filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
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… we discover that God works by his Spirit to enable us to that which he has called us. Philippians chapter 1 and verse 11, he prays for the Philippian believers. He says, I pray that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ. How does the fruit of righteousness appear? Through the Lord Jesus Christ. If you cross-reference that, and you will do so helpfully, with Romans chapter 14 and verse 17, Paul says, The kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. In other words, he's saying to these people, don't think for a moment that you can take the Christian life and turn it simply into a whole succession of external rigmaroles. No, he says, the kingdom of God is about righteousness, it's about peace, it's about joy in the Holy Spirit. So, in other words, it is that which God engenders within us that he then calls us to pursue. Because by nature, we don't want to do the right thing. By nature, we want to do the wrong thing. By nature, we err and stray from his ways like lost sheep. So the Word of God comes to shine on our path and say, Do you want to know how to be righteous? Read this book. 2 Timothy 3.16, All Scripture is inspired by God, is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness. …
… and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit and the righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and the praise of God. This is the word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God. You may be seated. Philippians is a letter that Paul wrote to a little church that he loved. The first church, in fact, he had planted in Europe, the first ever church in Europe. The story of that little church's founding is recorded in Acts 16. It's the one where Paul gets unexpectedly redirected into Philippi. And there Paul sees three people come to faith in Christ. The first is Lydia. She's a young up-and-coming female entrepreneur, a businesswoman. The second is a demon-possessed slave girl. And the third is a Roman jailer. I've told you how odd it was that the first worship service in Philippi consisted, the first one in Europe, consisted of a young female entrepreneur, a slave girl, a Roman jailer, and Paul, a former Jewish rabbi. …
… There it is, there's revelation of Christ. filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God. I'm praying for you that you may abound in knowledge and depth of insight so that you may be able to discern what is best. best. You will not go wrong this year by praying every single day, asking God for the gift of discernment to be strengthened in your life. So that when you're sitting in a meeting at work, and the conversation is happening, you don't need to have like a little red flag in your pocket and go, hello, nope, don't believe that. But in your mind, you're like, yeah, I don't think so. I just feel like I got a little glimpse to see an insight to discern I'm not gonna make a quick judgment I'm not gonna send a hot email but I'm gonna keep I'm gonna keep my eye on that I'm gonna do my own fact checking and I'll tell you why because all through revelation do you know what we saw we saw the counterfeit getting as close as possible to the real thing we ended last week talking about the bright morning star the last name of Jesus besides Jesus but the last of his title names so many of them through revelation And we flash back to Isaiah where you see morning star, lowercase morning star, not revelation, uppercase bright morning star. …