Philippians 1: Joyful Prayer

Good morning! I’m Bill Connors, senior pastor of the family of Eastern Hills Baptist Church, and it’s good to see all of you this morning who are in the room, and I suppose it’s good to be seen by all of you joining us online today. Thanks for joining us to worship the Lord and consider His Word this morning.

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Opening

Well, if you’re visiting with us for the first time today, you’ve come at an opportune day. This morning, we are starting a 10 week series through the book of Philippians. We just finished going through the book of Daniel, which we were in from the beginning of the year. If you’re interested in going through that study, you can watch or listen to every message from it by using our church app, or by visiting our website, YouTube channel, or Facebook page. I’m looking forward to us walking through this great epistle in the New Testament.

The book of Philippians is not that long. It is only 4 chapters, made up of 104 verses. The very first thing I did in preparation for this message was to read the entire book in one sitting. I read it out loud, and it took me about 12 minutes. Got 12 extra minutes this afternoon? Try reading the whole book.

We are going to start this morning at the very beginning, because it’s a very good place to start. Let’s turn in our Bibles or Bible apps to the book of Philippians, and stand in honor of God’s holy Word as we read our focal passage this morning, chapter 1, verses 1 through 11:

Philippians 1:1–11 CSB

1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus: To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, including the overseers and deacons. 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 I give thanks to my God for every remembrance of you, 4 always praying with joy for all of you in my every prayer, 5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. 6 I am sure of this, that he who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. 7 Indeed, it is right for me to think this way about all of you, because I have you in my heart, and you are all partners with me in grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. 8 For God is my witness, how deeply I miss all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus. 9 And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment, 10 so that you may approve the things that are superior and may be pure and blameless in the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

PRAYER (Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia)

I have a confession to make—one that at times brings me great personal stress and shame, as well as stress and shame to my wife. In confessing this before my daughters, I’m admitting to setting a poor example for them. I’m admitting that in this particular area I am a particular failure… And here it is:

I’m HORRIBLE at doing thank you notes. There. I said it.

I really am. Every time I receive a gift, whether it’s for Pastor Appreciation Month or Christmas or my birthday or whatever, I almost never get them done. Every year, with the first gift I get of one of those seasons, I quick write that first note, thinking that THIS year, I’ll write them as the gifts come in, and stay on top of it, and not fall into the stress of not getting them done. But I write terribly slowly, and worse than that, my handwriting is atrocious… just ask my wife. So I start with the best of intentions!

But I have to say that, church family, you are SUPER kind and generous to me! And it’s such a blessing to pastor this family, because every October and December, it’s crazy. I get so many cards and gifts that I have to start a list of thank you’s that I need to write. And the list grows because of your kindness and care for me and for my family… and before I know it, I’m overwhelmed, and never get around to writing any of them. So church family, I apologize for this! If you’ve given me a gift and not received a thank you note, THANK YOU, from the bottom of my heart, thank you! I truly want to get better at this.

You know who was really good at saying, “thank you?”: the apostle Paul. His saying “thank you” is a big part of why he wrote the letter to the Philippians . The occasion of Paul’s writing to the church at Philippi was that his friend Epaphroditus had arrived to see Paul in prison in Rome. He had been sent from the Philippian church to bring a financial gift of some kind to Paul in order to bless him as he continued to minister while in prison. They—the church and Paul—loved each other, and it shows throughout this letter.

The church of Philippi was the first Christian fellowship founded on the continent of Europe. Philippi was a city near the southern coast of Macedonia, just a few miles away from the Aegean Sea. Here’s a MAP showing you its location. According to historians, Philippi was the most “Rome-like” city outside of Rome itself. It had even been laid out in a similar fashion, and the residents of Philippi prided themselves on this fact.

Acts 16 records that in about 50 or 51 AD, Paul was on his second missionary journey, intending to minister in southwestern Asia as he had on his first journey, but that he was prevented from doing so “by the Holy Spirit.” (See Acts 16:6-7). He had a vision of a Macedonia man who pleaded with him, “Cross over to Macedonia and help us!” (16:9), and determined that that is what the Lord was leading him to do.

Upon arriving in Philippi Paul, along with at least Silas, Timothy, and Luke, found that there was no synagogue in the city, and so went out to the river outside of town when some God-fearing women gathered for prayer. The first recorded convert in Europe, a wealthy merchant woman named Lydia, heard the Gospel and believed at that prayer meeting by the river. Her household was baptized, and her home became Paul’s base of operations, and the fledgling church’s meeting place.

