Resurrection

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Pauls Prayer of ThanksgivingPhilippians 13-8
Presented by Bob DeWaay September 5, 2004
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Thanksgiving and Joy

• Philippians 13, 4
• I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,
  always offering prayer with joy in my every
  prayer for you all,

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Fellowship in the Gospel

• Philippians 15
• in view of your participation in the gospel from
  the first day until now.

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A Gospel Family

• Mark 1029, 30
• Jesus said, Truly I say to you, there is no one
  who has left house or brothers or sisters or
  mother or father or children or farms, for My
  sake and for the gospel's sake, but that he shall
  receive a hundred times as much now in the
  present age, houses and brothers and sisters and
  mothers and children and farms, along with
  persecutions and in the age to come, eternal
  life.

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Pauls Joy Over His Gospel Family Contrasts with
Sorrow over Kinsmen

• Romans 91-3
• I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not
  lying, my conscience bearing me witness in the
  Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and
  unceasing grief in my heart. For I could wish
  that I myself were accursed, separated from
  Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen
  according to the flesh,

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God Finishes What He Starts

• Philippians 16
• For I am confident of this very thing, that He
  who began a good work in you will perfect it
  until the day of Christ Jesus.

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God Finishes What He Starts

• Romans 828
• And we know that God causes all things to work
  together for good to those who love God, to those
  who are called according to His purpose.

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Being Fellow Partakers of Grace

• Philippians 17
• For it is only right for me to feel this way
  about you all, because I have you in my heart,
  since both in my imprisonment and in the defense
  and confirmation of the gospel, you all are
  partakers of grace with me.

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Other Churches Turned Against Paul

• 2Timonthy 115
• You are aware of the fact that all who are in
  Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus
  and Hermogenes.

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Pauls Strong Affection for Them

• Philippians 18
• For God is my witness, how I long for you all
  with the affection of Christ Jesus.

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Points of Application

• Always Thank God For Christians He Puts in Your
  Life
• How You Can Participate in the Gospel
• Live in View of Gods Eternal Purpose

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Always Thank God For Christians He Puts in Your
Life

• 1Corinthians 14
• I thank my God always concerning you, for the
  grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus.

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Always Thank God For Christians He Puts in Your
Life

• Romans 18
• First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for
  you all, because your faith is being proclaimed
  throughout the whole world.

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How You Can Participate in the Gospel

• You should repent and believe the Gospel
• Luke 2446, 47
• He said to them, Thus it is written, that the
  Christ should suffer and rise again from the dead
  the third day and that repentance for
  forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His
  name to all the nations. . .

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How You Can Participate in the Gospel

• 2) You should participate in the means of grace
• Acts 242 And they were continually devoting
  themselves to the apostles' teaching and to
  fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to
  prayer.

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How You Can Participate in the Gospel

• 3) You should use your gifts for the furtherance
  of the ministry.

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How You Can Participate in the Gospel

• 4) You should share your faith as God gives you
  opportunity.
• 1Peter 315 but sanctify Christ as Lord in your
  hearts, always being ready to make a defense to
  everyone who asks you to give an account for the
  hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and
  reverence

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Live in View of Gods Eternal Purpose

• Romans 829, 30 For whom He foreknew, He also
  predestined to become conformed to the image of
  His Son, that He might be the first-born among
  many brethren and whom He predestined, these He
  also called and whom He called, these He also
  justified and whom He justified, these He also
  glorified.

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Live in View of Gods Eternal Purpose

• Ephesians 311
• This was in accordance with the eternal purpose
  which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord,
• Ephesians 14
• just as He chose us in Him before the foundation
  of the world, that we should be holy and
  blameless before Him. In love

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Live in View of Gods Eternal Purpose

• 1John 32, 3
• Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has
  not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know
  that, when He appears, we shall be like Him,
  because we shall see Him just as He is. And
  everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies
  himself, just as He is pure.

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