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Monday, 21 January 2013

Verse 9 the other sports verse

This is #4 in the biblegateway.com list and is #54 in the google list and is highlighted in the 'Hands On' Bible.

Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

SIS

2 Corinthians 12:9-10
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Ephesians 3:16
that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

1 Timothy 1:12
Christ Jesus Came to Save Sinners
12 I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service,

PIC

To suggest that, from this verse, we are the ones who can do everything is to read this wrong. Also in no way is it a mantra for sporting success, as a simple reading of the earlier verses would tell you.

Philippians 4:12
I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.

Just the verse before tells us what it's about, it's the secret of being able to be content in the circumstances you are in.

1 Timothy 6:6
But godliness with contentment is great gain,

HIJ

Now Paul writes earlier that he has in one sense so much, circumcision, Israelite heritage, legal and moral excellence and great zeal even calling himself faultless. But concludes that all that is loss for the sake of Christ.

Philippians 3:8-11
Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— 10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

So get the great power of the resurrection is set against the fellowship of Jesus' sufferings.
And that is what we are able to do in His strength, in good times and bad, in bounty and in need.

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