00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:14.900 drive off happy about this, 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:15.640 thinking about it. 00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:18.259 And so anyway, 00:28:18.340 --> 00:28:22.200 so I got to the building that Bowen right over here, 00:28:22.280 --> 00:28:22.900 Bowen town, 00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:24.540 right here in Ray town. 00:28:25.300 --> 00:28:26.480 And so I, 00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:29.840 what I had going this particular day was I, 00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:34.840 I made a taco bar and I had a trivia game. 00:28:35.020 --> 00:28:36.460 So we did a little trivia. 00:28:37.020 --> 00:28:39.880 And usually what I do is they, 00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:41.640 they have to play a couple of rounds of trivia. 00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:43.220 They can't just come eat and then go, 00:28:43.320 --> 00:28:43.560 you know, 00:28:43.560 --> 00:28:45.620 because I want to interact and I want to, 00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:46.440 meet these folks, 00:28:46.580 --> 00:28:46.880 you know, 00:28:47.300 --> 00:28:49.740 and then if then at the end, 00:28:49.740 --> 00:28:50.960 if they want to talk about home care, 00:28:50.980 --> 00:28:54.060 then I'll talk about home care and give them material, 00:28:54.180 --> 00:28:54.400 whatever, 00:28:54.560 --> 00:28:54.860 you know, 00:28:55.100 --> 00:28:57.560 but that that's why I'm there to meet folks and, 00:28:57.700 --> 00:28:58.880 and see if I can help them. 00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:04.280 So I had a little trivia thing and then a little break and have our tacos and 00:29:04.280 --> 00:29:04.540 everything. 00:29:04.920 --> 00:29:06.259 And then finish the trivia. 00:29:06.380 --> 00:29:07.220 That was my plan. 00:29:07.740 --> 00:29:07.960 Well, 00:29:08.020 --> 00:29:09.360 I get there and there's two people. 00:29:10.380 --> 00:29:11.440 And so I was like, 00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:11.660 well, 00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:12.480 let's scratch that plan. 00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:13.500 Let's just do a little trivia. 00:29:13.620 --> 00:29:14.640 So we had fun with that. 00:29:14.640 --> 00:29:21.520 And then we started to have the tacos and people after that just was trickling in. 00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:22.460 They were coming in. 00:29:22.620 --> 00:29:24.840 And so another person or two would come in. 00:29:24.980 --> 00:29:25.380 Well, 00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:25.620 yeah, 00:29:25.700 --> 00:29:26.000 come on. 00:29:26.060 --> 00:29:27.060 And I put on my little, 00:29:27.060 --> 00:29:29.300 my plastic gloves and I'm serving tacos, 00:29:29.540 --> 00:29:29.720 you know, 00:29:29.780 --> 00:29:30.100 giving them. 00:29:30.099 --> 00:29:31.279 And so they, 00:29:31.359 --> 00:29:33.000 they all come through the line and stuff. 00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:34.599 And then a couple other people would trickle in. 00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:35.839 It was like an hour. 00:29:36.099 --> 00:29:36.619 We were, 00:29:36.719 --> 00:29:38.219 it was like an hour and 15 minutes. 00:29:38.839 --> 00:29:39.699 And I, 00:29:39.779 --> 00:29:39.919 I, 00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:40.259 okay, 00:29:40.259 --> 00:29:41.219 maybe they're all done. 00:29:41.399 --> 00:29:43.159 I think maybe that's all this kind of trickle in. 00:29:43.160 --> 00:29:47.779 And so I went ahead and I packed everything up and I sat down at the table. 00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:48.900 There was still a few left. 00:29:48.900 --> 00:29:50.880 And we were just chatting about this and that. 00:29:51.380 --> 00:29:54.860 And then a lady comes in and she said, 00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:55.320 Oh, 00:29:55.440 --> 00:29:55.960 I thought, 00:29:56.100 --> 00:29:57.460 I thought it, 00:29:57.580 --> 00:29:58.180 it was, 00:29:58.560 --> 00:29:59.420 she was off and out. 00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:01.060 She thought it was like 12, 00:30:01.120 --> 00:30:01.440 15, 00:30:01.519 --> 00:30:02.220 not one 15. 