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What is a hero?
My favorite superhero movie is
a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements or noble qualities.
Who are your heroes?
Maybe they are superhero?
Batman, Superman, Flash?
Spiderman, Ironman, or the hulk?
Each one of these imaginary characters is very different, but what makes them heroes?
What makes them admirable?
I had a family tell me that they didn’t let their kids watch any superhero shows because they were too violent.
I agreed, but told them that the value I see in even modern superhero films is what makes the hero.
They are always sacrificing their comfort, resources or safety for the good of others.
They are often willing to sacrifice their own life to save someone else.
What do we think about as Americans of people who are heroes?
Firefighters and police officers who save peoples lives.
We know what a hero is: someone who loves others more than himself or herself.
You may be familiar with
What do we really have to give someone other than ourselves?
Not everyone will be a hero in the textbook definition, but every Christian should live in a way that is honorable.
1 John 3:1
Today we’re going to look at two men whom Paul describes in
Men who demonstrated what we’ve been observing all through this book.
We’re commanded to as a citizen worthy of the gospel.
We’ve studied what that looks like: unity, self-sacrifice, loving and caring for each other.
Two weeks ago we looked at Christ’s example in 2:5-11
His love and humility drove him to give up his life in order to save us.
And because of his fullness of God, that he didn’t need to glorify himself, he received more glory than he had before.
He is our hero: our Savior.
We know we should imitate Christ.
He is our pinnacle example.
He is worthy of honor.
The implication Paul makes in this paragraph is that these two men, Timothy and Epaphroditus, are real-life examples of what it looks like to have the mind of Christ.
Throughout the message today, I want you to ask yourself two questions
what characteristics in others do I hold as honorable, and
what characteristics in myself are honorable.
What kind of people do I hold in high esteem?
What about me do others see as honorable?
Who are my heroes?
How am I acting like a hero?
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Now remember, Paul has visted the Philippians three times.
His first visit was shortly after Timothy joined his
However, should we honor other Christians, or only Christ?
as Christians have other christians that we imitate?
Or is Christ alone worthy of imitation?
Should we as Christians ever imitate other Christians? and if so, to what extent?
Phil 2:19-30
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We were introduced to two men in this passage, Timothy and Epaphroditus.
You may remember Timothy’s name already in this passage 1:1
They knew Timothy from Paul’s first visit to Philippi.
And the Philippian Church had sent Epaphroditus to Paul with a financial gift to help sustain him.
You also get the idea that Epaphroditus was a leader in the church whom the Philippians sent to stay with Paul, but v25, Paul finds it necessary to send him back.
So they can rejoice that God spared his life and that he can minister to them in Paul’s absence.
Both of these men were friends of the Philippians.
Who was Timothy?
Timothy - Greek father and a jewish mother.
His mother Eunice and grandmother Lois had sincere faith and a love for the Old Testament that they taught to Timothy
Grandmas?
Grandpas?
Moms?
Dads?
Sometimes we think that the church should do all the training.
We leave it up to Sunday School to give our youth a full Bible education.
And it simply isn’t enough.
Now bringing them to Sunday School, having them with you in church is very important to building in these biblical principles, but it’s not enough.
Timothy received a sincere faith from his mom and grandma.
They need to hear your faith from your lips.
They need to hear your understanding of the bible from you.
They need to see you worshipping the God that you love.
And this isn’t just for little kids.
Even now, when I hear my dad pray, or he counsels me for different things, his faith shines through.
Sincere faith isn’t something you put in an envelope and send to your kids.
It’s something that you demonstrate to them over time.
- So we know Timothy was a young man who knew the Scriptures, we also know that he tended to be regularly sick.
- Weak
Some of you know the pain and frustration of ongoing physical struggles.
That you just can’t feel good.
Whether it’s physical or emotional.
That you have to choose between cleaning the house or getting groceries because you physically can’t do both.
Be encouraged that in spite of your difficulty and limitations, you can still have honorable character.
We aren’t sure what kind of personality Timothy had.
Some infer from Paul exhortations not to have a spirit of fear and his encouragement to the Corinthians to ‘put him at ease’ may imply that he was tempermentally reserved.
(1Cor 16:10)
Although we can’t be sure about it at all, what we do know is how he acted.
v19 - Paul hopes to send him ‘in the Lord’ v23 Paul will wait until he knows whether he’s going to be released from prison.
Potentially joining or following right after Tim.
Temperamentally reserved - put him at ease
You’ll see this sort of phrase all through Paul’s writings -
When Paul puts his hopes in the Lord, he is expressing that the Lord Jesus is the one on whom all our expectations and hopes are determined.
When Paul ‘hopes’ he’s not wishing for it like we ‘hope’ we have fun on our vacations or we hope the weather is nice.
His hope is a confident expectation that God will do what is good in this situation.
Timothy IS
v20 genuinely concerned for your welfare
this is exactly what he said in v3-4 - not looking for his own interests, but concerned about the needs of others
But it goes further than just being nice to other people.
But notice what kind of needs he’s focused on.
Timothy loves the Philippians because he doesn’t seek his own interests, but rather seeks
v21 - the interests of Jesus Christ.
Timothy is primarily interested in helping the Philippians be full of the things of God.
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