MR D'S NOTES ON PHILIPPIANS


Rev. Stanley L. Derickson Ph.D.

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The book was written by Paul between 60-64 A.D.

The church at Philippi seems to have been a matured church in that verse one mentions both elders and deacons, the two offices of the local church. Both sets of leaders in place would take some amount of time.

Paul visited Philippi on his second journey Acts 16.12. Most of the sixteenth chapter of Acts relates to this visit.

Paul is writing them to thank them for a material gift to him that he mentions in chapter four.

The key verse might be 1.21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. This thought is also conveyed in Col. 3.4 "When Christ, who is our life"

OUTLINE OF PHILIPPIANS


QUALITIES OF A CHURCH

Lesson 1: ERECTED (Acts 15:36-16:40)

Lesson 2: ELDERED (Phil. 1:1-2)

Lesson 3: ESTABLISHED (Phil. 1:3-11)

Lesson 4: EVANGELIZING (Phil. 1:12-18)

Lesson 5: EXAMPLED (Phil. 1:19-26)

Lesson 6: ENACTED (Phil. 1:27-2:2)

Lesson 7: EFFACED (Phil. 2:3-11)

Lesson 8: ENLIGHTENING (Phil. 2:12-18)

Lesson 9: EXPEDITED (Phil. 2:19-30)

Lesson 10: ERRORLESS (Phil. 3:1-11)

Lesson 11: EXPECTING (Phil. 3:12-21)

Lessons 12: EXEMPLARY (Phil. 4:1-9)

Lessons 13: ENDORSING (Phil. 4:10-23)

(Based on the divisions used in a study by Robert L. Deffinbaugh (http://www.bible.org)


Bibliography:

"THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE PHILIPPIANS"; Charles R. Erdman; Westminster Press; Philadelphia; mcmxxxii.

"PHILIPPIANS"; Lehman Strauss; Loizeaux Brothers; Neptune, New Jersey; 1959

"BE JOYFUL"; Warren W. Wiersbe; Victor Books; Weaton; 1958.

"E-SWORD" and associated reference materials (If you need a GOOD - FREE Bible program for PC or PPC go to http://www.e-sword.net - you will enjoy it :-).