Do you Have Any...?
Do you Have Any...? A study of Phillipians Phil. 2:1-11 (part 1) Have you gone into a store to get something, and you ask the clerk, do you have any…? We all have asked the question, do you have any...? Paul has spoken to the church in Philippi about thankfulness and prayer, and the importance of the advancement of the Gospel. Now, Paul is reaching out to the believers in Philippi with this question, Do you have any...? Encouragement? Comfort? Fellowship? Tenderness and Compassion? Sometimes in our lives we go to the world’s shelf of life, and find that we don’t have what is needed to live the kind of life Christ desires. Let’s look at the text. “ Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or v...