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“That”: “All the injunctions Paul lays down upon the Philippians (,4, 12-14) are for a purpose” (Hawthorne p. 101). Go to so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use our convenient akeraios) means properly that which is unmixed; and then pure, sincere. And as there are certain means by which adulterated goods, such as the gold and stones of alchemy, are discerned from the true; so also in religion there are marks and certain proofs whereby those may be known who have only the name of the children of God from those who are so in reality. Why? “Ye”: This would equally apply to every Christian. There is nothing exclusive about sonship. Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and PowerPoints for Preaching on Philippians 2:14-15. We never think of ourselves here.” “Never think of yourselves! “In the midst of”: The modern American landscape is filled with “Among whom ye are seen”: It is easy to forget that Christians are “seen”. I think we shall see our way through the difficulty if we recognise that children and sons are not coordinate here. And what a Church is on a large scale a home should be on a small one. Complaining and Disputing. You can’t see.” “So that folks may not stumble over me,” was the reply. (2) And this is what regeneration means. Sorry, an error was encountered while loading comparison.Sorry, an error was encountered while loading the book.Sorry, you don't have permission to view that book.Sorry, an error was encountered while loading part of the book.An error occurred while marking the devotional as read.There was an error while trying to create your account. Philippians 2:15 “that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world” “That”: “All the injunctions Paul lays down upon the Philippians (,4, 12-14) are for a purpose” (Hawthorne p. 101). We should keep our light burning for the sake of others as well as for the good of being in the light ourselves. “Blameless”: “For with believers an outwardly blameless life must couple itself with inward sincerity and purity and simplicity” (Muller p. 93 ). Christ first exalted goodness to the throne of the world. Those who sustain these trials, and in whom are really found all these marks, are they whom the apostle here very elegantly calls “children of God, without rebuke;” those whom the crucible cannot make to blush; those in whom neither the calumny nor the cunning of the enemy can find anything to lay hold of; such as the Scripture sets forth in a Job, who confounded all the artifices of Satan, and justified most fully by his trials the glorious testimony which God had condescended to bear to him with His own mouth. Whereat a passer-by was so puzzled that he had to turn back with, “What do you keep a lantern burning for? A Christian ought to be a comforter; with kind words on his lips, and sympathy in his heart, he should have a cheering word for the sons of sorrow. New International Version. It was to be the sheer force of goodness which should bear the Christian on to the spiritual conquest of mankind. This it is to be a light in the world, and to hold forth the word of life. “Yes,” answered the heroic sailor, “and I am a missionary too.” (A friend told me that he was visiting a lighthouse lately, and said to the keeper, “Are you not afraid to live here? Selfishness will prevent any Christian from having a good reputation among non-Christians and from having pure motives.“Children of God”: Becoming a child of God is just the beginning. Paul then added the idea of being unblemished (Gr. How is that?” The reply was a good one. A blind beggar, sitting on a sidewalk one dark night, had a bright lantern by his side. 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. If I had been made a firefly, it would not become me to say, “If God had only made me a star, to shine always, then I would shine.” It is my duty, if I am a firefly, to fly and sparkle, and fly and sparkle; not to shut my wings down over my phosphorescent self, because God did not make me a sun or a star.
(When Lord Peterborough lodged for a season with Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray, he was so delighted with his piety and virtue that he exclaimed at parting, “if I stayed here any longer, I should become a Christian in spite of myself.” That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;He adds immediately afterwards, “The Gentiles shall walk in thy light, and kings in the brightness of thy countenance.” Though Isaiah speaks there rather of doctrine, while Paul speaks here of an exemplary life, yet, even in relation to doctrine, Christ in another passage specially designates the Apostles the 15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;I. Sons of God. "As a rule, Scripture uses the words “Father,” “son,” “child,” as between God and man, to mark the connexion not of creation but of new creation; as here.By working out their own salvation with fear and trembling, rather than with grumbling and disputing, the Philippians would show themselves to be blameless and innocent (pure, NIV). (Unless we let our light shine we are hidden from recognition, and may be only stumbling blocks.
The idea here is, that they should be artless, simple, without guile.