Philippians 2:19-30 Are you a faithful servant?

Summary: A verse by verse examination of what the book of Philippians in the Bible teaches. This message covers Philippians 2:10-30  and what does it mean to be a faithful servant.

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Philippians 2:19-30 ¹⁹But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.  ²⁰For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.  ²¹For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.  ²²But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.  ²³Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.  ²⁴But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.  ²⁵Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.  ²⁶For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.  ²⁷For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.  ²⁸I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.  ²⁹Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:  ³⁰Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

Acts 16:1-4 ¹Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:  ²Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.  ³Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.  ⁴And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem. 

1 Corinthians 4:17 ¹⁷For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church. 

1 Timothy 1:2-3 ²Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.  ³As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, 

2 Timothy 1:2-4 ²To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.  ³I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;  ⁴Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy; 

2 Timothy 2:1-10 ¹Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.  ²And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.  ³Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.  ⁴No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.  ⁵And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.  ⁶The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.  ⁷Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things. ⁸Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:  ⁹Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.  ¹⁰Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

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