Philippians 1:9-11; Season 1, Episode 3 (30min)

"Growing in Love"

The Outline: 

A₁. PAUL’S CONCERN FOR THE PHILIPPIANS  (1:3-26)

1. Thanksgiving  (1:3-8)

2. Prayer  (1:9-11)

3.  The Gospel  (1:12-18)

4.  The Hope (1:19-26)

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2. Prayer  (1:9-11)

THE INCREASE OF LOVE  (1:9)

THE DAY OF CHRIST  (1:10)

THE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS  (1:11)

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Appendix: “Fruit” in the NT Epistles

1. Romans 1:13b; “…So that I may obtain some fruit among youalso, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.”
2. Romans 7:4c; “…In order that we might bear fruit for God.”
3. Romans 7:5b; “[Sinful passions] were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.”
4. Romans 15:28; “Therefore, when I have finished this, and have put my seal on this fruit of theirs, I will go to Spain.”
5. 1Corinthians 9:7b; “Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it?
6. Galatians 5:22a; “But the fruit of the Spiritis …”
7. Ephesians 5:9; “(For the fruit of the Lightconsists in all goodness and righteousness and truth)”
8. Philippians 1:11a; “Having been filled with the fruit of righteousness…”;
         Hebrews 12:11b; “[Discipline] …yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peacefulfruit of righteousness.”;
         James 3:18; “And the seed whose fruit is righteousnessis sown in peace by those who make peace.”
9. Colossians 1:6a; “[The gospel] …which has come to you, just as in all the world also it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing…”
10. Colossians 1:10; “So that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good workand increasing in the knowledge of God”
11. Hebrews 13:15; “Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name.”
12. Jude 12; “These are the men who are …autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted”