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God has an encouraging word for you and me today to the Bible-based breaching of Dr. Don Wilton today's message holding as we study God's word together know that we're here for you, both online and the Encouraging Word.org and this phone number 866-899-WORD 866-899-WORD 9673 down the what we read in Philippians chapter 1 and I just want to say this to you the new normal is all seem for the next several several weeks and times are changing.

We living in an interesting day and age we got a lot of things to think about things that all going on in our world today. You know what are we facing in the United States is a lot a yada yada on television right now and people going at each other and we just giving our world. Such a wonderful picture of just how sweet we are as American people and the I mean we just ripping each other apart on about you really believe that the Lord Jesus is the only one who can bring about the difference can change the hearts of our people. He's the only one who can do that but I'm going to place my absolute confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ.

That's where I want to be.

I want to be a contributing very meaningful citizen. We all have rights, but I want you to know there's nobody like the Lord Jesus Christ to bring you through safely to the other side will provide for you. Everything necessary to live a full and a meaningful life. The new normal. The question is this how do we present our unchanging God in our rapidly changing world. If the new normal. Today tells us, culturally, ethically, Mara Lee, that this is the way we can live.

If our children are growing up today looking at things.

Seeing things, hearing things for our kids today are being railroaded into a world that contradicts everything about all that God does in and through us in the Lord Jesus Christ. How do we as believers hold firm. How do we press on. I want to show you something in the life of pulled today. This in this Bible study.

I'm about to share with you folks. Some some goal.

This is gold gold for me. Listen carefully. Philippians chapter 1 and verse 18.

The second part of verse 18 and following yes I will rejoice. Salespeople, for I know that through your praise and with the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

This will turn out for my deliverance as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full coverage now. As always Christ will be honored in my body whether by life or by death for me to live is Christ and to die is gain full if I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me which shall not choose life or death. I cannot tell I'm hard-pressed between the two.

My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better but to remain in the flesh is more necessary because of you on your account. Convinced of this. I know that I will remain and continue to be with you all for your progress and joy in the faith, so that in me you may have ample coals to glory in Christ Jesus. Because of my coming to you again this is an amazing story Kills a man whole who I wish I could say just everything was just wonderful in his life. If it wasn't, he was hounded out of one town off for another. Do you know there were a lot of people that really didn't like pole because of his Christian Stanton. He came under a lot of criticism. If he had been in our day and age, he would've been sued not one person offered another who believed they had been wronged by him, but he never stepped down, he pressed on. He remained faithful and God wanted that amazing.

He suffered do not do know by the way that he was actually physically beaten up many times he went hungry do know that he had.

He really had a lawful income. He had no salary.

He lived on the goodness of God's people and that's a wonderful thing but it's a little iffy sometime. I mean he was dependent on a people like you and me. So whatever we felt is what he would get an and he sailed on the sea. He was written he he ended up on little islands people around.

I mean they I could go and get this is the same man who says for me to live is Christ and to die is gain pole gives us a picture of of a person no matter what the circumstance of these life.

Everything that came out of him speaks to total fulfillment not watch this. It doesn't matter, although it does how much our world changers. It doesn't matter who becomes president of the United States. It doesn't matter who gets elected to the Supreme Court. It doesn't matter what the economy does.

It doesn't matter whether we make it aware that we don't make it. It doesn't matter whether things are going well. Will things are not going well. What Paul is trying to tell us is that the Lord Jesus Christ when he lives in your heart he will in able you and me to live a totally fulfilled life. So guess what I'm gonna do today.

I have as I prayed over this past adjusted Lord, give me polls keys to total fulfillment.

What was what was he's what these big secretive eruption will be back with Paul's big secret from Dr. Wilton in just a moment.

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They all this is coming right out of the text. These five keys with the modus are parameters of polls life number one this is what he was saying to us.

I have continual joy so continual joy is the first key to polls. Total fulfillment that he says yes I will rejoice in the opening part of what he's about to say concerning life and death, and total jerk. Continual joy watch this continual joy means that where the Army in prison or whether I've lost a lot of money on the stock market aware that I have suffered great grief through the loss of a loved one, or whether I have made it whether I haven't my unit or whether I'm going on this road or that road. I am going to live my life in a textual continual state of joyfulness of being happy and this rides on two very very important spiritual compunctions number one, you have to have the conviction in your heart that this is what Jesus does for you by his spirit. Now watch this my friends said I have continual joy.

Give me a break in this life. How can you be perpetually joyful and please allow me to just say to you. Joyfulness is not outward, walk around with a smile on your face all day.

You know there's a lot of people listening right now you cannot smile, I learned many years ago, Steve and I learned we been leading worship together for 35 years.

We learned many years ago. Don't ever going to church and tell everybody to stand up and smile. That's very unfair. You know that there are some people today worshiping right now and you might be one of them. Your heart is very sore right visit visit deep you can't go up to somebody whose son is going through a major crisis in that's not what he's told that this is an inner conviction.

Continual joy is inside. It is a soul spirit thing and so continual joy derives its source, its root in the fact that Jesus Christ by his spirit does for you and me.

What we cannot do so for ourselves. So the first thing is conviction.

The second thing is the determination to live out that conviction. So you got conviction on one hand, and you got determination to live it out, to tell you about me about Don Lord you know me pretty well.

I really try jolly hard most days to get up in the morning and say I'm going to be joyful old. Now do I say that is that a practical Atmos in my soul, spirit, I'm claiming based on my conviction that Christ is living in me and my determination is to let Christ live that out through me.