00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:03.480 And, 00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:03.900 uh, 00:30:04.660 --> 00:30:05.200 in my mind, 00:30:05.220 --> 00:30:05.579 I'm like, 00:30:05.900 --> 00:30:06.660 well, 00:30:06.680 --> 00:30:07.819 maybe she won't want a taco. 00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:10.380 Cause I just packed it all up. 00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:10.519 And, 00:30:10.600 --> 00:30:10.680 you know, 00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:11.259 I had it all, 00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:11.759 uh, 00:30:11.940 --> 00:30:13.759 put the spoons up and all that stuff. 00:30:14.380 --> 00:30:14.519 Yeah. 00:30:14.519 --> 00:30:15.579 So maybe she won't want anything. 00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:16.160 And she's like, 00:30:16.259 --> 00:30:18.160 can I have a taco? 00:30:20.160 --> 00:30:23.039 Let your gentleness be known to all people. 00:30:24.720 --> 00:30:25.660 So I said, 00:30:26.140 --> 00:30:26.640 absolutely. 00:30:27.019 --> 00:30:30.600 So I went over and dug everything out and got her a couple of tacos. 00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:31.759 But, 00:30:31.859 --> 00:30:32.159 uh, 00:30:32.159 --> 00:30:32.639 you know, 00:30:32.659 --> 00:30:33.500 it was just like a, 00:30:33.500 --> 00:30:35.339 like a practical walking out. 00:30:35.439 --> 00:30:38.099 It was perfect for me in that moment. 00:30:38.179 --> 00:30:43.740 Now I will say that verse and that thought was not my first thought. 00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:47.879 My first thought was a little more along the lines of, 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:48.919 uh, 00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:49.279 well, 00:30:49.319 --> 00:30:50.599 I've already packed it up lady, 00:30:51.019 --> 00:30:51.379 you know, 00:30:51.899 --> 00:30:52.559 no, 00:30:53.019 --> 00:30:53.240 no, 00:30:53.639 --> 00:30:53.919 this, 00:30:54.199 --> 00:30:55.279 this is where I want to go. 00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:56.619 This is what I want to do. 00:30:58.019 --> 00:30:59.379 So just, 00:30:59.539 --> 00:30:59.779 uh, 00:30:59.779 --> 00:31:00.039 uh, 00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:00.480 again, 00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:02.399 Paul puts this, 00:31:02.399 --> 00:31:03.039 uh, 00:31:03.679 --> 00:31:07.439 puts this to us to think this way, 00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:10.639 to act this way and to practice this, 00:31:10.839 --> 00:31:12.500 to put it into practice. 00:31:12.959 --> 00:31:14.279 Where is our treasure? 00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:16.959 Is it in Christ? 00:31:17.959 --> 00:31:19.919 And therefore walking this out? 00:31:20.119 --> 00:31:21.199 Or is it elsewhere? 00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:23.980 Is it in my time and my energy? 00:31:24.179 --> 00:31:27.959 And I don't want to dirty up another spoon or whatever the case is, 00:31:27.959 --> 00:31:28.199 right? 00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:29.640 We give. 00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:32.720 Look at the next thing that he says there in, 00:31:33.360 --> 00:31:36.000 at the end of verse five, 00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:40.039 let your graciousness be known or your gentleness be known to everyone. 00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:42.460 The Lord is near. 00:31:42.460 --> 00:31:44.460 The Lord is near. 00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:48.299 There is a vindication coming. 00:31:49.420 --> 00:31:51.299 There is a vindication coming. 00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:54.759 Everything as a believer, 00:31:54.980 --> 00:31:56.759 when you follow, 00:31:56.920 --> 00:31:57.700 when you listen, 00:31:57.819 --> 00:31:58.840 when you are obedient, 00:31:58.839 --> 00:32:02.539 and it's hard and it's hard and it's difficult and it's not what you would choose to do, 00:32:02.639 --> 00:32:05.220 but you are obeying because you love him. 00:32:05.220 --> 00:32:10.740 There is a vindicator coming who will set all things right. 00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:12.819 Rejoice, 00:32:12.939 --> 00:32:13.639 be gentle, 00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:17.880 but the world may very well trample us. 00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:22.400 The world may very well trample us and persecute us. 00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:28.240 These Philippians were facing persecution to the point of deadly. 00:32:28.920 --> 00:32:29.460 It was coming. 00:32:30.080 --> 00:32:30.720 It was coming. 00:32:30.800 --> 00:32:32.120 That whole world in that, 00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:32.960 in that time, 00:32:33.080 --> 00:32:34.380 it was coming shortly. 00:32:34.380 --> 00:32:37.780 There is a vindicator. 00:32:39.040 --> 00:32:40.660 The Lord is at hand. 00:32:41.460 --> 00:32:43.780 His coming draws ever closer. 00:32:44.660 --> 00:32:45.340 Ever closer. 00:32:46.380 --> 00:32:47.180 First Peter 4, 00:32:47.300 --> 00:32:47.920 7 says, 00:32:48.080 --> 00:32:50.580 the end of all things is at hand. 00:32:51.340 --> 00:32:53.020 The end of all things is at hand. 00:32:53.100 --> 00:32:53.740 James 5, 00:32:53.800 --> 00:32:54.040 8. 00:32:54.460 --> 00:32:55.800 You also be patient. 00:32:56.260 --> 00:32:59.140 Establish your hearts for the coming of the Lord is at hand. 00:33:00.760 --> 00:33:02.040 Revelation 22, 00:33:02.220 --> 00:33:02.680 12. 00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:03.580 Behold, 00:33:03.680 --> 00:33:04.779 I am coming soon, 00:33:05.299 --> 00:33:08.160 bringing my recompense with me. 00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:09.200 He's going to set it right. 00:33:09.539 --> 00:33:12.039 To repay each one for what he has done. 00:33:14.660 --> 00:33:17.480 We don't have to defend ourselves. 00:33:18.480 --> 00:33:20.980 We don't have to defend ourselves. 00:33:21.299 --> 00:33:22.460 In our obedience, 00:33:22.820 --> 00:33:23.440 in listening, 00:33:23.740 --> 00:33:27.140 in the practice of what he's told us to do, 00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:28.600 what he's commanded us to do. 00:33:28.860 --> 00:33:30.519 We don't have to defend the gospel. 00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:31.680 We don't have to, 00:33:31.819 --> 00:33:32.720 in that sense, 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:35.920 we don't have to defend being righteous. 00:33:36.700 --> 00:33:37.240 Now, 00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:39.839 we may not get in this world what we, 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:41.660 what we would like. 00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:44.579 We may get persecution back. 00:33:45.579 --> 00:33:49.099 But he will set all things right. 00:33:49.099 --> 00:33:54.039 Jesus does this for us. 00:33:59.199 --> 00:34:00.819 We don't have to defend. 00:34:00.819 --> 00:34:06.799 Do you remember when Ben Kenobi was fighting Darth Vader? 00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:09.840 This is in episode four. 00:34:11.119 --> 00:34:13.019 And at this point, 00:34:13.139 --> 00:34:15.000 Ben Kenobi was still flesh and blood. 00:34:16.019 --> 00:34:18.460 And he is fighting Darth Vader. 00:34:18.460 --> 00:34:22.720 And it comes to this big fight at the end and everything. 00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:24.280 And Luke and, 00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:25.940 and Han Solo always says, 00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:28.240 they're all running to the Millennium Falcon to get out. 00:34:28.900 --> 00:34:30.119 Because they were in the Death Star, 00:34:30.220 --> 00:34:31.380 which they were going to blow up later. 00:34:31.860 --> 00:34:32.460 Spoiler alert. 00:34:33.659 --> 00:34:34.280 But anyway, 00:34:34.440 --> 00:34:34.639 so, 00:34:34.820 --> 00:34:35.240 so they, 00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:35.480 they're, 00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:36.440 they're going to get out, 00:34:36.539 --> 00:34:36.920 you know, 00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:39.619 and Darth Vader is fighting Ben Kenobi. 00:34:40.300 --> 00:34:43.400 And Ben and Luke make eye contact. 00:34:43.400 --> 00:34:45.679 And then Ben just stands up straight. 00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:48.079 And Darth Vader gets him. 00:34:48.500 --> 00:34:49.379 And he just turns into, 00:34:49.579 --> 00:34:49.679 well, 00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:50.899 he just sort of vanishes really. 00:34:51.460 --> 00:34:51.879 And just, 00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:53.619 just a little pile of cloth right there. 00:34:54.319 --> 00:34:54.759 Well, 00:34:54.799 --> 00:34:55.940 the reason was in, 00:34:56.019 --> 00:34:56.339 in, 00:34:56.440 --> 00:35:02.079 in this is Star Wars speak is that he would then become greater than what he 00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:03.239 was before. 00:35:03.519 --> 00:35:08.339 Like he didn't have to defend himself because he sort of got more powerful. 00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:09.000 I don't know. 00:35:09.579 --> 00:35:10.359 It's make-believe. 00:35:10.460 --> 00:35:10.539 I, 00:35:10.659 --> 00:35:10.759 you know, 00:35:10.759 --> 00:35:11.899 I don't know how this works, 00:35:11.899 --> 00:35:14.000 but that was the, 00:35:14.139 --> 00:35:14.460 that's, 00:35:14.539 --> 00:35:14.879 uh, 00:35:15.019 --> 00:35:15.399 uh, 00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:18.160 made me think of this same kind of thing. 00:35:18.539 --> 00:35:18.840 We, 00:35:19.300 --> 00:35:19.700 uh, 00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:22.579 power is in Christ. 00:35:23.059 --> 00:35:24.599 It's not in us. 00:35:24.720 --> 00:35:26.639 We don't defend ourselves. 00:35:26.840 --> 00:35:27.920 The things that, 00:35:28.099 --> 00:35:28.400 that, 00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:28.900 uh, 00:35:29.639 --> 00:35:30.039 uh, 00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:30.300 when, 00:35:30.420 --> 00:35:32.119 when he takes care of that, 00:35:32.639 --> 00:35:33.139 there, 00:35:33.280 --> 00:35:37.320 there's not something that we have to do to make things right. 00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:40.539 And we'll talk a little bit about just in just a second, 00:35:40.539 --> 00:35:42.220 like thinking on just, 00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:43.119 um, 00:35:43.260 --> 00:35:43.680 and, 00:35:43.820 --> 00:35:44.019 uh, 00:35:44.019 --> 00:35:44.639 uh, 00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:46.259 how that's not for us. 00:35:46.380 --> 00:35:47.840 Vengeance is mine, 00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:48.500 says the Lord. 00:35:48.780 --> 00:35:50.139 That's also in revelation. 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:55.000 If you would turn with me to Psalm chapter 24. 00:35:58.239 --> 00:35:59.880 Psalm chapter 24. 00:35:59.880 --> 00:35:59.900 Psalm chapter 24. 00:35:59.900 --> 00:35:59.940 Psalm chapter 24. 00:35:59.940 --> 00:36:00.940 Psalm chapter 24. 00:36:00.940 --> 00:36:07.280 Psalm chapter 24. 00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:12.720 I will admit maybe some of my examples with Star Wars. 00:36:12.720 --> 00:36:13.619 I'm trying to stretch, 00:36:13.740 --> 00:36:14.619 but it's, 00:36:14.619 --> 00:36:14.980 it's, 00:36:14.980 --> 00:36:16.920 it's May the 4th. 00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:17.920 All right. 00:36:21.980 --> 00:36:23.159 Psalm chapter 24. 00:36:24.220 --> 00:36:24.460 And, 00:36:24.539 --> 00:36:24.880 uh, 00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:25.500 uh, 00:36:25.500 --> 00:36:28.059 starting with verse seven, 00:36:28.059 --> 00:36:31.940 lift up your heads. 00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:35.599 You gates rise up ancient doors. 00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:38.159 Then the King of glory will come in. 00:36:38.619 --> 00:36:40.320 Who is this King of glory? 00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:42.579 The Lord strong and mighty, 00:36:42.659 --> 00:36:44.360 the Lord mighty in battle. 00:36:45.139 --> 00:36:46.340 Lift up your heads. 00:36:46.420 --> 00:36:49.619 You gates rise up ancient doors. 00:36:49.619 --> 00:36:52.259 Then the King of glory will come in. 00:36:53.380 --> 00:36:54.039 Who is he? 00:36:54.259 --> 00:36:55.179 This King of glory. 00:36:55.859 --> 00:36:56.900 The Lord of hosts. 00:36:57.519 --> 00:36:59.139 He is the King of glory. 00:37:01.699 --> 00:37:02.940 Matthew 24, 00:37:03.079 --> 00:37:03.679 33. 00:37:03.679 --> 00:37:04.960 Jesus says, 00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:08.760 so also when you see these things, 00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:13.599 you know that he is near at the very gates. 00:37:14.980 --> 00:37:15.740 Jesus. 00:37:16.460 --> 00:37:17.099 Okay. 00:37:17.619 --> 00:37:19.280 This is the other thing that, 00:37:19.340 --> 00:37:21.260 that really stuck with me this week. 00:37:23.500 --> 00:37:24.260 His, 00:37:24.420 --> 00:37:26.579 his second coming is near. 00:37:27.099 --> 00:37:27.840 That's, 00:37:27.940 --> 00:37:28.679 that's what we're told. 00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:30.099 It's at hand. 00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:30.840 It's near. 00:37:31.980 --> 00:37:33.800 He's at the gates. 00:37:33.800 --> 00:37:35.640 So in other words, 00:37:35.880 --> 00:37:36.240 uh, 00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:36.880 uh, 00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:41.320 he's not far off that. 00:37:41.480 --> 00:37:43.860 And he's got to travel like this long way. 00:37:44.019 --> 00:37:44.720 And boy, 00:37:44.740 --> 00:37:45.820 if he sets out now, 00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:46.100 you know, 00:37:46.100 --> 00:37:48.060 it might be another thousand years or whatever. 00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:49.400 He's, 00:37:49.460 --> 00:37:50.560 he's not far off. 00:37:50.820 --> 00:37:51.539 And in, 00:37:51.539 --> 00:37:51.940 in, 00:37:51.940 --> 00:37:52.240 uh, 00:37:52.240 --> 00:37:53.960 Acts 17 talks about, 00:37:54.280 --> 00:37:55.039 he is near. 00:37:55.320 --> 00:37:55.840 He's near. 00:37:55.900 --> 00:37:57.260 He's not far from any one of us. 00:37:57.800 --> 00:37:58.120 Matter of fact, 00:37:58.120 --> 00:37:59.820 he's standing at the gates. 00:38:00.420 --> 00:38:02.440 Think about Jesus, 00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:03.980 not far off, 00:38:03.980 --> 00:38:06.539 but standing at the gates. 00:38:06.539 --> 00:38:13.099 He is able to step into this world at any moment. 00:38:13.940 --> 00:38:15.500 Because he's there. 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:16.980 He's there. 00:38:17.300 --> 00:38:18.139 He's not far. 00:38:18.800 --> 00:38:19.760 It's at hand. 00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:22.460 That thought, 00:38:22.860 --> 00:38:24.420 that thought of, 00:38:24.420 --> 00:38:25.880 of Jesus. 00:38:27.160 --> 00:38:27.600 And, 00:38:27.680 --> 00:38:27.920 and, 00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:28.140 you know, 00:38:28.180 --> 00:38:28.640 revelation, 00:38:29.140 --> 00:38:29.660 uh, 00:38:29.780 --> 00:38:30.260 uh, 00:38:30.260 --> 00:38:31.240 on the horse. 00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:33.380 And I was telling Stacy, 00:38:33.380 --> 00:38:33.700 like, 00:38:34.360 --> 00:38:36.140 like I kind of picture the gate and, 00:38:36.300 --> 00:38:38.260 and almost like you can hear this. 00:38:38.420 --> 00:38:39.100 I'm not going to do it, 00:38:39.460 --> 00:38:39.820 but, 00:38:39.820 --> 00:38:40.140 uh, 00:38:40.140 --> 00:38:43.260 you can almost hear the snort of the horse on the other side of, 00:38:43.260 --> 00:38:43.260 00:38:44.260 --> 00:38:44.300 Oh, 00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:45.480 ancient door. 00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:47.079 Open up. 00:38:47.740 --> 00:38:50.619 He's coming in like at any time. 00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:53.440 And that struck me. 00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:54.840 It struck me. 00:38:55.440 --> 00:39:02.840 I think maybe I had a thought of him being a long ways off and traveling to us. 00:39:03.099 --> 00:39:04.159 But it's not. 00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:05.440 He's there. 00:39:05.940 --> 00:39:06.579 He's there. 00:39:08.240 --> 00:39:09.860 The Lord is at hand. 00:39:11.360 --> 00:39:12.619 Let's look at verse six. 00:39:13.900 --> 00:39:14.400 Yikes. 00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:18.579 Don't worry about anything, 00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:21.260 but in everything through prayer and petition with Thanksgiving, 00:39:21.460 --> 00:39:24.579 let your requests be made known to God. 00:39:25.219 --> 00:39:27.840 So don't worry about anything. 00:39:29.139 --> 00:39:33.840 This is from Spurgeon is a January 6th morning and evening book. 00:39:34.900 --> 00:39:36.219 If God cares for you, 00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:38.119 why need you care to? 00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:41.840 Can you trust him for your soul and not for your body? 00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:45.219 He has never refused to bear your burdens. 00:39:45.219 --> 00:39:47.079 He has never fainted under the weight. 00:39:47.459 --> 00:39:55.500 Come then soul have done with fretful care and leave all thy concerns in the hand of gracious God. 00:39:55.500 --> 00:40:02.000 Can you trust him for your soul and not for your body? 00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:04.099 Have you trusted Jesus as your savior, 00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:08.500 but then worry about the little things that happen on a day-to-day basis? 00:40:08.500 --> 00:40:10.599 I'll give him my soul. 00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:10.679 I'll give him my soul. 00:40:11.239 --> 00:40:11.800 Feeling? 00:40:12.380 --> 00:40:16.739 Seems like it would be easier to worry about what I'm going to eat today or, 00:40:16.739 --> 00:40:20.840 or thus and so with the children than it is my own soul. 00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:23.500 I thought that was a good point. 00:40:23.500 --> 00:40:24.760 Don't be anxious. 00:40:26.460 --> 00:40:30.900 This same word anxious there can be used in good and bad situations. 00:40:31.059 --> 00:40:37.579 In Philippians 2.20, he mentions Timothy that Timothy cares. 00:40:37.579 --> 00:40:40.480 And so he was sending him because he cared. 00:40:41.480 --> 00:40:48.360 The same word, though, can fall negative or bad, bad to the bad side. 00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:50.019 It could be anxiously bad. 00:40:50.500 --> 00:40:55.840 Or loss of peace is maybe a good fast definition for anxiety. 00:40:56.360 --> 00:40:57.420 Loss of peace. 00:40:57.860 --> 00:41:02.860 In anxiety, we look back to rejoicing in the Lord because he will vindicate. 00:41:02.860 --> 00:41:08.360 If I know he's going to take care of it, then what have I to fear? 00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:09.780 What have I to worry about? 00:41:09.900 --> 00:41:13.980 What have I, like, that's a very serious connection there. 00:41:15.200 --> 00:41:19.220 If I treasure him and know that he will do these things, 00:41:19.780 --> 00:41:22.420 then anxiety doesn't have space. 00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:23.680 Isaiah 41.10, 00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:26.059 Fear not, for I am with you. 00:41:26.180 --> 00:41:29.800 Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. 00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:31.599 I will strengthen you. 00:41:31.599 --> 00:41:32.759 I will help you. 00:41:32.920 --> 00:41:36.719 I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. 00:41:37.539 --> 00:41:41.900 There's particular words here that are important, I think, to note. 00:41:43.319 --> 00:41:45.239 Rejoice always. 00:41:46.500 --> 00:41:48.699 No anxiety in anything. 00:41:48.980 --> 00:41:51.519 Or have anxiety in nothing. 00:41:52.799 --> 00:41:56.519 In everything, let your requests be made known to God. 00:41:56.519 --> 00:42:02.280 Do you see the type of thought life Paul is describing here? 00:42:02.960 --> 00:42:09.159 Do you hear the, not extremes, but what's 100%? 00:42:11.679 --> 00:42:12.599 The what? 00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:13.639 Absolutes. 00:42:13.780 --> 00:42:14.800 The absolutes, yes. 00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:16.679 Do you hear the absolutes? 00:42:16.679 --> 00:42:19.899 This is all of these things. 00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:22.199 Rejoicing always. 00:42:22.699 --> 00:42:23.659 Anxiety in nothing. 00:42:24.219 --> 00:42:28.059 And in everything, all of those things transpire. 00:42:28.139 --> 00:42:29.539 Now there's fruit of all those things. 00:42:29.879 --> 00:42:32.219 But all those things transpire in our own hearts. 00:42:32.219 --> 00:42:34.500 It's all in our own hearts. 00:42:37.379 --> 00:42:39.859 That's the kind of thought life Paul is describing. 00:42:39.859 --> 00:42:52.959 The inner treasure of this person, this always, everything, and nothing person, this absolute person, treasures Jesus. 00:42:53.820 --> 00:42:54.780 That's who they treasure. 00:42:56.260 --> 00:43:02.280 Prayer and supplication with thanksgiving is where we go. 00:43:03.099 --> 00:43:11.380 So don't worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. 00:43:11.679 --> 00:43:14.760 The posture here of these prayers is thanksgiving. 00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:16.720 Piper breaks down. 00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:18.740 This is a good thing I read with him. 00:43:18.739 --> 00:43:24.559 Piper breaks down the thanksgiving into God is good and I don't deserve. 00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:32.679 I see him as a good God, a gracious God, and I don't deserve what he has to give. 00:43:33.079 --> 00:43:36.759 That puts me into a spot of humility. 00:43:37.279 --> 00:43:38.019 That's thanksgiving. 00:43:38.759 --> 00:43:39.559 That's thanksgiving. 00:43:40.979 --> 00:43:45.179 The heart of humility approaches a generous, good father. 00:43:45.179 --> 00:43:54.779 Taking the things that cause anxiety and the things that hinder gentleness and joy to God. 00:43:58.359 --> 00:43:59.940 Don't worry about anything. 00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:02.000 What is it that I might be worried about? 00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:09.199 Well, I might be worried about my lack of gentleness toward others. 00:44:09.339 --> 00:44:12.460 I might be worried about my lack of rejoicing. 00:44:13.399 --> 00:44:15.000 What's taking that away? 00:44:15.179 --> 00:44:19.359 What's, what's in essence stealing that from my life? 00:44:21.219 --> 00:44:23.239 Take those things to, to the Lord. 00:44:23.899 --> 00:44:25.940 Let your requests be made known to God. 00:44:26.440 --> 00:44:34.440 I need strength to abandon these, these, uh, unbelieving thoughts in my heart. 00:44:34.619 --> 00:44:36.539 I need strength to do that. 00:44:36.539 --> 00:44:42.539 I need grace to be gentle and to live in joy. 00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:43.880 I need grace. 00:44:44.380 --> 00:44:47.759 So I take those petitions to the Lord. 00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:52.820 I humbly come to him and ask him for those things. 00:44:52.820 --> 00:44:58.400 And what happens when I do that? 00:44:58.400 --> 00:44:59.080 Verse seven. 00:45:00.860 --> 00:45:07.500 And the peace of God, which surpasses every thought will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 00:45:07.500 --> 00:45:12.820 The peace is found after taking everything to God. 00:45:12.820 --> 00:45:14.620 That's when it's found. 00:45:17.500 --> 00:45:19.200 What do my thoughts get me? 00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:20.199 Anxiety. 00:45:20.199 --> 00:45:21.199 Anxiety. 00:45:21.699 --> 00:45:35.719 If left to myself and I start to make my own plans and I start to try to figure out my own answers and how I'm going to do this and how this should happen or, or what am I going to do with this financial state or this relationship? 00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:39.899 If I do that on my own, what does it get me? 00:45:41.599 --> 00:45:42.039 Anxiety. 00:45:42.399 --> 00:45:42.839 Anxiousness. 00:45:42.899 --> 00:45:46.879 That's the best I can do because I have no control at all. 00:45:47.819 --> 00:45:48.259 Zero. 00:45:49.980 --> 00:45:52.079 That's the best I can come up with. 00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:57.679 The world comes up with its various answers to life's problems, whatever it might be. 00:45:58.339 --> 00:45:59.879 There's a, there's millions of them. 00:46:00.279 --> 00:46:01.919 We all can come up with different answers. 00:46:02.019 --> 00:46:03.000 We do it all the time. 00:46:03.000 --> 00:46:06.940 And then we have to reel back. 00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:08.960 We have to reel ourselves back. 00:46:09.420 --> 00:46:10.619 Go back to the prayer. 00:46:11.280 --> 00:46:15.539 Go back and, and, uh, uh, ask him for those things. 00:46:15.820 --> 00:46:18.119 That grace to, to think rightly. 00:46:18.599 --> 00:46:23.139 Spurgeon said, beware of no man more than of yourself. 00:46:23.639 --> 00:46:26.460 We carry our worst enemies within us. 00:46:26.460 --> 00:46:31.860 When we sit with our own thoughts and we give them room to run. 00:46:32.619 --> 00:46:35.659 And then we believe in what we came up with. 00:46:36.079 --> 00:46:38.699 We live outside of the peace of God. 00:46:39.780 --> 00:46:42.940 And, and unfortunately it's easy to do. 00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:46.820 We start running on tracks that we ought not to be on. 00:46:46.820 --> 00:46:53.220 And then the crazy thing is we'll turn then and believe that as our own truth. 00:46:53.780 --> 00:46:56.120 And it's not, it's not true. 00:46:56.600 --> 00:47:01.160 Anxiety, depression, fear, anger, doubt, contentiousness, disunity. 00:47:01.980 --> 00:47:03.320 You, you looking at you. 00:47:03.320 --> 00:47:14.900 Disunity, disunity, all are fruits of the flesh thinking on its own and trying to do the best it can do and what it can come up with. 00:47:17.880 --> 00:47:20.700 But we ought to walk in peace, not anxiety. 