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Δ Facebook (opens in new tab) Week of July 16, 2023 X X Watch X X Go to our giving website Note: You will be taken to another browser tab to give online. If on a phone/tablet, simply click the back button to go back to this notes page. X Download Note: You will be taken to another browser tab to view this. If on phone/tablet, simply click the back button to go back to this notes page. You will not lose any notes. Calvary Baptist Church Red Bank Focus on Learning Contentment Archived – July 16, 2023 View This Week’s Note View All Past Notes View This Note w/ Blanks Main Scripture Reference(s) Philippians 4:10-13, Focus on Learning Contentment July 16, 2023 / Greg Powell / Philippians 4:10-13 The truth is, we just can’t get enough. It’s easy to see from our culture and advertising today that in many ways, the economic health of our country depends on the cultivation of our discontentment. Writing from prison towards the end of his life, the Apostle Paul tells us he has found the secret to the ever-moving goalpost, the elusive virtue of contentment. Here in God’s Word, we find four life-changing principles that will help us learn how to be content. I. whatever you . (10) “But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly” – why and how? Because Paul is focusing on what he has, not what he . He could have chosen to major on his and hardships, he could have asked what took so long, he could have on his dire situation financially, but that’s not what he is doing. The person with a discontented heart is usually convinced that everything he does for God is more than and everything God does for him is too and usually too late. II. whatever you . (11) The Christian life boils down to applying God’s to whatever we face in life. This doesn’t happen . In other words, contentment isn’t created by a package, or a title, or health, or a , or a car, or popularity. Contentment is not gained externally, it is grown . Contentment is not a gift, it is an . III. wherever you . (12) We are always looking for what’s , never content with . We are always longing for there, never satisfied with here. IV. in Christ whatever you . (13) The word used for content in this passage (verse 11) is a word that refers to someone whose resources are him so that he doesn’t depend on substitutes him. Here is the that this great Christian example is making public: you can do all things through Christ who gives you strength. That’s the inside scoop to to be content. Here’s the promise – God is effectively promising to give us the to do whatever He asks us to do. Jesus is . 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