Lesson 11 – The Secret of Experiencing Christ in Philippians

Philippians 1:20-21a According to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I will be put to shame, but with all boldness, as always, even now Christ will be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death. For to me, to live is Christ

Philippians 3:10 To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

Philippians 1:19 For I know that for me this will turn out to salvation through your petition and the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

1. Christ as our life and expression ¹
2. To know Christ and the power of His resurrection ²
3. Christ as our pattern ³, ⁴
4. Christ as our goal ⁵
5. Christ as the secret ⁶
6. The Spirit being the secret of the secret ⁷

READING

Bible References:

1. According to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I will be put to shame, but with all boldness, as always, even now Christ will be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death. For to me, to live is Christ (Philippians 1:20-21a)
2. To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, (Philippians 3:10)
3. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, (Philippians 2:5)
4. And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect. (Romans 12:2)
5. But what things were gains to me, these I have counted as loss on account of Christ. But moreover I also count all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as refuse that I may gain Christ And be found in Him, not having my own righteousness which is out of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is out of God and based on faith, To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, If perhaps I may attain to the out-resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained or am already perfected, but I pursue, if even I may lay hold of that for which I also have been laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brothers, I do not account of myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do: Forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before, I pursue toward the goal for the prize to which God in Christ Jesus has called me upward. (Philippians 3:7-14)
6. I know also how to be abased, and I know how to abound; in everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to hunger, both to abound and to lack. I am able to do all things in Him who empowers me. (Philippians 4:12-13)
7. For I know that for me this will turn out to salvation through your petition and the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, (Philippians 1:19)