00:47:21.180 --> 00:47:23.160 The peace of God guards me. 00:47:23.500 --> 00:47:24.240 What does it guard? 00:47:25.700 --> 00:47:30.740 Your minds says, will guard your hearts and your minds. 00:47:30.739 --> 00:47:39.619 Where that treasure is, what comes from that, what then is spoken in the practical that's walked out. 00:47:40.579 --> 00:47:42.519 The thinking and the practice. 00:47:43.819 --> 00:47:46.299 There's contentment within this peace of God. 00:47:50.139 --> 00:47:51.859 1 Corinthians 7, 17. 00:47:52.059 --> 00:47:57.000 Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him and to which God has called him. 00:47:57.500 --> 00:47:59.179 This is my rule in all the churches. 00:47:59.179 --> 00:48:05.000 Remaining in your calling with rejoicing shows the sufficiency of Christ. 00:48:06.500 --> 00:48:13.819 A discontent, peaceless Christian sends the wrong message about God's provision and his goodness. 00:48:14.219 --> 00:48:20.440 If I'm wringing my hands and worried, it sends the wrong message. 00:48:20.559 --> 00:48:21.759 That doesn't speak the gospel. 00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:29.420 Contentment in Christ not only glorifies God, but it also draws others to him. 00:48:29.700 --> 00:48:31.240 Because they see that. 00:48:31.620 --> 00:48:32.520 They see that. 00:48:32.600 --> 00:48:36.760 And they're witnesses of a peace and joy that passes understanding. 00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:39.860 Because I'm not taking the world's thoughts. 00:48:40.280 --> 00:48:45.900 I'm not taking their answers to the problems of life. 00:48:45.900 --> 00:48:50.300 I'm relying on a peace that passes all other thought. 00:48:51.320 --> 00:48:52.240 Namely, my own. 00:48:55.480 --> 00:48:57.039 So, think and practice. 00:48:57.160 --> 00:48:58.360 Look at the last thing. 00:48:58.619 --> 00:48:59.599 I'll close with this. 00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:00.639 Verse 8. 00:49:00.720 --> 00:49:06.440 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, 00:49:06.440 --> 00:49:12.440 if there's any moral excellence, and there's any praise, dwell or think on these things. 00:49:14.300 --> 00:49:17.380 Paul's getting into our private space here. 00:49:18.179 --> 00:49:20.059 Think on these things. 00:49:20.679 --> 00:49:21.820 And then 9. 00:49:22.380 --> 00:49:29.639 Do or practice what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you. 00:49:29.639 --> 00:49:45.059 When you rejoice always, and then through prayer and supplication, find the peace that passes all understanding, 00:49:45.980 --> 00:49:53.619 and your mind, he says, and your heart and mind will be guarded, not shut off. 00:49:54.759 --> 00:49:56.719 Guarded to do what? 00:49:56.719 --> 00:49:59.559 To think on these things. 00:50:00.219 --> 00:50:05.579 Think on these different qualities of godliness. 00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:09.759 I can think and practice on these things. 00:50:11.239 --> 00:50:19.239 When I am out of the way, when I have abandoned my thoughts, and I trust in the thoughts that are much higher, 00:50:20.460 --> 00:50:23.079 that on the answers that I can't come up with on my own, 00:50:24.339 --> 00:50:24.799 peace. 00:50:25.420 --> 00:50:27.239 And I will practice what I've learned. 00:50:27.719 --> 00:50:27.940 Okay. 00:50:28.319 --> 00:50:29.460 Consider your thought life. 00:50:29.639 --> 00:50:30.799 What is your treasure? 00:50:31.299 --> 00:50:33.799 Going back to that first verse from Luke. 00:50:33.980 --> 00:50:34.699 What is your treasure? 00:50:35.960 --> 00:50:38.599 What is springing from that treasure? 00:50:39.039 --> 00:50:41.019 Is it your own thinking and failed solutions? 00:50:41.619 --> 00:50:44.619 If it is, anxiety, fear, worry. 00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:45.440 That's what you'll see. 00:50:45.879 --> 00:50:46.400 There's fruit. 00:50:46.400 --> 00:50:54.500 Do you treasure prayer and humility before God, leading to peace that passes all you thought you knew? 00:50:54.500 --> 00:51:02.300 Do you dwell on true and lovely thoughts that bring about your gentleness before all people? 00:51:02.300 --> 00:51:07.360 And the final thought is Jesus. 00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:08.640 Is Jesus your treasure? 00:51:08.640 --> 00:51:11.740 Is Jesus your treasure? 00:51:11.740 --> 00:51:13.140 Let's pray. 00:51:13.139 --> 00:51:13.819 Let's pray. 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