In Philippians 1:19-30, the message centers on live worthy of the gospel. Explore Philippians 1:19–30 and discover what it means to live worthy of the gospel with courage, unity, purpose, and confidence in Christ. Rather than treating the passage as abstract theology, the sermon traces what these truths reveal about God, the gospel, and the way followers of Jesus are called to live.
The message presses toward an active response to the gospel. Faith is presented as something that reshapes priorities, decisions, character, and obedience, not simply something we affirm intellectually. Listeners are challenged to examine whether their lives are increasingly aligned with what they say they believe and to respond to God's grace with courage, humility, and faithful action.
Along the way, the message engages themes including Philippians 1:19-30, live worthy of the gospel, philippians 1, confidence in christ. These ideas help place the primary passage within the larger story of Scripture and show how its theology speaks to real spiritual formation. At its heart, the sermon helps answer questions such as: What does Philippians 1:19-30 teach about live worthy of the gospel? It also considers how should live worthy of the gospel shape the way Christians live?
For someone studying this passage, exploring the Christian faith, or looking for practical biblical teaching, this sermon offers a clear path from the text to everyday discipleship. The invitation is to hear what Scripture says, receive it with humility, and take the next faithful step in following Jesus.
What does Philippians 1:19-30 teach about live worthy of the gospel? | How should live worthy of the gospel shape the way Christians live? | How can believers apply Philippians 1:19-30 in everyday life?
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Because we get all the teaching, we get all the blessing, we get all the stuff, all everything poured in, poured in, poured in. We got podcasts, we got TikTok features, we got all the stuff, right? But are you actually taking what God is pouring into you and are you pouring it out into others? And this is really what a lot of us fear is that if we pour our life out, then I'm just going to be empty. Like we fear burnout, right? Anybody else fear burnout? We we we fear just this feeling of anxiety and this the the or the feelings of I'm just not enough or we have this fear of how am I going to make it, you know, if I give all this money to this ministry or to this this kingdom project, then I'm God, what are you going to do for me? What are you going to pour into Am I going to have enough? Forgetting that he is our source. That he is the one that pours into us. We begin to question again what tomorrow is going to look like and we want to take control. We want to say, "No, no, no, no, this is mine." This is all for me, like all this knowledge, all the things that God is doing in my life, all the revelation, like no, it's just for me. And again, we forget that God is the one who fills us and he's the one who can fill us again and again and again because Jesus is our source. He wants to be your rest. He wants to fill you up. So, as you're pouring yourself out, he is your rest. He is your peace. He is your source and resource. We didn't accomplish what we accomplished in our life on our own. It was all God. It's God who's provided. It's God who's equipped us. It's God who's who's given and poured out his life for us. It was his sacrifice that we we sang about. We're singing about the blood, right? It was his life poured out so that we could be filled. So that we could have eternal life. God needs to be able to spend us. He needs to be able to have access to us and pour us out. Because he's also the one to replenish us. And this is really what Paul was figuring out. Because we we start to look at what he's saying here and it sounds kind of morbid. Let me just Let me just show you this in Philippians 1:19. It says, "Through your prayer faithful prayers and the generous response of the spirit of Jesus Christ, everything he wants to do in and through me will be done." Write this down really quick. Uh point number one, to live as Christ and to die is gain. If you're taking notes today. Again, Paul continues in this theme about prayer. He's talking about your faithful prayers. There's power in your prayer today. How many of you believe that? >> Yeah. >> No, y'all are y'all aren't tracking yet. Here we go. He says, "Through your faithful prayers." He trusted the Philippian church was praying for him. He knew that because they were praying for him that God's will will be fulfilled. And so again, this scripture in 1:19, it reminds us of community. A faithful community between brothers and sisters in Christ. Even though Paul traveled and appeared in all these diverse areas along his journey, he always was able to connect with others in the name of Jesus. He was in Galatia, he was in Ephesus, he was in Philippi, he was in Rome, he was in all these different places. And and even as we're looking to our fall semester when we do our small groups again, it's so important that we gather together as a church and that we're not these lone rangers out here in the faith. Because it's iron sharpening iron. It's It's us lifting one another up and we're we're going to see that here in a second. Because how many how many people do you know in your life that are actually faithfully praying for you? Or that would be willing to pray for you in your time of need. And if you don't have anybody, just look around the room for a second. Because we're a family. We're not alone in this journey. We're all a part of the body of Christ. We are the church. Somebody say, "We are the church today." We're here to encourage and lift one another up. But again, this takes intentionality in our walk. Like we can sit here, you know, like like this cup and go like, "Oh, I need everybody to come and pour into me, but I'm not going to go and pour into others." And many times we can even judge a church based on who's coming and shaking my hand and who's coming and loving me me me me. But if we are the church and we are part of the body, then it should be who are we pouring into others? If we truly are the church, we should be pouring into others. We should be building one another up. I was talking to a pastor this last week. We're We're shooting a podcast and he was just like, "Man, you have to be intentional about the network that you're a part of, about the community that you're a part of. Like you make intentional choices who you align yourself with and who you gather around." The purpose in in the gifts of the Holy Spirit are really twofold. There's the power that's given to us in order to reach the lost. Amen. Hallelujah. Let's reach the lost. Let's grow the kingdom. But then on the second side of it, it's to build one another up in community. It's not just for me, myself, and I. It's It's in order to build up the church. Through that we grow in Christ. We grow in faithfulness, and then we grow in fruitfulness, becoming who Jesus saved us to be. Again, everything might be good in your life, you're growing and becoming, but what if you are the answer to somebody else's prayer? Someone's been praying Someone in this room has been praying for a friend. Like a you want a BFF. I get it, you know. But what if you are the friend that somebody else has been praying for? And you have to be intentional in being that. And so again, Paul is talking about just the faithfulness of prayer and knowing that everything is going to work out. There's power in prayer and there's power in community. And in verse 20, it says, "I can hardly wait to continue on my course. I don't expect to be embarrassed in the least. On the contrary, everything happening to me in this jail only serves to make Christ more accurately known." He says, "Everything happening to me, all of the stuff, all of the hell that he's going through, all of the pain that he's going through, Paul is able to find joy in all of it. He finds purpose in the pain. And And I don't I don't think I have the image uploaded right now, but we've seen it the last 2 weeks, the prison cell that Paul was in. It's 5 ft tall, stone everywhere. He's got a a potty hole in the ground and barely any light in there. He was chained up in these horrible, horrible conditions, and things again were not going great for him. And sometimes things might not seem great for you, but God is up to something in it. Right? There's purpose in the pain. And we have to trust that he is in control. Paul committed to the mission and the assignment that God gave him over his own comforts and his own life. I love this verse 21. This is actually the the message version, and I'll read the ESV. Regardless of whether I live or die, they didn't shut me up. They gave me a platform. Alive, I'm Christ's messenger. Dead, I'm his prize. Life versus even more life. I can't lose. I love that mentality. Somebody say, "I can't lose." Whether I live or whether I die, I can't lose. And so it it when we see it in the ESV, "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain." He's just like, "I CAN'T LOSE. IF I DIE, I GET TO GO be with Jesus. AND IF I LIVE, I GET to keep proclaiming Jesus." It's a win-win. Do you have a win-win mentality in your faith today? Like if I go tomorrow, if I'm out cold, I get to be with Jesus. What a win. What a win. And this is again, this is Paul's mentality. And I love the wording even in the message version where he says, "I am his prize." Again, many of us can't wait to get to heaven. Come on somebody. >> [laughter] >> We continually hear that our reward is in heaven, right? Like streets of gold, I get a I get a room, many rooms, mansions, whatever. I don't know what your, you know, your your theology is on all of it, but we can talk about it later. But I love that he says, "I am his prize." We see in Matthew 5:12, "Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven. Hallelujah." We can make heaven our goal, but here's what can happen in that mentality. We can go, "Oh, heaven is the goal." And then we live life in this grin and bear it. Like, "I'm just waiting until I get to heaven." I'm suffering for Jesus and someday I'm going to get to heaven. Heaven's going to be so great. Y'all know some Christians like that, right? We can say it'll all be worth it when I get to heaven, but Paul is saying this, he's saying, "I'm God's prize right now. I'm committed to him right now. And God is doing some amazing stuff. Even though I'm suffering, God is still good. God has a plan for me right now. So, why am I just wishing my life away for eternity? And I'm all about living for eternity. That's even going to be our next series talking about eternity. But what about the here and the now? Do we Do we see the value in what God is doing here and now? And again, it's this beautiful revelation. God sent Jesus to redeem and restore our relationship with God. This is why he came, with God the Father through his death and his resurrection, so that we can be in communion with God now. Not just when we die and go to heaven, but here and now we can have relationship and connection with the Lord. We can actually have an assignment and a call here and now. Like, do you not know that you're called to be sons and daughters of God, church? Every single one of us have this calling, this assignment for here on Earth. I love it even in in Jesus' prayer, he says, "Let it be on Earth as it is in heaven. On Earth as it is in heaven." It's a mandate to us that we would bring heaven to Earth here and now. Paul realizes that God actually initiated this whole process first, because the only reason that God sent Jesus is because he's after us. Because he loves us. Because he's desperate for us right now. Again, not not when you're, you know, 95, 100, and you're passing away, but here and now, in this moment, we are his prize. God wants to be in communion with us here on Earth. And Paul, again, he's realizing all of this. Yeah, God can't wait for him to get to heaven, but God can't wait for him to fully realize that he's a son and begin to fully walk in it. Again, many times we can we can take this whole concept of living worthy living worthy of the gospel, living worthy of the calling, we can take it as this religious striving mindset where I got to do all this stuff right in my life first and then I can come to Jesus or I got to live worthy in order to be loved wholly. But God loves you just as you are. He doesn't love the sin, but he loves you because he created you. And when we're pursuing him fully, truly, with obedience and faithfulness, then he begins to do a deeper work within us. So, just come to Jesus. God loves you. Come. Living worthy is living faithful to Jesus. Because again, in our own power, we can't live worthy. In my own strength, I can't live worthy. I'm I am unworthy. Again, I think about Moses who was called to to let the people go and and bring them into the promised land. He was a murderer. But God still used him. God still called him. And God's still calling us, no matter what you've done in your life. Living worthy is living faithful to Jesus and he's the one that brings us into the fullness of life. So, when Paul says this, he says, "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain." If we're really honest with ourselves, how many of us can actually echo what Paul is saying? That's to live is Christ. And to die is gain. It's more than a bumper sticker or a tattoo. But can we really say for me to live is Christ and to die is gain? It's a really hard statement to make. Cuz his assignment in life Paul's assignment, our assignment was to fulfill the Father's plan at all costs. Even the cost of his own life. Paul understood this. To continue living on Earth was an opportunity for him to continue on assignment. This needs to be just a shift in our mind that the fact that we're drawing breath right now means that God has purpose for your life. Like heaven's going to be awesome, but I'm not ready to go yet. Cuz God's not done with me. Can we have that mentality today? Like I'm out here. God's using me. I'm not I'm not into myself. I'm into him. And I'm just grateful that I get to be a part of what he's doing. Again, Paul had this revelation of how God wanted to spend his life. He found purpose. He found his calling. He knew that what God had put him put in him wasn't intended to stay just in his own heart and his own mind or in his own cup. It was all meant to be poured out. He traveled. He got arrested. He got beat up. All these different things. And he just continued to pour it all out with joy. Man, I'm joyful. Because he said he said last week, we saw it in the scripture, I'm in prison and it's made people more bold in sharing the gospel. So, I'm joyful. How awesome is this? Again, he was joyful because it was for Jesus. Galatians 1:13 says for this is Paul for you have heard of my former life in Judaism how I persecuted the church of God violently tried to destroy it and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people. Again, this is Paul was a Jew. He was a Pharisee and he was out killing Christians. He was so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers but when he who had set me apart before I was born and who had called me by his grace was pleased to reveal his son to me in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles. This is cool. So we see this guy who many of us would say like if you go out tomorrow and kill a bunch of Christians we would all say that's a bad guy. But then Paul had this one encounter with Jesus and it changed everything. And and he was Saul but now he's got a new name and it's Paul. Cuz he didn't want to associate with who he used to be anymore. This is the moment that Paul's talking about where Jesus revealed himself to him. And with that his mission and his assignment and his purpose was defined that he was going to preach Jesus amongst the Gentiles. This is Paul stepping into his assignment. Somebody say assignment. Assignment. He was well aware that his life belonged to Jesus and therefore he had an assignment. Paul believed and recognized that his life was not his own. Paul had an eternal perspective. His assignment was based on eternal impact. It wasn't so much on what's going to happen to him tomorrow. He was more concerned about hey, are you going to heaven or not? Have you met Jesus? A life lived for Christ is a life always lived on kingdom assignments. And if we're saying we're going to live a life for Christ, that means that we're on assignment 24/7. Amen? Write this down. I'm on assignment. Philippians 1:22. If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me, yet which I shall choose, I cannot tell. In this part of the scripture, Paul confidently states that anytime that he had left on earth, anytime that he had left drawing breath, would result in good work and fruitful labor to God because he's on an assignment. I'm drawing breath, good things are going to happen because I'm following after what God has called me to. He didn't see the