Honoring Christ through Courage (Philippians 1:20–21)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 7 October 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:05.6 | Philippians chapter 1, verses 20 and 21, it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not |
| 0:12.6 | be at all ashamed, but that with full courage, now as always, Christ will be honored in my body, |
| 0:20.1 | whether by life or by death, for to me to live is Christ and to die is gain. Wow. What language |
| 0:28.5 | inspired by the Holy Spirit through Paul as he's in prison? And the reason I want to pray |
| 0:36.0 | according to these two verses, there's so much in Philippians chapter 1, but I think about |
| 0:40.8 | two conversations I've had with good friends over the last couple of weeks. One from a friend |
| 0:48.0 | who is on the front lines, sharing the gospel with unreached people, working to get the gospel |
| 0:55.0 | into some of the most hard, difficult, dangerous places in the world. And he reached out to |
| 1:02.1 | me via text and he said, Hey, if you haven't done a pray the word podcast on Philippians 1, 20, |
| 1:07.4 | I'd love to hear it, to have courage and honor Christ through courage, which is what verse 20 |
| 1:15.8 | is saying. It's my eager expectation and hope that I will not at all be ashamed, but that with full |
| 1:22.2 | courage, now as always, Christ will be honored in my body. What a picture full courage in order |
| 1:29.2 | that Christ would be honored in your body, honoring Christ in your body with your life requires |
| 1:36.4 | full courage. It requires going totally against the grain, not just of this world, but of the way |
| 1:43.1 | we are so prone to think and feel specifically in the context here to feel ashamed or afraid, |
| 1:50.9 | but to say no, full courage, I want to honor Christ. I want to do all that he calls me to do |
| 1:58.4 | in my body, knowing that. So this is verse 21 and the other conversation I had with another good |
| 2:04.6 | friend who had received a diagnosis from a doctor that was very discouraging that brought them |
| 2:13.6 | face to face with the temporary nature of life in this world and the reality that tomorrow is not |
| 2:22.9 | guaranteed. And this friend was just honestly sharing it, caused them to realize how much they're |
| 2:31.0 | clinging to this world in ways that keep them from hearing potential death as gain, which leads |
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