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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:21-23 like a son
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:21-23 Click to listen 21 For everyone looks out for his own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. 22 But you know that Timothy has proved himself, because like a son with his father he has served with me in the work of the gospel. 23 Therefore, I hope to send […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:19-20 No one else like him
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:19-20 Click to listen 19 I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I receive news about you. 20 I have no one else like him, who will be genuinely concerned about your welfare. Paul moves on now from rejoicing […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:17-18 The happy hiss
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:17-18 Click to listen 17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering over the sacrifice and the offering of your faith, I am glad, and I rejoice with all of you. 18 In the same way, be glad and rejoice with me. The drink offering was […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:14-16 Shine like stars
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:14-16 Click to listen 14 Do everything without complaining or arguing 15 so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish among a crooked and perverted generation in which you shine like stars in the cosmos 16 holding on to the word of life, so that I […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:13 Divine Monergism
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:13 Click to listen 13 for God is the one who works in you, to will and also to work for his good pleasure. Paul continues his call to sanctified living by using the gospel to encourage the Philippians and everyone who reads his letter. God is the one working in […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:12 With fear and trembling
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:12 Click to listen 12 Therefore, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; Paul turns now to the subject of obedience. Why? In a letter so filled with […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:11 The exaltation
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:11 Click to listen 11 and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. The “and” here (καὶ) connects this with verse 10; the same people who bow their knees to Christ also confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, and this gives glory […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:9
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:9 Recorded this but got snow-sidetracked and forgot to send it yesterday! Click to listen 9 Therefore God raised him to the highest height and gave him the name that is above every name, “Therefore,” following all of the things Christ did in his state of humiliation, up to and including […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:10 in the sphere of Christ
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:10 Click to listen 10 so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, The cause among mankind for the exaltation of Jesus is to give God glory, and especially to glorify Christ our Savior, Redeemer, and victor, the first […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:8 even death on a cross
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:8 Click to listen he appeared in human likeness, 8 and being found in the form of a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death– even death on a cross! Paul is walking us to the cross, not chronologically, nor in terms of the Apostles’ experience which is what […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:7b By laying aside his power
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:7b Click to listen by taking the very nature of a servant, born in human likeness. Christ came to conquer the enemies of man’s soul: sin, death, and the power of the devil. But he did not come armed and armored like a warrior or champion, or like one of the […]
God’s Word for You – Philippians 2:7a He made himself nothing
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPHILIPPIANS 2:7a Click to listen 7 but he made himself nothing, In what way did God make himself nothing? The verb here means to make empty, to deprive (a thing) of its contents, or to deprive (a man) of his possessions. In Jeremiah, the city gates “languish” (from neglect, Jeremiah 14:2), and […]
