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July 18, 2025 Truth Today Newsletter: Philippians 1:17
By Kayode Crown Philippians 1:17 The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, because they think they can cause trouble for me in my imprisonment. One is motivated by love, and the other is motivated by selfish ambition. Paul is looking at the heart of people here and telling you what is there. A table is in order. Jesus made a strong impression when He called out the Pharisees, calling them hypocrites. Matthew 23:27-28: “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees,...
July 16, 2025 Truth Today Newsletter: Philippians 1:16
By Kayode Crown Philippians 1:16 The latter do so from love because they know that I am placed here for the defense of the gospel. Doing something from love is so underrated. People have been programmed to do things from selfishness, from what they want to get, from the impression they want to create, from the accolades they want to get. It seems that until you are a Christian, your motivation cannot really be purified into love. 1 John 4:7-8: Dear friends, let us love one another, because...
Philippians 1:15
By Kayode Crown Philippians 1:15 Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill. This verse highlights the importance of motivation in the context of ministry. Here, Paul identifies the motivation of envy and rivalry and says they aim to cause trouble for him. Another is the motivation of love for Paul, wanting to see his vision continue even if he is out of circulation. There is a verse that comes to mind. Proverbs 27:6: Faithful are the wounds of a...
Philippians 1:14
By Kayode Crown Philippians 1:14 and most of the brothers and sisters, having confidence in the Lord because of my imprisonment, now more than ever dare to speak the word fearlessly. That is the second verse where Paul shares a testimony of the positive outcome of what we can call a bad situation: his imprisonment. He said that what happened to him has emboldened others. That was unexpected. You would imagine that if the main guy was imprisoned, then other people would be silent and want to...
Philippians 1:13
By Kayode Crown Philippians 1:13 The whole imperial guard and everyone else knows that I am in prison for the sake of Christ, This was not what Paul planned. But this was what God worked out. Therefore, we can conclude that God can do far beyond what we ask or think (Ephesians 3:20). Some lepers resolved to go to the tent of the Syrian army and wondered if they would die or not, but what God did before they arrived was beyond their understanding; overnight, famine became a surplus (2 Kings...
Philippians 1:12
By Kayode Crown Philippians 1:11 I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my situation has actually turned out to advance the gospel: CLICK IMAGE FOR FREE BOOK FOR THE MONTH OF JULY, 2025 Paul was in prison, and he told them that rather than the situation being negative for the gospel, it had now turned out to be an advancement of the gospel. That can only happen because Paul was using spiritual reasoning, rather than natural reasoning. He was reasoning from God's point of view, sharing...
Philippians 1:11
By Kayode Crown Philippians 1:11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God. Prayer, Decision-Making, and Bearing Fruit Making the best decision leads to the fruit of righteousness. This links back to Jesus saying that it is when we abide in Him that we bear much fruit (John 15:5). Therefore, any decision we make that enhances our abiding in Christ is the way to go. However, as Paul has demonstrated, it requires prayer to achieve...
Philippians 1:10
By Kayode Crown Philippians 1:10 so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ, Making the Right Decision: Paul’s Path to Strategic Living Don’t we all want to make the right decision? Paul is laying out the path to that with his combination of love as motivation, knowledge as the framework, and insight as the guide, as we saw from the previous verse. Paul is laying out the path to strategic living—maximizing the moment. The Foundation of Right...
Truth Today Newsletter June 30, 2025: Philippians 1:9
By Kayode Crown Philippians 1:9 And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight This is the beginning of a three-verse prayer. While Paul appreciated their love, he prayed that their love would be marked by discernment. It should not be free-floating love, but love enhanced by knowledge and insight, meaning love under divine direction. We see an example of this with the healing of a paralyzed man at the pool of Bethesda (John 5:1-15). Jesus...
Truth Today Newsletter June 27, 2025
By Kayode Crown Philippians 1:8 For God is my witness that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus. Paul’s Affection and the Nature of Divine Love What this church communicated to Paul was love, as we would see in the next verse. John made the point elsewhere that love goes beyond pleasantries to costing you something (1 John 3:16-18), as it cost this church the release of their goods to Paul. David popularized the notion that he would not give God what would cost him nothing...
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