Partners in Joy
from Girls on SermonAudio Hosted by Robert Rohlin
Paul wrote these verses from a Roman prison, chained to a guard, 800 miles and ten years removed from the church he was thanking God for. Philippians 1:3-8 is one long sentence in the Greek, and it holds four reasons his joy never moved: the praise of joy, the partnership of joy, the promise of joy, and the passion of joy. The message walks back through Acts 16 - the riverside prayer meeting, the slave girl set free, the beating, and the jailer who washed the wounds he had helped inflict - because those are the memories behind "I thank my God upon every remembrance of you." A long look at lukewarm Laodicea and its salty aqueduct draws the line between a believer who refreshes the people around him and one who makes them sick. If your joy rises and falls with your circumstances, this points somewhere steadier: the people God has joined to you in the gospel, and the God who began a good work in you and will carry it through to the day of Jesus Christ. It closes with four things to do about it - give thanks, give yourself, give God the glory, and give Him your heart.
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