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37:26 very short, just four chapters, but this very powerful letter to the church at Philippi that Paul wrote. He wrote this letter in 61 AD, which was 10 years after he had founded and formed this early Christian community in Philippi. And he was writing this letter from Rome, which was about 800 miles away. Now, as people have been going through this series of tournaments, I've received lots of comments and questions like, Scott, where was Philippi? Where did all of this take place? It would be helpful to see it on a map. So I want to start that way and kind of show you where everything was to give you a sense for what we're talking about when we're talking about Paul's journeys and forming the early churches. And for you to know that, you need to know that most of the early churches, they started in and around the Mediterranean. And here's Jerusalem down here on your right in Israel. And so Paul would have set out from Jerusalem. He would have made his way through Damascus. And then Antioch was kind of like his home base. And so he would be in Antioch. And then he would take these long journeys through Tarsus, Colossae, Antioch, Galatia, those places, Ephesus, that's modern-day Turkey. And then eventually, in his second missionary journey, around 50 or 51 AD, he made his way to Greece or to Macedonia. And he found his way to Philippi, which was right here. From Philippi, he went to Thessalonica on his second missionary journey, then down through like Meteora, Delphi, all the way to Athens, and then eventually to Corinth. And then he made his way back to Jerusalem. But Paul, during his missionary journeys, traveled more than 15,500 miles between all these places, between like 47 AD and 61 AD.

38:59 And in most of those miles, he would have walked through this really treacherous topography by himself, like 8,700 miles of these journeys were by foot, usually on his own. And he would do all of these things. And by the time he's writing this letter to the church at Philippi, he's traveled all of these miles. He's faced all of these different things. And he's writing to this church at Philippi in Rome, but he's no longer a free man there. He's sitting in a Roman prison, awaiting an outcome on the capital offenses, charges that were placed upon him, which means when Paul is writing to the church at Philippi, he's writing it 10 years after he was there for the first time, and he's writing to them facing death. He's literally in like his Good Friday season. He is in suffering in his darkest hour, and he still has the capacity to reach out. Most people would cry out, woe is me. Most people would focus in on their own circumstance and lament and be angry and upset. But Paul at his darkest hours is reaching out still. He's pressing on toward the goal. He's encouraging others, focusing on others, continuing to be faithful. And this is powerful. This is who Paul is, but not just at the end. This is who Paul is in his missionary journeys all throughout his public mission and his public life. Paul, through all of his miles, would continue to press on toward the goal. And he faced all this kinds of suffering, not just at the end, but all throughout his ministry. And he persevered. He pressed on. He never gave in. In his second letter to the Corinthians, he gives you a picture of, and he summarizes his missional life and all that he had to face. This is what he writes to the church at Corinth. He says, I've been beaten more times than I can count. I've faced death many times. I've received the 40 lashes minus one from the Jews five times. I was beaten with rods three times. I was stoned once. I was shipwrecked three times. I spent a day and a night on the open sea. I've been on many journeys. I've faced dangers from rivers and robbers and people and Gentiles. I've faced dangers in the city, in the desert, on the sea, from false brothers and sisters. I face these dangers with hard work and heavy labor, many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst, often without food, and in the cold without clothes. Besides all the other things I could mention, there's my daily stress because

41:11 I'm concerned about all the churches. You know, after all of that suffering, like 20 years of journeying, after all of this stuff that he's faced, he's now sitting facing his death. in the darkness of a Roman prison in the center of Rome. And he's still reaching out, writing this letter to the church at Philippi. And this is how he concludes that letter. The fourth chapter of this letter, he writes this from this dark place awaiting death. He says, rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I will say rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication And with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

