Facing the Giants: Missed Opportunity

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Facing the Giants Missed Opportunity

• Phil 122-26

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Phil 122-26

• 22 But if I am to live on in the flesh, this will
  mean fruitful labor for me and I do not know
  which to choose. 23 But I am hard-pressed from
  both directions, having the desire to depart and
  be with Christ, for that is very much better 24
  yet to remain on in the flesh is more necessary
  for your sake. 25 Convinced of this, I know that
  I will remain and continue with you all for your
  progress and joy in the faith, 26 so that your
  proud confidence in me may abound in Christ Jesus
  through my coming to you again.

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• 1. Its Only When You're Anxious To Go!

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Phil 122-24

• 22 But if I am to live on in the flesh, this will
  mean fruitful labor for me and I do not know
  which to choose. 23 But I am hard-pressed from
  both directions, having the desire to depart and
  be with Christ, for that is very much better 24
  yet to remain on in the flesh is more necessary
  for your sake.

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• A. The Believer's. Attraction

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Phil 123

• 23 But I am hard-pressed from both directions,
  having the desire to depart and be with Christ,
  for that is very much better

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2 Cor 51-10

• The Temporal and Eternal
• 1For we know that if the earthly tent which is
  our house is torn down, we have a building from
  God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the
  heavens.  2For indeed in this house we groan,
  longing to be clothed with our dwelling from
  heaven, 3inasmuch as we, having put it on, will
  not be found naked. 4For indeed while we are in
  this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we
  do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so
  that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life.
  5Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is
  God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.

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2 Cor 51-10

• 6Therefore, being always of good courage, and
  knowing that while we are at home in the body we
  are absent from the Lord--7for we walk by faith,
  not by sight-- 8we are of good courage, I say,
  and prefer rather to be absent from the body and
  to be at home with the Lord. 9Therefore we also
  have as our ambition, whether at home or absent,
  to be pleasing to Him. 10For we must all appear
  before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each
  one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body,
  according to what he has done, whether good or
  bad.

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Luke 2343

• 43And He said to him, "Truly I say to you, today
  you shall be with Me in Paradise."

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Jn 1724

• 24"Father, I desire that they also, whom You have
  given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may
  see My glory which You have given Me, for You
  loved Me before the foundation of the world.

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• B. The Believer's Experience

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Phil 124

• 24yet to remain on in the flesh is more necessary
  for your sake.

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Gal 220

• 20"I have been crucified with Christ and it is
  no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me and
  the life which I now live in the flesh I live by
  faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave
  Himself up for me.

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Ps 1611

• 11You will make known to me the path of life
• In Your presence is fullness of joy
• In Your right hand there are pleasures
  forever.

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Ps 7324-25

• 24With Your counsel You will guide me, And
  afterward receive me to glory. 25Whom have I in
  heaven but You?
• And besides You, I desire nothing on earth.

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• 2. That You're Ready To Stay.

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Phil 1 25-26

• 25Convinced of this, I know that I will remain
  and continue with you all for your progress and
  joy in the faith, 26so that your proud confidence
  in me may abound in Christ Jesus through my
  coming to you again.

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• A. The Believer's Obligation

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Phil 125

• 25Convinced of this, I know that I will remain
  and continue with you all for your progress and
  joy in the faith

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Jn 131

• 1Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus
  knowing that His hour had come that He would
  depart out of this world to the Father, having
  loved His own who were in the world, He loved
  them to the end.

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Rom 111

• 11For I long to see you so that I may impart some
  spiritual gift to you, that you may be
  established

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• B. The Believer's Expectation

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Phil 126

• 26so that your proud confidence in me may abound
  in Christ Jesus through my coming to you again.

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Ps 7118

• 18And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not
  forsake me, until I declare Your strength to this
  generation,
• Your power to all who are to come.