062115 AM Sermon Notes

Father’s Who Influence

Philippians 3:10-11

Statement of Truth:

There is a vast difference between “knowing about Him” and “knowing Him.”   Paul wanted his knowing Him to affect his daily living.

4 words describe Paul’s desire to know Jesus Christ:

            ·      Personally

We are to know God.  This word speaks of entering the deepest possible union with Christ.  Here is a question: 
Does your knowledge of God transform your conduct?

            ·      Powerfully

Resurrection power is the only power that can defeat the second greatest power in the world, namely the power of sin.

           ·      Passionately

To know God passionately means I learn to participate in the fellowship of Christ.    What I know produces action steps in my life.

          ·      Practically

Paul wished to be so much like Christ in the way he lived that people would think of him as a resurrected person now, even before the physical death.

Question to Consider:

Has anyone been compelled to glorify GOD because of you?

Other passages referenced today:  Matthew 1:25; Ephesians 2:5; 
1 Peter 4:12-13; 2 Timothy 3:12; Hebrews 4:12; Genesis 22:14; Acts 9:16; 2 Corinthians 12:9-10;  and 1 Peter 2:12.