Notes on the Book:
• First Impressions: This Pauline epistle seems to me very personable. Paul expresses genuine love and care for the people in this church. Also, this epistle seems more personal because Paul speaks about himself more than in any other epistle (it seems to me). Words like these: “my beloved and longed for brethren, my joy and crown….” - reveal to us that possibly Paul was a very affectionate pastor. There are many other verses that engulf our hearts in warmth and love for the word of God and people of God.
• Key Words: joy, rejoice
• Key Verse: There are too many to choose from but if I think that the key words are joy and rejoice then the key verse would be Phil. 4:4
• Literary Style: Epistle
• Main Theme(s):
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This church was planted by Paul during his 2nd missionary journey around AD 50. I have always loved the thought that the reason why Paul went there was because he had a vision of Macedonian man and yet when he goes there he meet a woman. I love the account where Paul goes down to the river to talk to women and he meets Lydia…and so this church was planted. But perhaps the man in the vision was the jailor who gloriously got saved, as he and his whole household was baptized. (Acts 16).
The Epistle to the Philippians is a prison epistle, which means Paul was writing while he was arrested. Most scholars agree that Paul was imprisoned in Rome when he wrote this epistle. However there are different opinions on this subject. The letter was written in early 60’s AD.
There are several subjects that Paul addresses in this letter. First of all he wants to prepare the church to receive some visitors. Also, Paul wanted to express care for the believers in that church. Warn them against various groups who would hinder the furtherance of the gospel. (Such as a group of believers who are envious of Paul, mutilators – who are similar to Judaizes mentioned in the epistle to Galatians, and some in the
Why? Because Paul knew that obedience to government was obedience to Christ. Man obeys the governing authorities to humble himself before God and declare Christ as his sovereign Lord and Savior. When man humbles himself before his creator, he is testifying that God knows what He is
Critique Favorite King James Text Psalm 23 In the studies that we have been doing, we have learned about several texts that are from the King James Bible. This Psalm came from the book of psalms, which was a section of the old testament composed of 150 songs. This poem that I have choosen as my favorite is often used at funerals, in times of trouble and when people are in need of a lot of comfort. I have chosen this psalm for three main reasons.
Merely the sound of the varying instruments gives Paul overwhelming happiness. He cannot seem to contain his excitement as the symphony warms up, and vivaciously prepares himself so that he can fulfill his duties as an usher. Secondly, Paul does not
Galatians 1:1-10 Introduction 1:1-5 Greeting 1:6-10 Why Paul sent the letter Galatians 1:11-2:21 Paul 's Defense of his Apostleship 1:11-12 Gospel received directly from God 1:13-17 His pre-Christian years and conversion 1:18-2:21 Paul and the other apostles 2:1-5 The council at Jerusalem 2:6-10 His sanction by James, Cephas, and John 2:11-21 His rebuke of Cephas at Antioch 2:11-13 Cephas ' hypocrisy 2:14-21 Speech to Cephas, Jews and Gentiles are justified through Christ Galatians 3:1-4:31 Defense of justification by faith 3:1-5 The personal Argument 3:1-4 How they received the Spirit 3:5 From whom they received the Spirit 3:6-25 The Scriptural argument 3:6-9 The example of Abraham 3:10-14 The curse of the Law 3:15-18
We see the role exit from a simple hotel manager to a sort of politician combined with a savior, but we also see the extreme role conflict as Paul struggles to keep the hotel running, be a father and husband, and save as many people as he can. A prominent example of this is when Paul doesn't get on the evacuation truck. In this act Paul believes he is sending his family to safety as he stays in the hotel trying to save those left
Paul does not like corporate personalities. The people in the corporate society are thinking that they are skilled and assume that they alone lead a happy life. When Paul speaks to Anita, she criticizes him. Sometimes humans are acting as machines. It looks very funny.
Since many people look down upon Paul, he notices facts and clues society does not, however, he fears saying something, in which causes his friend to end up dying Within the story, Paul lives in his own bubble, disconnected from the world and society, so he knows what others do not. It is as if Paul lives in the sun and knowledge of the world, baring that burden while others in society live in darkness with a slight sliver of light from the moon, believing they know the world to its full extent when in reality they are blind and in the dark. This affects Paul since he possesses ideas from another point of view that others have no clue about. This is important because without the knowledge that Paul posses, he would be like his none the wiser parents, which
In life, sometimes being alone isn’t all that bad, but Paul really seemed to enjoy it. He considered himself an individualist and alienated himself from others by exhibiting disrespect and contempt
Basically, Paul is trying to teach the Corinthians how to live in their secular world while still upholding God’s standards for their lives. Historical Cultural Setting 1 Corinthians was written by Paul to the people who lived in Corinth. The city of Corinth was connected to Greece via an isthmus, so it had lots of sea traffic from the Mediterranean (ESV 2187). Because of this, Corinth was a mix of many different cultures and religions, with a heavy emphasis on Roman law and customs.
This letter by Paul was different from his other letters in that it was a deeply personal one. He did speak to certain issues within the church, but it was in a very different way and
Besides Jesus, Paul, who called himself as an Apostle, was influential in the beginning of Christianity. People even claimed him as the “founder of Christianity”. Paul was the one that brought Jesus’s message to the world. He went on three missionary journeys, and the fourth journey to Rome in order to spread Christian faith and the development of its various institutions. In addition of his responsible of geographically and culturally expanding Christian movement, he also extended it as well as ethnic lines.
Other observation that I notice was that Paul wrote to the people of Colossae. In verse 2 of Colossians, it said. To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae. The third thing that I noticed was the word “him” was repeated 7 times in
Paul’s pneumatology found in his writings has been a matter of interest in recent New Testament scholarship. Gordon Fee has been a great contributor in this area and in Paul, the Spirit and the People of God he outlines the various elements found in Pauline pneumatology giving us greater insight into this subject. In this paper I will highlight some of these elements that are unique to Paul and are not found in the Synoptic Gospels and Acts. The first distinctive of Pauline pneumatology is the way he sees the Spirit as God’s personal presence. For Paul, the coming of the Spirit meant that God had fulfilled the promises He had made to Jeremiah and Ezekiel when He said, ‘I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel’ (Jer. 31:31), and
It is often difficult, when reading through the words of the apostle Paul, to distinguish his precise line of reasoning. This is due to a variety of factors, ranging from mere density of language to a lack of proper contextual understanding. This ambiguity is amplified even further, especially in the less known epistles such as the Corinthians and Thessalonians, through the failure of many church bodies and Christian individuals to study the book as a whole. Too often Pastor’s will utilize Paul’s words without a proper understanding of how he using them. This creates a cycle of misunderstanding, confusion, and poor hermeneutics in the church.
The Epistle to Titus CONTENTS INSTRUCTIONS FOR CHURCH LEADERSHIP (TITUS 1:1-16) Responsible leaders are, like Paul, servants of God and followers of Christ Jesus. Elders are to be “blameless, the husband of but one wife,” which actually reads in the Greek, a one-woman man, or a man committed to his wife. Leaders should have “children [who] believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.” INSTRUCTIONS TO VARIOUS GROUPS