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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Philippians 3:17 Press on
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 3:17 Click to listen 17 Brothers and sisters, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who are walking according to the example you have in us. Paul is offering himself to the Philippians as an example of the Christian life, a man to be imitated. Here he says […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 3:16 Let us walk in step
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 3:16 Click to listen 16 Only let us walk in step with what we have attained. Let’s understand what Paul is saying as well as we can. When he says “let us walk in step,” as I have translated, it is the verb stoichein (στοιχεῖν). It’s noun form is stoichos (στοῖχoς), […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 3:15 Perfection
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 3:15 Click to listen 15 Let those of us who are perfect think this way, and if you think otherwise in anything, God will reveal that to you as well. This verse says two important things, and we should address both of them. First, we must examine what Paul means by […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 3:12-14 The paradox
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 3:12-14 Click to listen 12 Not as though I have already attained this or have already reached the goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus has taken hold of me. 13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have taken hold of it. But […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 3:10-11 that somehow I may arrive
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 3:10-11 Click to listen 10 I do this that I may know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 in the hope that somehow I may arrive at the resurrection from the dead. Paul considers all the advantages […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 3:7-9 as useless as armor in the desert
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 3:7-9 Click to listen 7 But whatever things were gain for me I now consider loss because of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of what is worth so much more: knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost all things. I consider […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 3:4b-6 a Hebrew of Hebrews
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 3:4b-6 Click to listen If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 6 in regard to […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 3:2-4a we are the circumcision
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 3:2-4a Click to listen 2 Look out for the dogs. Look out for those who do evil. Look out for those who mutilate the flesh. Many of the Philippian Christians were, like Lydia, Jews who had been converted to Christianity by Paul’s preaching. Would the Apostle refer to Jews as dogs? […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 3:1 The reliable Word
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 3:1 Click to listen 3 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is, on the one hand, no trouble to me and it is, on the other hand, reliable for you. What are we to make of “finally” (τὸ λοιπόν)? The phrase can also […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 16:9-11 pleasures forever
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 16:9-11 Click to listen 9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices;even my flesh will dwell securely.10 For you will not abandon my life to the grave,nor will you let your holy one see decay.11 You make known to me the path of life;there is in an abundance […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 16:7-8 I bless the Lord
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 16:7-8 Click to listen 7 I bless the LORD who guides me.At night my heart instructs me. Christ our Lord prays: “I bless the Lord… my heart instructs me at night.” The second line implies that the guidance of the Lord takes place all the time; even at night his holy […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 16:5-6 a delightful inheritance
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 16:5-6 Click to listen We should remember that the Holy Spirit himself interprets this Psalm for us, quoting and explaining it in Acts 2:25-31and in Acts 13:35-37. The writer of the Psalm is David, and we can view many of the verses through his eyes and mind, but primarily the speaker […]
