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Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... me shall never die." That is why a Christian and only a Christian can say, "For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain." Bruce Dunn, a well-known pastor and speaker to a vast radio audience, says in one of his writings that he believes Gods wants us to ... one another. We sing the songs of the redeemed and we gladly exult, "For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain." As the missionary, Richard Knill, lay dying he would sing hymns, for he found in them the comfort and assurance that he would need ...

2. Matthew’s Loss and Gain

Matthew 9:9-13

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Brett Blair

When Matthew made the decision to follow Christ he lost a great deal but William Barclay recognizes what he gained. He says: He lost a comfortable job, but he found a destiny. He lost a good income, but he found honor. He lost a comfortable security, but he found an adventure the like of which he had never dreamed. It may be that if we accept the challenge of Christ, ...

3. His Loss, Our Gain

2 Corinthians 8:7-15

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... , follow the will of the Son who was poor. Adore evermore. For our sake he has taken the cross and forsaken the wealth of the king. Bring with eagerness more than the meager, bless and confess, address the pain of the world with our loss and their gain! Remain. Abstain. Obtain the grace freely given. Live and adore evermore. Amen. Collect Great God, we give you back your own, the time you have woven for us in our passing, our coming and going. This time which was your time is our time. We praise you, adore ...

4. A Gain By Death

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... , who had him exiled. Allowed to return after a short time, Chrysostom again infuriated Eudoxia, who sent him away again. How did Chrysostom respond to such persecution? With these words: "What can I fear? Will it be death? But you know that Christ is my life, and that I shall gain by death. Will it be exile? But the earth and all its fullness are the Lord's. Poverty I do not fear; riches I do not sigh for; and from death I do not shrink."

5. Gaining Confidence

Hebrews 4:16

Children's Sermon

Object: a bike or a picture of one Good evening, boys and girls. We think of Good Friday as a sad day sometimes. But tonight I want to talk about why it's a happy day, too. But first I'd like to talk about this bike (or picture of one.) How many of you have a bike? (Wait for show of hands.) Riding a bike can be very hard at first. Once there was a little girl. She was six years old. She had a new purple bike with silver sparkles. She wanted to ride it all by herself. So she got on and her dad held the back ...

6. Consecration Our Loses and Our Gains

Psalm 37:1-40

Bulletin Aid

Call to Worship Leader: Delight yourself in the Lord, and he shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way unto the Lord; trust in him and he shall bring it to pass. Congregation: We commit our lives, including our plans, our careers and all our earthly goods which come from his hand. Leader: Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and then all your needs shall be supplied. Congregation: We seek his mercy, his love, the glory of his abiding presence that will never forsake us. Leader: When ...

7. Gaining A Gratitude Attitude

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

An elderly lady entered a pet store hoping to purchase a parrot. The store manager did have a parrot but he warned the little lady about purchasing this particular parrot. For you see, this parrot had been raised by a sailor and had picked up much of the sailor's strong language. Confident she could rehabilitate the parrot, though, the elderly lady purchased it. Upon arriving at its new home and being placed in a wonderful new cage, the parrot began an unbelievable barrage of shocking words. Immediately, ...

8. Gaining an Edge

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Many inventions can seem insignificant, but given the right context can change the world. In 1066 one of the most decisive battles in the history of the world was fought. William, Duke or Normandy, ventured an invasion of England in the face of a formidable opponent. But one of the reasons that gave him the confidence to try such a risky undertaking was that he had a recently invented technological edge that the English did not. That edge was the stirrup. When the English came to the battlefield, they ...

9. Paradoxes Of The Christian Faith

Matthew 10:1-42

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... . Not what's been taken, but what's been given. Not how much I don't have, but how much I do have for the remainder of the journey. Judith Viorst's classic work Necessary Losses reveals how life is a series of experiences wherein we are losing and gaining. Intrinsic to life are processes by which we detach, separate, and lose things. This process is central to our growth as it is to life itself. But some losses are harder to deal with, like the loss of a child, or someone dear before they've had a chance ...