Paul’s ministry in Philippi was an eventful one, as he drove an evil spirit out of slave girl, whose owners had him and Silas arrested and beaten. But during the night, Paul and Silas were singing praises to God, an earthquake shook the prison and all the doors flew open and all the chains were loosed. The jailer, fearing all had escaped, was going to end his own life, but Paul intervened. The jailer asked them, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And Paul told him, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.” (Acts 16:30-31) That night, his entire household heard and believed the Gospel. (Acts 16:34)

A well-off merchant woman from Thyatira, a slave girl set free from an evil spirit, and a jailer and his family. These were the first recorded members of the church at Philippi. The church had continued to grow and serve after his departure shortly after his release from prison, and had even helped support Paul financially as he continued his ministry in Thessalonica and Berea.

These are the people that Paul was writing to from a different prison—this time in Rome—about ten years later in about 62 AD.

His salutation to the church is fairly standard for Paul:

Philippians 1:1–2 CSB

Paul here doesn’t lead with authority. He leads with humility, calling himself and Timothy “servants”—literally “slaves”—of Christ. This isn’t a letter from someone who is about to bring the hammer. It’s the writing of a man who saw himself as a loving friend of this church. And the first thing he mentions is prayer.

I took the group that meets for Prayer Meeting through this opening prayer two years ago, and we prayed each night for the church (ourselves included) in much the same way that Paul prays for the Philippians here. On a very personal note, this passage is still one that I pray for Eastern Hills.

Paul started with prayers about the church.

1: Praying about the church.

I’m intentionally using the term “about” here because I want to differentiate this beginning part of Paul’s prayer—verses 3 thru 5—from Paul’s prayer FOR the church in verses 9-11, which we will cover in a moment. But for this opening part, Paul starts with his “thank you” note to the church:

Philippians 1:3–5 CSB

3 I give thanks to my God for every remembrance of you, 4 always praying with joy for all of you in my every prayer, 5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.

Paul says that every single time God brings the church at Philippi mind, give thanks to God for them. His prayers about the church (and for the church) are filled with joy whenever he prays about them, because from the very beginning of his ministry in Europe—from literally the first day—and up until the time of his writing, that church had seen it as their mission to partner with him the gospel. This is why they sent them the gift.

One point of clarification: at the end of verse 4, Paul is not saying that every single time he prays, he is praying with joy for the church at Philippi. He’s saying that every single time he prays for or about the church at Philippi, he does so with joy!

And what we see about the apostle here is that Paul had an incredible heart for prayer. He was constantly in prayer for the churches, both those he had been a part of planting, and those he hadn’t. He said something similar to what we see here in Philippians to the church at Ephesus in Ephesians 1:15-16:

Ephesians 1:15–16 CSB

15 This is why, since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, 16 I never stop giving thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers.

and to the Colossian church, he wrote in Colossians 1:3:

Colossians 1:3 CSB

3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,

Even when Paul was defending his ministry in the last part of his second letter to the church in Corinth, almost the last thing he states in a list of all the things that he could boast about as ways that he had sacrificed in ministry we find in verse 28 of chapter 11:

2 Corinthians 11:28–29 CSB

28 Not to mention other things, there is the daily pressure on me: my concern for all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?

Paul had a heart for the church!

As I said before, this prayer has particularly personal meaning for me. I can directly echo Paul’s words here as I think about the church family of Eastern Hills. My participation in this fellowship has been a core fact of my life for 35 years, and I give thanks to my God for every remembrance of you, always praying with joy for all of you in my every prayer, because of our partnership in the gospel from literally the first day of my walk of faith until now.

It seems silly to say it because I’m the pastor, but I give thanks to God for the church family of Eastern Hills almost daily. I say “almost” not because there are days that I can’t give thanks for this church, it’s because I’m certain that there are days that I forget, and I just confessed to the group at prayer meeting a couple of weeks ago that sometimes I allow the busyness of ministry life to push out time of focused prayer. Not something I’m proud of or happy about, but this is such a great community of grace, there’s no reason not to be honest about it. I know that I’m loved by this church family, even with my weaknesses.

