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By Pastor Glenn Pease.
Chuck Swindoll was told this true story of Joe Gibbs, head coach of the Washington Red Skins.
Joe's friend Frank looked out the window one morning and there was his faithful Labrador Retriever sitting on the front porch with something hanging from the dog's jaws.
A closer look revealed it was his neighbor's pet rabbit.
Frank panicked-what was he to do?
His mind raced through the options, and landed on one he thought was best.
He pulled the rabbit from his dogs mouth, and brought it into his kitchen.
He washed off all the dirt and gunk.
Then he too it into the bathroom and pulled out the hair dryer and blew the dead creature until it was nice and fluffy.
For a dead rabbit it looked quite nice.
That night after dark Frank crawled over the back fence and placed the dead rabbit back in his cage.
He then slipped back through the darkness, hopped the fence, and breathed a sigh of relief.
His scheme seemed perfect until the next morning when there was a loud banging on his front door.
When frank opened it, there was his neighbor with the dead rabbit clutched in his hand.
"Frank," he said, "we have a real sicko in the neighborhood.
My rabbit died three days ago and I buried it in the back.
Some nut dug it up and cleaned it off, and stuck it back in the hutch."
You can just imagine how stupid Frank must have felt in hearing the facts which totally altered his whole perception of reality.
He had totally misread the evidence and assumed his dog had killed the rabbit.
It is amazing how we can turn reality into fiction by not knowing the facts.
Most of the major divisions of history that put men at odds with one another are based on this demonic inspired ability to jump to conclusions without the facts.
Men are forever trying to make divisions where the Word of God is making unity.
Men often live in a world of fiction of their own making, and not the real world that God has made.
Man tries to divide the more female feeling approach to life, and the more male intellectual approach, and thus, separate the head and the heart.
Paul makes all who so think feel stupid, for he links the two together as one, and says that love is to abound more and more in knowledge.
Man tries to divide life into the good things and the bad things-the positive events, and the negative events.
But Paul says that this neat classification is an exercise in futility, for God uses the bad things and negative events for our good, and His glory.
You cannot compartmentalize life and keep the good and bad separate, for going to prison was the way God advanced the Gospel through Paul.
The good and bad are linked together.
Man tries to separate the bad preachers from the good ones by focusing on their motives, but Paul says that what matters is not the motive, but the message, and so all the differences are not the issue, but the unity of all who preach Christ.
The fact of the united message changes the whole picture of how you see the great variations and divisions of the church.
Man is constantly looking for ways to divide and separate.
God is looking for constant ways to link and unite.
Division is the goal of man, but unity is the goal of God.
Man tries to say there are saints and non-saints, but Paul says, all who are in Christ are saints.
Man says, there are clergy and lay people.
Paul says to the Philippians, you are partners with me in the Gospel.
There is no division in Christ.
Man says, there is male and female in Christ, but Paul says, there is neither male nor female, and in 4:3 he says, the women equally contended for the Gospel at his side.
Paul says, you cannot even divide between God and man, for in chapter 2 he says, God became man, and in Jesus Christ the divine and the human were linked forever as one.
Men love to distinguish between what is human and what is divine less in mixing the two the divine gets contaminated.
Apparently God was not worried about this, for He sent His Son to enter wholly into human nature.
We don't have to worry that God will be offended by linking man to Him as partner.
It is true that man at best is sinful, and God is holy, and some things don't mix well, like gas and water; sin and holiness.
We don't want to pretend like many cults do, that man is God.
There will be an eternal distinction between man and God, and man will never be God.
But the fact is, God made man in His image, and He makes man His partner in the history of His plan of salvation.
It is this unity that we want to focus on, because of Paul's doing so in verse 19.
"For I know that through your prayers and the help given by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance."
I have read that verse many times and never saw the implications.
It seems like a mere matter of fact, common place statement.
But let me call your attention to the rather shocking thing Paul has done in this verse.
He has linked together as one in partnership the prayers of the Philippians, and the help of the Holy Spirit.
He even puts their prayers first before the help of the Holy Spirit.
Will this not grieve the Spirit to be put in second place in the providence of God?
Not at all, for the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ who humbly welcomes the cooperation and oneness of man's prayers for the cause of the kingdom.
We love to make division, and distinguish between the role of men and the role of God.
Paul does not do this.
He links the prayers of men and the providence of God.
He makes them partners, and makes them one.
We cannot claim to know that this is a fifty-fifty deal with the prayers being equal with the Spirit.
But we cannot say its one percent prayers and 99% Spirit either.
There is no percentage breakdown, for that is not the issue, but the issue is the partnership.
God includes man in his plan.
What we do, and what we pray for as Christians is not irrelevant to the plan of God.
Paul counted on the help of man and God.
Here was one of the greatness men of God who ever lived.
He was full of the Holy Spirit.
He was gifted and empowered by the risen Christ, and yet, he needed the prayers of lay people for his success.
Christian leaders do not succeed just because they are gifted and full of the Spirit.
They need the support of God's people in prayer.
Billy Graham has reached millions of people with the Gospel because of the masses of lay people that back him up in prayer.
I don't know how God is going to credit people for their role in the kingdom of God, and reward all according to that role, but I have a hunch it is going to be surprising when we get to heaven to see the great rewards that go, not to great leaders, evangelists, and pastors, but to the unknown lay people who back them up in prayer.
Some of the big names are like the preacher Paul deals with in this letter.
They have false motives and sinful attitudes, and you will see them poorly rewarded, but obscure unknown people who prayed for them will be greatly rewarded.
The credit for the success of many God uses may not belong to them at all, but to the people who pray for God to use them.
This gives every child of God an equal chance to get the highest rewards of heaven, for every Christian, however, handicapped and ungifted, has an equal opportunity to pray for the gifted instruments that God is using.
That makes praying partners as partners also in rewards.
Prayer is the great equalizer.
We cannot all be Pauls or Billy Grahams, but we can all pray for the Pauls and Billy Grahams of history, and be partners in the plan of God on all levels.
Paul was no independent evangelist doing his own thing.
He was a part of the body needing the body to support him.
He was not on who says, "I don't need anybody.
I've got God's support, and the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Pray for yourself, but not me.""
Paul needed the prayer and support of the body , for he did not divide the support of God and man into two categories where some needed one and others needed the other.
Paul linked the two and said they are one, and all of God's people need the prayers of men and the help of the Holy Spirit.
If someone ever asks you if you depend upon people's prayers or the Holy Spirit, do not fall for this false division as if you are being more spiritual by saying you only depend on the Spirit.
The only truly spiritual choice is the say you depend on both.
Anyone who gets so spiritual that they no longer need the prayers of men are fanatics who have forsaken the Word of God for fantasies of their own making.
If they sound spiritual to us, it is because we too have forsaken the facts of God's revelation.
God has made men partners in His providence, and we are to be grateful, as Paul was.
One of the best illustrations I have ever read of this partnership comes from the book Simple Faith by Chuck Swindoll.
He found this true story in Elmer Bendines book The Fall of Fortresses.
It is the remarkable story of a B-17 Flying Fortress that flew a bombing mission over Germany at the end of World War II.
The bomber took several direct hits from Nazi antiaircraft guns.
A few even hit the fuel tank, but by some miracle the crippled bomber made it back without exploding.
After landing, they discovered it was a man made miracle.
Eleven unexploded shells were removed from the bomber's fuel tank, and each was dismantled.
To everyone's amazement they were all empty of explosives.
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