10. What Have You Got To Lose?

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Erskine White

... which money can’t buy. In these and in many other ways, we are perfectly used to the idea of losing one thing in order to gain something else. It all makes me wonder: if we are so willing to sacrifice and even suffer for things which matter for us in our ... we are weak: help us during this Lenten season to take stock of ourselves and make us more willing to lose our lives in order to gain them. Help us get over the fear of letting go. Help us to count the things we hold most dear as things to be most freely ...

11. Repeat After Me

Philippians 3:1-11

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James Merritt

... him with your wife or your life. But then Paul made the greatest discovery of his life, and he says, "But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ." (v.7) When Paul met Jesus, his entire life turned upside-down because he ... in the latter part of verse 8, "…for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ." Paul lost some things when he found Jesus. He lost his family. Have you ever thought about the fact that Paul's parents are ...

12. No Confidence in the Flesh

Philippians 3:1-11

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... ; F. F. Bruce, The Epistle to the Galatians, pp. 138–40 (in a note on Gal. 2:16). 3:10 I want to know Christ: Gk. tou gnōnai auton, “in order to know him,” where the aorist infinitive follows the precedent of the aorists kerdēsō (I may gain) and heurethō (“I may be found”) in vv. 8, 9. It is with the knowledge of Christ to be experienced in this life that Paul is here concerned (as in v. 8, knowing Christ Jesus my Lord). It is pointless to say that “Paul undoubtedly borrows from the Gnostics ...

13. Paul’s Life as an Example of the Truth of the Gospel

Philippians 3:1-11

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... him, to be found in him. In Philippians 3:9–11 Paul draws out the implications of what it means to have “knowing Christ Jesus my Lord” as the single purpose of his life. One of these implications has already been made clear: in order to gain Christ, to be found in him, and to know him, Paul has counted everything else as loss, especially his former life under the Jewish law. Here he makes it clear that being found in Christ excludes “having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law” (3 ...

14. Jesus Saves, We're Called To Invest

Matthew 25:14-20

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... of money. God gives us both. We're simply the stewards or managers of what God has given us. II. Use It Or Lose It A. We have to surrender our lives to Christ in order to receive the abundant life and life eternal. We have to lose it to gain it. But we also have to use it to lose it. That's what happened in the parable. The first two, the five and the two talent servants invested the money entrusted to them and they were rewarded. The one talent man had it taken away. Like the title says ...

15. Paul's Chains Advance the Gospel

Philippians 1:12-30

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... the death that he has specially in mind for himself in the present situation is execution in consequence of an adverse judgment in the imperial court. If such a death in the service of Christ crowned a life spent in the service of Christ, it would be gain not to Paul alone but to the cause of Christ throughout the world. 1:22 A continuation of mortal life would mean fruitful labor for him, an opportunity to reap more fruit from the work that had been interrupted by his arrest and imprisonment, as well as ...

16. Job's Third Reply to Bildad

Job 26:1--31:40

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... indictment” implies that God is opposed to Job and laying out a case against him. The Hebrew seems to suggest that Job expects God’s evidence to confirm what Job has already claimed. Job’s purpose, then, is not to set God in the wrong, but to gain public vindication of his integrity by means of God’s sworn deposition. 31:36–37 Surely I would wear it on my shoulder . . . put it on like a crown. Since Job expects God’s testimony to exonerate him, he would want to publish the deposition abroad in ...

17. The Vanities Of Work

Ecc 2:1-26

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Erskine White

... and he asks a question which many thoughtful people are asking today: What am I working for? What am I living for? "What do we gain from our labors under the sun?" Understand that I am speaking of "labors" and work in the broadest sense. You might work in an office ... good work will be in vain. You will quit or be defeated and you will end up muttering with the Preacher, "What do we gain from our labors under the sun?" This is just what the Preacher says at the end of our text: "Apart from God," he says, "no ...