I think one thing that we all need to ask ourselves is if we are thankful for our church. Can you give thanks to God for every remembrance of Eastern Hills, always praying with joy for this church family because of our joint partnership in the Gospel? If not, why not? And I don’t mean the little issues that exist in every large group of people — personal preferences, personality differences, conflicting priorities, and the like — certainly Eastern Hills is not a perfect church! I know this because I’m a member here, and I know I’m not perfect.

But God is at work in this place, with this people, in this time! And since that is true, not only can we give thanks for our church family, but we can confidently believe that God is not done working with us. And so we come to Paul statement about what he believed about the church in Philippi, which is our second point:

2: Believing about the church.

Paul knew that the church in Philippi wasn’t perfect. No church can be, as the church is made up of people, and the people aren’t perfect. But that’s the beauty of the Gospel: the fact that for those who believe in Christ, God is in the process of making us look more like Jesus, both individually and as a church family. This is why Paul could say in verse 6:

Philippians 1:6–8 CSB

6 I am sure of this, that he who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. 7 Indeed, it is right for me to think this way about all of you, because I have you in my heart, and you are all partners with me in grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. 8 For God is my witness, how deeply I miss all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

I wonder how many people in the world have verse 6 as a life in verse…

Paul says that he’s absolutely certain that God is going to finish the work that He started in the life of the church (both the individual members and thus the church body as a whole), bringing that work to its final completion on the day Jesus returns. He could be certain because He had already seen the evidence of God’s work in their lives through both what he said in verse 5 and what he will say in verse 7. He was so confident of this, in fact, that he had used the Philippians as an example to the church in Corinth:

2 Corinthians 8:1–5 CSB

1 We want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the grace of God that was given to the churches of Macedonia: 2 During a severe trial brought about by affliction, their abundant joy and their extreme poverty overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. 3 I can testify that, according to their ability and even beyond their ability, of their own accord, 4 they begged us earnestly for the privilege of sharing in the ministry to the saints, 5 and not just as we had hoped. Instead, they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us by God’s will.

The point wasn’t that they gave financially (although they did, and so should we). It was that they “gave themselves first to the Lord and then to [Paul and his team],” and their financial giving—both the desire to do so and the generosity that followed—flowed out of their surrender to Christ and their Christ-prompted love for Paul. He had personally witnessed the fact that God had started a powerful work in their lives. And what God starts, He will finish. So Paul’s assurance was a gospel confidence based upon two factors: the character of God, and the evidence of their lives that confirmed that God was at work in them and through them.

And we can see in verse 7 that Paul had a deep affection for this church: he told them that he “has [them] in his heart.” When coupled with what he said about them next—that they are partners with him in grace, both in his imprisonment and in his defense and confirmation of the Gospel—I believe that what Paul was saying here was that the reality of the nature of their relationship being centered not just on the Gospel, but specifically on the advancement of the Gospel, was why his confidence in their salvation was doubly certain. It would have been very easy, given the fact that Philippi was the most Rome-like of Roman cities, for the residents of Philippi to want to distance themselves from a Roman prisoner awaiting his opportunity to present his case to Caesar. But they didn’t. They kept showing their love for him by continuing to support him.

But loving them the way that he did and being forced to be away from them, he missed them deeply, even calling God as his witness to that fact. The phrase “with the affection of Christ Jesus” is an interesting one. The word “affection” in the Greek is a fun word to say: splanchnois. It literally means your bowels or guts—in Greek thought the center of your person and where all of your biggest emotions lived. Paul’s missing of his friends in Philippi was severe because his affection for them was severe… in fact, the “guts” that he missed them with were the “guts” of Jesus Himself.

Brothers and sisters, take a moment and take stock of your lives this morning. If Paul were to look at your life, would he have this same confidence that a work of God has been started in you, and that God will carry it on to completion? If you would say no, why not? Is it possible that you’ve never actually believed the Gospel, never trusted in the sacrifice of Jesus to save you? The life that belongs to Jesus should be bearing good fruit, like the lives of the Philippians were, which Paul will mention in just a moment in this passage.

Salvation through believing the Gospel was the beginning of God’s good work in the lives of those in the church at Philippi, the work that God was in the process of bringing to completion in the day of Christ, a work that He started first in the life of Lydia:

Acts 16:14 CSB

14 A God-fearing woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, was listening. The Lord opened her heart to respond to what Paul was saying.

