Enslaved Saints | Philippians 1:1-2

It’s really sad to see how common divorce is becoming among younger couples these days. I know a few Christian couples who’ve been together for years, with kids, now divorced. This is absolutely tragic. What is behind all this? Currents in our culture which hold up the ideal life as one which our self-fulfilment and happiness is the highest virtue. We live in a fundamentally self-centred culture. Many couples get married with this attitude and end up extremely unhappy as they soon discover that marriage is about serving your spouse and pouring your life into your children – it’s not self-centred, but other-centred.

Yet this is actually nothing new. The default human sinful setting is that we’re turned in upon ourselves. We are naturally self-centred. We are starting a new series in Philippians this morning and even here we see the same problem arise. A church some 2000 years ago was struggling with similar problems – self-centredness and pride. Paul, the author of this letter, in these two introductory verses, addresses these issues head on, and then unpacks them in the rest of the letter. What we’ll see this morning is that those of us who are in Christ have not been saved for a self-centred existence, rather we are now enslaved saints of Christ – if we understand this – will bring us incredible freedom, peace and joy.

Preacher: Rev. Antonio Coppola.

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