remainder of his life as wasted time. I don't know about you, but if if I'm in prison for two to three years with no end in sight, it's looking pretty dim. It's looking pretty grim. Like I I I if I don't know what tomorrow holds, then then why even take steps? Anyone else been in that place before? Like if I don't know what the future is, if I don't know this deal is going to happen, if I don't know these doors are going to open, then we can easily get into that place of like, well, then I just have to wait. I can't preach the gospel. I can't I can't share Jesus in this way. Like what if I offend or what if I cause issues here in this moment or I I I feel like I my job is this this assignment and so I'm not I'm not the preacher. I'm not the man of God. I'm not the woman of God. But Paul is saying every moment of every day is to be considered fruitful labor. Good work that can be done for the Lord, with the Lord, partnered with the Lord. Paul's heart for others was again beyond anything that we can imagine. Everything he had endured that we've read in scripture was motivated by his assignment that he might preach Jesus to the Gentiles. And as part of that assignment, Paul was pouring his life out into others. He was pouring into the church and churches abroad. He was discipling people along his journey. And as much as he was committed to the mission and to his assignment, he was also aware that his assignment was bigger than himself. Church, your assignment is bigger than yourself. And that is why he was able to rejoice. Like this is so much bigger than me. Paul's like, "I'm not that important, but my God is." And if if my God deems to keep me alive for for one more moment, THEN I'M GOING TO USE IT TO GLORIFY HIM. I'm going to use it to to make pathways for people to come to Christ. And in verse 18, we even talked about this last week, when others were proclaiming the gospel out of selfish ambis- ambition just to stick it to Paul, "Because you're in prison and you can't preach. Look at me. I'll preach Jesus." Paul's like, "I don't care as long as you preach Jesus. As long as Christ is revealed to sons and daughters." He was excited because the gospel was being spread. Paul was committed to the work of Christ in and through the church. And he stuck it out. Church, death would have been really easy for Paul. He could have just given up in one of the beatings that he took. And he could have enjoyed being with Christ, but he said, "I'm not done. My assignment isn't over yet." And church, if you feared death and feared dying, you're never going to live life to the fullest. The importance of living life on assignment is that this life is not our own. Not only am I living for Jesus, but I'm living life so that others may know Jesus. There are and will be many people in our lives that will refuse to step into a church. Like honestly, in my opinion, gone are the days that lost people just wander into a church on a Sunday morning. We've had them on rare occasion, but it's usually because somebody brought them into the church. Another believer. Someone who cared for that person's soul and their spirit and their eternity. And so with that, you may be the only gospel that they will experience in their life. The way you live, the words that we use, the gospel that we preach, how we treat our families, how we treat our coworkers, how we treat people while we're driving down I-65 and somebody cuts you off. No, I'm just kidding. Our lives are meant to reveal Christ to others. The love of Christ, his grace and mercy, his joy. And it's really funny cuz I was I was talking to somebody about this actually a few weeks ago. And they were like, "Pastor Nick, it's really easy for you to share the gospel because you're a pastor. You're a preacher. You have a platform. You're educated, you know, somewhat. I'm not that educated. Those JBQ kids know the Bible better than I do. Let's just be real. Junior Bible Quiz. You do the churchy things. So that might be easy for you. You could say, "I Well, I work at a restaurant. I don't know what to to go through. I work in construction, or I work with kids, or I work in the medical field, I'm in sales, I'm a stay-at-home parent." But at the end of the day, church, these are temporary assignments. Like me as a pastor, this is a temporary assignment. Like if God If God tells me to leave tomorrow, I'm gone. I'm not trying to hold on to this for a paycheck. I want to be where God wants me to be. And church, we can easily use the blessings of God, again, our work, our employment, how we make money, our abilities, our our our businesses, our busyness, even our families, and we can use them as the very excuse of why we can't contribute to live a life expanding the kingdom of God. I can't do this. I have family. I can't I I work I work 9:00 to 5:00. When am I going to have time to share Jesus? But one day, what you're doing will be no more. Your life is short. We belong to Jesus, and because we belong to Jesus, we're always on assignment. No matter what your temporary job or assignment might be. And we need to recognize that. It's not just moments, but it's daily. We're called to live worthy of the gospel every moment of every day. We're called to live as citizens of heaven. Write this down. Live worthy, and live axios. Philippians 1:27. Only let your life I'm sorry, only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or I'm absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel. And not frightened by anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God. For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him, but also suffer for his sake. Engage in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have. Let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ. Living