Phillipians

My connection group reads obviously, we like to read the same scripture throughout the week to keep us all in tune and decipher what the word means and what we got from it. The fist book we did as a group was Phillipians.

First of all, Paul wrote this letter while imprisoned. He was probably deprived of most all things including hygenal neccessities and was probably ill. In this state of deprevity, he still proclaims his work as fruitful labor. His chains have served in advancing the gospel by declaration to the world that Paul was put in chains for Christ, in turn giving fellow brothers in Christ the cahones to speak the word of God without fear. Pauls chains sparked a chain reaction (no pun intended) that has not stopped yet, not with us and not with any of our disciples.

Phillipians 1:21 – “For me, to live is Christ and to die is gain”

See Paul definately has the heart of Christ. He finds his encouragement from being united in the heart of Christ and fellowship with the spirit, in order for him to not only endure in these sufferings but actually rejoice in these, he must reamin completely like-minded and spirited with him. This is something that i want to take with me through every hard time I endure…. If I am truly sanctified in the spirit of the Lord and share in the heart of Christ… then what shall I really fear? What is it that I really need? Death only becomes safety in Gods kingdom and away from the sinful nature and temptations that this world has to offer. However, so long as I am alive here, it is for a reason… to fulfill a destiny that God has set for me. To share with others what the Lord has shown me.  To speak life into the walking dead, and unplugging them from the matrix.

Paul viewed all things lost as straight up garbage and not neccessary. What he sought after was not anything this world can offer. Phillipans 3:10-11 “I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow to attain to the resurrection from the dead”

WHAT!!?? He wants to experience what Jesus did in suffering to the point of death. Who today have you heard that WANTS to experience pain and suffering for Jesus, we all want just the opposite. We seek after blessings and life of abundance. We fall to our knees and beg for the Lord to lift our woes and carry us through. We sing songs and write poems to him, begging and pleaing for a rescue from the pain and struggle. Paul is SICK, a mans man for sure. I will be taking this mentality with me when I think things are going so bad. WHAT NOW DEVIL!!??