I want somebody to watch me just for second I don't know who you are but you everywhere you turning in life you got a gripe your fasting. Everybody's getting to you and you know Christ. Greater is he that is that is in you than he that is in the world turn this around first key continual joy second key.

He said I have total support that all of these so the first thing is continual joy. The second is total support what he sees in the second part of verse 19.

I know that through number one, your prayers number two the help of the Spirit of the living God.

So what was polls key to being totally from food even while languishing in a prison.

Two things the prayers of fellow believers that fantastic.

You know that God purposes for our prayers to be partnered together to boot one another up in the faith to provide sustenance and nutrition for one another.

That's why we believe in prayer. That's why intercessory prayer is so wonderful that's why we have such a massive prayer soccer we've had hundreds of thousands of prayer requests coming from all 50 states through the Encouraging Word broadcast ministry that come every week from all over the place. Prayer requests about everything you can possibly imagine. We meet every week we taken prayer requests.

I bought beautiful out prayer requests on the connect card in our worship services. We take these and we gather them. We prayed together.

That's what Paul is saying because somehow God has given to me and to you the privilege of being able to pray for your total fulfillment. Regardless of what's going on in your life, regardless of what the new normal is regardless about changing world that changing God and not only did he speak about total support in terms of prayer, but he spoke about total supporting terms of the Spirit who dwells in him was just saying you know it's an amazing thing I've given my heart to Jesus. And when I trusted Jesus as my Savior. I received God the father, God the son of God the Holy Spirit and it is the Holy Spirit who comes and lives in my lap because he's the one who convicts me of sin and of righteousness and of judgment, and he knows me and he refines me and he guides me in all truth and he comforts me and he lifts me up and he blesses my heart. Then he puts a new song upon my heart. The one who enables me to press on.

Even when quite frankly, I'm somewhat inclined not to want to price on. Don't kid yourself, my friend. Life can be very cruel and can be very tough key number one continual joy. That's all he was totally fulfilled key number two, total support key number three sufficient courage is what he spoke about in this passage, he said in verse 20. It's my eager expectation and hope that I will not at all be ashamed, but that with courage. I tell you that little word courage. The is a wonderful wonderful word. We will need courage. Courage is based upon conviction and it's based upon the termination it is. It comes from the deep and abiding conviction that this will is not ours. But God's by the way, do you know what Paul said to Timothy in chapter 2 of Timothy and chapter. Chapter 2 second Timothy chapter 1, you know what he said was what he said God hasn't given you a spirit of fear but he's given you spurred over power and of love and of a sound mind. You know how he does that he does that, because the spirit of God who dwells in you enables you stirs up the gifting you and gives to you all courage necessary. Somebody right now the missing link in your life is spiritual courage. God hasn't given you a spirit of fear, he's given you power he's given you love.

He's given you a sound mind. The right kind of discipline in order to be able to stand up and not be ashamed and face the world in which you are living right now. Paul knew something about total fulfillment. I want to know because this is a life that I aspire to.

I want to be fulfilled. No matter, and I want to be totally fulfilled.

No matter how old I am, no matter where I am, no matter what I'm doing. Number four yes. The fourth key fruitful living what he says in verse 22.

It's really said God beautifully.

If I'm to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor that you understand yes: he's looking at it any sign. You know what I'm alive but I'm gonna die. So what do I do so want and we will lost that question were all alive role gonna die. How can we be totally fulfilled is what he said, to be continually joyful. I'm going to be totally supported by prayer and by the spirit of God, I'm going to be sufficiently courageous, but I'm going to be fruitful in my living while I'm alive. I am going to produce is a lot of people who face retirement. We got some wonderful retirees in our congregation. I hope that you would hear me saying to you what ever you do don't stop being fruitful bearing fruit in your living will, in the end of itself totally fulfill you, let alone bless all those who eat of the fruit of your life.

Don't stop what he was talking about with fruitful living was predicated on full keys to fruitful living while he was alive. Number one submission you have to submit to the Lordship of Christ say Lord I'm yours number two determination.

You gotta be determined to do what it is you have submitted to God to do number three practice you can't get out there actually carry through the fruitful living that God has given to you and number four is measure you got this and how delicious the fruit is that you are producing. You want to be totally fulfilled in life line in absolute devotion and service to the Lord Jesus, I want to say a word to anybody who is part and parcel of this wonderful church at first Baptist in Spartanburg.

Are you involved fruitful living do not how many places an opportunity in just this one place we have to serve in mission in senior adults taking care of our little buddy children teaching discipleship singing in the quiet worship ministry.

We've got people in our church left and right, it doesn't matter how big or how small the type these people stand at the door and welcome us to pick up for us. People always fruitful living that 40 psi.my going to come that thing, not just want to put this on the type of numbers was that I want some some of you today are looking at me looking at yourself more than 40 pieces I have continual joy that this is I should have this one more. He said I have fearless die. I have fearless die faces our soul that for me to live is Christ died.

You know I think one of Paul's greatest total fulfillment was fearless die. You see, he knew that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord you know Jesus are times when I pray you know Jesus. If not, let us introduce you to him. Let's spend some time talking. We can connect the Encouraging Word to listen at 86699868996739, 24 hours a day tomorrow. Have a blessed Wednesday once again, for the Bible by freezing. Are you ready to give you one right no not know that God day I received Jesus, my friend into the family of this is