🔴 Discerning Who You Choose to Walk With | Getting to the Heart of Sexual Struggles and Addictions

Let me get into Philippians some more.

And I pray this is a blessing to you all.

It's been a delight for me to walk through this journey of this book.

And the more I've dived into it, the more I just explore in a sense of discovery and fascination.

And I pray that as I teach through the scriptures, that it'll encourage you in your own journey to look at the word of God with fascination, because there's a lot of mystery.

There's a lot of things that we don't understand, we don't get.

There's stuff that we can easily take out of context.

So we have to learn how to walk through something that is incredibly deeper than we can figure out in the moment and allow yourself to learn on a journey because going through Paul's writings as of late has had significant, excuse me, significant impact in my own journey.

So I pray that this will be a blessing to you.

So we're going to talk about discerning who you choose to walk with.

That's my best way of summarizing this.

I actually had a hard time titling this because I'm going to go in a bunch of different directions, but that's one of the takeaways that I want to encourage you in.

So with that said, let's read through this.

Philippians 3, we're in verse 17.

We're going to go up to 21, and this is actually going to close out the chapter, and then we're going to end going through Philippians 4, some powerful content there.

Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern.

From any walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ.

whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, whose glory is in their shame, who set their mind on earthly things.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself." We're going to do the English standard version here.

Brothers, join in imitating me and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.

We're going to really highlight that.

For many of whom I have often told you and now tell you, even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ.

Their end is destruction, their God is their belly, and their glory is their glory in their shame.

With minds set on earthly things.

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.