If you’ve never trusted in Jesus, can I just submit to you that I believe that the fact that you’re here this morning or listening online is an indicator of God’s work? The Bible tells us that God made us, loves us, and wants to be in a relationship with us. But we have a problem: we sin, which means that our lives miss the mark of God’s perfection. The Bible makes this clear:

Romans 3:23 CSB

23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;

And since God is perfect, completely without sin, He justly demands that we be perfect as well in order to deserve eternal life in heaven. But we don’t live up to that standard, and we never can on our own, exactly because we are broken; sinful. The Bible tells us that this means that we deserve eternal death instead of eternal life:

Romans 6:23 CSB

23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

So God in His grace gave the gift of His Son, Jesus the Christ, who came to earth as a man to serve as our representative before our holy God. Jesus lived a life completely without sin, but then He was killed by being crucified on a Roman cross, taking the punishment that we deserve in our place so that we could be “justified” or “made right with God” again through his death. He offers this justification freely to all who would believe in the message of the Gospel:

Romans 3:24 CSB

24 they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Jesus purchased our justification—He “redeemed” us—through His death. And He went into the grave, but rose again on the third day, never to die again. And His victory over death means that if we belong to Him through faith in His work on the cross, then we also will receive eternal life with Him—living forever in the presence of God. Is God starting this good work in you right now? Will you believe in Jesus as Savior and Lord, trusting Him for your now, and your forever? It’s only through Christ that you will become partners in grace, because it is God who motivates us to do that which has eternal meaning, which Paul will later explain to the recipients of this letter:

Philippians 2:13 CSB

13 For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work according to his good purpose.

As I said before: after 60 years as a church, God is not done with us! I am sure of this, Eastern Hills, that he who started a good work in us will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus! He has saved us, but in addition to that—He has brought us together at this location in this time, so that we can glorify Him as we partner with one another in the advancement of the Gospel. We have this calling, and I pray that we would fulfill it in Christ.

To that end, we come to Paul’s prayer for the church in verses 9 to 11:

3: Praying for the church.

Finally, we come to Paul’s actual prayer for the edification of the church—what he’s asking God to do in the life of the Philippians. Paul’s request for them isn’t long—just 40 words in the Greek, but it is a beautiful prayer for them, and I join him in praying the same thing for us at Eastern Hills:

Philippians 1:9–11 CSB

9 And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment, 10 so that you may approve the things that are superior and may be pure and blameless in the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

The primary thrust of Paul’s prayer is that their love would “keep growing,” specifically in “knowledge and every kind of discernment.” However, this growth in love is not the end, but the means. This growth in love that he asks for has a couple of purposes. He asks that their love would keep growing in this way “so that” the church may approve the things that “are superior,” so that they might be “pure and blameless in the day of Christ, meaning that they are filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Christ, so that God is glorified and praised. Let’s unpack this powerful prayer.

First, Paul prays that their love would continue to grow, but not just in any old way. He prays that it would keep growing in “knowledge and every kind of discernment.” The construction of this request implies something that Paul can see through the gift that they have sent to him—that their love has already grown. How can something “keep on growing” unless it has already grown to some extent? Their concern for him in his imprisonment has displayed the growth of their love.

Church, our love has grown. Our fellowship is a sweet fellowship. I believe that we are striving to live out Paul’s admonition in Romans 12:10:

Romans 12:10 CSB

10 Love one another deeply as brothers and sisters. Take the lead in honoring one another.

And we want this love to continue to grow. But like Paul asked for the Philippians, we should desire that it grow in “knowledge and every kind of discernment.” What does this mean? Well, I think that this is the only way that true, God-directed and God-sized love will remain that kind of love.

What is knowledge? Comprehending what is true. And what is discernment? Understanding what is right. If we have a “love” that does not comprehend what is true, and does not understand what is right, is it really God’s definition of love? No.

Romans 5:8 tells us that:

Romans 5:8 CSB

8 But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

And Jesus said in John 15:

John 15:12–14 CSB

12 “This is my command: Love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.

The Gospel shows us the highest ideal of love that is true and right. God’s love sacrifices for the beloved. But also, God’s love pursues what is right and what is best for the beloved, putting godly limitations on what it approves or supports.