42:03 You know, as Paul writes these words, I've been reading and rereading them. And I've been trying to put myself in his position and to think about, you know, what he was feeling when he's writing these words. And he's employing this superhuman strength. And he's writing these words to the church at Philippi. But the more and more I've been reading this, I've been imagining and believing that Paul was actually writing those words to himself. He needed to write down these words in this dark moment so that he would remember, so they can continue to press on. And so when I've been reading these words as of late, I read them as though as Paul is writing them for himself. He's saying, remember, Paul, to rejoice in the Lord always. Remember, again, I say rejoice. Remember to let your gentleness be known to everyone. Don't be anxious, but pray and let God know everything. With great thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God and you'll receive the peace that surpasses all understanding. Remember Paul, it will guard your hearts and your mind. I think Paul writes this letter to himself in prison just as much as he's writing it to us. He's doing this so that he can remember to be faithful, remember to stay true, remember to whenever the rubber hits the road, to continue pressing on toward the goal. So he pens these words and they're so calm and they're so encouraging and I'm so grateful for them, but they're also so challenging because he's facing this impossible circumstance and it feels as though he has superhuman strength. When I read these words that he's writing and I think about his circumstance, I wonder to myself, like, is this what I would be doing if I was thrust into the same position as Paul was? Like, is this what you would do? Would you have the wherewithal to continue to focus on others, to focus on God, instead of focusing on your own individual circumstance and what looms in front of you, like directly in front of you? In fact, when I think about it too much, I get a little anxious, which is actually something that Paul tells us not to do. He says, don't be anxious about anything. And yet I find myself getting anxious thinking about what I would do if I was in the same circumstance. Does that ever happen to you? When Paul says, do not be anxious about anything,

44:11 does that describe you? How can he write that? Did he know that somewhere between 44 and 60% of the U.S. adults, they struggle with chronic, ongoing anxiety, low-grade, on a daily basis? 40 to 60% of the U.S. adult population struggles in this way. And actually, if you take that further, 1 in 5 or 20% of the U.S. adult population, they struggle with more significant forms of anxiety, meaning we are kind of an anxious people. And as adults, we're anxious, but our kids are even becoming increasingly anxious. And so yet, how does Paul, when he's in this dark dungeon of a prison facing sure and certain death, how does he tell us not to be anxious about anything? Like, how do we make sense of this? How could he possibly say that? And it's important as we make sense of this scripture to understand that Paul's understanding of anxiety or anxiousness in his day was different than the way that we see it, the way that we understand it. For Paul, anxiety or anxiousness was less a diagnosable disorder, and it was more of an internal spiritual orientation. The way that they understood this, or the word that they used for this in the ancient Greek, was a word called murim nao, and that meant to be pulled apart. And so what this word described was when you face adversity, when you face an obstacle, when you face a trigger that that gives you anxiety, what actually is happening is that you're being torn apart spiritually, like internally. Your orientation shifts. And so when you face that stimulus or that, you know, obstacle, what happens is you turn away from God and you turn toward yourself. You have this moment where there's this spiritual tug of war taking place and you're being pulled away from God toward your own individual circumstance. And what Paul is saying is that don't be anxious in anything means don't turn your attention away from God. Don't focus on your individual circumstance, but focus always on God. Do not be anxious in any situation. When you're stuck in prison,

46:18 our tendency might be to turn inward, to focus on our own circumstance or our own self. But Paul is saying, don't do that. Focus always on God. So how do we keep our focus on God, especially when things are challenging or tough? How do we keep that focus? How do we stay non-anxious? And Paul says in his letters that the way to do that is by praying to God always and finding reasons to give thanks to God and worshiping and rejoicing. Again, I say rejoice. In his letter to the Thessalonians, this is what he writes. He says, rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in every situation because this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. This is how we stay non-anxious. This is how we stay focused on God. This is how we don't let that internal spiritual tug of war take us away from God and force us inward, only on ourselves. Paul writes these kinds of words to rejoice and to pray and to give thanks in every situation or variations of them in almost all of his letters because he believed this was the will of God for us, to stay focused, to place our trust in Jesus, always and everywhere.

