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Prove it
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I’m a big baseball fan.
I love watching baseball.
I love talking about baseball.
I like going to games.
Some of my favorite memories are playing ball.
Baseball also has some great legends.
Babe Ruth, probably the most famous of baseball legends.
I am convinced there will never be anyone like him in the game again.
Babe Ruth is a legend in baseball, and I am convinced there will never be anyone like him again in the game.
But before Babe Ruth, there was the Georgia Peach, Ty Cobb.
Ty Cobb was the star of the game before Babe Ruth arrived on the scene.
Ty Cobb worked hard.
Played hard.
And practiced hard.
On the flip side, there was Babe Ruth.
Babe Ruth did none of those things.
He didn’t work hard.
He didn’t play hard.
He didn’t practice hard.
He didn’t have an athletes body.
He ate terribly.
In many ways, he didn’t take himself very seriously.
Ty Cobb was offended by Babe Ruth’s lack of effort.
Additionally, Babe Ruth was quickly becoming the star of the game.
Ty Cobb was jealous to say the least.
He knew he was the better athlete.
Ty Cobb finally set out to prove that he was the better player.
So on May 5, 1925, Ty Cobb would prove he was able to back up what he said about himself.
That day he went 6 for 6.
He went to bat 6 times, and got 6 hits.
2 singles.
1 Double.
And 3 homeruns.
That one game set a record on the most bases that a player touched in one game, that would stand until 2012.
The next day, he had 3 more hits.
A single.
And 2 homeruns.
Those 5 homeruns in 2 days, had tied a homerun record that hadn’t been touched since 1884.
At the end of the 3 game stand, he had gone 12 for 19, which is a .631
batting average.
In those 3 games, he had proved to himself, he was a better ball player than Babe Ruth.
His actions demonstrated, he was the real thing.
In the same way,
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Now back to our text in Philippians -
Paul is writing to the Christians in Philippi.
He knows they are Christians.
He is admonishing them, He is encouraging them to prove, they’re the real thing.
To prove that they are Christians.
This brings us to the first point of our sermon, Demonstrate Your Salvation
Ty Cobb thought he was the better player, and in 3 games he proved it.
It seems as if most people assume everyone is a Christian.
I was at a funeral one time, and before the service, I was talking to the funeral director, and he said that every funeral he’d ever seen, was always for a Christian.
Apparently, only Christians die, and every one goes to heaven.
He said that sarcastically.
Because it’s the rare funeral where the person in the casket isn’t preached into heaven.
The most pagan, ungodly, evil man could die.
And as people grieve his death they say, “Well, he’s in a better place now.”
I rarely meet the person who says they are not a Christian, or proudly say, they are going to hell when they die.
Most people will say they are going to heaven, and so are their loved ones.
But the Bible doesn’t speak that way.
We know that there are sheep and goats.
We know that there are wheat and the tares.
We know that few are chosen.
If everyone thinks everyone is going to heaven, but not everyone is, how do we know someone really is going to heaven?
They prove it.
Ty Cobb proved he was the better ball player.
The Christian proves he’s really in Christ.
How does the Christian prove he’s in Christ?
To use Paul’s words, you “work out your salvation”
To work out your salvation -
Doesn’t mean to work for your salvation.
You already have something, now you are demonstrating that you possess it.
It’s near the end of the school year, and many of our students are testing.
Some of our students are taking SATs or ACTs.
There is state testing.
Our high school students have been taking their AP tests.
And if they pass their AP tests, then it means they receive college credits for their classes.
These tests show that they have mastered their subjects.
They are working out their knowledge of a subject.
So how do we know we are in Christ, by working out our salvation.
The AP test is working out a student’s understanding of a subject.
Working out your salvation is demonstrating that a change has happened within you.
Practically speaking, how do we do this?
Paul says at the beginning of verse 12, “as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence, but more more in my absence ..”
This is obedience.
Paul says as you have always obeyed.
And if you want to know what Paul has commanded … then you must be in God’s Word.
How do we find out what to obey?
It’s important to regularly read through Scripture.
By being in God’s Word.
It’s useful for you.
says, “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.”
By reading God’s Word, we learn how to obey God.
And when we disobey … it’s sin.
Living in sin is not working out your salvation.
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