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True Grit: Philippians 1:12-30
What do you think of when I say:
Unstoppable
Juggernaught
Undefeated
Invincible
I’d love to have that experience.
Wouldn’t you?
I’m just not unstoppable though.
Physically:
Occasionally, I get sick.
I guess on those rare occasions when I get sick, my wife knows the symptoms well.
She calls the disease man-flu.
I’m usually near death.
Men…who’s with me.
Emotionally:
I get stopped too.
I have those “down times.”
A case of the blahs or the blues.
Times when I am trying to figure out what “I” did that was wrong.
Again…many people experience days, weeks, months, even years like this.
Spiritually.
God humbles me.
He reveals a sin I know I have to address.
I get a gut-check by something or someone at church or even leveled at the church.
Yeah, there are times I want that unstoppable feeling
My physical state, my emotional state, my spiritual state…all big and strong.
I want to know that I can overcome whatever...
We all want that.
It reminds me of the movie Seabiscuit…you remember it?
Red had busted his leg and was thought to be done as a jockey.
Seabiscuit had, they believe, torn a ligament in his leg, and they thought he was done as a horse.
They both trained.
Seabiscuit, was a smaller than usual horse and didn’t start racing as early as other horses.
But he was full of heart.
Red was battling his own personal demons.
America was struggling through the Great Depression when they burst onto the scene.
America needed an unstoppable image to grab a hold of.
During the last race, you see Seabiscuit drop behind everyone.
You see Red dealing pain in his leg…then it happens.
They find their stride.
They cut ahead and win.
They didn’t show this in the movie, but when they won that race in real life…the stands emptied.
The owner and trainer couldn’t even get near Seabiscuit and Red.
They provided an unstoppable image that everyone wanted to grab on to.
Everyone wanted to experience.
And like I said, we want that too.
But what we don’t always experience that attitude.
Do we?
I know when I’m sick, I don’t want to be sick.
I want to be up.
I want to be moving.
Michael Hyatt is the President of Thomas Nelson Publishing
A few years ago, he got in a hurry for a meeting.
Fell and broke his ankle.
Ended up needing surgery and 3 months of Physical Therapy.
He could have done what many do.
Ask a lot of questions
Why is this happening to me?
What did I do to deserve this?
Those questions, though, are unproductive.
They don’t empower us.
He did ask questions…but they were great questions and they are questions that set the stage for us today.
What does this experience make possible?
See, that question…it acknowledges that even though God’s presence may not be obvious, we know that God is still God and He is still working.
Michael Hyatt went on to say, “you can’t always choose what will happen to you.
Accidents and tragedies happen.
But you can choose how you will respond to those situations.”
Philippians 1:12-30 (pg 830)
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When Paul writes a letter, it doesn’t have the verses and chapters in it.
We use those to break down the thoughts.
Here’s the introduction, here’s a prayer, here’s a message dealing with this topic, and here’s one dealing with that topic.
What I see here, and what I will re-emphasize through this text, “We may be slowed down, or even stopped, but the Gospel will not be.”
The Church in Philippi may think…oh, no, Paul’s been arrested.
He’s not going to be able to preach.
You think that is going to stop Paul?
I hear people say, with some frequency, our Christian liberties are being taken away.
You think that’s going to stop the Church?
The Bride of Christ?
Paul’s situation causes the Gospel to advance.
(Philippians 1:12)
Again, he’s in prison.
This is house arrest.
He’s elected to be in prison for Christ.
We can read about his trial in Acts…he’s winning his trial and he says, I’m going to to appeal to Caesar.
He doesn’t have to do this.
But he does.
Because Paul is a Roman Citizen, he will get an audience with Caesar.
He will effectively be in jail until that time.
He will be protected by guards so he can’t try anything and neither can anyone else.
He does have to pay for this.
And he’s not free to roam about, so there are some definite draw backs…but the gospel goes with him.
It’s not a have pity on me.
It’s a “WOW!!!…look what I get to do!”
None of us have a perfect situation.
Do we?
None of us have a perfect job.
None of us have a perfect family.
None of us have a perfect life.
Our situations though are definitely better than Paul’s.
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