Becoming Your Favorite Church: Becoming Biblically Bold

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Becoming Your Favorite Church Becoming
Biblically Bold

• Series Philippians-Gateway to Joy
• Philippians 1 28-30

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Phil 128-30

• 28in no way alarmed by your opponents--which is a
  sign of destruction for them, but of salvation
  for you, and that too, from God. 29For to you it
  has been granted for Christ's sake, not only to
  believe in Him, but also to suffer for His
  sake, 30experiencing the same conflict which you
  saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

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• 1. Accept The Call To Courage

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• Phil 1128
• 28in no way alarmed by your opponents--which is
  a sign of destruction for them, but of salvation
  for you, and that too, from God. 

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• 2 Tim. 17-8
• 7For God has not given us a spirit of timidity,
  but of power and love and discipline. 8Therefore
  do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord or
  of me His prisoner, but join with me in suffering
  for the gospel according to the power of God,

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• 2. Accept The Gift Of Suffering

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• Phil 129
• 29For to you it has been granted for Christ's
  sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to
  suffer for His sake, 

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• Col. 124
• 24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake,
  and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His
  body, which is the church, in filling up what is
  lacking in Christ's afflictions.
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• Phil. 310
•  10that I may know Him and the power of His
  resurrection and the fellowship of His
  sufferings, being conformed to His death

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• 3. Accept The Example Of Others

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• Phil 130
• 30experiencing the same conflict which you saw
  in me, and now hear to be in me.

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• Rom 835-37
• 5Who will separate us from the love of Christ?
  Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or
  famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36Just
  as it is written,?         "FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE
  BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG?         WE WERE
  CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED." 37But in
  all these things we overwhelmingly conquer
  through Him who loved us.