47:24 This is how we face hard things, by finding reasons to giving thanks to God for every situation, by turning toward God always. So I want to ask you, how are you at giving thanks to God, to finding reasons for giving thanks to God? Dr. Emmons, Dr. Robert Emmons, he's one of the greatest thought leaders when it comes to the topic of gratitude or the power of giving thanks, and he shares that a grateful heart leads us toward a healthier, happier, and fuller life. He says, employing gratitude no matter the circumstances, central to our ability to experience a life to the full. And yet admittedly, we struggle to give thanks, especially when life is too hard. It's hard to give thanks. And Dr. Emmons, when he's pressing into like this adversity, these hard moments, he says that that is precisely under these crisis kinds of conditions when we have the most to gain by grateful perspective on life. That's when we have the most power to receive by giving thanks. He says this, in the face of demoralization, gratitude has the power to energize. He says, in the face of brokenness, gratitude has the power to heal. In the face of despair, gratitude has the power to bring about hope. In other words, gratitude can help us cope with hard times, but it doesn't come easy. It doesn't even come naturally in a crisis.

48:48 But when it's employed, it's unquestionably catalytic. And yet we struggle to do this because it's hard to feel grateful when you're faced against it. Now I'd contend nobody feels grateful when they have lost their job or when they've lost their home or they've lost their good health or when their retirement account has taken a devastating hit. It's hard to feel great about that. It's hard to feel grateful about that. But there's a difference between feeling and being grateful. And what Dr. Emmons and what Paul is inviting us to consider is, what does it look like to be grateful? It's hard to control our feelings, but we can control our being. And so in order to realize how it is that we can begin to feel or be grateful, we need to change the way that we see the world. We need to change how we look at things. And one of the ways that we can overcome anxiety, overcome depression or despair, is by finding reasons to give thanks, by choosing to see the world differently.

49:46 looking everywhere it is that we go in every circumstance for reasons to be thankful, to give thanks. And when we change the way that we see the world, what that's going to do is change the way that we feel. It's going to change our countenance, our posture, our disposition. When we have the courage to see the world or to process our life experience through a grateful lens, what that does is it allows us to overcome our obstacles, to turn them into opportunities. It allows us to turn toward God instead of staying stuck in our own individual experience. It allows us to turn toward the limitless possibilities of God instead of our own limited worldview or understanding of our own reality. We have to look for reasons to give thanks to change the way that we see the world in order to have our lives transformed. How are you at looking or finding reasons for giving thanks?

50:41 This is something that Paul is inviting us to consider. This is something that he's thinking about, especially as he's writing to this church at Philippi, sitting in prison awaiting his death. Paul, he remembers Philippi, and he remembers what he experienced when he was there for the very first time 10 years earlier. And what he remembered then was a visit to prison. You know, Paul and Silas, they sent out to Philippi to start a new church, to share the gospel with non-anomally religious people. They wanted to go and to start this Christian community and to spread the gospel, to change the world. And they had some great success. They encountered awesome people like Lydia and a group of women who are faithful, who are baptized at the river. And they had all of these extraordinary experiences. But then they came across this one particular person. She was a slave girl who was being actively exploited for profit by these two bad guys. And they were using her.

51:38 for money, for a living. And Paul, they didn't like how she was being taken advantage of. And so they took action. They freed her from her captors and the spirits that were enslaving her. And they did so in the name of Jesus. And after they intervened, what happened was this woman was no longer bound by her spirit. She was no longer bound by her captors, these two bad guys. She was totally set free. And then she was converted. She professed in Jesus Christ and her life was altogether different. A free woman, a disciple of Christ. And everybody should have been rejoicing on account of what Paul and Silas did alongside this woman in Philippi. But not everybody was rejoicing. The two men that were, you know, had enslaved this woman, they were frustrated. They had lost their profit center. And so they take action themselves. And this is what happens next. They seized Paul and Silas and they dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities. And when they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, these men, they're disturbing our city.

52:40 They're Jews and they're advocating customs that are not lawful for us as Romans to adopt or observe. So the crowd joined them in attacking them and the magistrates had them stripped of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods. And after they had given them a severe flogging, they threw them into prison and they ordered the jailer to keep them securely. After performing what would have been deemed a miracle by so many, they were sentenced. punished, without due process for a crime they didn't commit. They were stripped. They were beaten. They were thrown into the darkest dungeon of this particular cellar. And it's from this place in the darkness of that prison that Paul and Silas in Philippi have a choice to make. Do they turn away from God and lament and cry out, woe is me, and publicly protest this injustice that has been thrust upon them? Or do they turn toward God and find reasons to rejoice or to give thanks or to pray to God, to worship? Like this was their choice. This is their position. This was their predicament. What were they going to do? This is what we read happens next. About midnight, Paul and Silas, they were praying and they were singing hymns to God.