worthy or living axios, the root word of that English word worthy is worth, which means the value of something. How much something costs or in this context, how much something really matters. Does living your life for the gospel really matter to you? Does it really matter to us as a church that we should live our lives we should live our lives in a way that reflects how much the gospel truly matters to us? Again, we can say we love you, Jesus. We say we belong to Jesus. We come to church. We can check all the boxes, but we have to live in a way that shows how much this really matters to us. Not just on Sundays. For those of you that don't know this, we're in the process of changing the name of our church to Axios Church, which I'm fired up about. Anybody else excited? I'm excited. And it And it comes down to this passage. It comes down to Ephesians 4:1 of what it means to live worthy. It really means that we're living on on assignment as a church. A daily assignment. And this is where I get to do the fun things with the whiteboard. I don't want anybody judging me for my drawing like last time, okay? You got You guys are ruthless, I'm telling you. I drew a tree and y'all just lost your minds. Also, I got a D in geometry, so this isn't going to be good. All right. This is a triangle. The strongest of all the shapes. What I love about just our vision for Axios and the vision for our assignment as a church and as a people is it's really three-tier. And I'm going to explain that here in a second. Hopefully you all can see this, but obviously you can see this is an upward motion, right? We're going up. We're ascending the hill of the Lord. In our In our worship, in our pursuit, in our prayer, in our faith, we're going up. Everybody say we're going up. Come on. But then we also have No, it's not down. Who said down? >> [laughter] >> In. Because in our walk in our growth there's inner growth that takes place. When we come in and we rub shoulders with other people there's iron sharpening iron. We're growing together within this, right? Yes, the arrow looks like it's going down, but I'm going to show you something cool here in a second. The third part of this is out. We're going up. We're pursuing God in everything that we're doing every single day. We're making daily decisions. And we're going in. There's growth happening. There's There's changes in my character. Right? People are holding the mirror up to my face and going, "Bro, change. You know, like grow. Read the Bible." But then we have to go out into the world. We have to share the gospel in all that we're doing. And here's what's fun. I can't really do it, but you just have to imagine this with me. The direction that you're going or you feel you're going is all about your heart and perspective. Right? Cuz if you turn your head just slightly. I may be going up, but what but when I'm going in, I'm also going up. Right? Cuz all I have to do is this. I'm going up. I'm going in. I'm going out. When I'm going out, I'm still going up. You hear me, church? This is This This is really cool. This is like to me it is exciting. Again, I did not do good in geometry, but this just makes sense to me. And so in order for us to live axios, we need to be about making these decisions to pursue God with everything that we are. To choose to build others up in community and in in process, we're built up and we're becoming who Jesus saved us to be, but then we're going out. We're sharing the good news of Jesus with others. We're sharing this with the world. And this is what it means to truly live worthy. And I love this again, I love this breakdown because all of these areas are truly needed in order for the church to advance. Like if we're only about going out and not going up or going in, we're bringing a shallow gospel to the world. If we're all about going up and we're not about going in or or going out, we're just going to become this like really weird remnant of crazy worshipers that don't like people. And if we're all about the inward, if we're all about just the growth in me and we're not going vertical, we just become a really religious elite Bible study. Right? That nobody else can join cuz we're not going out. And so we need all three of these areas for us to to grow as a church and you can you can throw that up there, Eric. So this this is the new logo for our our church. Yeah, you can cheer. That's okay. So again, you can you can kind of see just the whole design in here. It's not just the shape of an A. It there's real intention behind it that we would be a church that goes up, goes in, goes out. That we continue to grow as as a body and as a church, not just personally, but also expanding out throughout the world. You can throw up the next couple of next slides so you can see some of the breakdown in all this. We're talking about obviously the A, navigation, Trinity, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, the mount ascending the hill of the Lord, the mountain, and then just these pathways that all of us get to be on. And and again, what I I about this so much is that no matter where you are in the journey we're all in the journey. We're all in the journey. I'm I'm I'm done with excluding people because they just don't get it yet. No, you're on the journey. You're figuring this out. Like this is why I love new believers because they love to share the gospel with people. Right? Oh, yeah. So, that's will be the new Living Worthy is a journey. Got to love it. Do you have to throw the next one up? Sorry, I'm just excited about all this. Oh, yeah. Can we get a sticker on our drum like that? That'll be so cool. And I'm