The Blessed Life: Grow Up! (Philippians 3:16-4:1)

  • Luke Simmons
  • Nov 20, 2010
  • Series: The Blessed Life (Philippians)

Everyone wants to be happy. We look for it in friends, kids, marriage, sex, money, stuff, and career. Yet, less than half of Americans are happy with their jobs, only 20% of married couples are happily married.

No one seems to be happy.

But what if we have missed the point? What if we are not looking for happiness? For most people The Blessed Life has everything to do with happiness and that happiness comes from more stuff.

What God calls us to and the point of the book of Philippians is to fight for and look for joy. Joy is different from happiness. It is not fleeting or tied to temporary things. It does not come and go. It is based on God and who He is.

Download the Blessed Life - Philippians Study Guide for this series.

Guest Speaker
Luke Simmons of Second Mile Church.

Big Idea
We grow by following men and women who embrace and live out their identity as citizens of Heaven.

Next Steps

  • Repent of this earthly thing that consumes my thinking: ______
  • Meditate on my new identity as described in 1 Peter 2:9-12
  • Memorize Philippians 3:20
  • Take a godly man or woman to coffee/lunch and pick his or her brain on how they follow Jesus.

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