54:01 and the prisoners were listening to them. First of all, this was a point when most people, I think, would turn inward. They would lament their circumstance, but Paul and Silas, they resist that. They stay focused on God. They don't give into that spiritual tug of war, but they turn away from their own individual circumstance and they focus on finding ways to give thanks to God. They start praying and then they start singing songs of praise and then they begin to lift up everything they have in worship to God. And what happens is their life is changed. They have this power about them, but that power isn't just limited to them. It's also contagious because the author of Acts said the other prisoners were listening. They were listening to what they were singing. They were listening to the way that they were praising God and thanking God for all that God did for them in the name of Jesus Christ or by the grace of Jesus Christ. And they were watching and listening. And then what happened after a bit of time is that they joined in because it's contagious when you live in this kind of way, when you live out your life of faith in this kind of way, an unwavering devotion and fashion.

55:04 And so it didn't take long before everybody was singing these same songs of praise. And you get the sense that this dark prison, this dungeon of a place, it was slowly being transformed by God's grace into this beautiful, illumined worship service where everybody was singing, where everybody was spiritually set free, where everybody was giving thanks to God for what God has done in their life, for how God was with them. I mean, how powerful is this to think that we would have this ability to transform an entire space on our ability to place our trust in God, to not be anxious about anything, but to always turn toward God. I think when we're thrust into these unimaginable circumstances, when we turn inward, we miss out on so much. But when we have the courage to see things differently or to place our trust and focus on God, not only does it make our life better, but it makes life better for everybody around us because people are watching and they're listening.

56:07 I love what Teresa of Avila says about our life of faith and its power. She says, Christ has no body on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion is to look out to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now. People are always watching. They're always listening. Your life is perhaps the only gospel that most people might ever read. What do people see, hear, witness when they look at you or listen to you or observe you? In that person, do they say, I can see something of what it means to be like Christ? Are they drawn to you and to Christ's light and love shining through you? I think this is the power of what Paul is trying to urge us to understand what he experienced himself in this prison in Philippi. Because of his ability to sing songs, to praise God, to give thanks in every circumstance, even in that prison, it changed the entire prison.

57:15 And it can change our entire life too. As the story continues, this is what happens next.

57:56 they were literally and physically set free. Nothing was enslaving them anymore. They weren't bound anymore. They were able to run about and go back to the rhythm of regular life. And yet their freedom came at the expense of this jailer because he didn't feel free. He was responsible for caring for and securing all these prisoners and he thought that he had failed at his job And so he had drawn his sword and he was preparing to take his own life. And so again, Paul and Silas and now all of the other prisoners, they had a decision to make. What do they do? Do they stay focused only on their internal experience of life? Do they run free because now they are set free from prison? Or do they turn toward God? Remain non-anxious. Thank God for the gifts they've been given and live differently because of them. And so they followed Jesus.

58:51 They trusted in God and they stayed. They didn't leave. In that whole prison, they gathered together and they looked at this jailer and they cried out, don't do it. We're all still here. We're with you. We haven't gone anywhere. And upon hearing their voices, upon seeing their presence, witnessing their sacrificial love, the jailer fell to his knees. And on account of what he saw, he professed Jesus Christ as Lord. And what happens after that is he takes all of these prisoners, Paul and Silas, back to his house. And for the night, he feeds them. And he cleans up their wounds. And he gives them all a safe place to sleep because there is power when we have the courage to take action. To turn toward God. To find reasons to give thanks. and in every circumstance pray and experience the power of rejoicing for God is with us.