making a much cooler hat than that, just so you know. I'm I'm working on it right now. But I'm just so excited. Yeah, throw a few more up there. Yep, you're loved. Love it. Yeah, I love it. Living Worthy of the Gospel. I didn't I didn't do this one. Yeah, I didn't I didn't do that. Somebody else did. But yeah, leave this one up for a second. So, there's just there's different versions of it. I love this one because again, we want to be a church about reaching the world and reaching the lost and I'm excited. Are you excited? Come on. >> [applause] >> All right. You can You can leave that up for the rest of the the rest of the message here. And worship team, you can come. I'm landing the plane here. God God really put this word on my heart like 2 years ago. Axios. And I remember where were we? We were like in Maryland or something and yeah, New's Eve. And I I just remember talking to my wife and I was just like, I just have this word in my spirit. And I don't know if it if it's a business, I don't know if it's a another church that we need to go plant or whatever. I had no idea that it was going to be here. And I'm just grateful that we get to run with it and go with it. Amen. Um I'm just I'm I'm grateful that God wants it to happen here. I think it's important again for us to just look back at this verse. Paul is telling them not to be afraid. Paul is telling them, "Hey, there's going to be opposition. There's going to be people coming against you." Cuz in this moment, the reason that he's saying this is that there was fear of greater persecution because of what was happening to Paul, and people were turning away from the faith. Church, whether you realize it or not, we're in a day and age where people are turning away from the faith in mass. Because they're afraid of what the left is going to do to them. They're afraid of what the right is going to do to them. There's fear around the world. Now, granted, we're not getting killed as Christians out here like they are in Nigeria and Iran and some of these other places. But the church globally is under attack. And so for me, like when I hear these words from Paul, like it just it starts [music] to embolden me a little bit. It starts to get me a little excited. Where I can say, you know, I don't have to worry about my past anymore [music] because if Paul can have his life turned around in one moment, in one encounter from Jesus, then like [music] I I have nothing to worry about. God has a great plan and purpose >> [music] >> for our lives. And the enemy would love to distract you from that. He would love [music] to get you so busy with all the other things, all the other responsibilities. And I get it. We got to We got to feed our family and feed ourselves and all that. But to live axios and to live worthy it needs to be about [music] all of us. All that we are. That we wouldn't get stuck in our past, that we wouldn't get distracted, that we wouldn't disqualify ourselves or make excuses [music] to walk this out. We need to be all in. Just like Paul had that encounter with Jesus that transformed his life. And I wonder just my final question, [music] if you're writing this down, write it down. How badly do we truly want our lives to be transformed like Paul? Like how badly do we actually want to have a faith that is willing to lay our life down? Because again, to live is Christ and to die is gain. You know where you're going [music] if you die. So why not live your life like you're dying? Because I I the more I read this and the more it just shakes me at my core, >> [music] >> I want what Paul had. And it's not like covetous, it's just the truth. >> [music] >> I want that grace and peace that joy and that passion, that transformative power, that that moment that Paul had. That one encounter with Jesus. Like I want it. Again, I've encountered Jesus so many times I and I spent time with him every single day, but there's just something about this one moment in Paul's life where he said, "NOTHING ELSE MATTERS. IT'S JUST JESUS. WHETHER I WHETHER I live or whether I die, it's a win-win. [music] I wonder in your journey, I wonder in in living worthy, in living axios, are we living a life that other people want? Do people look at your life and say, "I want that. [music] I want the life that you have." Again, it's not that they want your house or your car or your spouse or the money that you have. It's none of those things. >> [music] >> Do people want your life because of who you belong to? Do people want my life? Because I I'll be honest, like there are days where I'm like, "Nobody wants to live this life. Nobody wants to be this lonely. Nobody wants to live in this space." But church, God [music] is calling us today to live a life that others desire. To live a life for Christ that we would in our example where we live a life so profoundly different from the world that people would want the life that you have. A life that's touched by God that no matter what you're facing, no matter what pain, [music] anguish, persecution that you can just have joy in Jesus every single day. I'm going to read this verse again in the amplified version. It's It's Philippians 1:19. It says, "For [music] I know with confidence that this will turn out for my deliverance and spiritual well-being through your prayers >> [music] >> and the superabundant supply of Jesus Christ which upholds me." Because again, Paul didn't just stop at this one [music] encounter that he had. >> His confidence was not just in a single moment, but the super >> [music] >> abundant supply of Jesus that just continues to be poured out. Cuz again, the Christian life is not meant to just be a highlight reel of mountain top experiences. [music
