Sermons from St. John the Divine
Oct 4, 2026 · 20 min · 7 segments
Who is the main character in the story of your life? In this sermon from Philippians 3, we are challenged to set aside self-made success and righteousness and see our lives as part of God’s greater…
John SundaraGuest
However, I wanna point out to us that this is not how the Bible talks about our lives.
We're now in the third week of our sermon series in Philippians called His Story, My Story, Our Story.
And our goal for this sermon series is to illuminate, it's to make sense of our lives, our stories in light of God's story.
Even before creation came into existence, we have the preexistent triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and then he creates us.
And so you see this, for example, with Adam and Eve in the garden, who decide to write their own stories.
He enters into our existence, and He writes Himself back into our stories, and then He brings us back to live with Him in His story.
If you, if you came last week or you get a chance to, uh, listen to, uh, Father Lee's, our senior pastor, his sermon from last week, he talks about these.
He talks about how there's this, this, uh, U-shaped trajectory of God being-- Jesus being in heaven from before creation, coming down into our mess, redeeming us and taking us back to be up with Him again.
However, I wanna point out to us that this is not how the Bible talks about our lives.
We're now in the third week of our sermon series in Philippians called His Story, My Story, Our Story.
And our goal for this sermon series is to illuminate, it's to make sense of our lives, our stories in light of God's story.
Even before creation came into existence, we have the preexistent triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and then he creates us.
And so you see this, for example, with Adam and Eve in the garden, who decide to write their own stories.
He enters into our existence, and He writes Himself back into our stories, and then He brings us back to live with Him in His story.
If you, if you came last week or you get a chance to, uh, listen to, uh, Father Lee's, our senior pastor, his sermon from last week, he talks about these.
He talks about how there's this, this, uh, U-shaped trajectory of God being-- Jesus being in heaven from before creation, coming down into our mess, redeeming us and taking us back to be up with Him again.
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