Knowing How to Live the Church Life

I. By Knowing the Christian Life as a Supplied Life
A. The nature of supply
1. Receiving what you need - 2 Cor. 9:10
2. Receiving by the hearing of faith - Gal. 3:5
3. Supplied by Identifying with our union - Col. 2:19; 3:1-4
4. Supplied by petitioning prayer - Phil. 1:19, 3-4
5. Supplied by the growth in the members - Eph. 4:15-16
6. The motive of supply - 1 Pet. 4:11
7. Working the supply for the ultimate supply - 2 Pet. 1:3-11
B. The purpose of the supply
1. To magnify and live Christ - Phil. 1:20-21
2. To merge with Christ's disposition - Phil. 2:1-5
3. To be reduce to thinking the one thing - Phil. 2:2
4. To find our oneness and harmony in our experiences of Christ - Phil. 2:12-14
II. By Learning the Secret in Our Circumstances
A. Being initiated into our circumstances by revelation - Phil. 4:12; 3:15-16
1. Knowing the church is a matter of revelation - Matt. 16:13-18
2. Knowing our circumstances under revelation - Rom. 8:28-39
3. Learning to make the connections in our daily life with our experience of Christ
- Phil. 4:12; 3:15-16
B. A progressive learning, not automatic - Phil. 4:11
C. A learning that is constituted into us - Phil. 4:11 (resultant aorist)
1. Not merely having experiences, but experiencing Christ in them
D. The secret of living one moment at a time - Phil. 4:11
E. The secret of drawing from the supply - Phil. 4:11; 2 Cor. 12:9
F. A learning that equalizes our circumstances to experience Christ - Phil. 4:12
G. The secret of a self-sufficiency that in reality is a God-sufficiency - Phil. 4:11;
2 Cor. 3:5-6; 9:8
H. The secret of our built in ability to face every situation - Phil. 4:13; Eph. 6:10; 2 Tim. 2:1; 1 Pet. 4:11
I. The secret of learning from members who know the Lord - Phil. 4:9
III. By the Practical Ways to Experience Christ
A. Obeying the inner operation - Phil. 2:12-14
B. By the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus - Phil. 3:8-9
C. By walking in all the known light that we have - Phil. 3:15-16
D. Rejoice in the Lord always - Phil. 4:4
E. Forgetting the past and press on toward the goal - Phil. 3:12-14
F. Letting the peace of God guard - Phil. 4:7