59:52 It can change our life, but it can change the world around us as well when we seek to find ways to give thanks for everything. So how are you doing that? How well do you find reasons to give thanks? Corrie Ten Boom, she was a Dutch watchmaker and she was a Christian writer. She and her sister Betsy, they managed to shelter and safeguard more than 800 Jews from Nazi forces throughout World War II. Eventually, they were apprehended, and they were imprisoned together at Ravensbrück camp in Germany. And here's a picture of Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsy. But the barracks that they were placed in were extremely crowded. They were infested with fleas, and yet they managed to hold Bible studies inside of these barracks. One morning in their Bible study. They were reading from a tattered Bible, one of Paul's letters, and they were struck by the reminder to rejoice in all things. And Betsy said to her sister, Corrie, we've got to give thanks. Like in every circumstance, we got to give thanks for the barracks and even for these fleas in these barracks. Corrie responded, there's no way I'm giving thanks to God for these fleas. And Betsy, she was persuasive and she said, we have to thank God for everything. We need to thank God in every circumstance. And so we need to thank God regularly for the barracks and for the fleas. And so Corey eventually began to thank God for all of these things, including the fleas. And in the months that followed, as they were captive in Ravensbrück camp, what they found is that their barracks were rarely infiltrated. They were rarely, you know, entered into by all of the supervising officers and the Nazi, you know, perpetrators. And so they found with relative ease that they could continue studying the Bible.

1:01:35 They could continue praying. They could continue giving thanks for the fleas. And it took some months later before they realized that they had all that freedom inside of their barracks. They were relatively uninterrupted inside of those barracks because none of the guards wanted to be near those fleas. And so what this did for Corrie ten Boom was it helped her to realize that when we find reasons to give thanks for everything or in every circumstance, even if we have the ability to give thanks for fleas, what it will help us to realize is that God isn't absent but that God is with us. And if God is with us, there's no reason for us to be afraid or anxious because we can trust that the peace of Christ, which surpasses all understanding, it will safeguard our hearts. It'll protect us. It will help us to remember that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. But it starts with our ability to not give in to that spiritual tug of war, to not be anxious about anything, but to stay focused.

1:02:33 to turn always toward God, to place our trust in God instead of turning inward on our limited circumstance. When we turn inward, all we can focus in on is our limited worldview. But when we turn toward God, what we unlock is this unlimited possibility of a future filled with hope made possible by the resurrection. It can turn Good Fridays into Easter Sundays. This is the gospel. and it begins when we find reasons to give thanks. How are you doing at finding reasons to give thanks? That's what I want us to challenge to do today. For the next week, in light of Paul's letter to the Philippians, one of the challenges I want to place is I want to invite you to start a gratitude practice, to find reasons every day to give thanks. So I'm going to ask you to do something really simple. Every time you wake up in the morning for the next week, I want you to, before you do anything else, write down on your phone or write down on a sheet of paper next to your bed three things that you're thankful for at the start of the day.

1:03:33 Those can be little things or big things. Start with just forcing yourself to choose to be thankful for something, three things at the beginning of each day. And then before you go to bed every day for the next week, I want you to consider naming three more things that you're thankful for at the end of the day. What I know is that when we choose to see the world differently, when we choose to find reasons to give thanks, when we turn toward God instead of turning inward and focusing only on ourself. It has the power to change everything. This is what Paul believes. This is what Dr. Emmons encourages. This is what we see in the story of Paul and Silas in the church at Philippi. This needs to become our story as well. How we change the way that we see the world impacts how we feel in this world. Which brings me to my last story. And it has to do with something that I think only God could have authored.

