#91 - Kyle Thompson // Yeah, That’s Not What That Means - Philippians 4:13

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Joby Martin & Kyle Thompson

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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We're exploring commonly misunderstood scriptures in our series "Yeah, That's Not What That Means," tackling Philippians 4:13 and revealing its true context as a teaching about contentment rather than personal achievement. • Philippians 4:13 ("I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me") is frequently misused as motivation for personal success • The verse appears on merchandise and in sports facilities across the Bible Belt • When read in context (Philippians 4:10-13), Paul is act...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.
0:20.6	All right, guys, so this week we're doing a series of episodes called, yeah, that's not what
0:25.2	that means. And so I'm going over five of the most common, misapplied, and misunderstood
0:30.0	scriptures in all of the biblical canon. So yesterday I talked about Luke 17 versus 1 and 2
0:35.6	and the fact that Jesus was not referring to children
0:37.9	when he said little ones, but referring to childlike disciples. So sorry I had to burst some of your
0:43.1	millstone bubbles yesterday, but I'm back at it today and I'm here to ruin all of your high school
0:47.5	weight room PRs. Okay, so let's go to the fourth chapter of the Apostle Paul's letter to the church
0:52.3	in Philippi. I'll be reading Philippians
0:54.4	413 in the new King James Version, and I can already hear some of you getting ready to quote it.
0:59.6	So quote it with me, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Okay. Now, when I was
1:06.0	early in my Christian rock, my Christian walk, remember when I was talking about going to the salt
1:09.6	cellar and seeing all these different gear and all the stuff with scripture on it.
1:12.8	This verse is on everything, right? It is on Bible cases and on coffee mugs and t-shirts and all kinds of stuff.
1:18.9	And you see this scripture on high school weight rooms, football locker rooms all over the South, all over the Bible Belt. I mean, Oklahoma, we're the belt, buckle the Bible
1:27.6	belt. And we have the most tornadoes. I don't know if that's connected in any way, but I digress.
1:32.0	And that verse is really clung to by a lot of people that are, you know, trying to do anything from
1:36.6	getting straight A's or climbing the corporate ladder or getting that next job or whatever the thing is.
1:41.3	But in a nutshell, the fundamental misunderstanding of these words from
1:44.5	the Apostle Paul is that this verse is about personal empowerment so that we can experience success
1:49.6	in life in general regardless of what we do. And yeah, that's not what that means. Because in
1:56.1	its correct context, Paul is telling us that we need to be content in all circumstances and that we must
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