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Philippians 3:1
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I.     Introduction
As soon as you put something into print there is the danger that you have made a mistake.
Carol is pretty good at getting things right in the church bulletin, but not every church secretary is as good.
These are some things that have appeared in church bulletins:
\\ 1. Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa, will be speaking tonight at Calvary Methodist.
Come hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa.
\\ \\ 2. Announcement in a church bulletin for a national PRAYER & FASTING Conference: "The cost for attending the Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.
\\ \\ 3. Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale.
It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house.
Don't forget your husbands.
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The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been cancelled due to a conflict.
\\ \\ 6. Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community.
Smile at someone who is hard to love.
Say "Hell" to someone who doesn't care much about you.
\\ \\ 7. Miss Charlene Mason sang "I will not pass this way again," giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.
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For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
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Next Thursday there will be try outs for the choir.
They need all the help they can get.
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Barbara remains in the hospital and needs blood donors for more transfusions.
She is also having trouble sleeping and requests tapes of Pastor Jack's sermons.
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At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What Is Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir practice.
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Attend and you will hear an excellent speaker and heave a healthy lunch.
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The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.
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Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church.
Please use large double door at the side entrance.
I enjoy good humour.
What about this story?
BOOTS!
Did you hear about the Texas Teacher who was helping one of her kindergarten students put on his cowboy boots?
He asked for help and she could see why.
Even with her pulling and him pushing, the little boots still didn't want to go on.
Finally, when the second boot was on, she had worked up a sweat.
She almost cried when the little boy said, "Teacher, they're on the wrong feet."
She looked and sure enough, they were.
It wasn't any easier pulling the boots off than it was putting them on.
She managed to keep her cool as together they worked to get the boots back on - this time on the right feet.
He then announced, "These aren't my boots."
She bit her tongue rather than get right in his face and scream, "Why didn't you say so?" like she wanted to.
And, once again she struggled to help him pull the ill-fitting boots off his little feet.
No sooner they got the boots off and he said, "They're my brother's boots.
My Mom made me wear 'em."
Now she didn't know if she should laugh or cry.
But, she mustered up the grace and courage she had left to wrestle the boots on his feet again.
Helping him into his coat, she asked, "Now, where are your mittens?"
He said,
"I stuffed 'em in the toes of my boots."
Her trial starts next month.
We like to laugh.
We like to be happy.
My sister-in-law is famous for always asking, “Is everybody happy?”
Are you happy?
Do you have joy?
Are these the same questions?
This morning, as we continue in our series of messages on Philippians, I would like us to notice that the words joy, rejoice and glad appear 17 times in the NIV Bible.
Joy~/rejoice is found 14 times and glad 3 times.
When we remember that this letter was written by a man who was at this time in prison, this is something we should not ignore.
So what does Paul have to say about joy in Philippians?
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Rejoice In The Lord
From Galatians 5:22 we know that joy is a fruit of the Spirit.
When we become Christians, joy is something that God builds into our lives by His Spirit.
In Philippians, however, we find that 3 times once in 3:1 and twice in 4:4 we are commanded to rejoice in the Lord.
What does this command mean and how do we obey it?
!! A.  Rejoice
What is joy?
Merriam-Webster defines it as “the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires.”
Dictionary.com has several definitions.
It says, “the emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying; keen pleasure; elation.”
“A source or cause of keen pleasure or delight; something or someone greatly valued or appreciated.”
By the sounds of it, joy is a good thing, a happy thing, something pleasant.
Since it is commanded, it is clear that joy is to be the mark of those who belong to Jesus.
Some people have noted that some Christians live their lives as if they have been baptized in vinegar.
Another person commented that a horse would make a very good Christian because he has such a long face.
These conceptions are antithetical to what the Bible calls us as Christians to be. Gordon Fee says, “Joy, unmitigated, untrammelled joy, is – or at least should be – the distinctive mark of the believer in Christ Jesus.”
Now we know that having a smile on our face is not always possible, so that means that we have either misunderstood what it means to rejoice always or we have misunderstood what joy is.
Joy goes much deeper than simply laughing all the time.
Most of the time when the word joy appears in this chapter it is based on the Greek word “chairo” which has the meaning which our word joy has.
We cannot discount this meaning of joy or make it less than it is.
To obey this command means that we are going to be a joyful people.
When we were in Hawaii, we attended the Polynesian Cultural Center.
The presentation of the Samoa culture included the phrase, “we are the happy people of Samoa.”
As Christian we should be known as “the happy people of Christ.”
But there is more to joy than just this.
One of the verses which has the word “joy” in it is Philippians 1:26 which says, “so that through my being with you again your joy in Christ Jesus will overflow on account of me.”
Here the word translated as joy in NIV is not “chairo.”
Probably one of the best translations of this word is that found in the RSV which says, “you may have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus…” The Greek word means boasting, confidence or glorying.
This gives us another aspect of what it means to rejoice in the Lord and that is that we put our hope in the Lord, our confident trust in Him.
It is the idea found in Jeremiah 9:23,24 which says, “This is what the Lord says: “Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,” declares the Lord.”
Of course if our confidence is in the Lord, we will also experience a great degree of happiness and contentment in our life.
!! B.   In The Lord
Each time we are commanded to rejoice in 3:1 and 4:4, we notice that our rejoicing is to be “in the Lord.”
In Philippians 3:1 it says, “Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord!
It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.”
Philippians 4:4 says, “Rejoice in the Lord always.
I will say it again: Rejoice!”
This is where we come to the most important thing we need to learn in this passage.
If what we rejoice in is what we put our hope in, then rejoicing “in the Lord” becomes a life changing matter.
Someone asked me a few weeks ago if I had had enough canoeing for the year.
My immediate and glad response was, “Of course not.”
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