1:04:27 because for the last week, as I've been reading through the Apostle Paul's letter to the Church of Philippi, and really for this whole month, but the last week, focusing in on what it looks like to rejoice always. Again, I say rejoice and to pray and to bring God everything, our prayers of thanksgiving, to not be anxious. Inside of my household, we had been dealing with a death. We have, over the last week, lost our dog, our dog named Nuggie. Here's a picture of Nuggie. and this is something that isn't necessarily sermon worthy. Nuggie is just a dog. It doesn't seem like that big of a deal except that it happened so fast and Nuggie was just, you know, barely four years old and for our kids, you know, for Poppy and for Freddy, Nuggie was more than just like a dog. He was their best friend, their companion. You can see Poppy and Freddy with their their beloved friend. And our kids in their short lives, they haven't dealt with much adversity or obstacles or darkness or death. And so when they were confronted with this new reality about their friend who was no longer with them, they were devastated. It was perhaps their darkest hour, which meant for parents, for Wendy and I, it became a really challenging week. Like, how do we begin to lead our kids, you know, through this process of darkness and death and overcoming that by trusting in God and experiencing the resurrection and the life. And so it was overwhelming for us to care for our kids in this way for the first time. But then we thought, well, we're pastors. So we got this. We can manage this. We're in this. And so I began to over function. I began to try to coach Freddie and Poppy. I started asking them to implore them to find reasons to give thanks. Like, what were you thankful for? What were you grateful for about Nuggy? And they weren't having any of it. They didn't want to find reasons to give thanks. They were angry. They were upset. They were crying out. This is unfair. This shouldn't have happened.

1:06:26 Like, I want him back. And so I kept trying to prod them to see things differently. And I wasn't having much success. By the time we got to Sunday, Sunday morning, you know, Pastor Wendy and my wife, she was preaching. And so I was responsible for trying to get the kids assembled and ready to go to come and experience, you know, God and worship and at church. And and it had been a rough weekend, but I had gotten here on time. We were walking together, the three of us, me, Freddie, and Poppy, and we were making our way into church. And then unprovoked, as we're walking through the parking lot, you know, we parked far away, this long walk through the parking lot to get to the church, Freddie, just out of nowhere, and I wrote it down, said this. He said, Dad, I'm so thankful for the books that we receive from two of our babysitters about dog heaven. and then Poppy said that was so nice and then Poppy shared how awesome it was to receive so many sweet treats from so many people over the last few days she says that made me feel loved and then Freddie said that really has helped me too to feel like I'm not all alone but it's like we have this big family and they all care about us and they all love us and they know that we miss Nuggie and I still miss Nuggie but I know that we're going to be okay because we have all these people around us who love us, who see us, and it makes everything so much better.

1:07:55 And then Poppy chimed in one last time, and she said to her brother, she said, I think that's God telling us that everything's going to be okay. You know, I had been focused on trying to get them to offer words of gratitude for Nuggy, for the things about their dog that they missed. But I wasn't looking for all those other reasons to give thanks that they were keenly aware of. And they were unprovoked in their willingness to rejoice and to offer their thanksgiving and to talk about how the kindness and the acts of other people reflecting the light and the love of Christ pouring into them, how it made them feel better. It made their life stronger. and as they were giving thanks, that impacted me and helped me to see the same thing. And I think this is what Paul wants us to see.

1:08:52 He wants us to find reasons to give thanks so that we can become strong. He wants us to find reasons to be thankful so that we can experience God, so that we can remember that we're not alone and that we're better together. We represent the living body of Christ. We are the gospel that most people will read. And when we show up and people see it, the only response is to rejoice and to give thanks and to experience the life-changing power and presence of Jesus Christ. Beneath our very real grief and loneliness and pain, I believe we can always experience God's holy heartbeat. No matter what has been taken from you, no matter how anxious we feel, there's always joy to be discovered. There's beauty to be seen, love to be shared. This is what Paul writes.

1:09:44 He says, rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I will say rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with great thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. I pray that we can be a place, a church, a community, a people that holds onto this. People who sees everything as a reason for rejoicing in every circumstance and turns always toward God. Would you pray with me?

1:10:28 Gracious God, we thank you for today, for drawing us here, regardless of what we've experienced to remind us that you are with us. We need only look to search for reasons to give thanks, to find people or places or things or instances that reflect your power and presence in our life. Things that remind us the worst thing isn't the last thing, that death doesn't have the final word, but your resurrection power, your hope can be seen here and now through your living body. So help us to become that, to be visible to the world around us by our willingness to not be anxious about anything, but to place our trust in you always and everywhere. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

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