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    Adult Christian Life 1st Quarter 2013
    Adult Christian Life 1st Quarter 2013
    Adult Christian Life 1st Quarter 2013
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    Adult Christian Life 1st Quarter 2013

    By Bernard Williams

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    Adult Christian Life contains Sunday school material for people ages 25 and older. The exposition of the Scripture, with life-centered insights, is preceded by an introduction to the lesson designed to help learners gain a greater understanding of the text under discussion relative to context, content, and meaning for life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
    Release dateSep 1, 2012
    ISBN9781589425712
    Adult Christian Life 1st Quarter 2013
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    Bernard Williams

    Bernard Williams (1929-2003) was one of the most distinguished British philosophers of the twentieth century, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University, and Monroe Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.

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      Adult Christian Life 1st Quarter 2013 - Bernard Williams

      MOTIVES AND MESSAGES

      Unifying Topic: Proclaiming Christ

      PHILIPPIANS 1:15-26

      BACKGROUND SCRIPTURE: PHILIPPIANS 1:12-30

      The New National Baptist Hymnal, 21st Century Edition, #227 (NNBH #198); God’s Promises Bible, Philippians 1:15-26; Boyd’s Commentary for the Sunday School

      Philippians 1:15–26

      Main Thought: What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. (Philippians 1:18, KJV)

      LESSON SETTING

      Paul was in prison while writing to the church in Philippi. In his letter to the Philippians, he makes it clear that he is aware of some of the things, both good and bad, that are going on in that region. One of those things is the spread of the Gospel of Christ by some preachers with godly motives and also by others with selfish and ungodly motives. He impresses upon his readers that God’s message is being delivered and souls are being saved whether or not the messengers themselves do so out of pure motives. In addition, Paul ponders the continued need for his presence to help train and encourage his followers.

      EXPOSITION

      There are two compelling issues being addressed by Paul in this lesson. Predictably enough, they both involve the spread of the Gospel. (They are predictable, of course, because after Paul was converted from his previous life as Saul, he lived only for Christ.) In simple terms, the first issue involves the spread of the Gospel by others, and the second involves the continued spread of the Gospel by Paul himself. The first issue involves the spread of the Gospel by people who are combating the Gospel that Paul is sharing. We don’t know why such men opposed Paul, but he makes it clear that God’s message is being preached, so all is well. And the second issue involves a small period of ambiguity on Paul’s part as to whether or not it is more beneficial for him to continue his earthly ministry or lean toward his desire for the Lord to take him home.

      I.  AND THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT (Philippians 1:15-18)

      In the first three verses of the text, Paul, in his usual celebratory style, chooses to overlook the hardship of his own politically imposed imprisonment and instead focus on the joy and privilege of his spiritually imposed self-imprisonment, an imprisonment which he describes as chains for Christ (v. 13, NIV). In fact, his acute spiritual discernment is what leads him to write that what has happened to [him] has really served to advance the gospel (v. 12, NIV). Paul finds joy in his journey, rejoices over it, and is proud of the encouragement, courage, and fearlessness that he knows his example has ultimately generated (see v. 14, NIV).

      GOSPEL

      (Greek: EUANGELION)

      (Philippians 1:16)

      This noun means good news. Good news is the most appropriate description of the message about what Christ accomplished for us on the cross. We were given renewed access to the gift of eternal life. It is not just good news; it is the best news mankind has ever received.

      Paul’s faith is infectious, and his followers feed off of his unwavering example of focusing on the prize. Paul is raising up ambassadors for Christ that will create spiritual foundations for Christian fellowship that will not only build Christ’s Church but will also help generate exponential growth that will eventually spread to the four corners of the earth. In today’s terms, Paul would be a traveling evangelist who plants churches. This is because he recruited, groomed, nurtured, taught, trained, blessed, and then commissioned his followers to seed new churches. Church planters oversee and administer the activities of newly-established churches until a pastor is groomed and able to carry on the work that the church planter began. This is actually what Paul did even though he was in prison.

      Because God’s will is always done, it should not surprise us as to His means, whatever they may be. After all, as the Supreme Being, God has all possible means at His disposal. Some of the messengers of the Gospel of Christ who preached at the time of Paul’s letter to the Philippians were, according to Paul, motivated by selfish ambition. Paul noted that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill (v. 15, NIV). Then he rhetorically asks, But what does it matter? (v. 18, NIV) because he knows God’s message is being shared

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