We understand what it would mean if we had knowledge and discernment, but not love. We would easily become puffed up, prideful, arrogant, and overbearing. Consider the beginning of 1 Corinthians 13:

1 Corinthians 13:1–2 CSB

1 If I speak human or angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.

To have knowledge and discernment without love is problematic. 1 Corinthians 8:1 says:

1 Corinthians 8:1b (CSB)

1 ...We know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

However, “love” without the guardrails of knowledge and discernment degrades into something that is no longer God’s kind of love, because it either fails in what is right (becoming immoral), or fails in what is true (so becomes false), or both. It will eventually cease to be any kind of real love at all.

Think for just a moment about a phrase that is found regularly throughout our world today: “Love is love.” This refers to the fact that the speaker claims to approve of any romantic relationship between people of whatever form because as long as it’s whatever those people mean by “love,” then it’s “love,” because they call it “love.” This makes no sense, and even those who hold to this statement generally place limitations on it.

But “love is love” is nonsensical because it swaps the positions of belief and reality—saying that because I believe something, then it’s true and right; instead of saying that because something is true and right, then I will believe it. This is where the world gets things backwards with the Gospel. The world thinks that Christians believe the Gospel, and so we think it’s true. No. We’ve discovered the truth (and the way and the life), and so we believe it. We don’t call people to believe in Jesus because we believe it—we call them to believe in Jesus because the Gospel is true and right, the only way to salvation and eternal life. We call them to faith because we love them!

Paul’s prayer for the Philippians is that their love would continue to grow in their grasp of what is actually true and right. And this increase in love that Paul prayed for was for a particular purpose: that they would be able to “approve of the things that are superior.” The word for “superior” in the Greek could mean “what is worth more than,” or “what is different from.”

When Paul connects his request for increasing love with the ability for the Philippians to be able to approve what is “superior,” he is essentially praying that because of their increasing love, they would either: 1) both know and want the very best, or 2) be able to accurately distinguish how the best differs from the “not best.” Neither option is wrong. Here’s why:

Often in our lives, we are not presented with a choice between good and bad, right and wrong, righteousness and evil, but between good and better, better and best. Because He loves us, God doesn’t merely want what’s GOOD for us, He wants what’s BEST for us. And so as we pray for our love to increase in knowledge and discernment, we are asking that our love would increase so that we would DESIRE what is best, not merely accept it. And as we desire what is best, we will PURSUE what is best, so that we would actually grow into what is superior: that we would exhibit the qualities of maturing Christian disciples. And this is then cyclical: as we become more like Christ, our love abounds more and more in knowledge and discernment, which means we have more insight into what is superior, which means we are more likely to live out what is superior, and so we become more like Christ.

And as we become more and more like Christ, we bear fruit: looking more and more like Jesus in the world, or as Paul says, “pure and blameless...filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ.”

This is not the only place in Scripture where this phrase, “the fruit of righteousness” is used:

Proverbs 11:30 CSB

30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, but a cunning person takes lives.

If we are righteous, then we bring forth life as our fruit. We bear this fruit in our actions, our words, and even our thoughts. In contrast, consider what Amos wrote:

Amos 6:12 CSB

12 Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does anyone plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

The image here is that the people of Israel had so twisted their perception of things that they saw things backwards: justice as poison, and the fruit of righteousness as bitter and sorrowful. Does this not remind us of the world today?

So our love growing the way it should allows us to approve of the things that are superior, which then will allow us to be pure and blameless as we are filled with the fruit of righteousness (not self-righteousness) in our words, actions, and thoughts. It’s about loving Jesus, because the fruit comes through Jesus Christ. This fruit is borne in our lives and brings glory to God, who has done this incredible work:

1 Peter 2:12 CSB

12 Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.

Closing

This was Paul’s prayer for the church at Philippi, and by extension, for us, flowing from a joyful heart of gratitude and praise to God because of how they had loved him and the truth. And it should be our prayer for Eastern Hills as well, and for the church at large, flowing from the same heart of gratitude. We have been appointed as God’s ambassadors in the world. And the world will know that we are Christians by our love for what is true and right, and by the fruit of righteousness produced by that love.

Call to faith in Christ

Call to baptism

Call to repentance

Call to church membership

Call to give

PRAYER

Closing Remarks

Bible reading (2 Chr 21-22, Ps 65)

No AOM tonight

Pastor’s Study tonight

Reminder of the special Prayer Meeting this Wednesday

Instructions for guests

Benediction

John 15:16–17 CSB

16 You did not choose me, but I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you. 17 “This is what I command you: Love one another.

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