18. Loving

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Larry Powell

... craving for reward." Crude sensationalism? Yes, but it does have a bit of merit. To name God's name simply to "escape" hell-fire and brimstone is a placebo devotion (and to "fear" God means literally to "obey"). On the other hand, to name his name just to gain a reward is a self-seeking enterprise of the first water. The Bible teaches us to love God because he first loved us and because he is like a father to his children. Love creates security, not fear, and seeks no other reward except the object of its ...

19. The Path of Discipleship

Mark 8:31--9:1

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... Jesus demands a Christlike lifestyle, and that can only occur when we refuse to elevate ourselves over Christ but rather rely entirely on him. (2) We begin to live for eternal rather than temporary things, realizing there will never be any lasting sense of satisfaction or true gain from earthly reward. (3) The way this is done is by dying to self, that is, “taking up our cross” and dying to the things of this world. (4) The final goal of all this is the coming of God’s final kingdom at the return of ...

20. Elihu

Job 32:1--37:24

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... be of benefit to God? Can even a wise man benefit him? What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous? What would he gain if your ways were blameless?” The verb normally used in Job to mean “receive profit” is yʿl, and the verb skn is never found ... us alone! We have no desire to know your ways. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?” Perhaps Elihu reveals his assumption of Job’s guilt here by attempting to connect Job with this attitude ...

21. Proper 28

Judges 4:1-24, Proverbs 31:10-31, Zephaniah 1:7, 12-18, Malachi 2:1-9, Matthew 25:14-30, 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... the ten talents. This poor steward is to be tossed into the outer darkness. Through the blazing and uncomfortable light of this parable, we see the truth about the standard by which we will be judged. It will not be so much a question of what we've gained or lost but what we've ventured for the sake of the Master. The timid servant is condemned because his misjudging of his master caused him to bury his talent, rather than invest it. The truth is that the person who ventures with his Master's talents will ...

22. Something to Sing About

Philippians 1:12-30

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Mark Trotter

... find anything to sing about when he is in prison waiting to die? Here's his secret: For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. I don't know about that. I can say, "For me to live is Christ," because I have given my life to Christ. But have I given my ... life to Christ. But have I given my death to Christ? Can we say what Paul says, "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."? He goes on: If it is to be life in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. I am ...

23. Philippians 3:4b-14

Philippians 3:4b-14

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Leonard Sweet

... Paul's attitude here by translating verse 8 as "suffered the loss of all things." A less melodramatic, more straightforward translation would be that Paul "treated as loss." This does a better job communicating that Paul's "loss" is no longer anything he "suffers" because the gain of Christ is so great. In verse 10, Paul reveals that his zeal for the Law has been replaced by his great desire to be with Christ. This willingness to participate in suffering, even in Christ's death, is part of what Paul sees as ...

24. Love of Money

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... 2 Tim. 2:25); these men have been robbed of it (cf. 2 Tim. 2:18; 3:7, 8; 4:4). Their corrupted minds, no longer having the truth, are finally evidenced in their thinking that godliness (eusebeia; cf. 3:16; 4:7–8) is a means to financial gain (or “profit”). This final indictment, hinted at in 3:3, 8, seems to unmask what they have been up to all along. These men were teaching because for them it was a means of “turning a dollar.” Although we are not told precisely what this meant for them, teaching ...

25. Eliphaz's Third Speech to Job

Job 22:1-30

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... �for; because”) that most often introduces a causal clause. In this case the Almighty becomes Job’s “gold” because Job returns to a state of finding “delight” in God. Once again the emphasis is upon renewed relationship rather than human profit or gain. This construction is also used in the first speech of Zophar (11:15), a passage to which Eliphaz seems to make frequent reference here. The conclusion of verse 26 provides a transition to the next two verses. Having returned to a relationship of ...

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