Learning the Secret of Experiencing Christ - Part 1
I. The Nature of the Learning
- A. A progressive learning, not automatic - Phil. 4:11
- B. A learning that is constituted into us - Phil. 4:11 (resultant
aorist)
- 1. Not merely having experiences, but profiting from them
- C. A learning that knows how to moment at a time - Phil. 4:11
- D. A learning that results in depending upon the supply - Phil. 4:11;
2 Cor. 12:9
- E. A learning that equalizes our circumstances to experience Christ
- Phil. 4:12
- F. A learning that makes us self-sufficient because of being God-sufficient
- Phil. 4:11; 2 Cor. 3:5-6; 9:8
- G. A learning that is based upon an infused ability to face every
situation - Phil. 4:13;
- Eph. 6:10; 2 Tim. 2:1
- H. A learning that is derived from members who know the Lord - Phil.
4:9
II. Learning Christ in Relationships
- A. Seeing the saints as objects of God's love ("be loved")
- Phil. 4:1
- B. Knowing the saints according to the divine view ("my joy and
crown")
- Phil. 4:1; 1 Thess. 2:19
- C. The harmony that issues out of the Lord - Phil. 4:2
- 1. A supplied harmony - Phil. 4:2
- D. Able to receive and be helped by others in the Body - Phil. 4:3
- E. The way to stimulate the right disposition toward one another -
Phil. 4:4
- F. The disposition of Christ in our disposition toward others - Phil.
4:5a; 2 Cor. 10:1
- G. Our consciousness in our relationships - Phil. 4:5b
- H. Recognizing Christ and His virtues, not issues - Phil. 4:8
III. The Secrets of Experiencing Christ
- A. Learning to turn anxiety and reactions into prayer - Phil. 4:6
- B. Learning to let peace loom larger than solving problems - Phil.
4:7
- C. Not speaking out of the wrong motive - Phil. 4:10-17
- 1. Giving the impression of God's all-sufficiency - Phil. 4:18-19
- D. The unique motive for all things - Phil. 4:20
- E. The communication between the saints - Phil. 4:21-22
- F. The supply in our spirit - Phil. 4:23