by Ron Steffensen
- The Setting Of Philippi: A Roman Colony representing Rome in the midst of an enemy land
- 42 BC Antony & Octavian distributed land around Philippi to Legion XXVIII after the Battle of the Plains of Philippi and constructed a Roman Forum
- The Citizens of Philippi:
- Their Duty: That they represent Rome
- Their Decorum: How they represent Rome
- The Saints of Philippi: Their Decorum, appropriate to the Gospel, lived out as Citizens of Heaven
- As seen in their:
- Attention: Col 1:9-14
- Being Filled with the correct knowledge of God’s Will in all:
- Wisdom: The How
- Spiritual Understanding or Intelligence: The What & Why
- Confident in God’s Laws of Communication
- So that ye might walk worthy (appropriately) of the Lord unto
- all pleasing (as Joseph with Potiphar)
- being fruitful in every beneficially good work
- increasing in the correct knowledge of God
- all pleasing (as Joseph with Potiphar)
- Being Filled with the correct knowledge of God’s Will in all:
- Application: Philippians 1:9-11
- Our Love Increasingly abounding in:
- correct knowledge
- judgment or perception:
- objectively & discerningly perceive, through correct knowledge, someone’s or something’s Nature
- Someone’s or something’s Needs
- So that we may:
- Discerningly Test and Approve that which is Excellent or rises higher and beyond that which we were by nature
- The Upper (Above the Earth) Room
- Be Sincere: Objectively Tested by the light of God’s Word, True within
- Without offence or cause of stumbling, Harmless without
- And so resulting in their:
Unity Within: In One Spirit (Godward) Standing Fast
Activity Without: With One Soul (Manward) Striving Together for the Faith of the Gospel
- Discerningly Test and Approve that which is Excellent or rises higher and beyond that which we were by nature
- Our Love Increasingly abounding in:
- Attention: Col 1:9-14
- As seen in their: